Enjoy your wknd., assuming you can after these Friday freak-outs. Inflation my ass: It's corporate greed & profiteering, per Popular Information's Judd Legum. Green Eagle reminds us that taxpayers are paying for those non-functional Republican congresscritters. What the mid-term elections will be about, per The Carpentariat. Not pretty. This is pretty stark: Yes World, It’s That Bad Here in America—and Worse From John Pavlovitz. Bonus track (if your skin isn't crawling yet): Progressive Eruptions updates the Ghislaine Mawell trial. Stitched together by M.