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12 US billionaires gained almost $1 trillion in wealth in 2024 as the stock market delivered another year of massive returns Elon Musk saw the biggest gain in wealth this year, with the Tesla CEO adding a staggering $213 billion to his net worth.

Other dollars go to, purchasing agricultural land, building AI data centers, tacky parties in Venice, and of course purchasing politicians dumb enough to believe they're making bank. (2/2)

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12 US billionaires gained almost $1 trillion in wealth in 2024 as the stock market delivered another year of massive returns Elon Musk saw the biggest gain in wealth this year, with the Tesla CEO adding a staggering $213 billion to his net worth.

The 1135 US billionaires increased their wealth in 2024 every month by

$83,000,000,000

$ 8,358,333,333

Was the monthly federal expenses for SNAP in the same year. Some of those dollars flows to grocery stores, truck drivers, farmers, and all their employees. (1/2)

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

"No one beyond America fears Trump as such. He can generate fear only in his capacity as neighborhood arsonist, as someone who destroys what others have created. America’s friends are afraid not of him but of what we all have to lose."

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

Wer die liberale Demokratie verteidigen will, kommt an einem AfD-Verbot nicht vorbei.

Wer die liberale Demokratie verteidigen will, kommt an einer Zerschlagung der Tech-Milliardären und ihren Plattformen nicht vorbei.

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You own a store. A pack of gum gets stolen. Elon fires your store clerk and disconnects the fire alarm, Trump empties your cash register. Your neighbors start going to the store down the street.

Yes, we are the idiots

#zucked

Appeasement at Munich World Wars, Past and Possible

"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible"
The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today.
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Tens of thousands go hungry in Sudan after Trump aid freeze For the first time in nearly two years of war, soup kitchens in famine-stricken Sudan are being forced to turn people away, with US President Donald Trump's aid freeze gutting the life-saving schemes.

Or these starving babies in Sudan because of the same actions (3/3)

US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps

The bullshit is supposed to distract you from news like this 71-year old who had to die because of Musk and his lollipop gang and their unconstitutional power grab (2/3)

Chickenshit traitors. This whole jingoist maneuver is obviously a stupid distraction from the real issues, but maps are one of of my special interests. Google maps has turned comments off, but you can still comment on search results. (1/3)

or you spend the rest of your day determining your health coverage, or compile your tax information for a bureaucracy that already has the same info.

But you mustn't stop screaming even if only the void listens.

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And then you close your sources and open up the news to find the executive questioning the separation of powers, , or discover how some people really struggle with the definition of "universal" in "universal human rights,"

(4/5)

Writers with privilege who saw the suffering of the masses and felt themselves disenfranchised even when speaking with enormous privilege.

Louis XVIII did not listen

Nicholas II did not listen

Franz Josef did not listen

(3/5)

Austria-Hungary is incapable of meeting the needs of the time, or how the Ottoman Empire is the sick man on the Bosporus. And you wonder how the people in power did not see what was coming for them and the world around. Intelligent people and academics wrote those texts and analyses.

(2/5)

When you read sources from the eighteenth century you'll find them filled with rants about the calcified structures of the political system. About how France just is in dire need of reform, or how the Holy Roman Empire is failing its subjects, or a little later in the nineteenth century how

(1/5)

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.