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OUR AMERICAN OLIGARCHY
Extracting, defending, and sanctifying the wealth of—and rule by—the few. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/01/20/our…
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Carter Dougherty
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Carter Dougherty
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Senior Fellow for Antimonopoly and Finance @demandprogress. 🤟🏼 👩🦰 👧🏼 👦🏼 + friends, 🏃♂️ in Takoma Park, MD. I study 🇩🇪 history, hauntingly relevant.
Takoma Park, MD Katılım Şubat 2009
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This is wild. The @WhiteHouse plagiarized its reason for launching a war on Iran from @FDD, a cutout of Israeli intelligence. Side-by-side screenshots in the 🧵
Stephen McIntyre@ClimateAudit
The most definitive White House statement purporting to justify the Israel-US war on Iran was its March 2, 2026 statement entitled "The Iranian Regime's Decades of Terrorism against American Citizens". whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/… After a brief editorial opening, the article lists 44 incidents with a total of 992 US deaths. The source of the data wasn't given. Where did it come from? Unlike the Iraq war or the Russia collusion allegation, the reporting didn't come from an intelligence assessment, flawed or otherwise. It turns out that the list was plagiarized by the White House from a June 19, 2025 list (fdd.org/analysis/2025/…) prepared by a former AIPAC employee (Tzvi Kahn) for a think tank (FDD) founded "to provide education to enhance Israel's image in North America". The think tank's original identity was "EMET (Hebrew for 'truth')". The June 19, 2025 publication was literally on the eve of the first US bombing of Iran on June 21, 2025. In this thread, I'll compare each and every item in the White House statement to the corresponding item in the original list by the former AIPAC employee. The list is virtually identical. Any slight changes are always in the change of ratcheting up the underlying allegation.
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You think you’re choosing… but your brain already decided.
At some point, habits stop being choices — and start becoming automatic.
Social media, food, cravings… it’s all the same loop.
👉 We break this down way deeper in the full episode on YouTube.
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The U.S. Constitution would like a word. "No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
William Wolfe 🇺🇸@WilliamWolfe
The American founding was a Protestant founding. This is historically indisputable.
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Goldman guy whines the antitrust approval is "more political" in Trump admin. Of course, they complained about politics under Khan/Kanter.
Maybe they just don't like it when they can't just do precisely what they want whenever they want? In other words: lawlessness
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Big Bank win = Community Bank loss. The TBTFs will exploit the lower capital requirements and eventually cause a crisis that will roll down (and over) us. It happens every time. wsj.com/finance/regula…
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This is the best piece I've read about the project: macleans.ca/society/senakw…
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Oh ok.
"Polymarket also agreed to work with MLB to restrict event contracts that pose 'integrity risk,' where outcomes triggered by the actions of, say, pitchers, managers or umpires could be subject to manipulation." wsj.com/finance/regula…
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@zachdcarter It's of a piece with his selective outrage. Remember his outrage when Garland was blocked by McConnell. Me neither.
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I wonder if Roberts has realized that his legacy will be giving Trump criminal immunity
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Transportation industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin whose father-in-law happens to be Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy. propublica.org/article/sean-d…
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The maximum an individual can legally donate to a candidate in an election is $3300.
Elon donated $277M to Trump in 2024 because of loopholes rich people use to buy elections.
If you care about election integrity — overturn Citizens United so our elections aren’t auctions.
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Our financial system enables big banks and FinTech companies to use our financial data for their own profit.
We have the opportunity to change that by supporting CFPB's Open Banking Rule—to empower consumers to decide how their financial data is used and shared.
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.@RebeccaDRobbins sent secret shoppers into international pharmacies to find out whether TrumpRX really offers the lowest drug prices in the world. It does not.
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“Wall Street banks and their payment-network pals know they are perfectly capable of the fair competition that would, in all likelihood, leave them with lower margins. They just prefer the unfair variety.” @CarterD openbanker.beehiiv.com/p/banksnotcomp…
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We had an OSHA standard for this from mid-January to April 2001. Amazon would not exist in its current form had that standard durvived.
Ann Larson@AnnLLarson
We are not talking enough about workers' repetitive stress injuries. "Alice Driver....recounts workers whose hands continued making the same cutting motions even in their sleep — the body replaying the labor long after the shift had ended."
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Military lawyers and those tasked with carrying out these orders may wish to take this statement into account.
'Donald Trump said on Saturday that the United States may carry out more strikes on Iran’s vital Kharg Island oil export hub “just for fun”...'
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@GarettJones @tylercowen And then walk somewhere else for a nightcap.
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A great @tylercowen piece of life advice:
After eating at a restaurant, walk somewhere else for dessert.
Through the magic of an after-lunch stroll, I found this small wonder a stone's throw from Tour Montparnasse, great for a muffin and a chicory latte:
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@regulatorynerd P.S. Modern Treasury: Do you have strong feelings on the APIs that are offered by core providers (big three)? If so, DM me?
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@regulatorynerd One more example of small banks being the heat shields for large banks. It's so self-defeating. But maybe it's enough for small and large to hate the same things: credit unions and regulation.
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"Wall Street's Favorite Democrat," Melissa Bean, is trying to win her old seat in IL-08. I wrote about the Super PACs backing her (AIPAC and AI) and her main progressive challenger, Junaid Ahmed.
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