Bob Kuttner (@rkuttnerwrites) looks at the undertow, the blob of corporatists that continue to threaten the new approach under the Biden administration. New personnel could affect the dynamics:
https://prospect.org/economy/02-20-2023-biden-federal-reserve-economics-brainard/
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Less estranged from Elon than most of his kids.
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People saying that not being able to define “woke” with a hard r is part of the right’s strategy. True! Which is why it’s best to respond, “What does ‘woke’ mean other than just a fancy way to use the n-word?”
Weird how when you come with a new way to use the n-word that you don’t want to define it
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Mike Pence literally said on Fox News last Thursday that he wants to "replace" Social Security with a "better deal." If you think the GOP's war on Social Security is over, you are kidding yourself. The GOP will never stop! My new CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/20/opinions/mike-pence-social-security-obeidallah/index.html
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The local University #MichiganTech recently reversed a student government decision and forced them to fund a conservative speaker from Turning Point USA claiming that not doing so violated the speaker's constitutionally protected free speech. A busy week of student activism, secret meetings, and social media pressure all lead up to a fierce clash between students and administration this past Friday.
If that sounds interesting then give my story a read.
https://www.copperbeacon.org/news/2d1a6c0r65j9tjmngmz9y91c4e8ngl
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The thing they mean when they say "woke mind virus" is mostly the idea that women and brown-skinned minorities are not biologically inferior in one way or another to men and whites/asians and should be treated as equals.
They will actually say this out loud if you interrogate their claims or ask them to explain themselves in detail!
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The latest filing by Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation suit against Fox nails something critics have long argued for.
Fox is not a news organization. It's something else.
But what is this other thing? In this thread, I will try to answer that.
Next slide, please. 1/
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Nationwide Right to Medication Abortions Now at Stake in Three Federal Lawsuits
Explaining the bumpy and uncertain legal path toward protecting -- or ending -- a critical reproductive freedom in all 50 states...
-- Guest-blogged by Ernest A. Canning
READ FULL STORY: https://bradblog.com/?p=14544
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The whole national divorce thing is pretty stupid, and while most of the people arguing for it are right-wingers mad that most of us think it’s wrong to hate trans people, the fact that our electoral map is broken up by states, which are then colored either solid red or solid blue, tricks even some reasonable people into thinking it makes sense. When in reality, this is what the country looks like, making clear there are basically no red or blue states.
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maybe marjorie taylor greene just wants a national divorce because she wants to sleep with other countries
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It really says a lot about how far the Republican Party has radicalized to the right that we all know this stuff will neither have any personal consequences for Marjorie Taylor Greene nor be forcefully condemned by any of her Republican colleagues. That’s just where we are.
The guys who want to put tracking cookie is your uterus are sick of your invasive policies.
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I keep wondering at what point Big Journalism will awaken to the threat(s) posed by DeSantis, who is a Trump-like power-monger but with more brains.
As Nieman Lab reports, his anti-journalism agenda is deeper and more dangerous, too.
But you can count on the NY Times et al to focus on everything but the danger he poses to democracy. Business as usual political "coverage" prevail for the most part.
So much as stake, and so little media awareness...
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Hope everyone who's been shrugging off the GOP strategy to criminalize health care it doesn't like (see: abortion, trans rights) is happy with themselves, because it's not stopping there https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/capitol-watch/idaho-lawmakers-introduce-legislation-to-criminalize-those-who-administer-covid-vaccines-legislature/277-2436a514-e7da-4b31-9762-f9be10300075
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What's going on:
Medicaid is the federal program to provide health insurance for low-income people. It's funded by the feds, but run by the various states and territories. Each state has its own Medicaid program, some of which are just called "Medicaid", and some of which aren't (ex CA "Medi-Cal", MA "MassHealth").
To get Medicaid in the first place, you have to apply, and prove you are poor enough to qualify.
Then, normally, once a year or so, your state Medicaid program gets in touch to ask, "Hey, are you still poor? Send us paperwork proving it?"
At the start of the pandemic, the feds had all the states stop doing that annual check.
THAT is what is going to resume come April.
Problem is, we know from past experience...
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I took some risks with this very dark column for Xtra that came out today. I hope you all like it. https://xtramagazine.com/culture/conservative-media-agenda-trans-245685
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A principle milquetoast in its morals and radical in its ramifications:
If you work in a place, you should be able to live there.
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Good ruling. Companies should be wildly afraid of violating labor laws and their lawyers should be advising them to reduce risk by respecting workers' right to organize.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/business/starbucks-union-ruling.html
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