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Why should Congressional Democrats investigate corporate America if their mandate is to deliver real economic change? Because investigations are a key catalyst for securing reform and legislation. For much of the last century, Congress used to be the main institutional player working to secure an economy that serves working people. A key tool was oversight. Lawmakers routinely investigated complex markets and major corporations, identifying problems and exposing wrongdoing. A major goal of these investigations was to learn what was driving certain problems and figure out how to fix them. After Democrats took back the House during the first Trump administration in 2019, I joined the House Judiciary Committee as a staffer on the Antitrust Subcommittee. Under the terrific leadership of @RepJerryNadler and then-Rep @davidcicilline, we pursued an 18-month investigation into Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, securing key evidence of how their business practices were undermining competition and harming people, setting the basis for both lawsuits and proposed legislation. A few lessons from that experience: 1. The quality of legislative oversight depends on the staff and the support of top members to confront power. Committee and Subcommittee Chairs that are focused on getting answers and unafraid to take on powerful corporate interests will make the difference between oversight that doesn’t surrender to their evasion tactics and oversight that aims low or flames out. Even a relatively small number of dogged, talented lawyers ready to dive in can make a big impact. In the 1930s a single congressional lawyer, Ferdinand Pecora, helped reshape our entire banking system by subpoenaing records and interrogating top financiers, including J.P Morgan. The investigation exposed self-dealing, market manipulation, and tax avoidance, and laid the groundwork for foundational New Deal legislation, including the Glass-Steagall Act and the Securities Exchange Act. 2. Eliminating bottlenecks to moving investigations forward is key. For example, the House should make sure that Subcommittee Chairs can issue subpoenas rather than needing the sign-off of the full Committee or its Chair. A credible threat of sending subpoenas is critical for credible oversight. 3. Ensuring that members can develop the muscle to effectively interrogate CEOs requires investing in real preparation. In the lead up to the hearing with Bezos, Pichai, Cook, and Zuckerberg, the Antitrust Subcommittee spent months reviewing millions of documents collected from the firms, interviewing affected parties, briefing members on key evidence, and conducting practice hearings. Members came into the hearing deeply informed and able to rebut and call out CEO dissembling. The result was some of the most effective member questioning of executives we’ve seen in decades. @TheProspect wrote up a great overview: prospect.org/2020/07/30/triu… 4. For decades, institutional capacity in Congress has been extremely weak. Much of this traces back to the Gingrich Revolution, which was effectively the 1995 DOGE-ing of Congress. Republican leadership fired over 600 professional staffers, eliminated the Office of Technology Assessment, and gutted research capacity. None of that capacity was ever meaningfully restored. As a result, members have way fewer resources to develop serious expertise or go deep on a new topic. Members should start rebuilding that capacity so the institution can fully play its Article I role, where Congress can again do serious policy development and legislating and serve as a real check on the executive and judicial branches. 5. AI markets should be high on the list of investigations. The business decisions of the major AI firms have huge public ramifications, yet the public is at a severe informational disadvantage when it comes to how these markets work and the choices these firms are making. A congressional investigation will help ensure future legislative action is based on a more complete view of what is going on rather than selective and partial corporate disclosures.

घिस्रिने बौद्धिक, ताली पिट्ने भिड र प्रश्नसँग डराएको सत्ता – Online Khabar onlinekhabar.com/2026/11/205…

Every interviewee needs to push back against any BBC presenter who interjects with 'Israel denies' or 'Israel says'. Is @vicderbyshire, and all the other BBC presenters, not ashamed to blindly follow orders from senior BBC management to make such a robotic statement? This behaviour, maintained throughout the three years of the genocide, only ever applies to Israel. BBC presenters never interject on behalf of an Official Enemy with 'Russia says' or 'Iran says'. As @FranceskAlbs has noted, the BBC is part of the killing machinery that perpetrates the genocide of Palestinians.

By the way, this is the syllabus content of "Ayurvedic" Urology. Enjoy the Fellowship.

You can check the final results here. Comfortable win for Lula resultados.tse.jus.br/oficia…

This is Ayurveda Swarnabhasma (gold treatment) leading to severe nerve toxicity and a 30 year old nearly bedridden. Here is the real event about a man who's son became a patient after using Ayurveda for mang years because he believed in it. Belief is not evidence. I have been telling the public that Ayurveda is a pseudoscience and it's practitioners are not doctors, but only ignorant, overconfident and arrogant people who have been legitimised only because of Govt. endorsement of this utter nonsense in the name of traditional medicine. I have spoken about this for so many years. I published peer reviewed scientific data on this for so many years. But people kept calling me anti-Hindu, anti-National, Christian Missionary and propagandist. But when it comes to their family getting affected, it suddenly becomes pseudoscience and dangerous. Ayurvedic treatments are based on blind faith, nationalism, mythology, primal observations and deep rooted religiousity. There is zero science to it. Hope this young man gets better and we don't create more patients like him. India maybe the "mother" of democracy, but Ayurveda is definitely the Mother of all Pseudosciences. Stop falling for government endorsed quackery.

“विद्वान” हुँदैमा “बुद्धिमान” चैं नहुने रेछन्! मनुवाहरू!!

हाम्री देवीले हाम्रो कल्याण गरून्! यो तस्बिरका बारेमा एउटा स्पष्टीकरण पनि चाहिन्छ जस्तो लाग्यो। हामीले आफ्नै अनुहारका र आफ्नै पृष्ठभूमिमा र आफ्नै सांस्कृतिक बिम्बहरूले सजिएका देवी देवता देख्नै पाएका रहेनछौँ, पुझ्नै पाएका रहेनछौँ। भारतीय कलाकारहरूले आफू खुसी बनाएका चुच्चा चुच्चा हिमाल, वा जगमग ज्योतिका पृष्ठभूमिमा सुनका हात हतियार बोकेका, अस्वाभाविक मुख मण्डल भएका देवी देवता देखेर नै हामीले देवताप्रतिको छवि बनाएका रहेछौँ। झन्डै २५ वर्षअघि हिमाल एसोसिएसनबाट @KanakManiDixit र मैले सुरु गरेको "हाम्रा देवीदेवताको छवि" को अभियान कलाकार सुभाष राई अमेरिका गएपछि र कमलमणि दीक्षितले जुटाइदिनु भएको स्रोत सकिएपछि यत्तिकै सेलाएको थियो। अहिले यन्त्रमेधाको सहयोगमा म भित्रको अकुशल कलाकार फेरि जुर्मुराएको छ। प्रस्तुत चित्रमा भएकी देवीको अनुहार जानाजान कसैसित मिलाउन खोजिएको होइन। उनको तस्बिरको पृष्ठभूमिका लागि मनकामनाको मन्दिर, ढाकाको परिधान, नेपाली कहना र रुद्राक्षको माला अनि सिंहको साटो हिम चितुवा रोजिएको मात्र हो। अरू पनि मसिना केही डिटेलहरू पाउनुहुनेछ। कम्तीमा देवताहरू त हामीसित मिल्दाजुल्दा होऊन् न!