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9 in 10 voters agree corruption is the #1 problem in politics. 📊 Not 9 in 10 Democrats. Not 9 in 10 Republicans. 9 in 10 voters — period. → 83% want the president barred from financial conflicts of interest → 81% want an ethics watchdog with teeth → 79% want money out of elections Thom Hartmann breaks down the new Brennan Center poll — and why he calls Citizens United one of the most corrupt Supreme Court decisions ever. #Corruption #MoneyInPolitics #CitizensUnited #BrennanCenter ThomHartmann CivicMedia
Hospital costs up 140%. Wages up Only 83%. The Wisconsin healthcare math doesn’t add up — and one UW-Madison report shows why. Hospitals here charge private insurers some of the highest rates in the country. Just over 1 in 10 Wisconsinites skipped a doctor visit they needed because they couldn’t afford to go. #Wisconsin #Healthcare #WorkingFamilies #WisconsinNews #Daybreak
*”I’m going to need you not to say that out loud.”* That’s host Michelle Brown on Say Something Real — right after Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley calls Wisconsin’s rebate check a gimmick. His reason: if you didn’t earn enough to file income taxes, you didn’t qualify. The families squeezed hardest by gas, groceries, and rent were the ones the rebate couldn’t reach.
Should the public own half of AI? Bernie Sanders thinks so. His case in three lines: 🏛️ Our research built it. ⚡ Our power grids run it. 📚 Our data trained it. Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Ellison are pouring hundreds of billions into AI — and standing to take home the trillions while up to 100 million American jobs are on the chopping block. The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would take a 50% stake in OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI and route the dividends back to the people who actually made the technology possible. Alaska does it with oil. The question is whether we do it with AI — or hand the keys to four billionaires.
80% of Wisconsin “backed the budget deal.” 📊 Except that’s not exactly what the poll found. It asked people if they wanted lower property taxes, funded schools, and a $300 rebate — out of a surplus we already have. 80% said yes. Who wouldn’t? The second the same poll mentioned it could blow a hole in next year’s budget, support fell to 69%. People weren’t backing a plan. They were backing the things in it. The real question — is spending one-time money the smart way to pay for it? — is the one that sank the deal in the Senate, where 3 Republicans and all 15 Democrats voted no.
Rent used to be the safety net. Working families are stuck — but Jamie and Brian dig into the Milwaukee project that could be Wisconsin’s blueprint to fix it. Here’s the Wisconsin fix that’s actually getting built. #AffordableHousing #Housing #Affordability #Wisconsin #Milwaukee
Tom Tiffany called January 6 defendants “victims” who might deserve compensation from Trump’s $1.8B fund. Wisconsin Sen. Diane Hesselbein’s answer: a 100% state tax on any payment that lands in Wisconsin. Their fund. Our state’s call.
If we just cut the top #tax rate from 74% to 27%, prosperity would #trickledown. What actually happened? About $70 #trillion got transferred — up. Not to #workingfamilies. Past them.
Jamie Martinson on Daybreak: #hunger in America is worse right now than it was at the peak of COVID. 10% of #families skipping meals. 16% relying on food banks. If the #grocery bill feels heavier, it’s not just you.
The Pope and Barack Obama agree on something. Pope Leo just warned that AI without guardrails will widen inequality and fragment our communities. Obama’s been quietly working on the same problem. The people who *don’t* want guardrails? Billionaires. Pete and Greg get into it on Nite Lite — including the night Pete’s kid had a conversation with an AI assistant that he described as straight-up creepy. Wisconsin families deserve a seat at this table before the rules get written without us.
Wisconsin has 53 data centers already. 🔌 The tech isn’t the scary part. The motives are. On Daybreak, Jamie and Brian break down who’s really behind the buildout, what it means for our power grid and water, and why “jobs” doesn’t tell the whole story once a facility goes live. A tool is only as good as the hands holding it. Let’s be realistic about whose hands those are. 💬 What’s a data center doing in your corner of Wisconsin? Tell us.
Wisconsin’s Rep. Brian Steil chairs the House subcommittee that writes the rules on cryptocurrency. The crypto industry has spent $750K+ boosting him. It’s not just Steil. It’s not just one party. Democrats. Republicans. Using committee knowledge for personal gain. Same problem. That’s why they all leave office as millionaires.
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