RustyBoxer

Priorities.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

Wow, the Daily News put it on the front page.

Epstein’s connections with covert efforts to influence U.S. politics, including Trump’s election Jeffrey Epstein leveraged connections with global elites, potentially serving intelligence interests while entrenching himself in powerful circles linked to Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk…

"Epstein collaborated with Trump and Musk’s inner circle during the presidential election. Epstein reportedly arranged meetings between influential Trump backers Peter Thiel, Thomas Barrack, and Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vitaly Churkin." #OpDeathEaters

spookyconnections.com/2024/10/26/e...

Perfect — Trump is touting Walmart’s Thanksgiving basket being cheaper than last year… but it’s because there’s less stuff in it and what’s in it is different and cheaper🤦🏼

@Walmart complicit with Trump lying to Americans 🤝

The challenges we now face must be met by a bold progressive populist movement that strengthens democracy and shakes up the system.

We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump.

We cannot accept the status quo of Big Money dominating our politics and economy.

Blumenthal: We’re going to continue finding more of the ballroom donors who evidently didn’t want their names revealed. And let me name them: BlackRock, Susquehanna International, Nvidia, OpenAI, Vantive, and Extremity Care.

And so, we will use every possible resource to expose this corruption to

Andrew Cuomo gave more money in taxpayer subsidies to Elon Musk than the entire cost of Zohran Mamdani’s free bus plan.

It’s not unreasonable or radical to want our tax dollars to go to programs that help us, instead of as giveaways to billionaires.

CHICAGO: “My uncle was on his way home from getting groceries on his bike — they grabbed him and choked him and punched him… he’s a kind hardworking man. They’re racially profiling people.”

Trump’s ICE goons put an elderly man in the hospital and nearly choked him to death.

Welp — @davidhogg.bsky.social to Scott Jennings: "People are tired of being lectured by men with Rolexes on CNN about affordability in this country. That’s why Zohran is resonating."

Great/devastating interactive dashboard from our friends at @firedbutfighting.bsky.social!

CDCDataProject.org

How to answer a loaded question.

(This is Joe Neguse, Congressman for Colorado's 2nd District.)

SOOGIA: “Republicans pushing to limit what SNAP recipients can buy don't actually care about nutrition— if they did, we'd be talking about universal healthcare and food deserts. You care about controlling the poor. You care about punishment."

(below a photo of masked ICE agents) “ICE goes masked for a single reason-to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard them as they go about implementing our immigration laws... Can you imagine a masked Marine? It is a matter of honor-and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan.” Judge William Young Reagan Appointee

On the eve of his second election — on October 31, 1936 — FDR delivered his coup de grace, explaining the stakes in his fight with the moneyed interests.

Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.

Gomez: He’ll use these troops all over the country unless we put a check on his power. Winning the House is just the first step, because once we do, we’ll be dealing with a trapped wild animal…

There is more than enough funding for SNAP. The Trump administration is using food insecurity as a political weapon.

Don’t shrug and scroll.

This is the trap of authoritarianism snapping shut.

Share it with everyone.

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt. Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt."

Mark Carney looking at Trump, Canada's government building majestic in the background with Gripens flying overhead behind Carney, the White House renovated behind Trump.

Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.
 
During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.

I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings

Protest signs: “Make empathy great again “ and Stop lying about everything “

#NoKings #LakeOswego #Portland

Protest sign: “No excuse for cruelty. None”

#NoKings #LakeOswego -#Portland

Two young girls in princess outfits holding fancy purple signs saying, “No kings, only princesses”

#NoKings #LakeOswego #Portland No kings, only princesses

The Wizard of Oz: The cowardly lion holds a sign saying, “GOP has no courage”, the tin man holds a sign saying, “ICE has no heart”, and the scarecrow holds a sign. Saying. “Trump has no brain”.

#NoKings #LakeOswego #Portland

Santa Claus waving and holding a sign that says,”Naughty List = Epstein List”.

#NoKings

Bummer. How are these ICE goons going to have any fun?