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Instead of defensively running from Biden, they should extoll his achievements.

They tried running away from Obama in 2010 and again in 2014, and we know how that worked out.

Will they ever learn?

heading Biden’s Federal Reserve?

Biden says he’s tired of trickle-down economics–when, then, will he pull the plug on
Powell’s tenure?

“Antitrust Enforcement is Back,” Open Markets proclaims.
We can only hope.

Corporate monopolization has drastically diminished the quality and variety of books published, so hurray for the court ruling today preventing Penguin Random House from subsuming Simon & Schuster.

For years, neither Republican nor Democratic administrations have pursued anti-trust actions, and the results for America have been disastrous. Now, Garland’s Department of Justice is signaling a new chapter.

that the white Republican Establishment is playing in Georgia.

“They thought we were so slow, that we were so stupid that we would elect the lowest caricature of a stereotypical broken Black man as opposed to somebody who is educated and erudite and focused.”

So says triumphant Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as Jair Bolsonaro’s apocalyptic presidency comes to an end.

the exodus must begin, and a new platform for decent Americans established.

In fact, the exodus already has begun, and Musk hasn’t even let Trump back on yet.

Why is this ghastly, treasonous network allowed to incite violence on a daily and nightly basis?

Fox “News” and its affiliates in the right-wing propaganda bubble bear direct responsibility for the attack.

“It is all a lie,” Michael Moore writes today in his daily bulletin. “They have no clue what they are taking about. They tell the story they want to tell. If it doesn’t fit their narrative, it’s not in the story. You are being misled, bamboozled, hoodwinked, scared to death, and made to believe that the economy has imploded when the factual truth is that wages are up, unemployment is at the lowest in half a century, more jobs have been created during this presidency than any other president in their first two years, inflation has slowed, the economy grew 2.6% last quarter, and everyone on Social Security is going to get a whopping 8.7% increase in their monthly checks in the coming year.”

Penguin Random House’s decision to pay cult member and extremist political hack Amy Coney Barrett $2 million for her story on paper is one more disastrous betise by the corporate publishing world. This advance will never earn out. Her agency all but embezzled the publisher, but it is, of course, an easy mark for this type of hustle.

This acquisition is all you need to know about why corporate publishing is in freefall.

But more than that, it is an affront to human rights, as the open letter signed by 250 literary figures makes clear.

His moldy, pasty delivery–he’s part village yenta and part village idiot–
is now fully engaged in training its seamy defamation against John Fetterman.
This right after Tucker had a cow about his son’s nepotistic trajectory being made public.

And Tucker is who the Murdochs want to pay millions to. This is what they want to inflict on America.