Michael Mechanic
Mother Jones writer/editor; author of "Jackpot," an "entertaining and eviscerating" (Jane Mayer) book on America's wealth insanity; piano player turned punk rock drummer turned old-time fiddler; dad of Gen Zers; gardener; curmudgeon about town.
- And of course, him accepting any kind of gift from a foreign govt is explicitly unconstitutional.
- Your periodic reminder that most Americans didn't sign up for this shit. Via @motherjones.com
- Karoline Leavitt, like her boss, is a ridiculous liar and her response to Brian Kilmeade is absurd. His question, too, was absurd. OF COURSE the Quataris effin' want something in return for the 747! You don't just give somebody a "flying palace" because you're nice.
- This whole thing is Trump propaganda. "The rich" here consists solely of people who make >$2.5M a year. And he's talking about a small increase, actually just a reset to pre-Trump top rate on the very richest, who underpay anyway bc they mimimize taxable income and live off low-cost loans instead.
- Reposted by Michael Mechanic“[DHS] argues the visits are meant to identify and stop trafficking, with a senior official claiming the Biden administration allowed unaccompanied children to be placed with sponsors who were ‘smugglers and sex traffickers.’” They aren’t; they weren’t.
- Reposted by Michael MechanicIn which @michaelmechanic.bsky.social excavates the history of Richie Rich, talks about any sense of noblesse oblige has been killed by run away income inequality, and somehow gets @mcuban.bsky.social to weigh in on all this? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- This (unpaywalled) Bloomberg analysis shows Trump's memecoin is being used by foreign interests to shovel cash into the president's pocket. He's already violating the Constitution's emoluments clause and this reeks of pay-to-play corruption—esp when he's offering private dinners to top coin buyers.
- In this short @motherjones.com video, Elon Musk says any business run like the US govt would be out of business. So what? Government ISN'T a business. But what Musk & Trump have done to our govt would drive any BUSINESS out of business. They will end up costing most American families dearly.
- Lying to Congress is a crime.
- If people burn fossil fuels we export, it affects us all the same. Coal exports should be banned altogether.
- A Trump effort to streamline an Alabama coal mining expansion would benefit the overseas steelmaking industry while putting Alabamians and the environment at risk. Full story from @insideclimatenews.org here: insideclimatenews.org/news/0605202...
