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Thom's blog
America Should Buy Out the Fossil Fuel Industry
 This time it's not just about saving our banks, keeping our schools intact, or fighting a war. This time, it's about saving the world. And the industry is doing everything they can to make sure we never hold them accountable. Taxpayers for Common Sense documents how the industry fielded over 700 lobbyists just last year, spending almost $120 million to buy legislators across Washington, DC.They're also not just lobbying intensely at the federal level, but have gotten they're toadies appointed to boards that oversee state climate policy, as is happening in New York State right now.Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Friday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Trump is running - what will it do to America?
It's Anything Goes Friday!
Tweet: " Happy Friday everybody!
What I'm seeing:
- Ds continue to overperform in polls/early vote in the Senate battlegrounds
- Early vote remains very encouraging for Ds
- Marist polls another problem for red wave narrative
- It's close election, we need to close strong everyone!" by Simon Rosenberg.
Scientists are saying Standard Time would be healthier - They agree with ME!
Tweet: " For every extra $1 you're paying due to inflation, 54¢ is going right into the pockets of big corporations. Wall Street is price gouging families to earn sky-high profits, jeopardizing our entire economy in the process." by Katie Porter. Quote: " The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them" - Vladimir Ilich Lenin .
Hour Two: America Should Buy Out the Fossil Fuel Industry
Tweet: " President Biden @POTUS is calling out big oil for price gouging. It's time for a big oil windfall profits tax - and time to reduce our dependency on the global fossil fuel industry. See the @WhiteHouse announcement here. [ video]" by Fridays For Future U.S..
GOPers have a weird definition of saving social security...
Hour Three: How Trump's hands are dripping in blood
Quote: " Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!" - Captain Ahab. Quote: " If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power." - Dwight D. Eisenhower. Quote: " I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mahatma Gandhi. |
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