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Why is this so hard?? Tax the rich!!
December 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Your Friday reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax.

Cruel because it's used by the super-rich to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

And a hoax because nothing has ever trickled down.
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It's staggering, really. We need a national economic strike. Let's start with Black Friday.
You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3,200 workers in order to “right-size” its business.

The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.

It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.

Textbook corporate greed.
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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make this go viral please.
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Billie Eilish asked an important question: "If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?"

There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:

1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance

Billionaires are the result of a failed system.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Remember: An estimated 70% of congressional Republicans may financially benefit from the tax cuts in their Big Ugly Bill.

While cutting Medicaid and food stamps for millions — including many of their own constituents — these lawmakers may be enriching themselves.

Priorities.
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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As a hedge fund owner, Scott Bessent avoided over $900K in Medicare taxes by exploiting a major loophole.

As Treasury Secretary, he now oversees the IRS — which has backed away from closing the loophole since Trump took office.

The foxes are guarding the henhouse.
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
More pay for play. They're not even bothering to hide the corruption.
TurboTax makers Intuit have lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing.

Now Trump has terminated the free IRS Direct File program, nearly a year after Intuit gave his inauguration $1M.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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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.
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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October 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
October 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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The evil genius of crypto is that it creates fake ‘money’ that trades for real value. Keep the scam running and you can swallow the world.

That is the endgame.
October 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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September 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.
September 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.
September 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Big Oil spent nearly half a BILLION dollars in last year’s election cycle.

Now, they’re coming to collect — and they’re getting a big return on investment. Watch. youtu.be/aDQXiNlM5iM?...
The Secret Behind High Gas Prices
YouTube video by Robert Reich
youtu.be
September 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.
September 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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September 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM