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Jeff Bezos shut down Venice for his wedding. Taylor Swift is shutting down New York's Midtown for hers. Billionaire shouldn't be able to disrupt entire cities on a whim.

The community of Austin, Texas has long been fighting to keep Austin weird. More recently however, that fight has included standing up to a tech billionaire being a sadistic freak about homeless people—meet Joe Lonsdale

Charles Oakley is banned from MSG...but they'll let this guy in?

Elon Musk is working with Wall Street to rob your retirement from right under your nose. That's why we put these up in New York during our big protest on Friday. Because if you're going to act like a criminal, you should be treated like one. 📍Midtown, near NASDAQ HQ, NY

Genuinely disgusting that my 401k may be bailing out SpaceX and making Elon Musk a trillionaire. Fuck Wall Street.

Elon Musk is on track to become a trillionaire, and your retirement fund is footing the bill. Ahead of SpaceX's IPO, Wall St tossed guardrails created to protect investors in order to fast track the company into index funds—and your 401k. The problem? SpaceX is losing billions

Since becoming Mayor, Zohran Mamdani has successfully navigated a historic blizzard, cracked down on bad landlords, balanced the city budget, won a tax on the rich, and now overseen a Knicks Finals Game One win. New York is entering a new golden age under sewer socialism.

Mind the wealth gap ✨

We fact-checked Jeff BWith anti-billionaire sentiment at an all-time high, Jeff Bezos invited CNBC for an interview so he could present his vision for addressing the inequality crisis in the United States. We have fact-checked his remarks. ezos.

Everybody’s a capitalist on the way up, and a socialist on the way down. But if airlines are going to be this bad with money—they need to do it on their own dime. It’s time to nationalize the skies ✈️

Today is the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown vs. The Board of Education. It declared that segregation in schools was inherently unequal. A huge win at the time, that set a new standard for decades.

The rent is too damn high! And this billionaire is a major factor in that

On this day 91 years ago, the Works Progress Administration was founded in response to the Great Depression. Between 1935 and 1943, the economic recovery program employed 8.5 million people and became instrumental in building much of the U.S. public infrastructure we know today

If you’re wondering where politicians and the media get their pro-privatization talking points, look no further than the Manhattan Institute. The largest think tank of its kind, the Manhattan Institute manufactures consent for both parties to protect the oligarchy 🕵️

Jeff Bezos is worth $271 billion, which could cover: Solar panel installation for 127,859,137 households Healthcare for 19,440,459 children in low-income families Annual income for 506,833 nurses 7,738,435 public housing units Or the Met Costume Institute operating budget for 52,400 years.

Celebrating May Day is as American as baseball and apple pie 🇺🇸 May Day was established to honor the American workers killed fighting for the 8-hour work day. Today, we celebrate by striking once again to demand: ❌ NO ICE ❌ NO WARS ❌ END CORPORATE CONTROL OF DEMOCRACY

Kathy Hochul has a choice: Either gamble with New York’s future by banking on billionaires like Ken Griffin, or secure it, by taxing them

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A relatively unknown tidbit of history, unearthed by @solidaritydept.bsky.social

Today is Freedom Day in South Africa, marking the end of apartheid and the country’s first steps to becoming a multi-racial democracy. It was a victory achieved through domestic struggle, international solidarity…and the cause of labor. Here’s how unions helped beat apartheid 🧵

When Nelson and Earth Day organizer Denis Hayes looked for allies to bring Earth Day to life, they found the United Auto Workers and its president Walter Reuther. @uaw.org was not only the first organization to donate, it took the cause on as its own.

On April 22, 1970, 20 million people across America gathered for #EarthDay – the largest single day demonstration in US history. This landmark moment led to a wave of environmental action and legislation. And it was possible thanks to the labor movement. #onthisday 🧵

How destructive does a hedge fund billionaire have to be for The New Yorker to call them “The Doomsday Investor”? Just ask GOP megadonor, Marco Rubio 2016 supporter, and the man most likely to benefit from Donald Trump’s piratical regime change in Venezuela, Paul Singer.

"The land belongs to those who work it." On the anniversary of his assassination, we remember Emiliano Zapata: Mexican revolutionary leader, guerrilla fighter, and champion of the working class.

It's wild that I've paid a higher tax rate than the 26th richest man in the world.

Jeffrey Yass didn’t become the 19th richest man in the United States, the 26th richest in the world, and #1 in all of Pennsylvania by paying his fair share. In fact, if there’s anything Yass hates more than taxpayer services, it’s paying taxes 🧵

Private equity seems to be everywhere, sucking the soul out of everything these days, but it’s actually nothing new. The practice dates back to the 1970s, however until recently it went by a different name—corporate raiding. Private equity isn't normal, it’s just been rebranded

The Ellisons aren’t the only billionaires fueling the far right media takeover. Bari Weiss’ destruction of CBS and potentially CNN were enabled by Jeffrey Yass, the billionaire whose crusade against public education led him to “bet” $100 million on Weiss’ “anti-woke” university.

If New Yorkers could vote on Taxing The Rich, New York would already be affordable. Sign our letter with @investinourny.bsky.social, @socialists.nyc, @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social, and more demanding @governor.ny.gov stop shielding her Epstein class donors and do it! ➡️ dreamfornyc.com/action

The last time the price of crude oil hit an all-time high, 50% of the subsequent profits went to the 1%. The bottom 50% received just 1%.

The richest man in Pennsylvania has more money than his home state’s entire annual budget. But what’s worse is how he uses it. Meet Jeffrey Yass, the billionaire trying to control what your kids watch on their phones and learn in school.

Imagine

Kathy Hochul is great at serving her constituents. But you're not one of them. Carla Marie unpacks who our Governor *really* serves in weeks Tax The Rich Report 🎥

Kathy Hochul been awfully silent since this video dropped

🎥What's the *real* reason Kathy Hochul won't tax the rich? Carla Marie searches for the truth in this week's Tax The Rich Report:

Linda McMahon is the poster child of oligarchy. A billionaire so obsessed with power she tried (and failed) to buy a Senate seat, and when that didn't work, bought positions in both Trump administrations. Because it's much cheaper to buy another billionaire than the people.

What do a $27 million dollar jet, 47-foot yacht, and the Department of Education have in common? A risk of being crashed by Linda McMahon

Other things the U.S. government do with $50 billion taxpayer dollars: —Clear the medical debt of 20 million Americans —House every homeless veteran 113 times —Prevent 6.2 million Americans from being kicked off Medicaid —Buy the entire state of Nevada a late model Toyota Corolla

Nothing in life is certain but death, taxes, billionaires using geopolitical conflict to give themselves a raise, and largely dodging the tax part too

Imagine Bernie Sanders' 5% billionaire wealth tax passes. People like hedge funder Ken Griffin, who fueled the crusade to close 50 Chicago public schools, will be tightening their belts. So if you're looking for a gift to cheer him up, check out what the man defunding our schools already owns🧵

A reminder that Tesla owner Elon Musk awarded himself a trillion dollar pay package based on 'meeting targets' like this.

Fighting for working people is good politics

Every war is a class war

Private equity fears public discourse 🫡

Taxing the rich to fund programs like universal childcare would benefit millions of New Yorkers but it would make it harder for me specifically to tell my mom why she doesn't have grandkids yet

The average New York family would have to make $334,000 a year to afford childcare care for a two year old in New York City. 4x the median family income. The equivalent of 10 minimum wage jobs. Tax the rich to fund universal childcare.

You may not have heard of the 19th richest man on earth, but you’ve seen his work. Meet Jeff Yass, the richest man in Pennsylvania and school privatization zealot who’s 180 on Trump steered TikTok into MAGA control.