Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $493.8 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $240.9 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $226.9 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

I cannot understand why more prominent Dems aren't speaking out against the Trump-Witkoff-Kushner attempt to vaporize the Western alliance that has kept us safe for more than 75 years.... bsky.app/profile/soci...

Did you know Trump has added 2.2 trillion to the national debt since taking office 10 months ago?

Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...

"Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein not knowing each other in 1985 is about as likely as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig not knowing each other in 1927."

In 2022, Biden earmarked billions of dollars to help former coal communities. It was the largest investment in Appalachia since LBJ's 1960s’ war on poverty. But Trump won West Virginia 70% to 28% in 2024. And now he's taking away the funding Biden gave them. When are they going to learn?

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children. Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.

At what point will the press corps, as a chorus, in unison, just shout back, “THATS NOT TRUE”! What are we doing?

This is a really sick story. From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through. abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...

The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals. The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry. Where is the MAHA outcry?

We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled. He’s going to kill people for oil.

The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.

Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.

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Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?

Farmer: “Ivana [Trump] was Ghislaine [Maxwell]'s best friend. She would drive by schools, get girls’ phone numbers, and everybody knew what they were doing.” and “they gave me one of those cheap bracelets Ivana was selling on QVC” in an attempt to silence her. #OpDeathEaters

ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees: Nursing Public health Social work Physician assistant Occupational therapy Physical therapy Audiology Speech-language pathology Social work Counseling & therapy Health Admin A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Trump slobbering over Mamdani is the nail in the coffin of the Elise Stefanik gubernatorial campaign... c: @lincolnsbible.bsky.social Full episode: youtube.com/live/Ctsj-qM...

It's a mistake to treat Trump's behavior today as "insanity" or "insane." That implies he needs clinical care. Rather, treat him as a calculating fascist who intends to use military force to install a dictatorship. Then react accordingly.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

News so bad… they won’t even be honest about what it is. This administration is driving our economy off a cliff and trying to hide it from Americans.

If you think Lindsey Halligan is an epic dumbass remember that before she had this job her job was to make the Smithsonian more racist, by taking out accurate descriptions of slavery.

“Things happen.” Jamal Khashoggi was a journalist and Washington Post columnist who was literally murdered and dismembered by agents of the Saudi government inside a Saudi consulate. Shameful. So shameful.

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So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?

DOGE recklessly pulled funding from USAID, the government agency responsible for providing humanitarian aid to those who need it around the world. Now, an estimated 600,000 people have died, including 400,000 kids, because of DOGE’s cuts. https://bit.ly/4peeNpL

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

Brussels has moved firmly to the right, according to this take, & it's both bad for Europe and good for trump. "it's a somber day for europe" - listen to this short overview.

Breaking from us: As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate. Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Looks like we’re going to war with Venezuela to distract from the Epstein files.

Wag the dog

This might be one of the more grotesque opinions I’ve seen and we’ve seen a lot. Let’s not normalize the difference between 15-year-olds and eight-year-olds. What the fuck kind of medieval biblical bullshit is this?! These two women?!

"The suit alleges that Google is violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act, a 1967 law that prohibits surreptitious wiretapping and recording of confidential communications without the consent of all parties involved." www.claimsjournal.com/news/nationa...

This is typical of the kid gloves treatment of Bill Gates pivot toward Bjorn Lomborg-style climate downplaying that we're seeing from legacy media. The beltway reporters are entirely complicit in what some are rightly terming an ecocidal plutocratic agenda. www.axios.com/2025/10/28/g...

At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump. The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.

Absolutely fitting coda to the whole Epstein horror show is that the brave testimony of dozens of women could not be credited and we need the emails of men to deem it credible.

I don't think legacy media is reading the room correctly on the Epstein Files. Many of us are asking why they have ignored this story for the last decade? Why did they dismiss all of us who were concerned that Trump might be compromised? And where is their fucking contrition and apology now?

Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is NYT: but her emails

Todd Blanche would have had these emails before interviewing Maxwell. Why didn’t he question her directly about her exchanges? Why did he not follow up when she said things that were onviously a lie?? This shows that was a performance intended to dupe the public and benefit her (and Trump)

These are the five biggest US Industries in terms of total revenue in 2025. (It’s cute that they’re listed in thousands of billions instead of trillions to throw us off the scent.) What do you notice?

BREAKING NEWS: Senators quietly put language into the shutdown deal helping their donors block rules to prevent food contamination & foodborne illnesses at farms & restaurants, according to bill text reviewed by @levernews.com. The provisions come amid an explosion of foodborne illnesses.

Oh, so he totally stole the money

BREAKING: We go now live to the U.S. Senate where Democrats have decided to believe Republicans will honor their promise to vote for an #ACA extension in December.

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Nope never gonna happen

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