ICYMI. If pols aren't tied to big money they are free to pursue policies to help all Americans, like health care, education, transportation. Think New Deal. It is The Welcome Party's job to keep Dem pols tied to Big Money. mauricecunningham153.substack.com/p/billionair...

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history. Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes. But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year. Trickle down hoax.

Ex- DFER head Liam Kerr now heads The Welcome Party, basically the same job: not to keep Republicans from winning but to keep progressive Democrats from winning. mauricecunningham153.substack.com/p/billionair...

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires—Waltons, Murdoch money flows to The Welcome Party. mauricecunningham153.substack.com/p/billionair...

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

If you are energized by the Bernie-AOC photo, you probably want to fight the Oligarchy. If you favor the Manchin pic, you may back The Welcome Party and fight FOR the Oligarchy. mauricecunningham153.substack.com/p/billionair...

In a nutshell. 😊

Are you more politically energized by the first picture, or the second? If you picked AOC-Bernie, you are ready to fight Oligarchy. If you picked Joe Manchin, you may be a member of Liam Kerr's new hospice for billionaires, The Welcome Party. mauricecunningham153.substack.com/p/billionair...

If this had happened in a mall or church or a theater, it would have been breaking news. But domestic violence rarely never garners the same coverage even though that is the motive behind most mass shootings.

Happy Sunday. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

What the actual fuck….

Happy Saturday. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

"They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation,” Pope Leo said, “yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration ​are nowhere to be found."

The whole point of industry-funded research is to stand up industry priorities. In the voucher case, that has meant war-rooming negative news and data just as much as it’s meant making a positive case. It’s been that way from the beginning. 1/2 www.12news.com/article/news...

Happy Friday. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Billionaires buy bigger and better boats while hardworking American struggle to feed their families. Read my new column in Real Clear Markets via @thehill.com at www.realclearmarkets.com/2026/04/16/t... @lesliemarshallshow.bsky.social @masspolprofmo.bsky.social @alaw202.bsky.social

Insanity. We're being taken into multiple armed conflicts by a madman.

True

Happy Monday. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

No one supported Orban more than the Leonard Leo/Opus Dei Catholic MAGA Integralist Complex. JD, Kevin Roberts, Adrian Vermeule, Gladden Pappin and every other so called Post Liberal MAGA Catholic supporting trump regime.

All true. You do t need to be a psychologist. He's mentally impaired, severely.

Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.

Trump gas — like Trump shoes, Trump cologne, the Trump Bible, Trump NFTs, Trump crypto, Trump resorts, Trump University, and everything else he’s tried to sell as a good deal — is turning out to be a ripoff. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-gas

ed blum is straight up just trying to eliminate educational opportunities for black kids under the guise of “equality.”

"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

Thoughts and prayers to Kevin Roberts of Heritage.

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Can not. By this point you would think I understand wayward spell check!

Camp recommend this book enough. Thoroughly researched, expert in her field. Scary but necessary read.

Important thread:

That should finish Orban for good.

They've gone from Katherine Graham to squeakin' little gerbils.

You should definitely read this ...

In a very brief tenure, Fine has established himself not only as one of the worst bigots in Congress, but also one of the stupidest

Leonard Leo is the pope who counts. Everyone knows that.

This Guardian story from 2020 asked: "Why would a man in his 40s, whose main business was real-estate development, want to host a beauty contest for teenage girls?" I think we know the answer. Release all the Epstein files. End the Trump cover-up.

Did States Blow 10s of Millions on Reading Instruction that Doesn’t Work?: The Full Story open.substack.com/pub/paulthom...

15 years Ive been telling top DC reporters to investigate Leonard Leo. 15 years reporters like David Corn, Ian Millhiser, Carl Hulse, etc have told me he’s not a story. Even ProPublica… So fvcking sick of repeating this shit like a broken record. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/leon...

This needs repeating cepr.net/publications...

Thank you for doing this work Tom.

"Western civilization = White Christians"

And par for the course racist

Highly recommend readers check out what has the hokum profit seekers and Christian Nationalists so upset.

All true. Sickening.

If we can’t accept textbooks reminding us that our ancestors committed atrocities in the past, how are we going to accept that we’ve elected a president threatening atrocities in the present?