Practical Progressive Gini

Practical Progressive Gini

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80 years old and still into learning. Desire to see the Dems become more combative. News junkie. Atlantic Monthly for 50 years. poetry workshops at Stanford. New lectures from Peter Zeihan. in Foreign Affairs. Looking for what will be next. FOLLOW ME!

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The rules for the Supreme Court beside term limits, should also mandate detailed financial disclosures and include a meaningful enforcement mechanism — either an inspector general for the judiciary or a committee of current or former federal judges.

Supreme Court has developed an outsize sense of its own authority and when it uses that authority to impose its policy preferences and, increasingly, its partisan preferences on the rest of us, the arrangement becomes untenable. That has happened before, and it is the case now.

Margorie Taylor Green hoping for Compassion from a president she had stood by. She forwarded copies of the threats to him, hoping that seeing the threats against her family would be enough to tone down the attacks. She got a five-word reply from the president: “Your fault, you deserve it.”

Trump’s demands for revenge have divided the Justice Department, diverted resources from other investigations and continued the erosion of the principle that politics must be kept strictly separate from federal law enforcement.

Trump's reckless and imprudent remarks about the enemy taking out L.A. and San Diego just shows how irresponsible and slovenly his thought are. No leader would say such a terrible thing. He doesn't care about the country, he doesn't care about you. he only cares about himself.

states with universal voucher programs, like Arizona’s, are redistributing money to the highest income and most educated ZIP codes in cities and suburbs. An Arizona ABC station found that parents were spending their voucher money on everything from trampoline parks to ski tickets.

There are seven million-plus Jews and seven million-plus Palestinians living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea — and neither are leaving. The only solution is two states — no matter how long that takes.

The repeated postponement of Palestinian legislative elections in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem “reinforced Hamas’s argument that change could never be achieved through democratic or peaceful means,”

The Trump family and business partners have collected $320 million in fees from a new cryptocurrency, brokered overseas real estate deals worth billions of dollars and are opening an exclusive club in Washington called the Executive Branch charging $500,000 apiece to join,

Some towns and cities have halted construction on Data Centers outright. Over the past two years, roughly 120 communities have considered or adopted data center moratoriums of varying lengths, according to a tracker compiled by the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia.

Drunk on its own power, AIPAC lost its way years ago when it had a choice regarding how to be pro-Israel — to put American interests and values first or Netanyahu’s interests and values first. AIPAC chose to be pro-Netanyahu.

The public utility commission in Wisconsin is trying to force the company to cover the power-grid upgrades necessitated by the construction of four data center buildings on a 672-acre site. This would require Oracle to raise at least an additional $7 billion,

Because the ancient Israelites were a Canaanite group native to the southern Levant, genetic studies show that both modern Palestinians and Jewish populations inherit a majority of their DNA from the exact same Bronze Age Levantine ancestral pool