About this episode
Friends,
Welcome back to our Saturday coffee klatch where Heather Lofthouse (executive director of Inequality Media Civic Action, and my former student) and I discuss the highlights and lowlights of the week.
Today we focus on:
— The likely indictment of Donald Trump
— Hypocrisy at Fox News
— Why Nikki Haley doesn’t stand a chance
— Senator John Fetterman’s clinical depression
— Norfolk Southern Railway’s lobbying
— Why the Fed thinks great economic news is awful
— The U.S. Department of Labor
Please grab a cup, pull up a chair, and take our poll:
Thank you to Janet Harsbberger for sending us her personal “visual” when she listens to the klatch, a painting done by her late sister Carol Baumann.
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