Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown

2 days ago | jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:09Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Let’s say you like shrimp. Whether you go for a chain restaurant’s happy hour shrimp boil or a pricey plate of “shrimp à la grandioso” at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort – a good question to ask is: Where do they get their shrimp?

1 week ago | jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower

My fondest memory of Ronnie Dugger is him in his cluttered cubbyhole of an office, his brow furrowed and his mind whirring as he pounded away on an old Royal typewriter, churning out another punch to the snout of the moneyed and right-wing elitesDugger was once my boss, and we became longtime friends, and progressive allies. He died this week at 95, and most obituaries rightly hailed him as a “titan of journalism,” praising his smart, insightful and often-elegant writing.

1 week ago | jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:09Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. The most embarrassing thing about the ballyhooed war-on-government-waste, run by Elon “Chainsaw” Musk, is not even that it has generated more waste than it has cleaned up. More damning is that the clean-up crew quietly tiptoed around the biggest and stinkiest piles of waste – namely the billions of our tax dollars doled out annually to corporate welfare moochers.

1 week ago | jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower

There is a species of birds named “superb starlings,” and I propose that we elect one of them to be our next president. That’s because these wise creatures have figured out how to make egalitarianism central to their society, with a diversity of birds actively supporting each other. When bringing food back to their chicks, for example, adult starlings commonly share some with hatchlings of an unrelated flock. In turn, those birds repay the good deed in later breeding seasons.

2 weeks ago | jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:09Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. You might be alarmed to learn that a little-known group in America is being treated inhumanely, denied even the most basic human rights. I refer to our society’s callous treatment of AI bots. Who? AI bots are not an ethnic group, but the rapidly-evolving species of advanced “artificial intelligence beings,” spawned in recent years by the high-tech demi-gods of Silicon Valley.