@TessFraad 1/ “To break the logjam, I[Michael Moore @MMFlint] am offering a number of suggestions to my fellow progressives and to the president...[Read more at bit.ly/3iyn5cl by Michael Moore @MMFlint via @SubstackInc]
2/ ...— reasonable ideas that I believe Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema will love and thus give us their votes to pass this important piece of legislation. [Read more at bit.ly/3iyn5cl by Michael Moore @MMFlint via @SubstackInc]
3/ ...“Here they are:“1. In his “human infrastructure“ bill, President Biden wants to expand Medicare in order to provide free hearing aids for the elderly....[Read more at bit.ly/3iyn5cl by Michael Moore @MMFlint via @SubstackInc]
4/ But let’s be honest — these geezers only need one ear to hear!...[Read more at bit.ly/3iyn5cl by Michael Moore @MMFlint via @SubstackInc]
5/ ...Why pay for two ears? We can cut the cost of this item in half by giving seniors only one hearing aid for one ear. More than that is overkill....[Read more at bit.ly/3iyn5cl by Michael Moore @MMFlint via @SubstackInc]
6/ ...Listening, as we’ve learned in recent years, is overrated.[Read more at bit.ly/3iyn5cl by Michael Moore @MMFlint via @SubstackInc]
They[Republicans] want to force the Democrats to raise the ceiling under the process of reconciliation, which cannot be filibustered. [Read more at bit.ly/2Ysm5PS by Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson via @SubstackInc]
This[usingReconciliation]would prevent the Democrats from using the reconciliation process for their infrastructure package that would support human infrastructure like child care and elder care, and address climate change.[Read more at bit.ly/2Ysm5PS by @HC_Richardson]
1/ “A government that answered to a majority rather than an extremist minority would crack down on the growing global elite uncovered by the journalists who pored over the Pandora Papers,...[Read more at bit.ly/3FjbSGk by Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson]
2/ ...an elite that has managed to hide its wealth in offshore accounts (meaning any accounts away from their country of citizenship) thanks to deregulation and lack of oversight.[bit.ly/3FjbSGk by Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson via @SubstackInc]
3/ The internet and a global economy have permitted the rise of a global elite that, as the Pandora Papers reveal, often overlaps with criminality....[Read more at bit.ly/3FjbSGk by Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson]
1/ “The net result of arming anti-abortion activists with the legal standing to target the most vulnerable among us may not result in actual violence,...[Read more at bit.ly/3A7s7Cn by Dahlia Lithwick and Scott Pilutik via @Slate and Portside]
2/ ...given that abortion providers in Texas promptly shut down or stopped offering services at six weeks, which was always the point of the law.[Read more at bit.ly/3A7s7Cn by Dahlia Lithwick and Scott Pilutik via @Slate and Portside]
3/ “But the threat underpinning the legalized self-help and vigilantism couldn’t be more clearly implied....[Read more at bit.ly/3A7s7Cn by Dahlia Lithwick and Scott Pilutik via @Slate and Portside]
2/ “The water will continue to rise. “It will have a metallic sheen and will smell bad,” Goodell [@jeffgoodell] writes. “Kids will get strange rashes and fevers. [Read more at bit.ly/3lXlCgk by Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges via @Truthdig]
Which means they won’t change their ways unless they’re required by law to change (and even then, only when the penalty times the probability of getting caught is higher than the profits from continuing anyway).[Read more at bit.ly/3ueZstV by Robert Reich @RBReich]
Their soothing promises of social responsibility are intended to forestall such laws.[Read more at bit.ly/3ueZstV by Robert Reich @RBReich via @guardianUS]
@gimpgalore 1/ But the prospect of child vaccines also offers much needed relief for the adults, most of them women, who are tasked with caring for children: teachers, childcare workers and, above all, mothers.[Read more at bit.ly/3EKUOIV by Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan]
2/ The ability to vaccinate kids, and the hope for more regular and dependable schooling and childcare that it brings, could be tremendously meaningful for women’s equality. [Read more at bit.ly/3EKUOIV by Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan via @guardianUS]
3/ Women were economically devastated by the pandemic, and childcare responsibilities were a big part of why.[Read more at bit.ly/3EKUOIV by Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan via @guardianUS]