Michigan Right-Wing Republican Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey once again showed his disdain for Governor Gretchen Whitmer. While visiting the conservative Hillsdale College this week, which is in Shirkey’s district, he reached in The Occupant’s playbook to deride Whitmer and legislative Democrats. According to Hillsdale’s college newspaper, Shirkey claimed Whitmer and her fellow Democrats were…
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Billionaires Could Fight Back, But They Consider Higher Taxes Worse Than Authoritarianism
Paul Krugman posted this interesting thread today: The Ukraine story is one of extortion and bribery: Trump threatened a vulnerable nation by withholding aid, using the threat to extract help against his domestic rivals. What’s not being widely noted is that the same thing is happening to U.S. corporations 1/ — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November…