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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024.

Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.

The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.

Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M

See the problem?

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Mow Johnson @mowjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

You know PDX was popping last nite!

🐸🇺🇸🐸
#KeepPortlandWeird
#GoBeavs

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Mow Johnson @mowjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Yum! ♨️🍗🍖🧆🥩

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

Best I've seen.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

👀 someone calling out big law firm complicity and cowardice

Sign reading BIG LAW LITTLE BALLS, and then listing a bunch of lil ball'd firms:

A&O Shearman
Cadwalder, Wickersham
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Paul, Weiss
Simpson Thatcher
Skadden, Arpa
Willkie Farr

Then the sign ends with a Trump quote that should make these firms put their heads in the proverbial bag:

"They gave me a lot of money considering they did nothing wrong"

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

Why can’t every month have a No Kings Day? 😩

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson sputtering that it's no big deal that he hasn't sworn in Grivalja yet, it's such a small stupid thing, why are you people still asking about it, I can do it anytime, but no, I'm not going to do it now, or later, or anytime soon, there's no big deal here, shut up, stop asking about it

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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 4d

Trump has become incredibly unhinged. He is totally divorced from reality and facts — he is mentally and physically in decline.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 3d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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MPWERED @kelvin1.bsky.social · 4d

Merrick Garland.

Why hasn't his name been floating around on the regime's "hit list"? Of course, Jack Smith and more recently, Lisa Monaco have been called out but for some reason the former AG has been spared.

🤔

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4d

Ireland is taking its cue from Australia by banning Candace Owens for eternity. “We haven’t had snakes here in thousands of years - why invite one in.”

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Mow Johnson @mowjohnson.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!!

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 4d

🎯 Ash …

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 73 out of the last 85 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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James Cameron 🇨🇦 @lumin8.bsky.social · 5d

A pic of the brain worm making a face while gargling with gravel.

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Goggles Pisano @googlespisano.bsky.social · 5d

Job abandonment occurs when an employee doesn’t appear for work for three consecutive days. You can be fired for job abandonment because it is generally considered a voluntary resignation. Republicans in Congress that don't report for work should be terminated.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 5d

There's always been a fight over the true story of America. I believe deeply in the story that says we’re all created equal, and that if we can treat each other with decency and respect, all of us will be better off.

I talk about this and more on the final episode of WTF with Marc Maron. Watch now:

My Conversation with Marc Maron | WTF Podcast

YouTube video by Barack Obama

www.youtube.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5d

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 5d

If your descendants view you as a hero, as an impossible ideal to live up to, that means society has gone backwards.

That John Brown is still an aspirational goal and not the reality for most of us white people is an indictment, not praise.

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Union Thug™️ @theunionthug.bsky.social · 6d

More of this please! #ZohranMamdani

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Mow Johnson @mowjohnson.bsky.social · 5d

Hope I don't have to work. Can't decide til then.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7d

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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Mow Johnson @mowjohnson.bsky.social · 7d

This NW border baby roots for the Jays, except when they play my Mariners. Such memories of the Kingdom to Griff to Ichiro to thankfully now. I trade my Vanity friends who magically root for TO (who they despise on the ice) come down to buy white sneakers, minty smoke & get hammered. 🥳
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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