While millions of families struggle to put food on the table Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos & Mark Zuckerberg own more wealth than the bottom HALF of Americans. That’s what oligarchy is about. That’s what a rigged economy is about. Is it any wonder that people in this country are angry?

“Effective immediately, 100 will now be 5,100 and—I’m reading off the official statistics from my people—500 will be 25,500,” said Trump

Numeracy and literacy aren't his strong suits.

Monopoly + “Plutonomy” + “Buy now, pay later” = Disaster and indebtedness for most Americans. If wealthy consumers are responsible for the lion’s share of spending, companies might as well raise their prices—the primary buyers can afford it. prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...

You know how Trump always comments, “Many people are saying…”? These are the “many people”: “… travel abroad, golf at his private clubs, and dine with wealthy friends, business leaders, and major donors.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Just received my holiday reminder about not accepting bribes. “The NY State Commission on Ethics excludes from the definition of 'gift' any food or beverage worth $15 or less, and items with no resale value such as calendars or pens.” Meanwhile the regime’s leaders are lining their pockets.

President Hernandez was responsible for smuggling 500 TONS of cocaine into the United States! He was the top dog; the Pablo Escobar figure! He wasn’t just “selling drugs in that country.”

80 years ago, the US executed Nazis for killing prisoners of war and survivors of attacks. Who will hold accountable the Nazi sympathizers who are doing the same today?

Going back to ensure people in the water are dead is a criminal act. Nuremberg 2.0 should feature this dude heavily. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Sen. Tim Kaine on Trump’s Pardon of Fmr. Honduran President Who Brought Over 400 Tons of Cocaine Into US: “This is a disgusting and incomprehensible decision…” ("And Trump claims he's trying to fight narco-trafficking?" Riiiiight.) bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-...

Bye bye, Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Funny how the popularists missed this one!

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

So, did some of the Sinaloa and other cartel bribes that convicted drug trafficker and former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez received get funneled to any of Trump y familia's shady businesses? That's usually how the Trump regime doles out pardons.

WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.

He had 400tons of cocaine & gets pardon, fishing boats get blown out of the water & all killed. www.rawstory.com/trump-pardon... Hernandez’s brother, Tony, is serving a life sentence in the U.S. for running what authorities described as a violent, state-sponsored drug- trafficking ring.

Let's put these 2 headlines from this afternoon together. They “finish off” suspected cocaine traffickers hanging helplessly off boats in the open ocean. But an _actual_ cocaine trafficker who just happens to be a conservative political elite gets a pardon.

Blow up the small fry on their boats. Pardon the kingpins. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

SCOTUS ETHICS… a big joke newrepublic.com/article/2036...

"Reverse philanthropy: Instead of the richest helping the neediest, they pay tribute to the greediest." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/o...

Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.

And Part II, which is about the exposure of these children to toxic pesticides. prospect.org/2025/11/28/c...

Today I want to tell you about farmworkers. Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley. As young as 12 years old. In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety. Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:

“Land is about the relations between the material aspects some people might think of as landscapes—water, soil, air, plants, stars—and histories, spirits, events, kinships, accountabilities, and other people that aren’t human.” — Max Liboiron

How Project 2025 is affecting rural America this week: —Four big rural impacts of Trump’s unprecedented transit cuts —Visa fees could worsen rural schools' teacher crisis —Here's where hospitals and clinics are shutting down due to Trump’s healthcare cuts http://ruralorganizi...

My last article on @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/11/fasc...

Democrats should make crystal clear that whether it is high level Trump officials, commanders carrying out illegal murders, or ICE/CPB goons, investigations and indictments are coming—referring to state AGs if Trump blanket pardons for federal crimes.

wild times! tomorrow he'll trash him, but still...

Rural communities are getting hit from every direction. Rising input costs driven by tariffs make it harder for farmers to stay afloat. Commodity prices are sinking. And cuts to Medicaid and SNAP are putting families in even more danger.

Trump says a lot of outrageous things, and we’ve come to accept it. But come on. Hang them? The media has collectively decided we ought to shrug these things off as Trump being Trump. Yes; it is Trump being Trump. And that’s precisely the problem. Does trib.al/YPKY7ei

“I was just following orders.” — Adolf Eichmann www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

Yep, this actually did just happen. Rep Chrissy Houlahan recounts it on our pod:

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.

Donald Trump is reposting calls to hang Democratic politicians on his Truth Social account. This is the type of deranged behavior you might expect from an internet troll, not the President of the United States.

This 600,000 plus the 1.3 million extra climate fatalities PER YEAR, plus the serial killings of people on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific. Is he trying to break the record of the biggest mass killers in history

WATCH: @rweingarten.bsky.social joined @anacabrera.bsky.social to talk about how the Trump administration dismantling the Department of Education will hurt our students and schools. "It's not about politics here. It's about how we help kids have a future, and they're just abandoning it."

A climate criminal, in addition to all those other kinds of criminality. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🌍 Food systems drive the #climatecrisis – yet remain a blind spot in too many climate plans. A new #COP30 assessment shows 93% of updated NDCs now mention food/agriculture. 📈 Progress? Yes. But only 1 in 3 mention diets, #agroecology or food consumption. We need real transformation.

Industrial agriculture has co-opted the #COP. The climate convention will never deliver real climate action if industry lobbyists influence governments and negotiators. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thx ppl of Ecuador! By defeating Noboa's plans they protected the Rights of Nature & Indigenous self-determination in their constitution. Huge win for enviro justice & Indigenous Rights & major blow to Noboa’s plans to drill for more oil in the Amazon! insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...

Net worth of the top 0.1% in the US: $23.3 trillion. Net worth of the bottom 50%: $4.2 trillion. According to the Far Left Radical Lunatic Wall Street Journal. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/the-ultrarich-are-spending-a-fortune-to-live-in-extreme-privacy-3f400e55

Excellent essay on Franco’s fascist Spain, which many on the right today are looking to for inspiration www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The President may not accept “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State” (US Constitution Art. I, § 9). Except for a gold desk clock and an engraved gold bar, in this case. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Moderate Dems"? What's "moderate" about denying people health care? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Yesterday Justice Coney Barrett asked how businesses would be refunded for the tariffs they have paid should the SCOTUS strike down the Trump tariffs. What about consumers? How will we get our money back? My guess, we won't. And those with the least will lose the most from yet another Trump policy.

How about a postage stamp instead? Then we have a choice about whether to use it. And not a "forever" stamp, please. Maybe a one-cent one, to remember the penny. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...

Billionaires and their allies in the regime are shamelessly picking our pockets in plain sight. Sharpen your pitchforks! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

OH MY GOD www.wsmv.com/2025/11/06/p...

If more Americans had passports, the time and resources to travel, and an openness to other realities, they wouldn't fear Mamdani's policy proposals, they recognize them and welcome them. Europeans are just saying, "That's normal, what's the big deal?"