Cathy Reisenwitz

Thanks, I hate it. "Of the $676 million that Mothership has raised since 2018, Bonica writes, $159 million went to Mothership’s own coffers as consulting fees." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This is where the Trump admin is disappearing folks to. The whole "without due process" part means every one of us is at risk.

"Sixty percent of Americans are homeowners. Asset inflation benefits a great many people—but it benefits the rich most, and the poor least." This is what people don't want to understand about housing. It's a "good investment" for the owner to the exact extent it becomes "unaffordable" for the buyer.

"Vanessa Neumann, a Venezuelan defence industry entrepreneur and former opposition envoy with close ties to the US security establishment, said: 'The plan now is a capture of Nicolás Maduro. Capture-kill or capture-arrest and take him out, one way or another.'”

“'Six Seven' is a linguistic cypher, online flotsam with no significance whatsoever." good to know www.thecut.com/article/what...

Guys, I'm starting to suspect conservatives weren't worried about ideological indoctrination in public schools, so much as the kind they don't like

ya think

It is culture war. Last I checked, no one’s ability to feed their families rested upon whether or not trans women can compete in women’s sports or change clothes in the women’s locker room except for (maybe) a tiny percentage of the tiny percentage of people this legislation seeks to regulate.

TIL that Pam Bondi once lobbied for Qatar. According to a Senate Judiciary Committee report: “As a FARA-registered lobbyist, Bondi lobbied Congress on behalf of Qatar, earning $115,000 per month.” And, apparently, she declined to include that fact in her Senate confirmation paperwork.

"One likely reason for anti-monopolism’s resurgence is that it is offers another way to attack Trump’s conflicts of interest and link them to his failure thus far to tackle exorbitant costs." This is from May

Almost every study finds that a greater number of Republican states are net recipients of federal dollars than Democratic states. open.substack.com/pub/cathyrei...

Billionaire Sir Chris Hohn’s foundation has stopped giving to US charities as Trump's EOs have targeted non-profits’ tax-exempt status and Trump accuses donors like George Soros and Reid Hoffman of funding “domestic terrorism.” Smaller charities' funding was already short www.ft.com/content/b87f...

The WSJ’s reporting is good because its audience makes or doesn’t make money depending on its accuracy and usefulness. The taco truck reporter’s audience similarly demands useful, accurate reporting so they can get tacos.