94% of Americans will pay into Social Security the entire year. Here’s when the wealthiest Americans will stop paying into it on Jan 1st: Musk - 12:00:28am Ellison - 12:00:29am Page - 12:00:58am Brin - 12:01:05am Bezos - 12:01:45am Dell - 12:02:09am Huang - 12:02:18am Scrap the cap.

DOGE cut 7000 jobs at the Social Security Admin and closed 50 field offices, and now they’re struggling to respond to up to 6 million pending cases in its processing centers and 12 million transactions in its field offices. Now they’ll say it’s broken and must be privatized.

- No universal healthcare - No paid family leave - No universal childcare - No tuition-free public college - No guarantee of live-saving care when pregnant - Average cost of $310k to raise a child to 18 yrs old If you want people to have kids, make it so people can afford to have kids.

The top 1% evade $163B in taxes each year Employers steal $50B from workers each year Insurance companies defrauded Medicare for at least $50B Trump joked he’s giving himself a $1B settlement Only caring about fraud when it’s immigrants means it’s not the fraud you care about

“Nobody wants to work anymore.” And these are the politicians cutting benefits to Americans and calling them “lazy.”

1. End Citizens United 2. Tax the rich 3. Prosecute wage theft 4. Pass Medicare for All 5. Vote out bought, corrupt politicians

ICE is a profit driver for the private prisons and large corporations like Amazon, AT&T, Google, Microsoft and FedEx who spend millions paying off Trump and Republicans for ICE contracts. They’ll always look for new streams of profit, which is why they won’t stop with immigrants.

“Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000?” Approximately 42% of Americans have less than $5000 in savings. 79 years later and this question, defending the working class against unchecked greed and exploitation, hasn’t aged at all.

Remember when Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, wrote an op-ed trying to justify having sex with kids? Seems relevant now.

“He raped me.” “Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” “She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.” Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.

Ralphie day-dreamt he was a hero, lied, blamed others for his failures, refused accountability and still got what he wanted, not because of merit, but because of his parents. A Christmas Story as a metaphor for the Trump White House is pretty spot on.

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

Military contractors spent $43,501,493 on the last election. We could have universal healthcare and housing might be affordable if ordinary Americans could outbid military contractors for Congress’ help.

Members of Congress should be forced to use whichever healthcare plan they pass, but the tier that costs the most and covers the least. Their healthcare coverage should be tied to ours, and reflect the financial burdens and lack of coverage they are forcing on us.

Americans can't afford groceries, housing, healthcare or utilities. Trump's answer: Give another $67 billion tax break to Big Tech, and their billionaires who gave him millions in donations, to write off their R&D retroactively. This is what a corrupt oligarchy looks like.

Starbucks workers are on strike for livable wages while their CEO makes $96 million per year. Leave it to the newspaper owned by the union-busting Amazon billionaire to side with the union-busting Starbucks multimillionaire CEO.

We're at the stage of fascism where they are threatening to harm states if they don't help them rig elections.

The AI industry and its billionaires already have $100 million to buy the midterms for candidates who will push for harmful deregulations that will kill more jobs and our planet. Just another reason to overturn Citizens United.

ICE is kidnapping and locking up little kids, denying them medical care, and feeding them contaminated food. They aren’t going after criminals, they are going after Black and brown people, because this isn’t about immigration, it’s about white supremacy.

Taxpayers spent over $70M this year for Trump to play golf his country club, as he’s doubled his family’s net worth to over $7B through crooked deals and crypto scams, and accepted bribes from foreign countries and large donors for political favors. He calls that “America First”

Trump committed mortgage fraud, according to Trump. Somehow I doubt his DOJ will go after him the way he instructed his DOJ to go after his political enemies over this. Every Republican accusation is a confession.

Super-rich people can manipulate the odds and bet on the news they can influence. Getting universal corrupt news betting before universal healthcare says a lot about the direction our country is heading.

Trump’s FBI is building a list of individuals and groups who oppose and protest Trump, support immigrants and LGBTQ+ people, and criticize capitalism —in order to label and investigate them as domestic terrorists. This is the fascism we were warning about. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...

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Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito received over $2.4 million in "unreported gifts" from conservative billionaires with business before the Supreme Court, funneled through an organization whose mission is to pack the SCOTUS with their right-wing judges. Unrig the Supreme Court.

Taxpayers are paying for FBI Agents to escort Kash Patel's girlfriend's drunk friends home after nights of partying, and pulling elite tactical agents away from SWAT missions to chauffeur his girlfriend around. ...something, something, waste and fraud... www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

"Polyworking" is the fancy, sanitized term invented to normalize people being forced to work multiple jobs to afford basic necessities. Don't glorify the grind. Dismantle the system that requires it.

- companies add the Trump family as “advisors” - those companies receive taxpayer-funded contracts and regulatory approvals from the Trump administration - Trump family profits This is their shameless, uncomplicated grift that we need to talk about more popular.info/p/update-tru...

Racism, conservative ideologies and endorsements of authoritarianism have been linked to low intelligence. Just posting this reminder today for no reason at all.

Trump reversing the safe staffing mandate is his way of saying, “Happy Holidays and I hope your loved ones die.”

From the newspaper owned by the billionaire who also owns a large supermarket chain and grocery delivery service. This is what it looks like when billionaires control the media.

This is what it looks like when billionaires own the media.

25% of buy now / pay later users are going into debt to buy groceries. The average medical debt is $7,931. The average student loan debt is $39,075 Grocery debt Medical debt Student loan debt We’re driving people into debt for basic necessities while CEOs get more tax breaks.

The Nazis used the term "Lying Press" (Lügenpresse) to discredit and censor all dissenting media, simultaneously targeting journalists, and seizing, and giving their political allies control of news outlets to crush any opposition. Just mentioning that now for no reason at all.

“I AM THE AFFORDABILITY PRESIDENT!” Food prices ⬆️ Utility prices ⬆️ Healthcare costs ⬆️ Credit card delinquencies ⬆️ Auto loan delinquencies ⬆️ Rent delinquencies ⬆️ ...while Trump golfs at his country club and builds himself a ballroom with bribes.

The White House just released a propaganda portal on their official website to spread easily debunked lies and attack reporters, media outlets and his political enemies. Government sponsored propaganda is a feature of fascism, not a bug in Democracy.

Trump not knowing who he pardoned, if he pardoned them, or that they are a crypto CEO who just gave his family a $2 billion deal and then received a pardon, is a way bigger controversy than Biden and an autopen.

One chart that explains why politicians tell us that we shouldn’t tax billionaires.

Imagine paying a large monthly fee to shop at a supermarket, then paying again for the actual groceries, then getting an extra charge months later because one ingredient in an item you bought came from a farmer associated with a different store. This post is about healthcare.

63% of Americans support Medicare for All: ✅ everyone is covered ✅ families save money ✅ no premiums, deductibles or copays ✅ prescriptions covered ✅ you pick your doctors ✅ cuts spending by $650B per year ✅ covers dental, vision, hearing and long term care It’s time.

Trump’s immigration detention camps exist to drive profits for the prison companies giving him money. The more profit they make, the more money they’ll give him, and the more people he’ll find to fill up those prisons — it’s not about crime and it won’t stop with immigrants.

GDP data Jobs data Inflation data Food insecurity data Right-wing violence data The reports aren’t being deleted and withheld because they contain good news.

“should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law.” Everyone upset that Democrats reminded the military that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders can reread that part as many times as they need to.

When billionaires can buy elections, you don't have a Democracy, you have an auction. This chart explains why things only get worse for the working class.

Swastikas and nooses are dangerous hate symbols used by white supremacists to celebrate the history of hatred, mass murder and terrorism of the white supremacist movement. Removing the hate symbol classification is an attempt to normalize white supremacy. Never let hate win.

The military is legally obligated to disobey illegal orders. Trump wants the Democrats reminding them of that to be arrested, and reposting calls for them to be executed. This is fascism — and pretending it’s not only empowers him to do worse. Pay attention.

They’re not “donations.” They’re bribes. Donald Trump took $116 million in bribes from at least 30 individuals or companies who then directly benefited from his actions. Everyone understands it, and yet he’s still allowed to sell off his policies to the highest bidder.

Taxpayers paid $103B for stock buybacks for Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics & Northrop Grumman over the last decade. They donated to politicians who bought their stocks and gave them contracts, then both made money. And you’re worried about what people buy with SNAP?

Trump’s “healthcare” plan will bankrupt and kill millions of Americans. We can eliminate the private insurance industry, and save $650B per year with Medicare for All — which would cover everyone, save families money, and include dental, vision, hearing, prescriptions and longterm care.

He pretends that sexually assaulting women is normal… That cheating on your taxes is normal… taking bribes is normal… corruption is normal… racism is normal… fascism is normal… Now, that pedophilia is normal. None of it is normal.