Opening a second front for Gun Safety

https://stevenmrogers.substack.com/p/opening-a-second-front-for-gun-safety?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Putting people out of work is the Fed’s means of reducing workers’ bargaining power and the “upward pressures on wages and prices.”

But fighting inflation by putting people out of work is cruel, especially when safety nets – including unemployment insurance – are in tatters.

The economy is on track to avert a recession, unless the Fed creates one.

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-01-09-labor-market-soft-landing-federal-reserve/

It'd only take a handful of moderate Republicans to ward off the many crises planned by extremists in the House, from a government shutdown to a debt default to ending aid to Ukraine.

But that's the problem, as shown by the McCarthy deal ratified by the House GOP: there are zero moderate Republicans. They're all extremists. They prefer manufactured crises to stable governance.

Since Jan. 6, 2021, Fortune 500 companies — some of whom pledged to withdraw support from candidates who denied the results of the 2020 election — have given nearly $15.8 million to election deniers.

Look up how much they've given and to whom:

https://projects.propublica.org/fortune-500-company-election-deniers-jan-6/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

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