CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

This item just shows how much the WP is in decline. Definitely the dumbest and most uninformed item I ever read on a serious new site. After canceling my WP subscription I am now canceling my newsletter subscription as well.

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.

I have a very bad feeling about this...

On the left: Trickledown Economics. Ask nothing of the wealthy and their corporations and they will eventually create a society in which all prosper. On the right: Pinata Economics. Instead of fruitlessly waiting for wealth to trickle down, beat the rich with blunt instruments until the gold flows.

Found this on Facebook, and I became an immediate fan. Figuratively speaking, of course.

Black background with a white shadow Trump in the right upper corner and reads: every sitting Republican is complicit in the destruction of America

The Republicans could end with this at any time.

Instead, they choose to protect pedophilia and to destroy our economy and wipe their ass with the Constitution.

👉 ICE thugs.

Thank you very much for your attention to this matter.

Make sure to visit the beautiful cities of Haarlem and Utrecht as well, just a short trainride away.

ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.

#Easter

From What I Understand

Everyone is getting so upset at Hegseth for repeatedly texting war plans to random people, but it’s like, let’s see YOU try to run the Pentagon while you’re drunk.

Yes, it’s a bit hard to see now, but allowing the president to become a king who can kidnap citizens while also demolishing the global financial system is a small price to pay for getting to keeping 23 trans women from playing college sports.

List of countries and territories that are being hit with US tariffs. Highlighted is a tariff on the Heard and McDonald Island chains which don’t have any humans there.

Loooooool

I had to look this up to make sure it was real.

There is a 10% reciprocal tax on Heard and McDonald Islands.

These are islands that form part of the Australian territory.

Heard Island in fact has Australia’s active volcano and tallest mountain.

Both islands …. are uninhabited lmao.

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.

COLBERT, on Trump calling Tesla “Tesler”:

“It was an honest mistake. He just mixed up the two words most associated with Elon Musk: Tesla .. and Hitler.”

Elon…

Tussen alle lafhartigheid, wensdenken en lege nuanceringen schijnt de bijtende, historische speech van de Franse senator Claude Malhuret als een baken, inmiddels ook in de VS.

#MAGA

They're not even gonna hide it anymore.

Repost if you agree

Dear MAGA-voters, do you make $360,000 or more per year?

No? Then you've been screwed by your cult leader, just like the majority of the population….

You are being oppressed and it's time to push back against your oppressors
Chain of Command ⬇️⬇️

If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...