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This sounds important, especially for those who have a pension from public service.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

The SEC quietly published a proposal to rescind a measure that prevents private equity firms from buying access to billions in pension funds that belong to public employees like teachers and police.

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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984

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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

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NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

bloomberg.comJeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s SecretsA cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.

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We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

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Michael Cohen is asked to authenticate Trump’s signature. Cohen produces multiple examples of letters sent to him that appear to match the signature from the birthday book.

In today's distraction news, Trumpty Dumpty's hand picked BLS chief revise jobs numbers from April '24 through March '25 to show 911,000 fewer jobs were created. I caution everyone to not believe any data from this admin without verification.

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SHAMELESS: Donald Trump is slapping his name on infrastructure projects across the U.S. funded by President Biden’s historic 2021 infrastructure law that Trump opposed and tried to derail. (NYT)

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Anytime someone asks “why didn’t Biden release the files”, ask why JD Vance never brought it up on the Senate floor as a Senator.

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It’s hard to keep track that we just illegally murdered 11 people in a boat… b/c a sociopathic piece of beef jerky is trying to kill all of us while the entirety of the #GOP protects the President of the United States who has raped children. #RemoveTrump #FireRFKJr #EpsteinFiles

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Right up until the minute Trump’s business ventures like Trump Shuttle, Trump Atlantic City casinos, Trump Steaks, Trump University, etc, etc, went bankrupt, Trump was claiming they were a huge success with big things right around the corner. Just like now with the economy.

The Tiffany network, the house of Walter Cronkite has been reduced to nothing but another propaganda outlet.

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com

Lord save us: "Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."

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I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

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