marlain23.bsky.social

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CBS news (Bari Weiss) is trying their best to spin really bad numbers for Trump into problematic election for Dems. Read their latest write up on their own poll today. Unreal. Their own poll has Trump with -22 net job approval and Dems up 9 on generic ballot, and they basically write "both sides".

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1. Communism is utterly un-American. 2. Authoritarianism/fascism is utterly un-American too. 3. The Democratic Party is not Communist. Not yet. Not even close. 4. The Republican Party IS authoritarian/fascist. RIGHT NOW. So…which party is the greater threat to America?

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In the first term, only a handful of folks DIDN’T think Trump was a moron. The rest of the people I worked alongside — from Cabinet members to staff assistants — realized that the president was an idiot. Take it for what you will. But that’s the truth.

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"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."

theguardian.comThe era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back | Gabriel ZucmanThere is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power

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