Moderna plans to increase the price of its COVID-19 vaccines by more than 400 percent.

Remember, Moderna received $1.7 billion to develop the vaccine, and has already raked in $36 billion in revenue.

This is what corporate greed looks like.

While I am aghast at what Musk has done to Twitter, it has had one upside: what an outright jerk Musk is, is now more widely understood

And that he behaves like a jerk can be a matter of life and death at his other company, Tesla - and they're now getting more scrutiny 👇 https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/how-elon-musk-knocked-tesla-s-full-self-driving-17848095.php

A formula used by out-of-power parties to regain power:

Seek control of the 3 "c's."

Classrooms
Courtrooms
Culture

The Federalists tried this in the early 19th c.-- and failed to regain power.

It's what we're watching now.

Of course, that doesn't guarantee an outcome now. There's a reason why that approach is both logical & powerful.

#politics #culturewars #education

Starbucks fired 150 pro-union baristas and closed a dozen unionized shops.

Chipotle shuttered a store in Maine when workers petitioned for a union.

Amazon spent millions to beat back union organizing campaigns at its warehouses.

Common theme: they're terrified of worker power.

Since the Murdoch family launched Fox "News" several decades ago, Big Journalism has consistently endorsed the fiction that the outlet is journalistic in nature. There was an element of truth to that early on.

But for the past decade and longer, Fox "News" has been a thoroughly dishonest, relentless propagandist. It accumulates power and money by poisoning our public sphere.

Yet the journalism trade persists in calling it a news outlet, compounding the dishonesty.

It's disheartening.

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A virtue of this profile of
Elise Stefanik by Nick Confessore is that it doesn't describe an ideological conversion.

Rather, Stefanik had no strong beliefs to begin with. Her rise is a simpler tale of ambition— and an emptiness inside. The profile is of the party's direction, as much as the person who went with it.

"Friends going back to Ms. Stefanik’s Harvard days struggled to identify any of her deeply held political beliefs at all."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/us/politics/elise-stefanik.html?unlocked_article_code=ZqqumQpFaKiu36YmTlZOOTuDBVhlk4TtK8O2-2FC7sPTbFMlxwhApVFugrIV_l4-LS5oUtAJXr2GSlSqgirZdBOlymyvax8pIe-MyF0kA4ihpJiauxO7leeIb9--ksInVGbabZuloLX_nszTNxLB_P7WXJjF7dgusEVBDql-5t7R7y68tkwimey_870q2ZB0DctKhknmuE49Yybr_J6tjD3G9hiMlZGx1Gonbg2x9w6FvFLqqbGQAn2wWciRHKcBJwj459m4wzMxL0UmXKQX9DJjgcVitIkDLl63iGinQooM4TLmpszR1qzLSo-79DWxE7i0CYWtDpFyY1aN&smid=share-url

#journalism #uspolitics #uspol