I do not trust anything that appears on Fox News or comes out of our President’s mouth. I make it a point to stay off of social media and only view You Tube for classic music performances and some comedy so those are not sources of misinformation. While newspaper articles will contain all sorts of […]
Two important danger signals in the June employment report – by New Deal democrat This is Ben Casellman, Chief Economic Correspondent for The NY Times’s take on last Friday’s employment report: I beg to differ. As I wrote Friday, underneath the headlines, this was a barely positive report – with some significant negatives. Let me […]
This is a recorded piece. The link is below. I think you may be able to hear Joyce Vance and Adam Klasfeld discuss the judge’s questioning the government on what they are holding Abrego Garcia’. Throw on top of that El Salvador stating they had no power to hold 200 people in prison there. Our […]
Some words and 4 simple, easy to understand charts on Medicaid on who uses Medicaid in rural areas and under the age of 65 years. Four minutes of read time to get the idea. If Republicans and Tr__p are going to whack rural citizens, you might as well know a little about them. Five-minute read. […]
I’ve been a bit baffled recently by comments by friends expressing anxiety about NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Yeah, I ignore the right-wing wind machine over at Fox. But since I stopped reading the gray lady, I missed the propaganda and misdirection she’s been pumping out. “The Times has it out for Zohran Mamdani. The […]
The words “socialism” and “Marxism” have long been synonymous with the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. Oddly, because neither country was socialist or Marxist. Lenin and the Bolsheviks (bolshevik means “majoritarian,” even though it was a minority party, a triumph of propaganda) crushed Marxist/socialist worker-led organizations after the 1917 Revolution (really a […]
– by New Deal democrat Last month the new orders components of the economically weighted ISM manufacturing and services indexes warranted the hoisting of a yellow flag “Recession Watch.” This month that continued. To recap, because manufacturing is much less important to the economy than in the decades before the Millennium, the economically weighted average of the […]
Talking about courts today. If you have ever gone to a Federal Court, it is a matter of just the facts people. Don’t look for sympathy because it is not there if you get this far in the first place. You can have the best of the best in attorneys. Judges will listen and maybe […]
It is hard not to talk about the Republicans and Trump’s BBB. Yep, the political party is mentioned first because they are allowing this to happen. It maybe some people do not know the detail and have no idea. For the rest of us? It is like waiting for the train to hit. You see […]
Do we say that a blackmailer is trying to reach a “deal?” Is a successful extortion a “deal?” “Harvard’s hundreds of unionized professors are pushing the university not to make any deal with President Trump in its deepening dispute with the White House, and they say they hope to flex their increasing organizing prowess to […]