the attitude with arnie arnesen the Tues edition Feb 24
Arnie Arnesen
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Jeanne wrote to me last night and shared this:I went back to the Catholic Church to teach CCD because someone asked...they needed someone to cover a group of high school aged students. Never thought I would. It's been over 25 years. Tonight I was supposed to talk to them about modeling themselves after Jesus and the saints, and about what prayer is. So, I talked about how state violence took Jesus and most of the apostles, along with many of the saints. I told them that they need not look any further than right here in Chicago with people like the Rev Jackson and Fred Hampton and others for modern day examples, and that state violence keeps taking them and always will, because anyone who actually walks in Jesus's foot steps will always be considered a radical and an enemy of the state. Then I told them that's what they are being called to do, and how people who do good things don't regret their sacrifices because they make the world a better place. Then I asked them if Jesus, or Abraham Lincoln, or MLK regretted what they did. Would they have rather sat at home on the side lines? Or did these people make the world a better place? Do we benefit from their sacrifices? Then we ended it with a prayer. I told them anything can be a prayer. So, we watched Rev Jackson on Sesame Street. And some of those kids, high school students, kids who didn't really understand who this man even was when we started class, were saying right along with him, "I am somebody." I wanted to cry. One of the best classes ever. I wait for the day some kid's parent complains. It will happen. It's happened to me before. But I don't care, because it's worth it.
Money in Politics Reform Director Michael Beckel is a nationally recognized expert on money in politics and election administration issues.
Beckel — who worked for 9 years as Issue One’s research director — has been following money in politics for more than 16 years, including attending the oral arguments of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark campaign finance case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which ushered in a new era of big money in politics. His expertise is regularly cited by media outlets, and for more than a decade, he has trained journalists on how to follow political money and uncover donors to secretive political dark money groups.
the corruption chronicles.
https://issueone.org/articles/the-corruption-chronicles/
nugget: A hallmark of the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House has been his repeated sidestepping of longstanding, anti-corruption safeguards.
“President Trump’s unprecedented disregard for the ethical responsibilities that come with being a public official degrades the office of the presidency and raises significant concerns about the threat of corruption,” said Issue One Founder and CEO Nick Penniman. “The evidence is clear that the second Trump administration is a powder keg of corruption scandals, influence-peddling, and profiteering from public service. The American people are the ones bearing the costs of Trump’s self-enrichment and selling of access and influence to the highest bidder.”
As the index below details, Trump — whose net worth, according to Forbes, has increased from $2.5 billion in 2020 to more than $5 billion today — has monetized the presidency in ways that defy both the intent and the letter of Article I of the Constitution, transforming public office into a vehicle for private gain through business enterprises, including multiple cryptocurrency ventures.
The scale and severity of Trump’s conflicts of interest has already far outstripped those of his first term.
https://issueone.org/articles/the-corruption-chronicles-another-look/
With each passing month in the White House, President Donald Trump continues to monetize the presidency in ways that defy both the intent and the letter of Article I of the Constitution, transforming public office into a vehicle for private gain through business enterprises, including multiple cryptocurrency ventures.
The index below — which builds on Issue One’s first installment in this series and comes ahead of the nine-month anniversary of Trump’s inauguration — details many of the ways Trump has been sidestepping our nation’s longstanding, anti-corruption safeguards, pressuring major players in the private and nonprofit sectors, and selling access and influence to domestic and foreign interests alike.
“The scale and severity of President Trump’s conflicts of interest far surpass the concerns raised during his first term,” said Issue One Founder and CEO Nick Penniman. “Trump’s disregard for the ethical responsibilities that come with being a public servant degrades the presidency and raises significant corruption concerns that Congress and the American people must take seriously.”
https://issueone.org/articles/the-corruption-chronicles-2/
One year into his second term in the White House, President Donald Trump has reshaped the presidency to drastically blur the lines between government and business, abetting unprecedented levels of pay-to-play political corruption and blatantly exploiting our nation’s highest office to enrich himself and his family.
The index below — which builds on Issue One’s previous two installments in this series — highlights many of the ways that Trump has sidestepped anti-corruption safeguards, defied both the intent and the letter of Article I of the Constitution, and transformed public office into a vehicle for private gain through business enterprises, including multiple cryptocurrency ventures.
“A president profiting from public service and selling access to the highest bidder should outrage Democrats, Republicans, and independents alike,” said Issue One Founder and CEO Nick Penniman.
He continued: “President Donald Trump’s continued disregard for the ethical responsibilities of public office raises concerns not only about the next three years of his administration but also about the structural weaknesses for executive branch oversight. This moment in U.S. history calls for bipartisan resolve to check the executive branch and enact safeguards that can protect future generations of American democracy.”
opening thoughts about tariffs;Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs
from last sept https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutnick-family-angling-to-make-astronomical-sums-off-court-nixing-tariffs
The Fix Is In: Lutnick Family Could Make Killing On Tariff Demise
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-fix-is-in-lutnick-family-to-make-killing-on-tariff-demise
part two: Ivan Oransky is co-founder of Retraction Watch, Editor in Chief of The Transmitter, and Distinguished Journalist In Residence at New York University’s Carter Journalism Institute, where I teach medical journalism in the Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program. The views here do not necessarily represent those of either of those organizations. In the past, I’ve been vice president of editorial at Medscape, vice president and global editorial director of MedPage Today, executive editor of Reuters Health, managing editor, online, of Scientific American, deputy editor of The Scientist, and editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Praxis Post. From 2017 until 2021, I served as president of the Association of Health Care Journalists. For three years, I taught in the health and medicine track at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism.I earned my bachelor’s at Harvard, where I was executive editor of The Harvard Crimson, and my MD at the New York University School of Medicine. In 2015, I was awarded the John P. McGovern Award for excellence in biomedical communication from the American Medical Writers Association, and in 2017, I received an honorary doctorate of civil laws from The University of the South (Sewanee). In 2019, the judges for the John Maddox Prize, which promotes those who stand up for science in the face of hostility, gave me a commendation for my work at Retraction Watch.
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