Mark Silverman

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Assistant Professor of Economics, Franklin & Marshall College (J.D., Ph.D) [Living in the Orwellian age of Trump, where the criminal is the aggrieved, and the prosecution is persecution.]

Peter Thiel is getting a very cold reception outside his new mansion in the exclusive Barrio Parque neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentinians are chanting: “Out, out, Peter out.”

Dr. Vin Gupta, an actual health expert, just dismantled RFK Jr.’s entire health agenda piece by piece. Medicaid cuts. NIH trials canceled. Environmental protections gutted. "Lots of marketing, little substance" on food policy.

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.

The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations ransacked our system. In 1952,

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El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

The reality is that Americans are getting sicker, not healthier, because of Trump and RFK’s disastrous “health” policies. They’re destroying vaccination programs nationwide and stripping billions of dollars from pandemic prevention. This should concern all Americans.

🔥 Charlamagne on Josh Hokit attacking Michelle: “All you do when you bring the Obamas up is remind people what is currently missing from the White House. The Obamas set a standard for decency & class & poise & intelligence... Now that bar is in hell.”

Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

AmeriKKKa is now run by Nazis throwing immigrants into concentration camps - who not only have broken no law, but were grabbed precisely for complying with immigration law - where they are fed inedible worm-ridden food and are sick and dying from lack of medical care. It's almost beyond belief.

Shapiro: Somehow, he can’t find the money to pay for healthcare, but he can steal from you to pay off the criminals who stormed the Capitol.

Reading the SCOTUS opinion in Louisiana v. Callais, it's hard not to be overcome by the absolute absurdity of the Court finding that Congressional legislation specifically designed to implement the 15th Amendment is -unless interpreted in their draconian way - in violation of the 14th Amendment.

KIMMEL: “You know how sometimes you wake up and the First Lady demands you be fired? We’ve all been there, right? — I agree hateful, violent rhetoric is something we should reject… a great place to start to dial that back would be to talk to your husband.”

German Chancellor Merz: It is quite obvious that the Americans have absolutely no coherent strategy whatsoever. There is a sense that a whole nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, particularly the Revolutionary Guards.

🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

The American gestapo abducted an 85 year-old widow. Was she one of the worst of the worst? No, her step-son, a retired Alabama state trooper, got ICE to put her in a detention center to deport her because he wanted all of his father's inheritance. Sounds like the son is the worst of the worst.

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