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Gerald Friedman
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Professor Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Graduate of Columbia (BA) and Harvard (PhD). Author of numerous works in labor history, heterodox economic theory, and Medicare for All. Most recent book is The Case for Medicare for All .. more

Gerald Carl Friedman is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He became nationally prominent during the 2016 U.S. presidential election after writing an analysis of Democratic Party candidate Bernie Sanders campaign's policies in which Friedman concluded that these policies would produce significant economic growth in the United States if they were enacted. Friedman also received strong backlash for these remarks, from editorial pundits and fellow academics. .. more

Political science 35%
Sociology 19%

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Flashback Kamala Harris: “Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him.”

Nikki Glaser calls out CBS News at the Golden Globes while it’s being broadcast on CBS.

“And the award for Most Editing goes to CBS News. Yes, CBS News, America’s newest place to see B.S. News.”
Powell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators:

"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President."

www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis.

Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.

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Over the edge of dishonesty
This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...
How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find
Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.
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This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...
How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find
Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.
augustafreepress.com

Corduroy thinks ICEMUST GO

ICE out! Amherst MA

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Still waiting for those Epstein files to be released
FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now?

Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests

FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests?

Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face

Judges matter.
Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor
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Chris Murphy: "Let's talk about what's at stake here. The president is spending every single day thinking about invading Greenland, managing the Venezuelan economy, building a ballroom. He's not thinking about the American people at all."

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“It was 47, 48K tops. It just looked like more because it was in small bills.”

Someone get this man under oath. Classic non-denial denial.

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I wanted to share some thoughts on what has been an incredibly difficult week.

My friends, we will win and we will rebuild. We have no other choice. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-our-power-courage

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Lighting The World Protesting Darkness

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

#DEFENDDEMOCRACY 🇺🇸🇬🇪🇮🇷

Landman Wolf Song 🎼

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Alice Paul--suffragist, women’s rights activist, and author of the original Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)--was born #OTD in 1885.

She devoted her entire life to advocating for women’s #suffrage and equal rights for women.

alicepaul.org

These are the right-wing extremists we're watching out for in 2026 forward.com/culture/7960...
These are the right-wing extremists we're watching out for in 2026
With online extremism taking over mainstream conservative discourse, here are a few of the rising stars, and the conspiracies they're sharing.
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Tapper to Noem: "I just showed you video of people attacking law enforcement officers on J6. Trump pardoned them all. You said Trump is enforcing all the laws equally. That's just not true. There's a different standard for LEOs being attacked if they're being attacked by Trump supporters."

This is where Trump/Vance/Musk/MAGA white supremacy is taking us.

The Mad Stamp Collector
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The Mad Stamp Collector
Our Foreign Policy as Fable
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Turns Out the Obamacare Subsidy Extension Was Only Mostly Dead
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Turns Out the Obamacare Subsidy Extension Was Only Mostly Dead
Last week’s House vote sets up a big fight in the Senate over relief for millions.
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