Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Breaking out of a mindset of scarcity is harder than it sounds. Paul Rosenberg makes the case that scarcity on earth has been fundamentally overcome, yet, it’s the truth we can’t accept.” (02/17/25)
Source: The Hill
by Svante Myrick
“Donald Trump was elected president in large part by promising to bring down higher prices that have made life harder for millions of Americans. But since being sworn in, Trump has basically ignored those promises. In fact, the past few weeks have made it clear that lowering prices for average Americans is the least of Trump’s concerns. How do Trump’s promises to American families line up with his demonstrated priorities? Let’s review.” (02/17/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5145879-trump-abandons-inflation-promises/
Source: Inequality.org
by Sam Pizzigati
“Americans these days don’t much like billionaires. Our ultra-rich, Americans overwhelmingly believe, aren’t paying enough in taxes. Polling earlier this month found that nearly three-quarters of the nation’s likeliest voters — 74 percent — feel billionaires are paying ‘too little’ at tax time. Just how concerned about billion-dollar fortunes have Americans become? Nearly half of us overall, Harris polling found last summer, would like to see a limit on ‘wealth accumulation’. Among Gen Z’ers, that support for limits on billionaire fortunes runs all the way up to 65 percent. ‘Billionaires’, some 58 percent of Americans agreed in that same Harris poll, ‘are becoming more like dictators.’ The share of Americans equating billionaires with dictators — given Elon Musk’s current dominant role in the new Trump White House — is most likely running even higher today.” (02/17/25)
https://inequality.org/article/a-new-plan-to-create-a-world-without-elon-musks/
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Lawrence W Reed
“On June 12, 1929, America’s First Lady Lou Hoover hosted one of several social gatherings at the White House for the spouses of newly elected members of the US House of Representatives. The tea party for congressional spouses was a polite and quiet tradition, a courtesy that Presidents’ wives hoped would encourage goodwill between the legislative and executive branches of government. But this one produced an uproar. What was the problem? Unforgivably to some, one of the attending spouses brought with her an immutable characteristic. She was black. Her name was Jessie DePriest, wife of Congressman Oscar Stanton DePriest of Illinois. … The incident would not be the last time a DePriest focused the nation’s attention on a worthy cause. Mrs. DePriest’s husband would see to that, and for it, he should be remembered as a hero.” (02/17/25)
Source: Persuasion
by Sam Kahn
“The administration is reversing the New Deal and sending us back to … the 1920s.” (02/17/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/trump-is-actually-warren-harding
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“So Israel held a bunch of Palestinians in concentration camps without charge just for being Palestinian, and then they not only starved and tortured them but actually made them wear a Star of David on their prison garments. But remember kids, it’s evil and wrong to compare Israel to Nazi Germany — no matter how cartoonishly blatant they make the similarities. … According to an Israeli media report, last May IDF troops strapped explosives to the neck of an 80 year-old Palestinian man in Gaza and used him as a human shield for hours. They then shot and killed him and his wife. When the Gaza holocaust first started I used to read headlines like this and go ‘Holy shit that must be an exaggeration’, and then I’d read up on it and go ‘Fuck, nope, that’s exactly what happened!’ Now I read them and sigh and just sort of wilt inside.” (02/17/25)
Source: ABC News
“Pope Francis is sick with a polymicrobial infection of the respiratory tract, the Vatican said Monday. The 88-year-old Argentine pontiff was diagnosed following testing ‘carried out over the past few days,’ the Vatican’s press office said. With the results, he’ll have a change in drug therapy. He had initially been admitted to Policlinico Agostino Gemelli in Rome on Friday for bronchitis treatment, and preliminary tests showed he had a respiratory tract infection and slight fever. Testing over the past days paints a ‘complex clinical picture,’ the Vatican said Monday, and he’ll need to remain in the hospital for an ‘appropriate’ amount of time. Polymicrobial diseases are caused by combinations of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites, according to the National Library of Medicine.” (02/17/25)
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Life Expectancy in Gaza Plummets.” (02/17/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-759-life-expectancy-in-gaza-plumets
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“When I was a kid, we celebrated Washington’s Birthday on February 22nd, each year. That officially recognized day honored George Washington, first president and the ‘father of our country,’ began in the 1880s (even before I was born). Then in 1968, someone discovered that Abraham Lincoln also had a February birthday and was apparently feeling slighted. So, what could we do but get the two big guys together for a mega national holiday? Lincoln was a pretty consequential president, after all. But the holiday came to be known as Presidents’ Day … and as the Encyclopedia Brittanica notes, ‘is sometimes understood as a celebration of the birthdays and lives of all U.S. presidents.’ Is this some sort of ‘everyone gets a trophy’ thing?” (02/17/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/02/17/greatest-man-in-the-world/
Source: New York Post
“The ‘steroid Olympics’ has clinched a ‘double-digit’ million-dollar cash infusion from investors led by Donald Trump Jr. as the controversial sporting event pursues an American debut, The Post has learned. The funding round closed last week, Australian businessman Aron D’Souza, president of the Enhanced Games, told The Post during a Monday interview. He declined to provide additional details on the fundraising. ‘Getting the Trump name behind the Enhanced Games was a monumental effort,’ D’Souza told The Post. ‘This is now a very American project.’ The first Enhanced Games will include events in track, swimming, weight lifting, ‘combat’ and gymnastics, and will likely take place later this year in a ‘warm’ US city ‘conducive to winter months,’ D’Souza said. ‘We wouldn’t have hosted the games in the United States if Biden was elected,’ he said, noting the company was previously considering host cities overseas.” (02/17/25)