@RickiTarr It's really corrosive, right?

#TheLever has done great coverage on this!

https://www.levernews.com/lever-weekly-how-billionaires-shape-the-news-they-own/

https://www.levernews.com/citizen-bezos-logs-on/

#SupremeCourt #Justice #ClarenceThomas voted to end federal tenant protections that his billionaire benefactor’s company says threatened its real estate profit margins, according to corporate documents reviewed by #TheLever. Thomas did not disclose his relationship with real estate billionaire #HarlanCrow, nor did he recuse himself from the 2021 case, despite its potential impact on Crow Holdings.

#SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas

https://www.levernews.com/thomas-helped-kill-eviction-ban-threatening-benefactors-business/

Fox News Gets Tax Break After Major Defamation Settlement

https://youtu.be/3h2VDYdj868

#news #politics #uspolitics #thelever

Biden Admin Allows Cancer Drug Price Gouging to Continue

https://youtu.be/5FaMzsBjw60

https://www.levernews.com/biden-and-becerra-let-big-pharma-profiteer-off-cancer-drug/

#news #politics #uspolitics #TheYoungTurks #thelever

How to Derail the Anti-Safety Train Lobby ft. Rep. Chris Deluzio)

https://youtu.be/mKtVHE5Y4q8

#news #politics #uspolitics #thelever #railroads #norfolksouthern #ohio #eastpalestine #chrisdeluzio

Short but informative video from #TheLever on the #derailment in #EastPalestine. Sums up the events to date in just over 2 minutes.
https://youtu.be/wEqV0h08ZbU

I repeat, I wish this MF were here so we could yell at him:

"Facing pressure from lawmakers in his own party after a spate of train derailments, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has now resorted to falsely suggesting that he does not have power to compel the rail industry to upgrade its safety equipment and procedures."

https://www.levernews.com/buttigieg-pretends-hes-powerless-to-reduce-derailment-risks/

#TrainDerailment #TheLever #railroad

If you’re not reading #TheLever, you’re missing the best investigative reporting into the #EastPalestine #derailment. Even if you can’t afford a paid subscription, they have a free newsletter and podcast where you can get news that the bourgeois media refuse to cover.
https://www.levernews.com/

EPA: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/climate/environmental-protection-agency-epa-funding.html

Betrayal of RR workers: https://www.levernews.com/why-biden-betrayed-railroad-workers/

Biden admin blocked safety regs: https://www.levernews.com/rail-companies-blocked-safety-rules-before-ohio-derailment/

"There will be more derailments":
https://www.levernews.com/there-will-be-more-derailments/

Railroads' record profits: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/14/us-railroad-strike-union-pacific-bnsf

(We gotta get #TheLever on here, @davidsirota)

I wasn't socialized into football & it's very very easy to boycott the #SuperBowl at the intersection of aesthetics & politics, for me, but also here is one more reason:

"As He Gets Us works to build Jesus’ brand, the company’s parent nonprofit, the Servant Foundation, has been funding the Alliance Defending Freedom, an organization fighting to limit #abortion access and allow businesses to refuse to serve #LGBTQ+ customers"

https://www.levernews.com/heres-who-will-be-talking-about-jesus-on-super-bowl-sunday/

#TheLever

As a subscriber to the #HorrorVanguard podcast, I was psyched to see this new pod from #TheLever. It’s called #Movies vs. Capitalism. The premiere episode analyzed Ghostbusters. As someone who grew up in the 80s and saw this movie at least a dozen times, I still learned quite a bit. New episodes drop each Tuesday.

https://mvcpod.com

#MovieCritique #socialism #capitalism #patriarchy #PopCulture

This is going to be an unpopular opinion given the reasons people like Mastodon, but I kind of wish Mayo Pete were on here so we could cyberbully him about the railroads. Also the airlines. And walkability.

"In aftermath of a fiery Ohio #train #derailment, Buttigieg has not moved to reinstate a safety rule.., even though a safety official warned Congress that without better brakes, 'there will be more derailments [&] more releases of hazardous materials.'"

https://www.levernews.com/there-will-be-more-derailments/

#TheLever

Of course: Rail Companies Blocked Safety Rules Before Ohio Derailment

https://www.levernews.com/rail-companies-blocked-safety-rules-before-ohio-derailment/

#Railroad #TheLever #NorfolkSouthern (hmm, I wish Lever was on here to tag them... @davidsirota)

Of course: Rail Companies Blocked Safety Rules Before Ohio Derailment

https://www.levernews.com/rail-companies-blocked-safety-rules-before-ohio-derailment/ #Railroad #TheLever