"This is not about personal liberties or free markets. It’s about making the Post more amenable to the Trump administration so that Jeff Bezos’s businesses will not be punished."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump #oligarchy
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thebulwark.com/p/the-washingto…

The Washington Post and Autocracy’s Asymmetric Advantage

Liberalism is afraid to take its own side.

^{Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)}

"When billionaires take control of our communication channels, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for billionaire babble.

When they talk of 'personal liberties and free markets' they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of America slides into greater economic insecurity and fear."

~ Robert Reich

#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump #oligarchy
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robertreich.substack.com/p/its…

It's the oligarchy, stupid.

Friends,

^{Robert Reich}

Interview: "Federal workers are staging mass protests to Save Our Services"

“They’re trying to immiserate the working class, & they’re doing it through the federal workforce.

"It’s about gutting the services that create a safety net... because the more miserable we are, the easier it is for them to exploit us.

“The whole public sphere is at stake.”

~Chris Dols

democracynow.org/2025/2/20/dog…

#USPol #SaveOurServices #Trump #Musk #Oligarchy #GeneralStrikeNow #ResistFascism .

“Grand Theft Government”: Federal Workers Send SOS over Musk-Led Mass Firings, Service Cuts

Amid the indiscriminate dismantling of the federal government by the Trump administration’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, federal workers, thousands of whom could lose their jobs, are fighting back.

^{Democracy Now!}

BERNIE SANDERS WARNS U.S. IS BECOMING AN OLIGARCHY

"We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society… We can't go around the world saying, 'in Russia, Putin has an oligarchy.' Well, we got our oligarchy here, too".

#oligarchy #BernieSanders #Russia #Billionaires

rollingstone.com/politics/poli…

Bernie Sanders Warns U.S. Is Becoming an Oligarchy

Sen. Bernie Sanders said that America is "moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society" where billionaires use government to enrich themselves.

^{Peter Wade (Rolling Stone)}