Sue Wedzel

11/13/2024

10/27/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/cowardice-and-intimidation-at-the?r=6pwod&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Their billionaire owners are Trump enablers

10/26/2024

In his book On Tyranny, Snyder, who is also an adviser to our organization, writes: “Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” ~ article

Please read this article. I will be obtaining the book so that i may learm more.

Trump's campaign against the Fourth Estate has been unfolding before our eyes—far more effectively than some in the press would like to believe.

10/26/2024

Please read this extremely important essay.

From the article: “But this isn’t a journalism story. It’s a business story.

Following Trump’s 2016 victory, the Post leaned hard into its role as a guardian of democracy. This meant criticizing, and reporting aggressively on, Trump, who responded by threatening Bezos’s various business interests.

And that’s what this story is about: It’s about the most consequential American entrepreneur of his generation signaling his submission to Trump—and the message that sends to every other corporation and business leader in the country. In the world.

Killing this editorial says, If Jeff Bezos has to be nice to Trump, then so do you. Keep your nose clean, bub.”

Please read the entire article.

Jeff Bezos’s decision to pull a Washington Post endorsement of Harris is foreboding. But not necessarily for the reasons you think.

10/25/2024

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/new-data-shows-us-economy-on-track-to-grow-at-encouragingly-solid-pace-162105757.html?

Fresh data from S&P Global showed the US economy is tracking for solid growth through the end of 2024.

10/25/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/henry-wallace-and-american-fascism?r=6pwod&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Please take the time to read this.

His words are even more relevant today than they were in 1944.

10/23/2024

This view, ‘tho 😍.

07/05/2024

Brilliant as usual. Please watch this short interview.

Christiane Amanpour speaks to author and historian Heather Cox Richardson about the challenges facing American democracy in this election year.

05/17/2024

A man once interrupted Picasso at his evening meal. Pulling a napkin from his pocket, the man said,

“Could you sketch something for me? I’ll pay you for it. Name your price.”

Picasso took a charcoal pencil from his pocket made a rapid sketch of a goat. It took only a few strokes yet was unmistakably a Picasso. The man reached out for the napkin, but Picasso did not hand it over. “You owe me $100,000,” he said.

The man was outraged. “$100,000? Why? That took you no more than 30 seconds to draw!”Picasso crumpled up the napkin and stuffed it into his jacket pocket. “You are wrong,” he said, dismissing the man. “It took me 40 years.

Know your worth.

04/29/2024

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

William A. Ward