@davidsirota Geithner said the same thing to Neil Barofsky, the SIGTARP, and also used the phrase “foaming the runway.
I said in a private meeting that the purpose of the foreclosure program appeared to be to space out the banks’ losses, not prevent foreclosures. He was indignant.
@BigThunderMan@AaronRegunberg@RichardHanania The guy called for mass forced sterilization of African-Americans. I think it’s fair to call that a history of white supremacy. Do you disagree?
“It’s the exact opposite,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, contrasting the Maduro operation in Venezuela with the Iraq War nearly 20 years ago. He said the raid was strategic and benefits both Americans and Venezuelans while reinforcing U.S. influence in the Western Hemisphere.
This is pro-pedophile and pro-child sex trafficking Republican from Louisiana Clay Higgins. Higgins was the lone "no" vote on the release of the Epstein files — and this video gives y'all a hint who this piece of shit is. 😳👇
@briebriejoy Obama’s populist rhetoric was weak and forced. Compare his supposedly populist speech in Ossawatomie in 2012 with TR’s New Nationalism speech there in 1910. Obsma’s polling showed populism was very popular, especially against Romney, and they couldn’t throw the punch.
This the first I’ve heard that the right-wing wants to reconsider the Bayh-Dole Act—for all the wrong reasons of course. Still, fine by me.
They can start with pharmaceuticals.
Lutnick: "Think about this. We give hundreds of millions to each university. Tens of billions, up to $200 billion a year. They take that money and they do research and they get patents. And you know who keeps them? The scientists and the university. And we who pay all the money, the American taxpayers, we get nothing. This has got to change."
Lloyd somehow acquired immunity from the narcissism pandemic among politicians.
I would have loved for Lloyd to chair the Ways and Means Committee. He’s smart and has solid values.
But good for Lloyd. Class move.
16th term Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-#TX37) will not run for reelection against 2nd term Rep. Greg Casar (D-#TX35) for the same Austin congressional seat under the newly redrawn TX GOP redistricting map IF it's not overturned by the courts: "If the courts give Trump a victory in his scheme to maintain control of a compliant House, I will not seek reelection in the reconfigured CD37...If Trump extreme gerrymandering prevails, I wish Congressman Casar the best."
@davidsirota That was my bill, but somehow that did not radicalize me. It took me a long time to realize that I wasn’t just fighting the Cossacks, but the Czar.