Gerald Friedman

Rich Brain What do super-rich people think about constantly? In chapter three of our series, we find one answer in the Epstein files

Rich Brain
As a society, are we getting our money's worth on all that we give the super-rich.

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Grassley admits Trump raised food prices with his tariffs.

They Were Promised Regime Change. Now Many Iranians Feel Betrayed. In Tehran and beyond, residents worry they will be left with a devastated country and the same autocratic rulers as before the war began.

Of course Trump betrayed the Iranian people.
He never cares about democracy, neither abroad nor at home.
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Sadly agreed. I expected little and he has been even worse.

Middle East war day 15 as it happened: Trump calls on China, UK and Japan to send warships to force open Strait of Hormuz London has declined to deploy an aircraft carrier to the Gulf

Such a surprise that Trump's war has led to closure of the Straits.

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Middle East crisis live: Israel says it has launched ‘extensive strikes’ on Iran as Trump says US ‘not ready’ to make a deal to end war IDF also issues evacuation orders in several Beirut neighbourhoods; reports that people injured in missile attacks on Israel

US insists on fighting Trump's war. No deal to end it.
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Meet the Horrified Grandparents Fighting for Vaccines They remember what diseases like measles are really like—and want the rest of America to know before it’s too late.

Meet the Horrified Grandparents Fighting for Vaccines
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Obamacare Won’t Work: Time for Medicare for All | Common Dreams Our healthcare ‘system’—with or without the Affordable Care Act—is unsustainable: we have reached the end of the line.

Obamacare Won’t Work: Time for Medicare for All
We need #medicareforall
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Melania Trump's comments on Barron's 'nonstop' supervision as draft calls surge People online launched a #SendBarron movement calling for Barron Trump to be drafted after U.S.-Israel strikes in Iran, but Melania Trump is protective of her 19-year-old son

Mommy wouldn't let Barron go to war because he needs her
#SendBarron
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I really want Labour to do well. But to do this, they need to remember that they are social democrats
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This is what a Labour government is supposed to do. Let's see if Starmer remembers why he was elected
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Donald Trump’s approval rating Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump

Bad news for Trump
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WAR!!!!

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

Trading Goods for Lives: NAFTA’s Mortality Impacts and Implications Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Trading Goods for Lives: NAFTA’s Mortality Impacts and Implications www.nber.org/papers/w34855

And devastating cuts in scientific research

Dear America,

DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR PRESIDENT AND YOUR FECKLESS GOVERNMENT! WHY SHOULD EVERYONE ELSE SUFFER BECAUSE OF THIS INSANITY?

Signed,
Most of the rest of the planet

California doesn’t miss 💥

Sending the forwarding address.

He can’t even steal another country’s natural resources without fucking it up.

The Oil Tankers Trump Seized Are Costing the U.S. Millions of Dollars

The Oil Tankers Trump Seized Are Costing the U.S. Millions of Dollars

Although President Trump said seizing tankers would be a financial boon, the cost of maintaining just one aging ship has already reached $47 million.

Susan B. Anthony dedicated her life to women's #suffrage & campaigned for the abolition of slavery, women's property rights & more: susanbanthonyhouse.org/her-story/bi...

Active until she died, #OTD in 1906. She never got to vote in her lifetime (well, legally that is).

#WomensHistoryMonth #WHM

The war will be over when I feel it in my bone spurs.

#PutinPuppet

WAR!!!

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

‘We Would Be Entering a Completely Different World’ What happens if oil hits $200 a barrel?

“If the strait remains closed for even a month…sustained higher oil prices could plunge the world into a recession, raise borrowing costs, alter the outcome of ongoing wars, and shift the balance of global-power competition in favor of Russia and China”
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Trump Lawyer Rebuked at ABA for Saying DOJ in a ‘Better Place’ A typically collegial white collar legal conference turned testy when one of the president’s defense attorneys faced incredulous and at one point rancorous pushback for praising Trump’s Justice Depart...

"'I wanted to thank Mr. Lauro for admitting the emperor has no clothes—the rule of law is dead because the people in this room and the Department of Justice pissed off President Trump,' … said @mitchellepner.bsky.social, a former federal prosecutor ….

"Attendees in the conference ballroom clapped."

‘You are all worse than each other’: anti-regime Iranians turn on Trump Mood among some in Iran shifts from hope of being rescued to dismay at destruction of infrastructure, culture and lives

Iranians turn against Trump who presented himself as their saviour just a month ago.
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„Donald Trump is Putin’s puppet.

Always has been, always will be.“

Chuck Schumer

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