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beating-heart.bsky.social @beating-heart.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I hope the Republican party in the United States does not forever stain the stars and stripes in the same way the National Socialist German Workers' party in Germany stained the wheel of dharma. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/b...
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F.C.C. Orders a Review of ABC’s Broadcast Licenses
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beating-heart.bsky.social @beating-heart.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Brilliant.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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beating-heart.bsky.social @beating-heart.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
A concise lesson in actual history. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is the Jan. 6 President
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beating-heart.bsky.social @beating-heart.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
www.trumpkennedycenter.org
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HOME | Trump Kennedy Center
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beating-heart.bsky.social @beating-heart.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Their first instinct was to loot’: how Trump’s acolytes are plundering the Kennedy Center
Sheldon Whitehouse, an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board, remains undeterred and determined to press on with his investigation
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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Steve Liesman @steveliesman.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
WSJ editorial on the latest of the hundreds of tariff walkbacks by trump (this one for furniture): “Rarely has a President worked so hard to cover the damage from his policies without admitting it.”
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This is gold....😅🤣🤣
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Kinda seems like Trump punishing Colorado for not releasing Tina Peters (who tried to help him steal the election) from prison should be a bigger story
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Those observing Christmas are celebrating a family of asylum seekers. If there is indeed a "War on Christmas," it's being waged by those trying to make our country less safe for the poor, for the marginalized, and for refugees.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Some good news to end the year on. The Supreme Court today blocked Trump from sending the National Guard into the Chicago area — finally setting a limit to Trump’s executive power. robertreich.substack.com/p/finally-…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
20 State AGs have sued Russell Vought for trying to starve the CFPB of funding. Since 2011, the CFPB has returned over $20B to consumers. Without the Bureau, financial predators and scammers will have an easier time picking your pocket.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Trump freed a guy who ran a firm that took $2 billion from Americans seeking to increase their portfolios for retirement -even as its executives used the money to fund lavish lifestyles. Trump freeing him is a bitter pill for folks trying to get back their money. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/n...
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Fraudster’s Victims Are Seething After Trump Commuted His Sentence
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Everyday Americans get nickel and dimed while the rich dodge taxes. They struggle to get by while the wealth of the 1% skyrockets. They see their voices drowned out while the well-connected avoid accountability. There are two sets of rules in America: One for the rich. Another for everyone else.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Whitehouse: Not only were the founders extremely interested in checks and balances but they were desperately concerned about corruption. This Court has consistently taken the side of corruption against every device Congress has created to fight political corruption.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
In 1777 George Washington mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army against smallpox a controversial but crucial decision that saved countless lives Smallpox had severely weakened the army, killing more soldiers than battle.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Same headline. Seven years apart. 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Health insurers are jacking up premiums while raking in billions in profits. Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases. Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Trump has quietly gutted enforcement of the corporate alternative minimum tax — a boon for big corporations. His Big Ugly Bill, which slashed Medicaid and SNAP, also gave corporations $16B in new depreciation tax breaks this year. A windfall for the wealthy at your expense.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Next week, the court will hear the most important campaign finance case since Citizens United. Here’s what you need to know, from one of the lawyers who’s been working on the case. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/12/2025
BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake? TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
It would be all too easy to overlook this case with everything else that's going on, but it's too important to miss, so I wrote a rare midday post. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
#Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke — who his own DOJ indicted in July for rigging a public university’s arena bid— It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market
The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln X.com

President Trump has now pardoned 12 members of Congress convicted of crimes varying from tax evasion, campaign corruption, lying to the FBI, bribery, insider trading, obstruction, etc.

If Jeff Epstein were alive today, he'd be a free man in Trump's America.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 05/12/2025
The peer-reviewed methodology of the International Monetary Fund puts the pollute-for-free subsidy of fossil fuel — in the United States alone — at $700 billion dollars per year. That’s a lot of liability they’re hiding from.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality. Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook. Our duty is to stand up to brutality. Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
So am I.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
During the shutdown, the Senate approved adding $32B to Trump's already record breaking $1 trillion Pentagon budget. The Senate still hasn't voted on extending ACA subsidies — which would cost $35B. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Hes not well
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night. Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim. Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen. Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
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beating-heart.bsky.social @beating-heart.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
😆😂😅👏
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Trump has freed another creep- a private equity executive who had served less than 2 weeks of a 7 year sentence for a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
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Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Some in the Democratic Party want to you think we must choose between social justice and economic populism. Rubbish. The only path forward is embracing both.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated. I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
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A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
"Secretary of War" under attack
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 28/11/2025
Honest courtrooms are vital for every American.
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Column: Be thankful for the judges upholding the law
On immigration alone, more than 100 federal judges — including many Trump appointees — have ruled that the administration’s actions violated civil rights or were otherwise illegal.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
If inflation comes up at the dinner table, don’t forget to draw attention to a deeper structural driver of high prices: corporate power. Much of the food industry is dominated by a few corporate giants with the power to keep prices high because they face little competition.
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America Is Divided @petrep.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
"The Attorney General of the United States has set a new low for this committee," Whitehouse said. Shouldn't doing what Pam Bondi is accusing James Comey of doing be a scandal that would make her have to resign? In her case it's is easily proven that she lied to the committee.
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