Bernie Sanders Issues 'Oligarchy' Warning About Elon Musk The Vermont senator criticized the billionaire's influence over Congress as it tries to pass a spending bill and avoid a shutdown. 12/21/2024 - 12:12 am | View Link
Bernie Sanders Blasts Jeff Bezos For Attending Donald Trump Dinner As Amazon Workers Go On Strike At 7 Facilities In California, Georgia, Illinois, And New York Bernie Sanders is blasting Amazon founder and executive chairman (former CEO) Jeff Bezos after he attended dinner with Donald Trump as Amazon workers go on strike at seven facilities in California, ... 12/19/2024 - 4:46 pm | View Link
Donald Trump Trolled With 2 Of The Most Triggering Words Amid Elon Musk Moves The two words “President Musk” trended on Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) and other social media platforms late Wednesday after the tech billionaire helped to thwart a GOP-created government funding ... 12/19/2024 - 7:23 am | View Link
Can Bernie Sanders And Elon Musk Jointly Bring Down U.S. Military Budget? By Nitya Chakraborty Leftwing Democratic senator Bernie Sanders is a veteran self proclaimed socialist who has been consistently fighting for drastic cut in the budget of the U.S. military since his ... 12/16/2024 - 10:28 pm | View Link
Bernie Sanders Backs Trump's Plan for 10% Credit Card Interest Rate Cap To Save Americans Billions Bernie Sanders hopes that Donald Trump will fulfil his promise to impose a temporary credit card interest rate cap of 10% to help Americans repay existing debt and improve personal finances. 12/16/2024 - 3:26 am | View Link
Above: Driftglass has discovered woodworking! He made this cat-proof Christmas tree for our living room.
Driftglass and I are so grateful to be a part of the C&L family.
2024 will log ONE HUNDRED episodes of our Professional Left Podcast.
Year in review: We'll record Episode 100 for the year next week!
Buckle up, friendsit is going to be a bumpy one. 2025 is not going to start off the way we had hoped, but I want to share some of my thoughts (and a personal reflection) as we enter this tumultuous year.
Many of you got to know me in The Bad Placestarting about 10 years agowhen my son was 8.
“Five months after a jury convicted Sen. Bob Menendez of corruption-related charges that ended his political career, federal prosecutors have admitted to a series of errors that could upend the verdicts,” Politico reports.
“The missteps have handed Menendez’s attorneys just the kind of opening they’d been looking for, and they have already requested a new trial.
Playbook: “He has the money, the platform, a Republican trifecta in Washington and a radically altered information ecosystem compared to would-be government shrinkers in generations past. Trump and his allies are serious about targeting the federal government, which many MAGA figures see as full of disloyalty, for radical changes.”
“But inertia is powerful.
After the presents, breakfast, hugs, and thank yous, it's time for football!
NFL Christmas Day looks like this: at 1 p.m. ET, the Kansas City Chiefs (14-1) play the Pittsburgh Steelers (10-5).
Then the Baltimore Ravens (10-5) play the Houston Texans (9-6) at 4:30 p.m. Eastern.
Which team are you rooting on to the Super Bowl?
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WASHINGTON — The fate of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is still unclear after Republican senators spent much of December carefully dodging questions about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s views on vaccines, accusations of sexual misconduct against Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard’s 2017 meeting with then-President Bashar Assad of Syria.
While some GOP senators have indicated they are all-in for Trump’s picks, others have withheld support, for now, especially on some of his more controversial nominees.