Bezos is turning?

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Just learned my uncle who passed away this weekend—Naval Academy grad, Vietnam vet helicopter pilot (a miracle he survived)—will not be getting full military honors at his funeral *because of the government shutdown.*

It's not the biggest thing, maybe, but it's another thing Trump needs to own.

This story keeps getting worse.

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I will venmo any reporter $400 to ask trump "what does SNAP stand for"

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

FACT: The Republican House has been closed for 45 days straight.

#ONGOING | The Histadrut, Israel’s largest labour organization and Israel’s biggest party Likud were involved in a massive scandal that is being released only today

More than 60 MKs, Heads of municipalities and official workers were arrested in a connection to a bribery scandal

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“it will BE MY HONOR to provide the funding, just like I did with Military and Law Enforcement Pay," Trump wrote.

- NPR

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Was it Shitler's honor to stop the program in the first place?

"On Tuesday, a federal judge ordered Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol official leading the immigration crackdown in Chicago, to wear a body camera and provide daily incident reports. ***The order was paused Wednesday by a federal appeals court.***"

You can’t see it, but this is my surprised face.

Argentina reject their Own socialism... But Happily Accepted $40B of US' Socialism😉😜

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That’s by design. Billionaires monetize rage bait, and it has the added bonus of keeping us fighting with each other while they rob us blind. But one day soon, all the anger from the culture wars they’ve cultivated to distract us from the class war will be turned on them.

God I hope so.

Starvation will generate lots of desperation crimes. They will declare a crime wave and invoke the insurrection act or martial law.

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I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”

I beg to differ. This is curated failure.

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