The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

🎉🥳🍾 Welcome to Clare, Wile & Frankie’s Hogmanay Party as we ring in the New Year 🎉🥳🍾 🌟✨Great Bluesky friends, strong drinks and a spot of dancing. 🌟✨ Enjoy!!! 🍾🥂👯👯‍♂️🕺💃 “A guid new year to ane an' a'!”

THREAD: To best understand where the US stands politically, and the well-financed forces dismantling US democracy, read @jennycohn.bsky.social, starting here👇🏼 @maddow.bsky.social @karaswisher.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @karaswisher.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov

Jack Smith's full deposition before the House Judiciary Committee:

Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

1986 advice

If this post gets 100 reposts, I will print Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s faces on M&Ms and send them to Kristi Noem!

A Look at How Trump-Era Work Requirements Could Impact Millions of People Who Receive SNAP, Medicaid, and HUD Benefits | The Trump administration has worked to usher in stricter employment conditions to receive health care, food aid and rental assistance benefits funded by the federal government.

There is something extremely disturbing about this graphic! Glad Legal AF is doing well; but, the top ten list is concerning.

Russia's Economy Suffers MASSIVE Decline in All Sectors Jake Broe Dec 28, 2025 Russia's own economic data has been released by Rosstat and it shows double digit falls in production across all of Russia's civilian economy. Russia's civilian economy is collapsing. youtu.be/9D5L-_D8A0o?...

“Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet… Tenet Media’s Lauren Chen is back (in NASHVILLE) — even though the illegal-influence & money-laundering investigation remains open.” www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...

The first time I searched Trump, there were over 900 records found. I also confirmed there are now 332.

Imma put this here so I can watch it later...👍 youtu.be/Oc9YvzrsOas?...

RutRoh.

Greenland is biglier than Epstein Island. Ah, that's why!

Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.

"Every accusation is a confession" remains undefeated

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

If it weren’t for the orange makeup, people would see right through him.

CONSIDER THIS: Donald Trump acts like the decision to rename the Kennedy Center after him was an unexpected decision of the board. A key claim by this administration is that the Executive has complete authority. If true, Donald Trump could overrule the KC board. He won’t.

Trump knows he is dying. He is afraid, afraid because he will pass when he is known to all as incompetent and reviled by the majority of the world.

This list...😱

Always bring receipts

This is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛

He’s not immoral by one standard. He’s amoral by all of them. No religion, region, class, tradition, or ethic claims him. No loyalty, curiosity, generosity, courage, or love. Not a rebel with values. Just a void with appetites.

Visual math explains the Inflation Reduction Act: jobs created, costs cut, deficit lowered—facts win

This is the exact lighting they use for the pic to accompany a profile of a professor who got suspended because he kept using slurs in class as a supposed intellectual provocation.

Wrong turn. ( Description help needed?)

FBI Is Making an Enemies List—and Most Corporate Media Didn’t Even Check It Once | The Trump FBI’s enemies list could encompass over half the US public, and virtually no corporate media outlets covered this catastrophic decree, writes @fairmediawatch.bsky.social Editor Jim Naureckas.

🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.” *THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*

Here have a beautiful story

A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”

Car insurance costs more for boys up until the age of 25. The prefrontal cortex is not fully developed and decision making is based in a larger limbic system. We have a president with a 13 year-old's frontal cortex architecture that is being destroyed by frontotemporal dementia.

News -- > Rep Jamie Raskin is introducing a proposal today to require ranked choice voting in all congressional races. He's drawing attention to the idea even as corrupt Trump/GOP gerrymandering exposes current system's deep flaws. Raskin discusses this on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2042...

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

You can support independent news reporting in central Washington by making a tax-deductible donation to the Yakima Herald-Republic. Here's how:

“I’d have no problem releasing the video” “I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.” 5 days apart 😬 (From @therecount.com )

Thread.

Filmed in the USA, 1953. Almost all parts played by U.S. Citizens whose families had been on the land since the 1600's. We need to learn. youtube.com/clip/UgkxSkt...

“Yeah, that was definitely not a silent night. And baby Jesus? Gorgeous. But he had the energy of someone planning to overturn the entire system by age 33.”

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the #FIFAPeacePrize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment #WorldCup2026 #FuckTrump

Oh, lookee, my Christmas wish list.

The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

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