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Traveling from Then to Now, I'm looking for ways to explain how a simple world, appearing complex, is still simple. Trust Yourself. Not the famous, rich, glamorous, lionized or glorified.

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PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 16h

This is how Republicans voters should expect Republican leaders to act. Otherwise, stick them on a slow boat to Belarus
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PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 20h

Is this "fiscal conservatism?"
For REPUBLICANS it is. Which is WHY the Republican Party is defined by hypocrisy, lies, cheating and corruption.
What is a Representative in the House who is paid, but not working?
How many SNAP benefits go into ONE Representative salary?

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 20h

I can. What is an alternative "organization?"

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 20h

This is what Justice should look like.
Ironic that a Democratic ("radical communist") run state, can do this, Republican federal government, can't.
Why Republican? Because states without Democratic supervision, are overwhelming corrupt. Prove. Me. Wrong.
chicago.suntimes.com/madigan-tria...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is in prison

Madigan’s surrender caps a massive corruption investigation that hearkens back to an earlier era at Chicago’s federal courthouse. He has been sentenced to 7½ years behind bars.

chicago.suntimes.com

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 20h

Stephen Miller.
And we write about Hitler being bad? Try Stephen Miller. "Deputy White House Chief of Staff."

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 20h

greater power.
The Supreme Court is wrong. This Supreme Court is often wrong. But their decisions, and who they are, cannot be investigated fully. They too, are unaccountable.
THIS is Systemic Bias at its core. Bias favoring the rich and powerful.

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 20h

faith" and attracts people to achieve power, who protect themselves using that assumption. In fact, people rising into positions of wealth and power, should be scrutinized MORE HEAVILY than those without.
Imagine Musk, Trump, Bezos, being scrutinized more heavily prior to being granted access to

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 20h

I am a proponent of "law and order." For everyone.
But my "conservatism" does not protect white collar crime, or "position," defense (people in power and position granted the assumption that they are acting in "good faith.")
Our current system, both in government and business, assumes "good

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 21h

If anyone thought that "qualified immunity," protecting police from prosecution and accountability in stopping citizens, arresting and killing was wrong - how do you like the "qualified immunity" of ICE, legislators, Supreme Court, and Executive Branch in "doing their jobs?"

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

to work is the INLY thing that gets us from the "front of camera" or "front of audiences," with any credibility and coherence that is meaningful.
I haven't caught up with all your podcasts and books, but thanks much!

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

@maddow.msnbc.com
A different area: Thank you for the production regarding Andrew Young's "The Dirty Work."
I interviewed Young briefly when I was writing in Chicago, and I deeply appreciate the work of producing behind the scenes. What goes into building, organizing, planning, and then getting it

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

@symonedsanders.bsky.social
Hey Symone, have you ever heard of Terrence Crawford?

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

who should be supported.
Years ago, I worked as an investigative reporter in Chicago, and then for CBS in NY before becoming an overnight producer for CBS Radio, so my appreciation for investigation, forensic analysis, and your ability to make these things coherent is appreciated. Phil Wong. Thanks.

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

staging people I know and worked with, saw me and I had to say hi to them as well, and missed you.
I actually was going to ask you to sign a copy of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," (a 1960s copy, and see if I could donate it to fundraising for the ACLU, or one of a score of organizations

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

@maddow.msnbc.com
Rachel - you may not see this (but if you read incessantly you will), but I wanted to thank you personally, for your work, and the work of your team, when I went to your live event Saturday.
I saw you by the backdoor talking to a few people, but some of the lighting and

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

wider and sustainable safety net.
Thank you again for your coverage -and please extend my gratitude to your team, and the technicians, and people who make you function.

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

was canvassing for, prior to running to see your event at Hammerstein, but I worry about their ability to push through moral ideas in practical ways, in our political world.
Creating a wider source of revenue, in addition to taxing the wealthiest, but not exclusively, is core to supporting a

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

as an overnight producer at CBS radio for a few years. But I appreciate the legal clarity in which you explain issues, and perspectives, and you may tell Maya Wiley, that I appreciated her being there as well.
In governance, I love the moral compass of people like her, and Zohran Mamdani (who I

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

@arimelber.bsky.social
Quickly. I met you and introduced myself while you were at the step n repeat on Saturday. Under my real name. Phil Wong.
I worked as an investigative reporter years ago in Chicago, writing about the impacts of overt and subvert racism in every level of our society. And then

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

Governments CAN. Giving access to safe, viable workspaces, hosted and maintained by a city, state or federal government, with transportation, and infrastructure, flexible for small start ups in urban AND rural areas.
Thanks. Please run this by Stephanie. I didn't have time.
You are wonderful

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

the Tuscan valley and the linens and sulks to clothing above Milan.
China built their apparel industry to create a foundational economic class built on small product manufacturing - but investors won't give industries (or individual businesses like that,traction) because the return is too small.

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

generations through schools to get higher paying jobs?
I've looked specifically at the fashion industry (and was looking at Stephanie's shoes, and the jerseys you bought for the two of you), and know that the Italian fashion industry was built post-WWII, with individual sewers and knitter's in

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

struggle between "work," "social safety net," "government revenue streams," with a "service industry at our foundation "
What if . . . industries, based on crafts, small production, could pay people without language or education skills, and allow them a way to support their families, get future

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

heavily immigrant, but our "service" labor force, is limited to what one group of people (corporations, businesses and wealthier individuals) can and will pay for. The agricultural businesses, construction and other "blue collar" industries as they get bigger, need more highly skilled labor, yet we

PoochPest @poochpest.bsky.social · 2d

economies."
I think, and I'd like both of you to consider that developing and emerging countries have an advantage over this, and other developed countries in having low tech, labor intensive industries that give untrained populations, work.
We have a huge and diverse population that is