Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion

Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion

Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25

It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

Legacy media has been garbage for decades yet people continue to lap it up.

If elected officials are so concerned about a negotiation between two private companies, it’s probably an indication that it’s not a great idea to leave such an important part of the economy to the mercy of the market.

AOC is right - this work will continue long after Trump is gone.

#FightTheRight

In the latest NSF budget, they're proposing a 75% cut to the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), which funded the project at Cornell University that produced the Merlin Bird ID app.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

“This is unlike anything that has ever occurred in all of American history,” says J. Michael Luttig, a former federal judge who worked to expand presidential power while serving in the Justice Department under President George H.W. Bush.

Elon Musk is politically toxic, in one image.

Susan Collins at 17% approval with Harris voters...but only 30% with Trump supporters.

These are the kinds of numbers that lead rational people to drop out of races. #MEpolitics

“.. Canadian tourists make up about 30-40% of the revenue for many businesses in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. .. The owner of the Point of View Inn tells CNN .. he’s had so many cancellations that his business may not survive.” 🇨🇦

@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/t...

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...

I’m a broken record on this but underlying it all is elite contempt - the belief that regular people are a foreign population, probably too stupid to understand any issue that doesn’t directly immiserate or inconvenience them, and can only be approached after carefully assembling polling data

My local hardware store made these and is leaving them available for free at the register. “We’re trying to take care of our customers,” the cashier said. ✊

If health insurance companies were actually “healthcare providers” they would be using technology to find new ways to save lives, not using technology to develop AI that denies claims and generates profits faster.

Health insurance is not healthcare.

We need Medicare for All.

STEEP inequality doesn't occur in "nature" & society as an organic phenomenon.
It's socially engineered thru financial policies that only benefit few & not the majority of Americans.
In the last 40 years 50 trillion $ have been transferred to the very top.
See @hcrichardson.bsky.social & others.

FACT: The United States is the only developed country in the world without universal health coverage for all of its citizens - and that's absolutely shameful, especially for the most wealthy nation on the planet.

#HealthCareForAll

UnitedHealthcare has now twice denied our doctor’s pre-approval request for the weekly ultrasounds my wife needs to monitor her high-risk pregnancy.

These insurance companies should not exist. We need single-payer.

Let’s be clear: the entire democratic world thinks the US healthcare system is a joke.

IMO Medicare for all will still require major private health care contracts and corporate third party vendors to process claims. Let’s work to take ALL corporate profit out of healthcare and provide direct government care.

That’s probably too progressive, but we do it at the VA every day.