Big Media silence is breaking in the Tara Reade storyby Thomas NeuburgerIs the Tara Reade story reaching critical mass, approaching a tipping point? It seems so.The initial response to this story was silence from anyone with political or media power. The media in particular completely ignored it. Comparisons of CNN coverage of the Reade story with their coverage of the Blasey Ford story show a marked discrepancy.
Joe Biden has chosen as his economic adviser the main Democratic proponent of the China PNTR deal and Wall Street deregulation. Apparently, Biden may really have meant it when he said “nothing will fundamentally change.” https://t.co/UokamnmgyA— David Sirota (@davidsirota) April 23, 2020
The Sack of Rome in 1527 by Johannes Lingelbachby Thomas NeuburgerDiverse pathes leden diverse folk the righte way to Rome.—Geoffrey Chaucer, A Treatise on the Astrolabe The following offers a brief look into the middle distance, a view past the immediate future — the next few weeks or months when the virus will run its predictable, consequential course — but not so long a view as to reach the logical next phase of human history, the reduction of the species by t
More on Cuomo's corruption problem — or one of them — here. by Thomas NeuburgerAndrew Cuomo takes money from rich people, sneers at principled rivals, says taxes on rich people aren’t politically possible, and then implements left policies only if he can get rich people to approve them first.—Lyta Gold's
by Thomas NeuburgerI’ve written before about the wide and deep rift that splits all three layers of the Democratic “party”*. Today, that split within these layers — office-holders and leaders; activists and campaign workers; voters and angry non-voters — is widening.A Legacy of BetrayalThe split is greatest in the third layer, among the voters, as the sense of betrayal is greatest there as well.
In the fictional Star Trek universe, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.by Thomas NeuburgerThe U.S. is at a national crossroads of world-historical proportions. Thanks to the COVID-19 epidemic we're headed for a collision, a heavy-engine oil train pileup, between two competing imperatives — does the nation serve the pathological wants of the few who control it or the immediate and existential needs of the many who live in it?Long put off, this question can no longer be avoided.
Click to enlarge (source)by Thomas NeuburgerThere's quite a lot to write about coronavirus, all of it of the PSA variety.
