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Nice State Ya Got There -- Tom Sullivan
https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/25/nice-state-ya-got-there/America held hostage
From my earliest weeks in these pages, I’ve warned about metastasized capitalism: “we’re dealing with people who would sell you the air you breathe if they could control how it gets to your nose. And if you cannot afford to buy their air, well, you should have worked harder, planned better, and saved more.”
Now we have sitting in the Oval Office a felon convicted 34 times for crimes driven by that avarice, catalyzed by the will to power, and bent on dominating … everyone.
Josh Marshall suggests that Donald John Trump means to cow the states by threatening to cut off the “air supply” of any that hesitate to bow before him.
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From my earliest weeks in these pages, I’ve warned about metastasized capitalism: “we’re dealing with people who would sell you the air you breathe if they could control how it gets to your nose. And if you cannot afford to buy their air, well, you should have worked harder, planned better, and saved more.”
Now we have sitting in the Oval Office a felon convicted 34 times for crimes driven by that avarice, catalyzed by the will to power, and bent on dominating … everyone.
Josh Marshall suggests that Donald John Trump means to cow the states by threatening to cut off the “air supply” of any that hesitate to bow before him.
“It seems clear to me that Trump plans to coerce the states into operating under his direct control by cutting off their flows of federal money from the federal government,” Marshall writes. “We have already seen this with private institutions like Columbia University and other institutions in the form of NIH and other grants. Maine is already a focus because of the verbal confrontation between the state’s Gov. Janet Mills (D) and Trump back in late February.”
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