Luke Mathers
@ljm_onair
The words we choose to talk about what’s going on around us matter. Probably grabbing another cup of coffee.
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Archeologists in Wisconsin found an ancient canoe that is over 5,000 years old!! The discovery was in a canoe “parking lot” along a popular waterway and trail system. apnews.com/article/ancien…
How much Delta paid in federal income taxes from 2018-2024: -$375 million (that means we gave THEM a tax refund) How much Delta spent on stock buybacks and dividend payouts to further enrich wealthy CEOs and shareholders: +$6.5 billion Are we getting it yet?
WEDC announces Foxconn will add 1,374 jobs over the next 4 years to expand its operations in Southeast Wisconsin. The company says it will be making AI servers
BREAKING: Wisconsin's Supreme Court has appointed separate three-judge panels to hear two lawsuits seeking new congressional boundaries in time for the 2026 election.
Americans are paying 11% more for electricity than they were at the beginning on this year.
We need a politics that is done accepting mass layoffs and plant closures as inevitable. It's a choice. Our economy is designed to keep executives rich and shareholders happy while bombs go off in communities across this country.
The same executives that just fired 3,200 workers in Lexington a week before Thanksgiving collected $14.4 Million in bonus pay last year. talkbusiness.net/2024/12/tyson-…
It makes sense why VEEP had to end.
Major insurers are seeking to exclude AI risks from their policies. Companies like AIG are trying to get permission from regulators to exclude businesses deploying tools like AI chatbots. Insurers are worried about multi-billion dollar claims that could be coming down the pike.
There’s never been a bigger gap between what rich and powerful people want you to know and what’s actually happening. Especially in sports:
Pablo Torre explains the goal of his podcast and the reason he investigates who he investigates... fighting the good fight if you ask me
And in a couple more weeks, it will finally be infrastructure week once and for all. They promise.
NEW: White House to delay healthcare proposal after significant congressional backlash. According to two White House officials the announcement has been delayed, with one of those officials citing strong congressional backlash to Trump’s proposed plan. Trump planned to make an…
Tyson is one of just a few companies that controls the entire meat market. Just last month, it paid $85M to settle charges it illegally conspired with other meatpackers to raise pork prices. Corporate monopolies are great for executives and a raw deal for everyone else.
Tyson CEO Donnie King made $22.7 million last year. The week before Thanksgiving, he told 3,200 workers in Lexington, Nebraska that they're losing their jobs.
A few of the toplines: - Affordable housing is a winning issue - Flip GOP-coded language on its head - Transparency matters - Honor the place!! - Lived experiences relevant to today's problems - Know the community issues - Listen, reflect, respond.
In this week's @runforsomething feel-good update (link in replies) -- an overview of the trends we saw in our 43 (!!) red to blue flips this month.
All DOGE had to do was cut unnecessary bloat and make it easier to provide and request services, and instead it predictably just cut things on partisan grounds without making anyone think the government is more efficient than when it began.
BREAKING: The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) no longer exists, per Reuters.
At least I'll be wearing a tuxedo when my cancelled flight is not refunded.
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel: "People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
It's true. Not only is Vos burying the bill on health care for new moms in an obscure committee that he chairs, he's also burying "Gail's Law," a bill expanding breast cancer screenings for women with "dense breast tissue." The State Senate passed that bill 32-1. Vos buried it.
scoop: Vos is blocking breast cancer screening bill, advocates say @isthmus isthmus.com/news/news/advo…
The more Trump is seen as a lame duck, the more it looks like his power over Republicans is slipping, the more we'll have to worry about how he deals with being cornered and weak. It was true after he lost in 2020, will be true in a different way now.
Trump, who says he's against political violence, is spending the morning calling for members of Congress to be hung or put to death for saying the military should ignore unlawful orders.
This is correct. The premium increases and hospital closures, and coming spike in uninsurance? That’s all Trumpcare.
The normal joke is that they don’t have a health care plan. They do and it passed last July: taking away four people’s health care to pay for a tax cut for one millionaire family.
AFSCME Wisconsin has endorsed @saraforwi in the race for governor, Rodriguez's campaign announced yesterday.
Factual information on the CDC website, stating studies have shown there's no link between vaccines and autism, was replaced yesterday with inaccurate anti-vaccine talking points. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a longtime anti-vaccine activist. cnn.com/2025/11/20/hea…
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