"Trump gets donations, you get massive Ticketmaster surcharges — service fees, platinum fees, per-order fees, payment processing fees, facility fees, magical money-sh*tting unicorn fees — on top of already sky-high ticket prices." — @lizdye.bsky.social
What about ICE agents murdering us?
And so the American experiment with democracy is transformed from Lincoln's "the last best hope of earth...The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just—a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless..."
...becomes "We are really good at killing people."
Tech brain.
Gillibrand calls for Hegseth to resign over bombing of Iranian elementary school. More to follow, one assumes:
I wonder if this expertise from Ukraine was consulted before any other significant military misadventures recently undertaken by the Department of Defense.
We took a little “excursion”.
Should we use Trumpstein or Trumpenstein to reflect the monstrous nature of the Trump regime with its many ties to the international child rapist?
After Day 1 of this debacle, all the MAGA accounts were talking about Trump liberating the Iranian people, installing a new pro-US leader, liberating women from oppression, seizing all their uranium. Not many of those posts 11 days later.
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Ossoff: "The president appears increasingly to have lost touch with reality. That is deeply concerning when you have a a cabinet much more concerned with winning his favor than giving good advice & the nation now plunged into war. It speaks to the necessity of winning these midterms in a landslide."
it is easier for americans to imagine the end of the world than the end of the party system which began about two years before the median american was born
Donald Trump can steal $63 million and nothing will happen to him. So here's the question: do you think YOU could get away with stealing $63 million, average hardworking American taxpayer? How about $500? Do you think you could get away with stealing $500?
Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos
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Here's a list I made of 24 settlements from Epstein rapes of children and the selling of children to men for sadistic pleasure, abuse, and sex.
📸 Litigation involving Jeffrey Epstein
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👇 South Carolina rapes, 4 interviews, 3 w/Trump hidden.
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Exactly.
The priorities are clear.
Americans come last.
#SheShed #Voices4Victory
At the end of the #florenceandthemachine concert in Prague, security guards made two fans take down the Ukrainian flags they had brought with them. Florence Welch took the flag with her after singing with fans and ran away with it, pressing it dearly to her chest. #Ukraine #NoWar 🇺🇦 💔🔄 #Peace 💔🇺🇦
Fact
There are no leaders of the Target boycott to call it off
There are policies Target could change and earn everybody’s business again
Why are multiple media outlets protecting his identify, and why hasn’t he been arrested?
He has all of our info. Give us his.
NEW
Billionaire Les Wexner former CEO of Victoria’s Secret and L Brands and Jeffrey Epstein’s first financial backer has been confirmed by Richard Kahn (Epstein’s accountant and fixer) as paying Epstein despite Wexner’s claims Epstein stole large sums of money from him.
I mean every single photo I’ve seen..yeesh..
Elon Musk is now worth $845 billion.
Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.
Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high.
See the problem here?
I am writing an updated version of this piece for an edited volume, and the Times' study bolsters my own data analysis and conclusions:
"Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy" (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)
Although we focus on presidential races, the lower the race, the more the money matters. And billionaires are increasingly getting involved in congressional, state and local races.
As stated by the Times' accurate headline: "The Scale of Billionaire's Campaign Donations is Overwhelming US Politics"
The New York Times published an extraordinary study of the role of billionaires in politics earlier this week, that naturally got lost in everything that is going on, including in Iran.
Here is a gift link to the article, and a few select quotes:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
this is old enough now that the cool dad under discussion is using classic anime