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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 10h

Oh look, a predatory capitalist and convicted felon built a museum honoring predatory capitalism... right across the street from the White House.

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Let Me Take You Inside Michael Milken’s Museum of Greed

Years ago in Juarez, Mexico, I wandered into a carnival sideshow that flabbergasted this Texas country boy.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 2d

Trump and his cabal of moneyed elites and Christian Nationalist extremists are out to purge, erase and officially censor the historical presentations of our parks, libraries and museums.

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America’s History, Says Lord Trump, Is Exactly What I Say It Is

Our country’s magnificent National Park System has been called “America’s greatest idea.”

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 3d

From staffer dz: I let Hightower know this morning that his account here had been verified. Hightower responded:

"Since I was a child, I've always wanted a Blue Check, and 8 decades later, my dream has come true. As Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis once said, 'I'm filled with all humidity.'"

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 8d

“In the plane with us was a witty populist, Jim Hightower…. Having grown up in the swampy Texas Gulf Coast, I asked Hightower to tell me about the parched, flat, brown land below us. ‘That,’ he quipped, ‘is the freakin’ moon.’” A delightful review by @paulbegala.bsky.social

First They Drove Out the Comanches. Then They Changed the Country.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 6d

Thanks for the shoutout, friend!

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 9d

Greg Abbott's ~true~ god is "guiding" his presidential ambitions.

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Abbott Says His Presidential Ambition Is “God’s Design”

Sometimes, cosmic oddities come together in comic ways.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 23d

Global pesticide giants are secretly working on preventing Americans from suing them for causing cancer with their products.

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Warning: Just Reading About Bayer’s Greed Can Cause Headaches

Listen now | Here they come again! Another far-right-wing mob, spurred on by Trump, is storming our US Capitol!

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 28d

The exciting new thing being pushed by non-profit hospitals is to spend big chunks of their tax-free revenue on their area’s professional and college sports teams. For what? Get this: To buy the naming rights to the teams’ stadiums and ballparks!

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CEOs of Tax-Exempt Hospitals Learn to Game the System

All across the country, nonprofit hospital chains are literally upping their game.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 28d

Appreciate you!

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 16

When right-wingers screech that “fiscal prudence” demands they slash the program’s benefits, that’s bank-robber code for looting wealth you’ve banked for years in this People’s retirement system.

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No Need to Raise Social Security Taxes – Make the Rich Pay Their Full Share!

My life goals have never included making a lot of money… and I’ve certainly succeeded in that regard.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 11

History lesson! The first person reported to have used the word “WOKE” was Huddie Ledbetter, the legendary Black blues artist known as Lead Belly.

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The Secret History of “Wokeness”

In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty scornfully declares that, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean.”

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 9

All in favor of DOUBLING Congress' pay say "aye!"

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I Ask You: Is This How to "Fix" Congress?

Nearly all Americans agree that Congress has become a sad joke – a blight of irritating gnats.

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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · Sep 4

Vox Populist: Jim Hightower on Trump’s Parade, Soldiers Facing “Food Insecurity,” and Florida Billionaires "defecating on the commoners."

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Soldiers Experience Food Insecurity; Billionaires Pollute Florida Town

Words from populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator Jim Hightower.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 4

#LoomeyTunes? When even Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks your policy is barbaric, you know we've fully lost the plot. 🍉

Shoutout to @lsarsour.bsky.social for actions and more.

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This Trump Looniness Is Even Too Much for Marjorie Taylor Greene!

Some days I don’t know whether to rage in fury, weep quietly, or just throw up.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 2

RFK Jr. wants to make us "healthy" without doing anything that's actually good for people. Amazing.

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Kennedy’s “Healthy Food” Reform Gets Eaten Up by Big Food Corporations

Bobby Kennedy, Jr.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 2

Where?!

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 2

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Sam Stribling @samstribling1.bsky.social · Sep 1

Jim Hightower interview on The Marc Steiner Show. It's worth a listen (and/or read).

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‘Rebellion is the strategy’: Jim Hightower breaks down the Texas gerrymandering battle—and what comes next

An interview with Hightower on The Real News Network's Marc Steiner Show

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 2

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Aug 30

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Aug 28

They're going after Post Office trucks as "woke." Yes, you read that right: POST 👏 OFFICE 👏 TRUCKS. 👏

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Beware! Congress Is Driving Backward Down a Wrong Way Street

At about 12 years of age, I began working for my father, loading bundles into the two delivery trucks used in his small business.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Aug 26

Gerrymandering is the nationalization of local elections, ignoring the real needs of hometown people.

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Boulder Voter Rob @bouldervoter.bsky.social · Aug 25

The great Jim Hightower, former Ag secretary of Texas had a bit about that. Instead of the Dow Jones index on Wall street, let's talk about "the Doug Jones index" on Main Street. Here he is, asking as Robert Reich does, who needs corporate democrats?

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Shouldn’t the Democratic Party Actually Be the Party of «d»emocrats?

Will Rogers joked that when thousands of rural Oklahomans fled the 1930s Dust Bowl and migrated to California: “It raised the intellectual level of both states.”

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Aug 25

Ready to fight kleptocratic GOP and its pusillanimous potentates with @gregcasar.bsky.social, who announced his reelection campaign at the @texasaflcio.org HQ today with so many of our friends who stand for progressive populist values of economic fairness, social justice & equal opportunity for all.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Aug 21

Elon slinked away from the White House... to be rewarded by Texas' shareholder laws that can't stop Tesla from giving him $30 billion to come back to his job.

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Elon Musk’s $30-Billion Ride on the Corporate Merry-Go-Round

Is Elon Musk OK?

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