EricNelson

EricNelson

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Poverty is a policy decision. Concentrated wealth is a policy decision. Inequality is a policy decision. Remember this.

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WSJ: Ukraine’s military Starlink system was working normally again Sat., the country’s defense minister said, raising hopes the 10-day disruption by owner Elon Musk of the country’s satellite internet service was ending, helping it again to defend itself against Russia. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

wsj.comUkraine’s Military Starlink Is Working Again, Kyiv SaysSpeed restrictions imposed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have hampered Ukraine’s drone forces since Oct. 14.

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🚨BREAKING: Democrats have asked a federal judge to move quickly in their lawsuit seeking to stop the White House from threatening state and local election officials with criminal prosecution and demanding that states remove voters from registration rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comDemocrats ask judge to fast track lawsuit to block Trump admin’s midterm threatsThe lawsuit challenges the administration's attempts to “intimidate and coerce election officials who aid and urge registered voters to cast ballots.”

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Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

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The BBC is doing something important, refusing to be intimidated by a powerful person trying to use the legal system to punish criticism and discourage scrutiny. They’re schooling the American press on what the 1st Amendment means. Read about it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-bbc-st...

joycevance.substack.comThe BBC Strikes BackWith so much going on right now, we pick up with an unusual Friday afternoon column to cover Trump’s defamation case against the BBC.

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Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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Elon Musk is spending $445M+ to buy the midterms for one very simple reason. He's terrified that a Democratic Congress might finally hold him accountable.

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Bill Clinton: "I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace's bathroom"

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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola's campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Elias Law Group has filed to fight DOJ's lawsuit to rig the Alaska Senate election. We will win this case, Mary will win this election, she will be certified and seated.

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Trump regime will strip Calif. of authority to protect its coastline unless state regulators take “corrective actions“ bc of “unjustified hostility & political bias against offshore drilling opportunities, oil and gas projects broadly & SpaceX’s launch activities.” www.latimes.com/environment/...

latimes.comTrump wants to strip California of coastal protections unless state meets list of demandsFuture federal funding of California's coastal management program is suspended, "unless and until the identified deficiencies are satisfactorily addressed."

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/... Justice Kagan exposes that the "conservative" majority has caused the “evisceration” of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act that was enacted to protect minority voters & gutted campaign finance laws - both an attack on democracy

democracydocket.comJustice Elena Kagan says Supreme Court’s conservative majority weakened democracySupreme Court Justice Elena Kagan criticized the Court’s recent decisions in cases affecting voting rights and campaign finance.

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Vance just held an outrageous presser in which he defended Vivek's vile attacks on Acton, agreed w/ Witkoff's assessment of Putin as a "humanitarian," and had gall to claim "there's no person who hates people enriching themselves fraudulently over access to the govt than Donald J Trump" Supercut:

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If you think a test for dementia is an IQ test, you have dementia. If you don't realize you have been given a test for dementia because your physician suspects you have dementia, you have dementia. If you think being able to tell a giraffe from a whale makes you a genius . . . you have dementia.

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Lake Superior Academy is a beautiful school that had offered an incredible outdoor learning experience — that is until this Bitcoin mining farm moved in…

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When JFK ran, they said the country would never elect a Catholic president. When Obama ran, they said the country would never elect a Black president. Michiganders care a lot less about how I pray than what I pray for: peace, dignity, basic goodness for all of our kids.

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There is much to admire in Abdul El-Sayed's response to the GOP plant in his audience. But one of the most deft things he did was to point out (twice) that our Constitution protects our right to follow *no* religion, thereby casting Christian nationalist Tommy as the actual religious extremist.