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Politico: Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ has arrived for the top 10 percent
… the robust numbers mask the extent to which the wealthy are driving growth. And while business leaders from Manhattan to South Florida are bullish on the outlook — “It’s the Roaring ’20s here in Palm Beach County,” said Douglas Evans, the president of the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce — that view is not shared by most voters.
In survey after survey, a majority of Americans say they’re straining under the pressure of rising living expenses and a softening job market. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston says low-income consumers have “substantially” higher levels of credit card debt than they did before the pandemic.
Even as growth and asset prices soar, Trump’s approval ratings are sagging. For some of his allies, that’s baffling.
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Robert Reich: The Brazen Cruelty of the Trump Regime
Its plan to warehouse immigrants has shades of Nazi concentration camps and America’s shameful imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
…Beyond logistics is the dehumanization.
Ninety-three years ago, in March 1933, the Nazis established their first concentration camp in what is now Dachau, Poland. Other camps were soon established in Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen.
Initially, the Nazi’s put into these camps Communists, Social Democrats, trade unionists, and others deemed a threat to the Nazi regime.
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Brian Allen: The U.S. Just Drew a Line on Global Censorship. Here’s Who Was Targeted and Why.
The United States has crossed a line it avoided for years. This week, the State Department imposed visa sanctions on a group of foreign officials and NGO leaders accused of coordinating censorship of American speech from abroad. The action represents a decisive shift in how the U.S. government views global content moderation. What was once treated as a regulatory disagreement is now being framed as a form of foreign interference.
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Dispatch: No, Fulton County Early 2020 Votes Aren’t Likely To Be Decertified
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Yashar Ali: CBS News Memo and The Epstein Files
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