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US pushes nations facing tariffs to approve Musk’s Starlink. Wow the corruption. An internal State Department memo lays it bare:“As the government of Lesotho negotiates a trade deal with the United States, it hopes that licensing Starlink demonstrates goodwill and intent to welcome U.S. businesses.”

How have we missed this?

This happened 5-2-2025. This is the first reference I’ve seen.

Wow.

A government of shills.

#winning

Thank you for context. Folks are posting record breaking news that he didn’t get votes, but not what it means.

Scary times.

Straight up, folks keep reposting his bad faith quote with responses.

We cannot amplify or norm, which reposting does.

Ignore. Ignore. Ignore.

(Not his intent. We fight that.).

THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.

Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”

Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

The Washington Post bragging about Pulitzer winner Ann Telnaes, the political cartoonist who left the Post because it had turned into an anti-journalism partisan rag, is one of the most shameless examples of misplaced self-congratulations in recent memory.

File under things I don’t care about:

- Met Gala
- Kentucky Derby

Anyone else find the rich people fashion parades even more offensive than usual this year?

Nobody stole our jobs, those jobs were offshored by capitalists trying to exploit third world labor to maximize profits. It’s cheaper for corporations to a pay third world worker 15 cents/hour, & then ship the product halfway around the globe, than it is to make it in the USA.

I’m not sure I’d trust a neoliberal to answer this one. I listen to Ezra Klein, but he misses the mark about half the time. His root cause analysis will reflect the very ideology that got us here.

Please. No.

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

Now we know why he didn’t have his hand on the Bible when he took the Oath of Office.

And then he gets the UN.

Socialism is what they called public power. 

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

By this Pam calculation, one pill has to kill more than five people. Math is hard.

Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978?

100%? 500%?

Try 1,085%

Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

a formerly enslaved Black anarchist woman led the first American May Day parade in Chicago in 1886 and don’t you forget it!!

Everybody and their grandma are speaking up about what Trump has done in 100 days to dismantle the US.

What I care more about: what are we doing in those same 100 days, not just to to restore it, but to envision and fight for and build a better and more just one?

This is WILD and ignorant. Putting people who don’t science in charge of science is a dangerous choice.

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This. Is. The. Point.

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth.

The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.

Read that back.

Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

Gift article:

Donald Trump’s remarkable political comeback has made him feel like he’s invincible. @AshleyRParker and @michaelscherer report from inside a White House where loyalty is the most important credential and the boss always gets his way:

If only it were one man.

Tens of millions voted for him.

This cut goes deeper than one man’s ignorance and ego. It’s white supremacy and greed.

I see Obama worship on here.

As a hardcore capitalist, he allowed the internet to be set up as a privatized thing which gave us tech oligarchs.

Choosing Wallstreet over people gave us billionaires.

He gave a 2011 speech about Russian interference and did nothing about it.

Obama got us here.

My Deep Dive: This Isn’t Just About Arresting a Judge—It’s an Authoritarianism Test Run

Sitting judge, Hannah Dugan, was arrested under murky pretenses. She DID NOT break the law—she questioned an unenforceable ICE warrant, as any judge should. This is testing unadulterated federal power.
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Read Sarah Kendzior’s “They Knew.”

She brings the receipts.

They all knew. The GOP. The financial industry. So The media and Hollywood. The dems INCLUDING Obama. And Clinton.

He could have been stopped, if anyone cared more about us than themselves or power.

They don’t. They still don’t.