Look at this chart. Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world? Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people

Harry Litman’s essay is the best thing out there about what SCOTUS will do in Trump v. Slaughter, argued Dec 8. Sure to be shredded is the FDR-era decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S. But Litman goes much deeper and lays out the broad range of implications: open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

🚨The first installment of "DEPORTATION, INC.: The Rise of the Immigration Enforcement Economy"—a series of short videos examining the multi-billion-$ industry in which profit increasingly dictates policy and enforcement priorities—is out today from @lawfaremedia.org and @situ-research.bsky.social.

The only reasons anyone in tRump's administration do anything: a) to make money - there's a grift involved b) to hurt others c) to play to tRump's demented rants d) to kiss the RUMP of tRump

I'll bet tRump thought no one would notice prices once he shut down the stats. Ooops. We did. AFFORDABILITY. Not a fake word.

I'm an accountant for a medium business here in Australia. You cannot run a business blind, with no reliable financial data. it will go bust very quickly. You cannot run the US Treasury blind, with no reliable financial data. The US is heading for an almighty crash, likely May 2026 will be the worst

For reading disorders, particularly DYSLEXIA, a distinctive font that is thicker (has extra ‘weight’) on the bottom helps to ‘anchor’ the eye making it simpler to distinguish one letter from another. Even without reading issues, the OPEN DYSLEXIA font is easy to read. opendyslexic.org

Fox News is for-profit. So is CNN. Jared Kushner in Paramount & hostile takeover of WB, includes CNN. Imagine tRump owning a news outlet? "more than the Republicans or Democrats, left or right, it’s the companies that abuse our attention for profit that are the real winners of American politics.”

Here's what i would ask tRump: Why do you lie? Can we talk to doc who gave you cognitive test? Your mom & grandfather were immigrants, so should we deport you? 3 of 4 of your wives were immigrants, so should we deport your kids? Will you release college transcripts to prove you understand economics.

1) Do we know with certainty that companies have discriminatory intent, or only dropped programme names to reduce scrutiny. Are they discriminating? 2) Companies such as Apple stood up for DEI. But they still bend knee to tRump. How is that better? 3) The real problem is the authoritarian tRump!

Only our calls & emails can make it clear to Reps & Senators we're not going to vote for them when they support the wealthy and not average people. Database here: www.congress.gov/members open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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This is what I keep wondering.

A dozen, bipartisan former FDA commissioners are warning about how RFK Jr's anti-vaccine crusade is putting public health at serious risk. FDA needs to be guided by science and efficacy—not crank conspiracy theories.

Powerful 🇺🇸

The ultra-wealthy treat housing as a wealth-building tool, not just shelter. And they are huge reason average folks pay so much for shelter, if they can even afford it. tRump & GOP see no reason to fix this. Vote them out in 2026 - 28! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

After a backroom meeting with Donald Trump and a donation to the Trump ballroom, NVIDIA got a deal to sell the most advanced AI chip it has ever sold to China. The NVIDIA CEO should testify under oath in Congress.

Tomorrow at 3:00 House and Senate Democrats will be holding a "shadow hearing" on the detention of U.S. citizens. I'll be there testifying about the broader policy changes which led us to this moment. /my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

ICE stormed a residence hall at Augsburg University, detained an undergrad, and aimed rifles at students and staff then admitted they had no warrant to be on campus. This is state violence. This is terror. And this is exactly what Trump’s America unleashes on our communities.

President Goodbrain can't remember what he said five days ago.

The news media serve as tools of a repressive regime when they highlight nicknames like “Operation Charlotte’s Web” and “Cornhusker Clink” to help Trump market misery. Every crackdown on immigrants should not be treated as if it’s a new flavor of Ben & Jerry’s. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Yet another reason this should not happen. (Tho it likely will.) Instead of Rupert Murdoch running news, the tRump family would.

He won't. The shareholders at WB are not dumb. This is all distraction. Ellison registered an LLC on the day Netflix deal was announced...he's not buying the film arm, he's buying the TV arm (which is not part of the deal Netflix got)....so he can own CNN. THAT'S what Trumpy wants. @karlbode.com

Corporations are projected to claim $16 BILLION from just one new tax break this year. It'll probably cost us $362.7 BILLION over ten years. This isn't going to lower prices. It's not going to create jobs. It's just going to make corporations and their CEOs richer.

BREAKING: Billionaires in America now hold a record $7.6 TRILLION in wealth. That's a $4.7 TRILLION increase since the last Trump tax scam. Yes, wealth increase is a form of INCOME. And most of that income will never be taxed. This is why we need a Billionaires Income Tax.

⚖️ 🇺🇸 ⚖️ 🇺🇸 ⚖️ 🇺🇸 Think you are registered & able to vote in your state? Think again! MAGA Senate getting ready to impose new requirements! SAVE really means 'Take away'! Reach out and tell your Senator 'No!' www.lwv.org/take-action/...

I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Don Jr receiving a massive loan for his startup from the Pentagon. I guess when there’s so much corruption some things fly under the radar?

GIFT ARTICLE: MAGA SUPREMES may upset apple cart for their king, tRump, but if we're allowed to vote in 2026 or 28, then what? Turn-about may not be great for consistency or rule of law, but MAGA SCOTUS is making turn-about fair play! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

ICEBlock drew a lot of attention and anger after its release—resulting in its removal from Apple’s App Store. Now, with a lawsuit against the Trump administration, it might be back soon. slate.trib.al/FgFnBbV

Incredibly galling to hear Sauer talk about how the president is accountable to the public through elections, when the president he's referring to is one who attempted to illegally overturn an election he lost

Tower of Trash @stevesack.bsky.social

Founding fathers can’t be blamed for not writing a constitution strong enough to curb the actions of a malignant narsisistic psychopath felon backed by a whole cabinet of incompetent sycophants propped up by a bought & payed for Supreme Court But the Republicans can for not rebelling now #Epstein

When I taught Civics, I used Supreme Court cases to trace our expansion of rights to demonstrate democratic values. If I were still teaching Civics today, I would need to place the concepts of 'precedent,' 'stare decisis,' and 'rule of law' in the trash bin. This SCOTUS is corrupt.

‪EWoolfolk‬ ‪@wonderful1.bsky.social‬ · 6h Supreme Court on the left Latrine court on the right Impeach the Latrine Court They are helping the felon destroy America

Reading the opening of Leonard Zeskind's 2009 book Blood and Politics in the midst of Trump 2.0 is quite a gut punch. In 2000 he warned of a rising tide of violent white nationalism & Christian nationalism on the American right...few people took those warning seriously. And now here we are.

Could this be any more immoral?

tRump's NEW National Security Strategy (NSS) turns the USA into a country we won't recognize. Into something even MAGA voters would say they didn't vote for. Leave NATO, Russia as ally, become white supremacist nation, businesses take over Latin America & perhaps Canada. It is propaganda document!

tRump likes to tell us he's got people who are donating the funds for his ballroom. The donations are a quid pro quo. The donors - all wealthy - get something in return. Maybe a tax cut. Maybe a govt contract. But average consumers get nothing except higher prices.

Worst of all, tRump will deny knowing anything about it.

"Only in the upside-down world of Citizens United could any court pretend that political money-laundering is a form of protected expression."

Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data.

When Halle Berry is getting up on a stage and correctly dragging your ass like this, probably should slink off the politics stage for good.

1 MAGA voter leaves the dark side. Only 77 million left to convert.

i keep thinking about that scene in The American President where President Shepherd absolutely *anguishes* about ordering a strike on the libyan intelligence headquarters because he knows it'll kill a lone civilian janitor

Trump’s Affordability “Con Job” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-affo...

This is the "fuck you" reply for today's Congressional inquiry on the boat strikes.