Brian H. Bragg

Idealist grandpa. Likes: Reason. Tolerance. Peace. Liberty. A just society. Ethical economics. Public leaders with brains and the courage to use them.

[Brian H. Bragg @brianbragg]

@RWPUSA Oh, yes, the quiet games played by the well-connected…

[Daniel Uhlfelder @DWUhlfelderLaw]

Red Wave

[Veronica M @McclaneVeronica]

A state Senator in Arkansas is gearing up to put up a bill that sends librarians to jail for any ideas he deems inappropriate. I need y’all to read that out loud. Then I need you to ask yourselves is this fascism? #Arkansas #arleg #FascistGOP

[Arkansas Blog @ArkansasBlog]

And Arkansas has just hired the top public school guy from Florida

[Pro-Democracy RTs @ProDemocracyRTs]

Here’s Tom Cotton 15 months ago criticizing Biden for not visiting the border.
And here’s Tom Cotton today saying it’s “meaningless” that Biden plans to visit the border.
Tom Cotton is a con artist.

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries is really good at this. Really good.

[Philosopher Kin & Wat Tyler's Ghost @rogerahicks]

We were warned back in the early 70s that our mercenary, rapacious, grossly materialist, fossil-fuel- & growth-dependent economy was inherently unsustainable on our finite, vulnerable & (even back then) overpopulated planet, #SpaceshipEarth, which we'd not long had this photo of:

[Phil Hart @philhart1978]

#SocialistSunday

[Brian H. Bragg @brianbragg]

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[Jeff Zients Archived @WHCOS46Archive]

By selling oil from the SPR at $96/barrel, we helped reduce the price of gas when it was at its highest.

Now, by refilling the SPR at today's much lower prices, we turn a profit for the taxpayers.

[Brian H. Bragg @brianbragg]

People make the same mistake attending to @elonmusk's pronouncements as they did with TFG: Nothing he utters has any fixed meaning or substance. It can — and probably will — change in the next five days, or five minutes. In terms of impulse control, both are 12-year-olds.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Corporate profits surged to a record high of $2.1Tn in the 3rd quarter of this year, even as inflation continued to hurt consumers. Over the last 2 years, profits have ballooned more than an 80%, from ~$1.2Tn to more than $2Tn.

Folks, this is what’s driving inflation.

[Brian H. Bragg @brianbragg]

Freight rail “management is acting with such disregard towards the needs of everyone but themselves and their shareholders that the unions and customers are in agreement.”
https://t.co/RZDhhiovH6

[Charles Decker @ARealCharles]

The sacrifice of journalism to private equity and other forms of corporate greed is a great crime of the 21st Century. I stand with @newsguild

[Brian H. Bragg @brianbragg]

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[Brian H. Bragg @brianbragg]

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Ridiculous.

[Nouriel Roubini @Nouriel]

The Unbearable Uselessness of Crypto.
“the world may have woken up to the grim reality that the crypto "industry" is nothing but a get-rich-quick lie, wrapped in hype, bobbing on an ocean of libertarian technobabble. Will anyone do something about it?”
https://t.co/Nb6Cx54Moa

[Brian H. Bragg @brianbragg]

@justinamash Problem is, Justin, that “competing idea” often turns out to be an “alternate fact” cloaking a sociopath.