Washington Post, 1/30/23: showdown coming over blue slips, quotes Russ Feingold. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/30/senators-prepare-showdown-over-judges-blue-slips/
@[email protected], 12/8/22: showdown coming over blue slips, quotes Russ Feingold. https://prospect.org/politics/democratic-judicial-makeover-depends-on-blue-slips/
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The House Oversight Committee found in 2016 that as much as 90 percent of classified material doesn’t need to be classified.
Here are some of the secret documents that we have to hope never enter the wrong hands:
https://prospect.org/politics/2023-01-30-president-classified-document-scandal/
TIL Ukraine's war economy policy is so neoliberal that even the IMF and the World Bank are alarmed https://prospect.org/world/2023-01-30-ukraine-neoliberal-war-mobilization/
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Episode 262 PREVIEW - Marianne Williamson on the Politics of Love http://dlvr.it/ShYPVl
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Episode 262 PREVIEW - Marianne Williamson on the Politics of Love | Left Anchor
In this excerpt Marianne talks about the bad and good sides of the Biden administration. Subscribe here to listen to the whole thing!
"The 14 largest publicly-traded pharmaceutical companies spent more on stock buybacks and dividends alone than on R&D. This contradicts pharma’s insistence that companies must keep drug prices high as a 'necessary cost' to reinvest in new discoveries."
https://prospect.org/health/2023-01-23-moderna-covid-vaccine-price-hike-bernie-sanders/
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This week, during the first congressional hearing on Ticketmaster/Live Nation in decades, senators in both parties condemned the disastrous 2010 merger that led to Ticketmaster's domination of the live music sector.
Let's talk about the rising costs of the care economy. https://prospect.org/economy/2023-01-18-inflation-unfair-costs-of-care/
TIL that the Fair Tax was a Scientology idea https://prospect.org/economy/2023-01-26-freedom-caucus-fair-tax-act-irs/
Great conversation on @[email protected] w/@SamSeder who clearly got into the details of @[email protected] and my Live Nation/Ticketmaster article.
Listen if you want stories like how Grateful Dead, w/ its own ticketing service, once made a row of fans named "Brian."
https://prospect.org/power/ticketmasters-dark-history/ https://twitter.com/majorityfm/status/1618299780853293056
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KristaKBrown/status/1618321315139850243
Good breakdown of social wealth funds from @[email protected]. Similar funds in Norway & Alaska have been successful and cheap. But political hurdles are numerous to establish one, rendering a traditional outcome like slashing benefits/raising taxes more likely
https://prospect.org/economy/2023-01-23-bipartisan-plan-social-security/
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