Giant bubble that has been percolating is getting ready to burst. Trump talked about getting rid of the Department of Education which would be bad enough, but with this announcement about #studentloans we are watching an unmitigated disaster unfold 🧵1/6

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It’s unclear whether malice or just sheer incompetence is driving this shift, but the Trump admin cut off access to all income-driven repayment plans & conducted mass layoffs at DOE, (cutting staff by nearly 50%) 2/6

The US lost competitiveness & industrial strength because the power elite, starting with Reagan & then really heating up with Clinton. chose to maximize profits by kneecapping labor, off-shoring in a race to the bottom with wages. #Tariffs across the board won’t fix this 🧵1/7 Tariffs are a tax on imports. This tax is paid by importers, in our case US companies, who then pass the additional cost on to consumers in the form of higher prices 2/7

Since Musk’s latest claims about his timeline for Mars exploration are trending, it’s worth remembering the origin of his fascination with the red planet. Nazi scientist turned US space program engineer Wernher von Braun wrote a book called “Project Mars” in 1953 🧵1/6 In that book, a crewed mission lands on Mars & discovers “the red planet inhabited by indigenous Martians whose society is organized along technocratic lines and led by an executive figure known as an Elon” 2/6liberationnews.org/fascist-futuri…

“Forgive them, for they know not what they do?” As the second Trump administration proceeds to crucify the US economy, the people pulling the strings know EXACTLY how much pain they are inflicting 🧵1/14 Project 2025, the latest iteration of Heritage Foundation’s “Mandate for Leadership” (blueprint for incoming GOP administrations that began in 1979), provides almost 1,000 pages worth of backbone for a continuation of Reaganomics in the US 2/14medium.com/@nurselawyer/p…

For 40+ years neoliberalism has treated Economics as a high priesthood of solemn esoteric knowledge beyond the grasp of ordinary people. This stance is manipulative & wrong 1/6 Even trained economists may fall into the trap of thinking in absolutes about the discipline 2/6

Pro Israel Magen Am or “protector of the nation” is private security for Jewish communities. It began in LA but has spread to AZ. At the beginning the organization offered its services free of charge #UCLAProtest @TinaDesireeBerg 1/7forward.com/news/470196/la… Now Magen Am has a subscription based service 2/7

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Is forcing people back to work while they are sick really good policy @CDC? That is what doing away with COVID-19 isolation recommendations has accomplished🧵 1/20 In the short term employers have warm bodies to fill jobs & they save on sick pay, but in the long term an already beleagured population that has suffered numerous covid infections is being pushed to the brink 2/20

Aside from Blinken’s ability to arbitrarily declare an “emergency” allowing him to bypass the Arms Export Control Act (ordinarily Congressional oversight is required) & do things like expedite 14K tank rounds to Israel, there’s the US weapons “stockpile” in Israel issue 🧵1/16 Billions of dollars worth of US military equipment sits in closely guarded warehouses in Israel. Supposedly it is for US use in the event that war breaks out in MENA, but the Israelis have been permitted to access & use it in “emergencies” 2/16

Regardless of whether the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was a naturally occurring transmission from animal host to human (zoonosis) or a lab leak from a facility conducting gain of function research, it is a ticking time bomb that affects all of us Popular sentiment (“it’s just a cold”) is driven by both human nature & propaganda. @JohnSnowProject recently published information about the big picture, explaining in detail that a COVID infection has both an acute (immediate) phase & a chronic phase johnsnowproject.org/insights/a-new…

Explains a LOT a.co/bW9faTo Instead of facing the dock at The Hague, Douglas Feith & the rest of the neocons who destroyed Iraq for no reason continue operate in & around the center of US power militarist-monitor.org/profile/dougla…

The US Congress’ revival of FDR’s Lend-Lease idea has been lauded by Democratic Party luminaries like Paul Krugman nytimes.com/2022/04/28/opi… To understand what this REALLY means, it’s necessary to push larger than life WWII mythology aside & look at the facts Lend-Lease as originally conceived by US Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. was more than simply assisting the British war effort financially. Its ultimate aim was “postwar planning in wartime.” The indebtedness created by Lend-Lease gave the US power over the British empire

Breathless MSM propaganda underwritten by politicians is bringing us to the brink of war with a nuclear power. Step back & ask yourself what is REALLY going on with #Ukraine & #Russia The Donbass region in eastern Ukraine may be technically part of the country, but it’s been de facto independent since a US-backed coup instilled a puppet government in Kiev back in 2014 truthout.org/articles/the-u…

To understand why a pandemic is permitted to run unchecked through much of the West, you must understand the true motivation of those who are pushing the Great Barrington Declaration “let ‘er rip” strategy #COVID9 The actual author of the Great Barrington Declaration, Alexander Caccia, is not only former investment banker, he’s also a defense contractor whose company has been funded by the UK Ministry of Defense since 2017 #COVID9

Former mutuals went from defending Rogan on “free speech” grounds to defending his guests who share #COVID19 disinformation to defending the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration. It was appalling They asserted that I am uninformed, that the entire scientific establishment is in the pocket of BigPharma, & only “whistleblowers” like Robert Malone have the real answers. As “proof” they offer YouTube videos from the very people pushing disinformation

When governments ignore the pleas of epidemiologists, virologists & decide that the correct approach to the #SARSCoV2 pandemic is “let ‘er rip,” they are consigning huge swaths of society to early death or life long disability. #COVID19 The “let ‘er rip” or “herd immunity” perspective originated from the American Institute for Economic Research sponsored private retreat (October 2020) where three scientists/physicians with Ivy League pedigrees composed the now infamous Great Barrington Declaration

Calls for #ReparationsNow should absolutely be taken seriously, not only in the United States but also in England. Any serious historian knows that both societies were built on the backs of enslaved people

https://twitter.com/HollyBlomberg/status/1376379563123507203

Want to see a present day heir living large on the proceeds of the labor of enslaved people? Look no further than current Tory MP Richard Drax somersetlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-…

Civil War gold, FBI shenanigans, treasure hunters…not your typical Western PA news story apnews.com/article/techno… The FBI “art crime” team “needed a seizure warrant because [they] feared that if the federal government sought permission from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources to excavate the site, the state would claim the gold for itself” apnews.com/article/pennsy…

The US is hiking Medicare premiums due to the $56,000/year price of Biogen’s new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm HT ⁦@JenD1974⁩ cnn.com/2021/11/12/hea… Given the drastic step of hiking Medicare premiums to cover that huge cost, you would think that Aduhelm showed definitive promise for combating the terrible effects of Alzheimer’s disease, right?

The REAL reason the US is on a crusade against Huawei

https://twitter.com/lmnews/status/1458817051787677704

As the US outsources its military 5G network to the bloated defense industry, pay close attention to all of the hypocrisy — US government & corporations working in tandem to snuff out competition

https://twitter.com/HollyBlomberg/status/448093898913505281

Now that the Democratic Party primaries are down to 3 candidates, it’s worthwhile to take a closer look at the dark money behind Joe Biden

https://twitter.com/hollyblomberg/status/1238797746896699393

Here’s an overview of the different groups behind “Future Majority” 501(c)4 (HT @annalecta)