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Calcimom
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“Becky-Home- Eccy” Pragmatist volunteering with LWV to support change.
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These are “Protection Rallies”—Protecting our Constitution!
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A new name on the TX horizon:
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Opinion | He’s Young, Talented and Openly Religious. Is He the Savior Democrats Have Been Waiting For?
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“Keep ‘em barefoot and pregnant”. (And uneducated…)
As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.

Really think about how twisted this all is.
In the past, when presidents tried to trim the number of government employees, the result was not lowering the cost of the government. This is because those jobs were often given to private contractors at higher rates.

So it is no coincidence that a big private contractor is running this DOGE scam.
COSTCO, BJ’s, Target and most local supermarkets.
And so it goes…

RFK Jr. passes key HHS confirmation hurdle with Senate panel vote
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And so it begins…
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When I lecture about New Deal banking reforms, I note that some of the key measures — like Glass Steagall — were repealed by the right with disastrous results like the 2008 financial meltdown, but ha ha, no one will ever be stupid enough to kill FDIC and bring back the old bank runs.
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Kroger and Albertsons claimed they wanted to merge into one grocery giant in order to keep prices low.

But after the merger was blocked, they approved spending a combined $10 billion on stock buybacks.

They each paid their CEOs over $15 million in 2023, by the way.

Hello?