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Speaking from the #Pentagon’s briefing room, #Hegseth also said more #US forces, including jet fighters & bombers, will soon arrive in the region. He added that the US “will take all the time we need to make sure that we succeed.” Tehran vowed to completely destroy the #MiddleEast’s #military & #economic #infrastructure — signaling the #war was nowhere near over & could expand further.
#ForeverWars #Iran #Trump #warmonger #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics
The #healthcare plan already funded by the Public has been scuttled with NO replacement. The tax credits to states - also already paid for by the Public - which fund hundreds of programs that have provided #health & #medical services to tens of thousands of people, were taken and given away by #Congress - largely by donors to the Senate Minority Leader and House Speaker, with a few vague promises to negotiate some scraps back, all now evidently broken. At the end of 2025 the so-called Private #Insurance Industry was greenlighted massive increases to premiums and the associated payments of co-insurance & deductibles. The 2026 budget will scrap virtually all of #Medicaid and most of #Medicare right after this year's midterm #elections. Particularly in rural areas, upward of 40% of hospital revenues come from Medicaid reimbursements which will abruptly cease. HUNDREDS OF HOSPITALS NATIONWIDE are likely to shut down and, in some areas, nearly all will sharply reduce critical services like primary care, emergency rooms, OB/GYN, pharmacy, dialysis, and pediatrics. Many of these particular services will be consolidated to other #hospitals far away with no transportation provided. Thousands will die, tens of thousands will be impoverished, as a direct result. A national #economic failure is more than merely likely. And without good cause; only to crush the Public and to transfer away the remains of its #wealth - our #savings, our #investments - for #redistribution to the untaxed parasites who create nothing, to further ensure that their next six generations will be exempted from the Social Compact.
TrumpRx Denounced as Corrupt Scheme to Line Pockets of Big Pharma—and Don Jr.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trumprx-prescription-drugs
> "Trump has dressed up yet another corporate giveaway as a boon to #patients," said one watchdog. "Real drug price reform doesn’t look like a website."
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Donald Trump speaks from a podium about his TrumpRx scheme at the White House while some other plutocrat-installed spokespuppet looks on.
(Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
The economic cost of #Brexit is now 6 to 8% of GDP. That's affecting us all.
"We estimate that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time."
https://econofact.org/the-economic-costs-of-brexit-on-the-uk #Europe #Europa #Economic #Politics #News #AcademicReseach
#ElizabethWarren tells #Democrats not “to sand down our edges to avoid offending anyone, especially the rich and powerful who might finance our candidates.… When Democrats water down their #economic platform to appeal to wealthy donors, whether the transaction is explicit or subtle, we squander trust with working people, and the money just isn’t worth it.” https://newrepublic.com/article/205365/elizabeth-warren-democrats-donor-class?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily
Ohio spends billions to create jobs. Economists say the lack of jobs is making people leave
GOP leaders spent billions on
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/09/ohio-spends-billions-to-create-jobs-economists-say-the-lack-of-jobs-is-making-people-leave/#affordability #economic-development #economic-inequality #economy #governor-mike-dewine #jobsohio #politics-&-gov #population-growth
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Ohio spends billions to create jobs. Economists say the lack of jobs is making people leave
As the #Trump admin asserts a #NewWorldOrder guided by #military #force & #economic #power — & Trump calls for a massive increase in military spending to confront these “dangerous times” — #US #allies are insisting that global stability depends on following #InternationalLaw.
#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Maduro #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy
#RT, the #Russia state-owned broadcaster, published images of a helicopter approaching the Russian-flagged #OilTanker being pursued by the #USCG & said it appeared US forces were attempting to board.
#China on Wednesday said that US claims on Venezuela’s #oil were “a classic act of bullying.” Mao Ning, a spox for China’s foreign ministry, said #Venezuela has “full & permanent #sovereignty over its #NaturalResources & all #economic activities.”
According to the most recent Federal Election Commission figures,
only about 12% of Platner’s haul has even come from inside Maine.
The nationalization of campaign finance is becoming more common for U.S. Senate candidates.
But there are two differences worth noting.
Platner’s in-state share is higher and more geographically diffuse than Gideon’s 2020 campaign.
Then, in what became Maine’s most expensive Senate race, just 4% of Gideon’s war chest was homegrown.
Most of that Maine money was heavily concentrated in Portland and the southern coastal corridor.
While 64% of Gideon’s Maine total fundraising amount came from the three southernmost counties,
88% of Platner’s current in-state funding is from outside the urban-suburban core of southern Maine.
That divergence matters.
It suggests that while Platner’s campaign is still fueled by national money, its local base
– however small
– extends beyond the usual Portland orbit.
⭐️And there is a reason Platner’s message has not been dead on arrival.
The #economic #populism he’s advancing speaks directly to the material frustrations many rural residents express
– frustration with corporate consolidation,
rising costs and
the feeling that prosperity never reaches their communities.
The 2024 Cooperative Election Study shows that rural independents and moderates
often share progressive instincts on precisely these issues:
Large majorities of rural, moderate/independent New Englanders
support higher taxes on the wealthy
and expanded health coverage.
✅ Platner is emphasizing those issues
– corporate power, health costs, infrastructure,
wages
– where the urban–rural divide is narrowest.
Platner may be closing that gap.
In an October 2025 survey, 58% of likely Democratic primary voters named him as their first choice for the 2026 Senate nomination.
While that support has likely changed in the aftermath of two controversies
– his chest tattoo that resembled a Nazi icon and recent posts on Reddit,
including one in which he says rural people “actually are” “stupid” and “racist”
– that poll’s most notable finding is the consistency of support across income and education levels.
Still, while his message may bridge income and education,
the biggest obstacle facing Platner is the simplest one:
He’s trying to do all of this as a Democrat.
Being anchored in metropolitan and professional networks
far removed from rural life
shapes not only what Democrats stand for
but how they speak,
focusing on moral and cultural commitments that resonate nationally
but feel abstract in smaller, locally based communities.
⚠️That’s why even an economically resonant message struggles once it meets the national brand.
Rural independents and moderates often agree with Democrats
on taxes, health care and wages.
🔥Those alignments fade when policy is framed through the institutions and moral language of a party many no longer see as compatible with rural ways of living.
It’s not clear yet how Platner will respond on issues that don’t poll well in rural Maine
– environmental regulation,
gun control or
immigration
– where loyalty to the national agenda has undone many
would-be reformers before him.
And that schism is not because rural voters misunderstand their “self-interest”
or because racial dog whistles have led them astray.
It is hostility toward a party that,
with rare exception,
sees the future as something rural America must adapt to,
not something it should help define.
That is the danger of treating biography as the solution to a decades-long realignment.
Platner might be as close as Democrats have come in years to a candidate who can talk credibly to rural voters about power, place and policy.
But he still has to do it while wearing the “scarlet D”
– the weight of a party brand built over generations.
Whether he wins or loses,
his campaign already points to a deeper question:
Can Democrats do more than rent rural authenticity?
Put more bluntly,
the real test is not whether Platner can speak to rural Maine,
It is whether his party can finally learn to hear it.
#economic #populism
#Maine #Democrats
#SusanCollins v #GrahamPlatner
“…more of these equity ownership partnerships that #Indigenous groups can take really ties into unlocking #economic sovereignty for those Nations. It becomes unencumbered cash flows for the communities…”
#energy #majorprojects #ONpoli #Alberta #OilGas #consultation #cdnpoli
The Great #Depression has begun, just in time for the Holiday season.
#Economic #collapse is imminent.
This is 100% the fault of #republicans #gop who brought the dangerously #criminal Trump and #MAGA to power.
The #Republican party is responsible for everything these #traitorous #sick #deranged #extremists do.
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That is down from 40% in March & marks the lowest #economic approval he’s
registered in an AP-NORC poll in his 1st or 2nd term. #Trump also has struggled to recover from public blowback on other issues, such as his #management of the #FederalGovernment, & has not seen an approval bump even after congressional #Democrats effectively capitulated to end a record-long government #shutdown last month.
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I am not trying to imply that any of this is simple to solve or deal with. I think the analysis of ultimate outcomes if we stay on a particular #energy usage trajectory is relatively simple because it's just about energy balance, but what to do about it is a significantly different matter bringing in the full range of complexity of human endeavor. I don't pretend to have answers there, but naturally I have a lot of thoughts and I'll share a couple more.One reason I'm not solidly in the #renewables camp, aside from the energy blindness argument I posted previously, is that virtually everything we do right now is deeply dependent on #fossilfuel. Even an unforeseen 1% deficit in #oil production could have catastrophic effects across the planet. I think we have no choice but to give up this source of energy eventually--it's finite, after all, and we seem to be pulling up the last feasibly-accessible bits of it as we speak--but we're inviting disaster if we're not circumspect about how we go about it.
To elaborate a bit, one area of risk I know a bit about because of my simulation work is that so-called "baseload generation" of electricity cannot be done with current renewable technologies (that I know of) aside from hydroelectric and geothermal. Baseload generation refers to the consistent baseline of energy required to make things go--think hospitals or water treatment plants and pumping stations, the sewage system, things we deem necessary to have always going. Without adequate baseload generation we risk the entire electric grid collapsing and everyone losing electric power and everything that depends on it for long periods of time across large geographic areas simultaneously, a dystopian apocalypse film made real for a large number of people.
Nuclear (18%), hydroelectric (6%), coal (20%) and natural gas (40%) are the main baseload generation technologies in the US energy mix (from https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3). Geothermal could be baseload but is
It's a hairball of a problem.
That's why what I'm really on board with is #degrowth, or in the absence of that not adding more to growth. In the long term we have no choice but to abandon "make #GDP go up" as an #economic imperative for governments, so we might as well drive there in the most systematic and harm-minimizing manner we can. Anything we can do to reduce harm in the meantime--including embracing renewable energy sources--is great and we should do all of them, but I can't hang my hopes on what I see as stopgaps. One of the most immediate and effective things we can do is take the pressure off the energy-generating system by not increasing energy demand exponentially year after year. That's where I am in my thinking right now anyway.
Unless we develop that perfectly-insulated planetary exhaust pipe, I guess!