Marc Jacobson

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

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Yes.

New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues.

In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."

This is who should be ashamed. Not the justices of SCOTUS.

McGowan: There's three people mentioned most in the Epstein files: Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump. But we're deposing Hillary Clinton?

This seems ungood. #fascism

Hillary Clinton: "It then got quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and Pizzagate"

THEY’RE GOING TO STEAL THE ELECTION. In case you didn’t know already.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Deeply conflicted, Kushner represents the U.S. in high-stakes negotiations with Iran Today in Geneva, Switzerland, Jared Kushner will represent the United States in meetings with Iranian officials — a last-ditch effort to avoid war.

The corruption runs deep. He will make a deal which benefits his investors not the US.

Midterm message:

Who wore it better?

The icing on the cake would be if both teams turn down offers to come to the White House.🏆🏆

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.

As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

Consumers ultimately paid 90% of the cost of the tariffs.
The refunds from the treasury to the corporations which remitted the funds to the treasury in the first place will cone from tax dollars - paid by consumers.
Stockholders benefited on both ends of the transaction. Another grift for the 1%.

Consumers ultimately paid 90% of the cost of the tariffs.
The refunds from the treasury to the corporations which remitted the funds to the treasury in the first place will cone from tax dollars - paid by consumers.
Stockholders benefited on both ends of the transaction. Another grift for the 1%.

Bondi ethics complaint

Pam Bondi's "testimony" last week before the House Judiciary Committee was a despicable display of obfuscation and deflection. Her performance makes all lawyers look bad.
All US lawyers have an affirmative ethical obligation to report violations of the rules of ethics 1/3

Imagine.

As a retired member of The Florida Bar, an active member of the New York Bar, and a former member of the California Bar, I filed a formal ethics complaint against her.
I invite you to do the same.
If you want a word version of this document, email me at marc@marcjacobson.com. 3/3

to the appropriate authority. There are at least 15 separate instances in which she failed to answer questions, and responded with insults and deflection.
The Florida Bar Rules require candor before legislative bodies and prohibit conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice. 2/3

Bondi ethics complaint

Pam Bondi's "testimony" last week before the House Judiciary Committee was a despicable display of obfuscation and deflection. Her performance makes all lawyers look bad.
All US lawyers have an affirmative ethical obligation to report violations of the rules of ethics 1/3

Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or...

"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government.

“God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision...

www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

So, we are just going to *allow* Kushner to serve in this administration though no one voted for him. Not us.
Not the Senate.
No one.
And we’re not protesting this.
This sends a confirmation to the world of our weakness on the world stage.
🤷🏻‍♀️

Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!)

This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

Worth noting.

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.