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“The problem isn’t that we have 42 million people on SNAP. The problem is that we have 42 million people who live in poverty.”
“Segregation was a government policy, it was racially conscious, it was not the unintended consequence of benign policies.”
What if SNAP weren’t a story about major political party back-and-forthing, and were instead a story about people who need food?
The data center controversy was downplayed by the Washington Post—owned by the founder of Amazon, a company at the forefront of the data center buildout,
Editorial boards are not afraid socialist policies will fail—they fear they will work, thus making a “tax the rich” agenda more popular nationwide.
With a possible military operation that could have disastrous consequences, corporate outlets are unsurprisingly ceding the floor to the warmongers.
It is a hallmark of corrupt societies that institutions like media simply accept that the personal business interests of politicians supersede public service.
The 50-year mortgage plan, while dressed up as reform, is in reality part of an effort to normalize permanent indebtedness.
Information from a major hack targeting Israel revealed that Jeffrey Epstein played a significant role in brokering multiple deals for Israeli intelligence.
Housing and home ownership represent a critical vector in the project of a multi-racial democracy.
“They are OK with using race to hurt people. They are not OK with using race to help people who are actual victims of racism.”
“The fossil fuel industry is trying to preserve its own profits at the expense of people on the planet, and they are spreading a lot of disinformation.”
Terms like “polarizing” and “controversial” are the outer limits of acceptable critique for mass murderers who happened to be US statesmen.
The argument is so specious a third grader could call it out. But if it comes from the Supreme Court majority, we are forced to consider it as serious.
Corporate media pundits desperately wanted Mamdani’s victory to have no impact on the ideological direction of the Democratic Party.
“There are people around him who want favors, want money, and they’re getting it…. He knows how to take bribes, basically.”
The purge-like firings at Paramount and Conde Nast will have a tremendously negative impact on the already sorry state of political news.
The New York Post and Daily News agreed that Zohran Mamdani should not be mayor of New York. But the ways they opposed him vastly differed,
The city’s media oligopoly looked to a rejected, corrupt sleazeball to save the city from a fresh-faced progressive who vowed to make life more affordable.
When insurance stock prices dropped sharply, business journalists fretted that private looting of the healthcare system might end.
