Mark Rickling

Please keep trying to express this contempt!

I'm old enough to remember the massive press and Congressional uproar when a former president Clinton met briefly with then AG Lynch.
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How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

Too much is never enough when it comes to rewarding the wealthy and well-connected in Trump’s inner circle.

Trump is now gutting the law that says the largest corporations must pay at least a minimal amount of tax on the profits they report to investors.

Outrageous!

Fox gives Trump a platform during their NFL broadcast to peddle his absurd lies about "prices are coming way down", "we inherited a mess," and "our country has over $17 trillion being invested in it." Absolutely shameful for all involved.

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This is BIG -- Rep Doggett and 100+ reps demand full elimination of the ISDS provisions in the USMCA.

ISDS empowers corporations to sue governments and get taxpayer money over health, environmental, and other laws they don't like. It's a total scam, and it's on it's way OUT!

Lindsey Boylan was the first whistleblower to come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Andrew Cuomo.

Her accusations & those of 12 others were corroborated by the NY AG (and later by DOJ.) Cuomo resigned.

Now he has lost again, and this picture is as unabashed a joy as you'll see.

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Checked the lease agreement and the language in Exhibit I says "substantially all." There's a requirement outlined where they have to notify the District if they decide to play elsewhere.

Unbelievable.

As in, literally, not credible.

Crazy how much some media has normalized the idea that voters are taking a risk if they elect governors/mayors who will defy Trump. That he’ll threaten their funding, etc.

Try to imagine, say. Greg Abbott being asked if he’s worried that Biden will punish Texas over his lawsuits.

This is the same as using lawfare to prosecute the presidents political enemies, the same as Speaker Johnson refusing to swear in an elected Democrat, the same as Trump still claiming he won the 2020 election.
It is not a democracy if opposition figures are not allowed to hold power.

The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

Oil Subsidies Are Bad. Exporting $7.5 Billion of Them Is Worse. Giving fossil-fuel companies billions of dollars in tax breaks to pump the oil and gas heating up the planet is a terrible idea, but I guess you could argue it might at least create US jobs — unless y...

Giving $7.5B in tax breaks to oil companies to pump overseas offers all of the global downside & none of the (bogus) domestic upside of oil subsidies. Truly self-destructive

Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

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Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."

Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...

An embarrassingly obvious point, but...

This. Is. Illegal.

If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.

In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
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The inability of the media to properly inform people what were the actual policy differences at stake in 2024 (massive raids in your community vs no massive raids) was a huge problem.

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

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Washington Post editorial board, 2 days ago: "The idea that Trump is easily swayed by Putin, let alone manipulated or controlled by him, does not hold water."

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Wild that any Dem candidate would run on the idea that good things should not be possible UNLESS the bill has significant support from a Republican party now full of members saying they "love Hilter" www.bangordailynews.com/2025/10/16/p...

Trump is opting some of the government out of the shutdown The administration is finding ways to pay troops and for government work Trump favors while targeting “Democrat programs” for layoffs or closures.

You don't find out until the 12th paragraph of this story that what Trump is doing is illegal. Just from a newsworthiness standpoint, how do you not lead with that? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

You misspelled Orwellian.

Been informed this game's proper name is El Crapico.

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism

When Trump team pushed to investigate Soros, it cited a watchdog group report. But the group's own leader says "we actually did not make either of those claims that a prosecutor would need to make.” @fahrenthold.bsky.social @aduehren.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

The project is a little more salient in the context of yesterday’s CBO report summarizing the (preliminary) year-end federal budget deficit and its causes. A $77 billion year-over-year decline in corporate income taxes looms large.

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Well, That Was Fast: Trump Tax Law’s New Corporate Breaks are Already Worsening the Deficit Corporate income taxes for the fiscal year that ended in September are $77 billion lower than in the previous year, a 15 percent drop.

Ongoing fun project: following quarterly earnings calls where corporate execs are asked to quantify the effect of OBBBA on their cash taxes. This generally only comes up when a industry analysts ask. The candor is, in turns, refreshing and horrifying. (1/x)

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