A number of people are online, saying they won’t be cowed by the virus (or public health officials). They’re posting photos of themselves out, and encouraging others to do the same. Right now, I’m watching a video of people, packed like sardines, inside a Nashville bar. Yesterday, the Governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt, an avowed […]
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Social distancing. It’s the only way.
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Anthony Fauci, anti-science, anti-vaxxer, anti-vaxxers, Baltimore, Corona, coronavirus, Devin Nunes, Kevin Stitt, Nashville, New York, pandemic, public health 24 Comments
The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You
David Leonhardt, who won the a Pulitzer Prize run 2011 for his columns on the financial crisis, has a new piece in today’s New York Times titled, “The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You.” If, like me, you’re concerned about issues like wealth inequality and our inability as a nation to appropriately fund […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Mark's Life, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 1%, AOC, David Leonhardt, Elizabeth Warren, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, Green New Deal, infrastructure, middle class, public education, research funding, rich get richer, tax policy, taxes, the top 1%, threats to the middle class, ultra-millionaire tax, Warren Dunes, wealth inequality, wealth tax 27 Comments
When Donald Trump tweeted out that the press was the “enemy of the people” a few days ago, he had to have known that one of his supporters had just been taken into custody for plotting the murder of several journalists and elected Democrats
Last Friday, Coast Guard lieutenant Christopher Paul Hasson was taken into federal custody, and today, thanks to a filing in Maryland district court, we know why. It would appear that Hasson, who worked at the Coast Guard headquarters in Washington, was plotting to murder several Democratic officials, as well as members of the press. According […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged anti-Semitic, Chris Cuomo, Christopher Paul Hasson, Civil War, CNN, Coast Guard, domestic terrorism, Don Lemon, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi, narcotics, Pocahontas, Richard Blumenthal, steroids, Supreme Court, Van Jones, white supremacist 65 Comments