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Every few months the Republican Party threatens to shut down the federal government claiming the country is in massive debt and must tighten its spending belt by cutting social programs. In January Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed into...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 02:35 PM PST
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Or, What Will Really Attract Businesses to West Virginia? Good Infrastructure. Friends and community, For my entire lifetime, I’ve heard this refrain from politicians: to create prosperity and jobs, attract business and to grow an economy, we must gut...
by TroyNMiller
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on Sat Feb 10, 2024 at 02:24 PM PST
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This cartoon is based on the AP story entitled "Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands" that was recently published here on DK. (It's a long piece, so if you're in a hurry, you can check out the...
by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Feb 06, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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That’s a rhetorical question. Of course we haven’t. And we won’t until we and enough of the public take control our commons, physical and digital, including system wide networks to individual contributions. We’ve trashed much of our physical commons,...
by greenandblue
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 03:01 PM PST
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When Elon Musk appeared on the stage at The New York Times' DealBook Summit in November, columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin came prepared with a lot of questions. However, after Musk blew up the news—and his social media site—by telling advertisers to “go...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu Dec 21, 2023 at 08:30 AM PST
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Recently un-redacted documents show that states claim to have ...
by angryea
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on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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Hearst Corporation asks employees to inform on each others' social media posts outside the workplace The Hearst corporation, a mammoth publishing conglomerate that owns newspapers, magazines, television networks and stations in the U.S. and worldwide has imposed a policy that warns its employees against “liking” or reposting certain posts on social...
by Dartagnan
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on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 03:35 PM PST
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C6RP6RATI6NS are the ‘BEAST’ made MANifest. They are parasitic SuperOrganisms consuming Gaia. Please note: While I speak generally about corporations here, I know there are exceptions to the overall picture I’ve composed. However, these are getting...
by mikeymikey
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on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 08:52 AM PST
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Where’s the real power lie in the world? My fellow Kossacks probably already intuit this but it can be useful to put some numbers & data to support what you know to be true but too many people just don’t seem to get. I have conservative friends with...
by dlsamson
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on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 07:22 PM PDT
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Thomas B. Edsall, an American journalist and academic, wrote an outlandish opinion piece in the New York Times that claims small-dollar donations to political candidates are the real problem, not big money in politics. His piece was titled “Small...
by frankfaiola
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on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 03:28 PM PDT
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The American political system has been taken over by major corporations. Many political scientists already do not consider the U.S. a full-blown democracy, rather they view it as an oligarchy. An oligarchy is a country ruled by the few, in America,...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 11:10 PM PDT
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Lately I've gotten into watching the U.S. Open. I enjoy the mix of male and female athletes from different countries, and I also admire the fact that the tournament is celebrating 50 years of equal pay. So in a way I hate to single it out. That said,...
by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Sep 05, 2023 at 04:50 AM PDT
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Even with a recent ease and slowing, Americans continue to struggle under the weight of persistently high inflation and a string of ...
by Erin Tulley
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on Mon Aug 07, 2023 at 11:30 AM PDT
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The GOP recently unveiled their latest tax plan in a trio of bills that are a testament to the party's continued prioritization of the rich and corporations over everyday Americans. Their ...
by msouza
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on Wed Jun 28, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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Visiting my local Verizon store in an upscale strip mall, Chestnut Hill, MA, this morning, I had a learning experience. The store was closed. If I wanted to find the store hours, I had to scan a QR code posted on the door. Being digitally astute for a...
by teplcon
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on Thu Jun 15, 2023 at 11:38 AM PDT
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Corporations Rule the World. But there is a Usurper to the Throne (& it’s not A.I.) This ‘party crasher’ is climate collapse and it is quickly ramping up to be an unstoppable catastrophic force that it will switch the world’s priorities utterly and...
by mikeymikey
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on Tue Jun 13, 2023 at 09:14 AM PDT
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Share If we want a healthy, happy society in America, it’s not enough to just raise the top personal income tax bracket; we must also raise corporate taxes. Let me explain… Last week on Hartmann Report I proposed we raise the top personal income tax...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Jun 05, 2023 at 08:40 AM PDT
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In a betrayal of monumental proportions, Target and Bud Light, familiar household names known as much for their national appeal as for their previously vaunted pro-LGBTQ positions, have seemingly caved to pressure from those intent on upholding...
by msouza
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on Thu Jun 01, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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On Friday, May 5, I walked a picket for over 12 hours – 49,000 steps, 18 ½ miles – and shut down production on the show Evil. With two other striking writers and an occasional ally, we held the line until well after midnight. Video of our little...
by Haricot Blue
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on Mon May 15, 2023 at 02:51 PM PDT
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“Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun”� ― � Kurt Vonnegut, � God Bless You, ...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Mon May 08, 2023 at 04:47 PM PDT
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