Born into a union family in the Kansas City heartland with a rare genetic lung disease, Barker lived and breathed Democrat. The Democratic Party, she believed, was built to help people like her. But as she rose through the ranks, she saw a movement obsessed with moral posturing and identity politics rather than with the struggles of ordinary Americans. And when she spoke up, she became a target herself. And this led her to write: Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative pull back the curtain behind-the-scenes of the party’s transformation from working-class champion to elite echo chamber. Candid, fearless, and impossible, it’s essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how American politics really works. Rather than prioritizing policies that improve everyday lives, the focus has shifted to LGBTQ and other related issues many people either don’t prioritize or actively reject. She notes that many leading these efforts come from affluent backgrounds, echoing a belif many long held: those with wealth are insulated from the consequences of poor policy decisions.
Barker’s book glossed over the fact that the accountable care act was saved by Judge Roberts, a Bush appointee but come to the conclusion in the end that Obamacare has solved little and created huge expenses for the rest of us. Unfortunately , her description of the revolution in leftest thought is spot on.
Tom Suozzi, a fourth-term Democratic U.S. Representative for New York’s third Congressional District. He’s the loudest voice in his party against the rise of DSA. He’s even authored a pledge called the Promise to America, which stated in its first line: We are capitalist, not socialist. Nina Turner, a progressive Democrats and former Ohio state senator, and prominent national surrogate for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020. She also served as president of Our Revolution, the political organization that grew out of Sanders’ first presidential campaign. She identifies herself as a humanitarian. She felt the Democratic party system is suffocating so many people, and it is not working. So much bankruptcy because of medical debt. Big problem needs big policy solutions. A Conversation Between Nina Turner and Tom Suozzi – is the program that asks whether two brilliant minds from opposite corners of an argument can find any common ground on the questions that matter most to Americans today. The program argued that the Democratic Socialists of America are not a wing of the Democratic Party, but a separate organization that runs on the Democratic line. Regardless of the labelling, the public pay for the startup for the initial cost and the private company and a few people pocket the profits. That is the problem.
Here are some major issues I check into the medical bankruptcy website:
- 80% of medical bills that result in bankruptcy are for non-emergency care, such as surgery or chronic disease management.
- 52% of uninsured U.S. adults face high out-of-pocket costs for necessary care
- Medical debt is the top cause of bankruptcy in 39 U.S. states.
- Surprise medical bills (when a patient is treated by an out-of-network provider without consent) account for 11% of all medical debt leading to bankruptcy.
- U.S. hospitals charge 2.7 times more for the same procedure than their Canadian counterparts, increasing bankruptcy risk.
- 30% of medical debt is due to billing errors, such as duplicate charges or incorrect coding, which patients often cannot resolve in time to avoid bankruptcy.
Trillions and trillions of resources are pour into AI. While AI Investment Will Hit 2% Of U.S. GDP This Year, Analyst Says—Nearing Defense Spending Levels. In comparison, China’s AI investment, According to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the core AI industry — covering AI research, development, and commercial applications — exceeded 1.2 trillion yuan ($173.9 billion) in 2025. China’s startup scene alone hit 1,238 new AI startups founded in Beijing since 2017, while the wider ecosystem now spans 4,512 AI companies as of 2024. At the same time, generative AI is pulling in most of the attention with 65% of funding going to it, and the patent, paper, and chip stacks are rising in parallel. This post pulls those threads together into a single, readable set of China AI statistics that makes it easier to see what is scaling fast and where the bottlenecks really are.
John Mearsheimer: Israel lobby-America is in the grip of foreign power – reviews the important new book Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power by Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick, and compares it to the 2007 book he wrote with Stephen Walt. His central argument: the lobby has lost its ability to control the public discourse — driven by the internet, by Israel’s conduct in Gaza and the West Bank, and by a shift in how Israel sees itself — but it has NOT lost its grip on US policy, thanks to plutocratic donors and the Citizens United ruling. He explores the “crazy state” thesis, the IHRA definition of antisemitism, the 2024 campus protests, and the big question for the years ahead: how long can policy stay out of sync with public opinion? How is this so called progressive movement which campaign social justice, simultaneously support Israel’s Gaza warmonger?
Meet Mayor Mamdani: The Spectacular Victory of a Democratic Socialist in New York City. Mamdani is an example of what skillful marketing can accomplish. While he presents himself as the exponent of new ideas that will return government to genuine service of the people, he is actually the latest front man for ideas that are very old and extremely destructive. What Mamdani stands for above all else is state control that would stifle human initiative and destroy the very things that have made New York the greatest city in the world.
Author Spencer demonstrates that Mamdani has also aided and abetted a dangerous demonization of Israel and Jews that has led to genocide before, and could all too easily do so again. Like all socialists, Zohran Mamdani is a hypocrite. While living a life of opulence and luxury that includes partying on three continents, he claims there shouldn’t be billionaires. The rules are for the little people he professes to champion. Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayor pay jumps to nearly $260K, up 80% in less than a year. Truly Socialism !