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The next time someone tells you that America isn’t a sick & racist country, just remind them that this nation is willing to accept treason, rape, and child abuse from a white president but not healthcare from a Black one.
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The next time someone tells you that America isn’t a sick & racist country, just remind them that this nation is willing to accept treason, rape, and child abuse from a white president but not healthcare from a Black one.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
September 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
Surprise! Elon's SpaceX which rakes in billions of the taxes you pay, doesn't pay corporate taxes. He's the biggest parasite in the world.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes.
www.nytimes.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Surprise! Elon's SpaceX which rakes in billions of the taxes you pay, doesn't pay corporate taxes. He's the biggest parasite in the world.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
Mayor Young and xAI lied relentlessly to Memphis. Time Mag's superb report on NASA's discovery that proves hugely increased poisons in Memphis air since xAI's arrival and deployment of gas turbines:
time.com/7308925/elon...
time.com/7308925/elon...
Inside the Memphis Community Battling Elon Musk’s xAI
A TIME investigation reveals data tying Musk’s AI data center to pollution surges in a historically Black Memphis area.
time.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Mayor Young and xAI lied relentlessly to Memphis. Time Mag's superb report on NASA's discovery that proves hugely increased poisons in Memphis air since xAI's arrival and deployment of gas turbines:
time.com/7308925/elon...
time.com/7308925/elon...
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jfc, let us stop these corrupt fascists from crashing the economy! People with 401ks have some power here to stop trump. Let us do all we can to avoid this utter corruption. It's relatively easy, but we must act. @brendanballou.bsky.social tells us how.
slate.com/business/202...
slate.com/business/202...
This Trump Executive Order Might Just Set Up the Next Financial Crisis
Private equity and credit firms need new investors. This is where Donald Trump—and you—come in.
slate.com
August 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
jfc, let us stop these corrupt fascists from crashing the economy! People with 401ks have some power here to stop trump. Let us do all we can to avoid this utter corruption. It's relatively easy, but we must act. @brendanballou.bsky.social tells us how.
slate.com/business/202...
slate.com/business/202...
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this warms the cockles of my heart. "These giants are standing tall against fossil fuels, rising up out of the ocean like a middle finger against CO2."
August 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
this warms the cockles of my heart. "These giants are standing tall against fossil fuels, rising up out of the ocean like a middle finger against CO2."
This is a huge deal and one more reason why I love California. No more masked ICE arresting w/o cause:
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www.latimes.com/california/s...
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www.latimes.com/california/s...
9th Circuit keeps freeze on Southern California ICE patrols
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a stinging blow to the Trump administration's mass deportation project Friday night, upholding a lower court's block on "roving patrols" across much of Southern ...
www.latimes.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is a huge deal and one more reason why I love California. No more masked ICE arresting w/o cause:
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www.latimes.com/california/s...
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www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Sundog, a memecoin by crypto billionaire Justin Sun, just posted a meme depicting its mascot controlling the White House. Sun has spent (or will shortly spend) a total of $213 million on Trump-connected crypto projects.
![Tweet screenshot: SunDog @SUNDOG_TRX You never truly know who’s pulling the strings… 🤫 [AI-generated image of a corgi dog with a collar depicting the Tron logo, paws raised above the White House, with strings attached to the paws like a marionette] 2:30 AM Jul 24, 2025](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreigsccsb3rboe3qjtuuicshmrhyho65cwntbj4syjn5y2gkil5m45a@jpeg)
July 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Sundog, a memecoin by crypto billionaire Justin Sun, just posted a meme depicting its mascot controlling the White House. Sun has spent (or will shortly spend) a total of $213 million on Trump-connected crypto projects.
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Inside Elon Musk’s plan to rain SpaceX’s rocket debris over Hawaii’s pristine waters
Inside Elon Musk’s plan to rain SpaceX’s rocket debris over Hawaii’s pristine waters
Texas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victim
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Inside Elon Musk’s plan to rain SpaceX’s rocket debris over Hawaii’s pristine waters
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Enviro groups including NAACP, Young, Gifted & Green filed to appeal xAI's permits in Memphis. The permits allow Elon Musk's co. to keep using gas-burning turbines to power their Colossus "supercomputer" facility, which in turn helps run the Grok chatbot.
www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/m...
www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/m...
Elon Musk’s xAI permits challenged by NAACP, environmental groups in Memphis
Environmental groups in Memphis filed a permit appeal to stop xAI from using gas-burning turbines to power its supercomputer facility in the area.
www.cnbc.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Enviro groups including NAACP, Young, Gifted & Green filed to appeal xAI's permits in Memphis. The permits allow Elon Musk's co. to keep using gas-burning turbines to power their Colossus "supercomputer" facility, which in turn helps run the Grok chatbot.
www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/m...
www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/m...
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1 in 12 Americans live in California.
1 in 35 Americans live in LA County.
LA is America
1 in 35 Americans live in LA County.
LA is America
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
June 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
1 in 12 Americans live in California.
1 in 35 Americans live in LA County.
LA is America
1 in 35 Americans live in LA County.
LA is America
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Fed Chair Powell graduation remarks to Princeton nod toward our current predicament: "Look around you. I urge you to take none of this for granted. When you look back in 50 years, you will want to know that you have done whatever it takes to preserve and strengthen our democracy."
May 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Fed Chair Powell graduation remarks to Princeton nod toward our current predicament: "Look around you. I urge you to take none of this for granted. When you look back in 50 years, you will want to know that you have done whatever it takes to preserve and strengthen our democracy."
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“DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars… Not billion. Half a trillion, $500 billion… In other words, in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending.” @joshtpm.bsky.social
![Talking Points Memo: IRS Predicts DOGE [and Elon Musk] Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
By Josh Marshall, March 23 2025
The Washington Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the DOGE-driven disruptions to the IRS since the inauguration are on track to have reduced tax receipts by more than $500 billion by April 15th. This, to be clear, is not a final tally. It’s not April 15th yet. It’s a projection based on historical data, the number of people who’ve filed, paid owed amounts of tax, etc.
It’s worth taking a moment to put this number into some context in case half a trillion dollars doesn’t do it for you. Non-defense discretionary spending is the cost to fund the U.S. government once you take out mandatory spending (mostly Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) and the cost of the U.S. military.
For 2023 that number was $917 billion. So that’s most of the stuff we think of as the government, apart from those payment programs and the military. In other words, in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:um3dlpu4s64lwq4lmqyo3dni/bafkreigjof3im6tjcrrja5cwq5t636d5bm7i2vnz5b2ugzxmb5ioz5arii@jpeg)
March 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
“DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars… Not billion. Half a trillion, $500 billion… In other words, in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending.” @joshtpm.bsky.social
It seems that Elon's DOGE boys may be involved in at least one illegal heist of information. You have to wonder if Musk has been squirreling our data at Colossus xAI all along:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It seems that Elon's DOGE boys may be involved in at least one illegal heist of information. You have to wonder if Musk has been squirreling our data at Colossus xAI all along:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
Who wants to take bets that every American's info is being used to train Musk's xAI in Memphis? Or that Musk is holding your data on his own company servers?
SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.
The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Who wants to take bets that every American's info is being used to train Musk's xAI in Memphis? Or that Musk is holding your data on his own company servers?
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COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
April 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
Musk’s Supervillain laugh…thinks stealing water is funny. Get ready, Memphis @thetnholler.bsky.social @justinpearson.bsky.social @niedermeyer.online
April 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Musk’s Supervillain laugh…thinks stealing water is funny. Get ready, Memphis @thetnholler.bsky.social @justinpearson.bsky.social @niedermeyer.online
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And they thought they would be getting away with all of it too.
April 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
And they thought they would be getting away with all of it too.
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I didn't have to wait long for the LTTs to find the feathers.
I placed them last evening & were found at dawn.
This pair have a huge task ahead of them to locate 1000+ feathers & they are very choosy about which feathers they will use for nest lining.
@nicwilson.bsky.social @ianparsons.bsky.social
I placed them last evening & were found at dawn.
This pair have a huge task ahead of them to locate 1000+ feathers & they are very choosy about which feathers they will use for nest lining.
@nicwilson.bsky.social @ianparsons.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I didn't have to wait long for the LTTs to find the feathers.
I placed them last evening & were found at dawn.
This pair have a huge task ahead of them to locate 1000+ feathers & they are very choosy about which feathers they will use for nest lining.
@nicwilson.bsky.social @ianparsons.bsky.social
I placed them last evening & were found at dawn.
This pair have a huge task ahead of them to locate 1000+ feathers & they are very choosy about which feathers they will use for nest lining.
@nicwilson.bsky.social @ianparsons.bsky.social
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again