Chas Moore

...They think their parents and grandparents had the “good life” because of jobs ... their parents and grandparents had that life because of unions, pensions, high marginal tax rates, and strong social policies — with a little post-war exceptionalism and a lot of racism and sexism thrown in.

Opinion | There's something big missing from Trump's post-war manufacturing fantasy Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.

"The problem is: those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation. "

... the American Revolution of 250 years ago was a movement not to change the status quo but to protect it. The colonists who became revolutionaries sought to make sure that patterns of self-government established over generations could not be overturned by officials seeking to seize power. -HCR

Grateful for the overwhelming support in Milwaukee tonight.

Get out and vote early, Wisconsin!

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article) A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.

...the report found, the agency awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide. The funding supports a broad range of institutions in states across the nation...

Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in

We need to salute courage wherever it appears.

The official snow reporter at Vermont's Sugarbush, where JD Vance came on a skiing vacation this weekend, pointed out in her snow report this a.m. that the Trump team is ignoring climate change.

Her report was pulled down
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Winston Churchill at the White House wearing a one-piece garment known as a siren suit.

Zelenskyy's character can be judge more directly by how he treats others and whether you think he's protected his country. From what I've seen, he has treated Americans with respect. His attire is to remind people he's at war, not unlike Churchill wearing a siren suit to the White House in 1942.

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com

So if not wearing a suit is disrespecting the WH wouldn't wearing a baseball cap and t-shirt to a Cabinet meeting be really giving the finger?

He has been the most destructive force in America in the last 50 years

February 11, 2025 On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham.

February 11, 2025
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“The legitimate object of government is ‘to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they can not, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves,’… as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, ..., and the machinery of government itself.”

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.

Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

What will it take for one R to finally say: "you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir?"

Just got here as a fearful storm approaches-it's not freezing temperatures in Houston that have me worried