#RIPRush There will probably never be another political media figure as massive as Rush Limbaugh. Just absolutely huge. He touched so many lives. Even liberals recognized his vastness, his tremendous capacity: here's Patrick Farley's "Rush Eats Everything" from the late 90's #RIPRush Rush Limbaugh will forever be remembered for his talents and his unique worldview, which he spread to so many others in this country and around the world. Here's a somewhat fictionalized story by Patrick Farley from the 1990's when Rush was in his heyday

Would it surprise you to know that almost every Democratic plan for the development of "green" technology to fight climate change also includes a heavy IP protection regime, thereby ensuring limited access and deployment to world-saving innovations?

https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1260587170093395968

Mandatory IP protections on green technology are one of the sharpest, most obvious illustrations of how capitalism is pits us against the environment. Late capitalism also values the imaginary good (intellectual property) over actually manufacturing the stuff that IP describes

The idea that a public health crisis like #coronavirus would not result in a financial crisis in a country where personal consumption provides 70% of our GDP is the kind of brutal stupidity that typifies American economic policy <THREAD>

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1238812633467367425

This segment begins, "What is going on, is the question, quite simply, that a lot of people who aren't sophisticated about the market are asking." Never mind that "sophistication" about the market, the commodity that experts are selling, is as worthless as Lehman Bros stock...

A few days ago, Left Twitter was abuzz with news of a new super PAC called "BeatBernie2020" which appeared with almost no information about itself other than a donation link on their NationBuilder generic website. I said I thought I knew who was behind it. Here's my thread 1/

https://twitter.com/MilesKLassin/status/1227604458613432320

I don't want to be accused of doxxing anyone, and I've seen people tweet that attempts to post a screenshot of the FEC filing were blocked because they include a phone number. So here's the link for the report, take a look for yourself: docquery.fec.gov/pdf/323/202002…

@buffsblg According to the this list, there were only two pieces of 'major civil rights legislation' during Bernie's tenure in Congress, both of which he cosponsored history.house.gov/Exhibitions-an… @buffsblg congress.gov/bill/102nd-con…