If you had any doubt about who they see their audience as —seven reporters on this story
Andrew Elrod
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Andrew Elrod
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Lester Freamon of inflationary pressure
Joined October 2011
- "As Bertolt Brecht once said, 'it takes courage to say that the good were defeated not because they were good, but because they were weak.'"
- Frederick Eaton, for whom the canyon and fire in Pasadena are named, was the real estate baron who with Mulholland took the water from the Owens Valley—he's the John Huston character from Chinatown.
- "When 26 billionaires have as much wealth as half of humankind, that is criminal....If someone is getting that kind of wealth, they are doing it at the expense of millions of people. That is the reason that we don’t have healthcare and decent wages.” hls.harvard.edu/today/united-a…
- Completely disgraceful imo for the administration to start bombing a country and the opposition party response to be a contrived tabloid scandal about the administration not being secret enough about it.
- Replying to @rohangreyits the ultimate rich person’s horror fantasy—being murdered by an anonymous victim of one’s climb to the top of the business hierarchy, sacrificing one’s physical life for one’s career
- amazing how fast the rediscovery of keynesianism became the rediscovery of military keynesianism
- if you look at the comments on the UnitedHealth ceo news videos, they all say “prior authorization is needed before thoughts and prayers”
- Lede to a story in the Wall Street Journal on donor conversations atop the Democratic Party.
- In 1946 the CIO hired socialist animators Disney blacklisted from Hollywood to produce a documentary on the reality behind inflation and the postwar reconversion fiasco. "Deadline for Action" was the result. youtube.com/watch?v=Xh5g2M…
- “back in 2008, donations over $10 million made up just 4 percent of contributions for Republican campaigns. But in 2024, they made up fully 56 percent—and of a much larger pie”
- “Medicare for All is a system of strategic price control aimed at a critical sector; it is potentially the most powerful anti-inflationary tool the government has.”
- Talked with an organizer at Sacramento City Unified today who told me 17% of the positions in his bargaining unit are vacant, leaving some 9,000 students without a regular teacher in the classroom. In bargaining, the district proposed a $10k *cut* per teacher in pay and health.
