Anyone from Illinois knows Gov. Pritzker is the real deal. This speech he gave at Northwestern’s graduation, where he reminded folks that the best way to spot an idiot is to spot the person who is the most cruel, is worth rewatching and sharing.
BREAKING: President Biden will become the first President in American history to register job growth in every single month during his Presidency. This is huge.
America's four largest potato producers allegedly conspired to raise prices on frozen fries, hash browns, and tater tots by 47%.
This tater trust controls more than 95% of the potato market.
If we want to bring down grocery prices, we must take on corporate consolidation.
America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
House Republicans have revived HR 9495, which would give Trump power to shut down nonprofits he doesn't like under the guise of fighting “terrorism.”
52 House Dems shamefully joined the GOP in voting for it last week.
Every Dem should vote against this authoritarian power-grab.
Trump wants to cut the corporate tax rate to 15%. This would give...
-The 5 largest banks a $4.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest drug makers a $3.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest US oil companies a $2.5B tax cut
-The 5 largest grocery stores a $1.7B tax cut
Some populist, huh?
If you don’t want to support Businesses that are backing the Republicans start with
1. Walmart
2.Sams
3. Chick-fil-A
4.Moes
5.Bass Pro Shops
6.Publix
7. Krispy Kreme
8. BJ’s
9. McDonald’s
10. Starbucks
11.Penske Trucks
12.Enterprise Rent a car
13. Delta Airlines
More to come
There is no moral justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth.
It is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.
Wealth can’t be separated from power.
Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.
(Cw ⚠️)
Late last month Oklahoma City Police slammed a 70-year-old Mr. Vu, who is 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs just 115 pounds to the pavement head first, leaving him with a fractured skull.
Let me guess, the cop feared for his life?
I, like many of you, have been contemplating our predicament since election night.
We are in a losing war for our democracy and I'm not sure we collectively know who our true adversary is.
It's not the voting blocks...white women, Latinos, Gen X. It's not MAGA. It's not even Trump.
It's an insidious power that has been hiding in the shadows for some time...and when the stakes were at their highest in this election, it fully revealed itself.
The American Oligarchy.
They control our Supreme Court, much of Congress, and the flow of information to the masses via legacy, mainstream and social media.
They decide the national conversation, how to keep us at each other's throats while they continue to amass wealth and power completely unchecked.
They put their thumbs on the scale of justice and poured billions into this election. They chose Trump because he was desperate and would capitulate to their demands. They chose a running mate to replace him in case he became too unhinged to control.
Consider how many disqualifying facts about Trump never saw the light of day...or didn't get the attention they deserved...or got drowned out by propaganda. They took a mentally spent buffoon and presented him as a hero to the masses.
Despite Biden successfully steering us out of a global recession and strengthening our economy, they maintained the national tone about the price of groceries being too high. Despite Trump's obvious mental decline, their media outlets remained reticent to press the issue.
We struggle to unite as a nation because they're too good at keeping us divided. We are drowning in disinformation because they control all of it.
They have successfully created imaginary villains for us to fight...each other.
It seems like we are a democracy careening towards fascism, when the reality is they're using the specter of fascism to keep us on edge while they turn America into a compliant oligarchy.
Whether you are a democrat, republican, independent or MAGA, we have a common foe.
Some of us just don't know it yet.
💵 Baselined: The Biden Economy
We are taking a snapshot of Joe Biden's economy before he leaves office so we have a point of comparison when Donald Trump begins to take credit for it, like he did the economy he inherited form Barack Obama.
JD Vance tried to pass himself off as some kind of working class champion at the debate. He's not. He's a conman, just like Trump.
Here's what you need to know about him.
JD Vance tried to give a revisionist account of Donald Trump's presidency during tonight's VP debate. Here's what it was really like to live under Trump.
Donald Trump left office with the lowest approval rating of any president ever. But some people now seem to be suffering from amnesia.
Let me jog your memory