America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson perform “John Henry,” from their new album, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, at their mentor Joe Thompson’s house in Mebane, NC, with Justin “Demeanor” Harrington on bones.
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“The United States of America must always pay bills already incurred without gamesmanship, brinksmanship, or partisanship. House Democrats will oppose any effort to hold the economy hostage as part of any scheme by Extreme MAGA Republicans to jam its right-wing agenda down the throats of the American people.” Hakeem Jeffries
Well said, Rep. Jeffries! And thank you, Heather for your important link to the past.
Thanks for this referral, BK. I started reading Rosenburg’s site and enjoy the fact-based commentary. For starters, his welcome message that “part of Greater MAGA’s strategy is to intentionally poison our discourse with negative sentiment every day” is spot on. His numbers-based conclusion that the “last 3 Republican Presidents have brought recession, spiraling deficits, [and economic] decline” is what needs to be advertised loudly and broadly (on billboards, as others are suggesting here today), supported with graphs. I’ll chip in for that!
Haunting: the stupidity and cupidity of wealthy Republicans.
The wealthy ones are not the stupid ones. The wealthy vote R to preserve their wealth. They’re awful people, nearly all of them, but they’re not stupid. The stupid ones, and the ones responsible for every Republican victory since 1968, are the white working class, who are, by a two-to-one margin, vicious white supremacists out for blood. They’ve been that way since forever but the Republicans didn’t understand that until 1968. Since then, they’ve been riding the Southern Strategy to victory on a regular basis. The Southern Strategy works in about 30 states, not just the 11 Confederate states,
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