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libramoon<p><a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-report-3125" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-</span><span class="invisible">report-3125</span></a></p><p>The plan to “demolish” <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> is underway: Who will stop them?<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThomHartmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomHartmann</span></a></p><p>..."Their scheme — which they’ve been advancing in small increments for 44 years — is brilliantly simple: break the agency’s ability to respond to taxpayers, causing people to have to wait on the phone or travel for hours to stand in line for hours. As complaints mount, Republicans will then point to the “broken Social Security Administration” an...</p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>The Killer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CEOs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CEOs</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a></p><p>Their fortunes are the result of poisoning you, me, our children and grandchildren, every other living thing on Earth, and destroying the temperature stability of our atmosphere. This week it's horrifying to look out and see the world they are creating for the rest of us. </p><p>by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThomHartmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomHartmann</span></a>, Jan 11, 2025</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PublicCitizen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicCitizen</span></a> would like you to know that there are killers among us.</p><p>"They wear $2,000 suits and travel in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateJets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateJets</span></a>, unbothered by the TSA or the teeming masses. Their children attend the finest universities in the world, and they vacation on private islands and yachts. Many 'earn' more in a day than most Americans take home in a year; their positions ensure their heirs will never have to work a day in their lives.</p><p>"Their fortunes are the result of poisoning you, me, our children and grandchildren, every other living thing on Earth, and destroying the temperature stability of our atmosphere. This week they’re arguably responsible, in part, for billions of dollars in losses, numerous deaths, and thousands of shattered lives in Southern California."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-oil-climate-criminals" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/opinion/big-o</span><span class="invisible">il-climate-criminals</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AHexOnExxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AHexOnExxon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShellOilKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShellOilKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExxonKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExxonKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChevronKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChevronKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCriminals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCriminals</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YeetTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeetTheRich</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EatTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EatTheRich</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EatSeasonally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EatSeasonally</span></a></p>
libramoon<p><a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-recession-racket-musk-trump-and-2bd" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hartmannreport.com/p/the-reces</span><span class="invisible">sion-racket-musk-trump-and-2bd</span></a></p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Recession</span></a> Racket: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Billionaires</span></a>’ Blueprint for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Profit</span></a><br>While we struggle, they scheme—how a Trump crash could line the pockets of America’s elite…<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThomHartmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomHartmann</span></a></p><p>..."In a recent “town hall,” billionaire Elon Musk acknowledged what 23 Nobel Prize-winning economists across the country have predicted: If Trump is elected and he and Elon undertake their project to gut government spending, it will provoke a severe recession."...</p>
libramoon<p><a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/democracy-undone-the-texas-placebo-f52" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hartmannreport.com/p/democracy</span><span class="invisible">-undone-the-texas-placebo-f52</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> Undone: The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> Placebo <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ballot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ballot</span></a> Plot<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThomHartmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomHartmann</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a></p><p>..."Instead of purging people off the rolls entirely, they’re putting voters they consider suspicious on what they call a “suspense” list.<br>...<br>Being on the suspense list means that when you show up to vote, you’ll be given a “provisional ballot.”<br>...<br> a provisional ballot, it goes into a separate box and is not counted on election day. Many provisional ballots are never counted, in fact."...</p>
(((Cindy Weinstein)))<p>This <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ThomHartmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomHartmann</span></a> column is important for many reasons, including its acknowledgment of the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> being a target of violence (and now there is a list). <br> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/TimothySnyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimothySnyder</span></a> talks about why the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> must confront this fact. <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> is aided and abetted by media silence. Submitting ahead of time makes the very thing the media is afraid of much more likely to happen. </p><p><a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-146500296" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">substack.com/home/post/p-14650</span><span class="invisible">0296</span></a></p><p><a href="https://snyder.substack.com/p/fascist-froth" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">snyder.substack.com/p/fascist-</span><span class="invisible">froth</span></a></p>
(((Cindy Weinstein)))<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ThomHartmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomHartmann</span></a>: I’ve had 2 articles this year, 1 on the fossil fuel industry &amp; the 2nd this week’s piece on “yellow journalism,” openly censored by a social media site for “violating community standards.” People who tried to repost them were threatened w/their accounts being shut down.</p><p>Me: <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> messaged me from "independent "fact checker <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/TheDispatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheDispatch</span></a> claiming this <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> post is "partly false" &amp; "Viral Claims About <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> Are Mostly False."</p><p><a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-secretary-of-retribution-has-2b2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-se</span><span class="invisible">cretary-of-retribution-has-2b2</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a></p>
(((Cindy Weinstein)))<p>"This fear is not hypothetical." (<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AlvinBragg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlvinBragg</span></a>)</p><p>Must-read by <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ThomHartmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomHartmann</span></a> and must-listen by <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-franklin-d-roosevelt-called-out-11f" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hartmannreport.com/p/how-frank</span><span class="invisible">lin-d-roosevelt-called-out-11f</span></a></p>
libramoon<p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/who-controls-the-us-political-system" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/opinion/who-c</span><span class="invisible">ontrols-the-us-political-system</span></a></p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Billionaires</span></a> Got <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Organized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Organized</span></a>. The People Didn't. The Rest Is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/THOMHARTMANN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>THOMHARTMANN</span></a><br>Jan 04, 2024</p><p>..."Regulating <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/polluting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>polluting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/industries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>industries</span></a> and fossil fuel emissions was all the rage in the 1970s, and people loved it. But the billionaires hated it. As the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> historian noted, by the time Russell Train had become the EPA Administrator in 1973, they were starting to get organized and active:<br>...<br>That was also the y"...</p>