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  1. 'By contrast, as Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—a disabled veteran and former VA assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs—made clear, Collins’s request for VA in-house care, when adjusted for inflation, represents a cut in the direct care budget, which she called “an abandonment of veterans.”'

    prospect.org/2026/06/04/trump-

    #americanprospect #collins #va

  2. From David Dayen / #AmericanProspect prospect.org:
    @ddayen

    “The reason is that it’s an #election year, & #Republicans have once again decided that their path to victory goes right through the U.S.-Mexico #border. Inflation & the economy were effective complaints in 2023, but they are starting to recede. Transgender rights have been a disastrously unproductive wedge issue for Republicans. But #immigration is the one area where they’ve put Joe #Biden on the back foot….”

  3. CW: Long thread/4

    But what really caught my eye was @ddayen's #AmericanProspect article about the judge's commentary on the state of the #aviation industry:

    prospect.org/infrastructure/tr

    Why, after all, have Spirit and Jetblue been so ardent in pursuing mergers? Jetblue has had two failed merger attempts with Virgin, and this is the *third* time they've failed in an attempt to merge with Spirit.

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  4. In his #AmericanProspect editorial, "What Comes After Neoliberalism?", #RobertKuttner declares "we’ve just about won the battle of ideas. Reality has been a helpful ally...Neoliberalism has been a splendid success for the top 1 percent, and an abject failure for everyone else":

    prospect.org/economy/2023-03-2

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    If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog

    pluralistic.net/2023/03/28/ima

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