The world's 10 richest people (nearly all from the U.S.) are collectively $500 billion richer this year thanks to growth in stocks tied to AI.
Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communitiesβ water and electricity.
AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.
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Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop
Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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And I think I saw he was on the list of donors for the ballroom
25.10.2025 18:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Tampa showed up. No Kings 2.0
19.10.2025 01:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Charlie Dog (@cttr)
substack.com/@cttr/note/c...
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Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant
Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.
""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..."
www.wnep.com/article/news...
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AOC: Alina Habba said, βWhat intellectual thought.. you were in a bar AOC. Not to have a drink but to serve one.β I donβt care what this woman says about me but I want you to understand that she isnβt just talking about me, sheβs talking about all of us.
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Amen
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This is how our government has been corrupted:Β
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.Β
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.Β
3) Donors make a huge profit.Β
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
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Protestors met JD Vance in Vermont when he went to vacation there today. This is a good one:
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Cartoon by Jesse Duquette
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#standwithukraine
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He is insane.
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87% of jobs at Amazon pay less than $20 an hour while half of its warehouse workers struggle to cover food and housing costs.
Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos saw his net worth increase by $7.9 million an hour in 2023.
Is this the "free market" Bezos is so desperate to defend?
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And why do they need to come out of retirement to fill these positions, when they already did their time? Oh wait! Could it be because heβs coming for their Medicare and Social Security next? π€
28.02.2025 09:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
And why should people have to come out of retirement to fill the positions? They did their time and he wants them to go back to work? Oh wait! Could it be because heβs going to take their Medicare and Social Security so theyβll be forced to work now? π€
28.02.2025 09:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A judge has blocked the Department of Education and OPM from sharing personal data with DOGE π
Donald Trump and Elon Musk want us to feel powerless. DONβT. When we fight together, we are powerful.
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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an βeconomic blackout.β
I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott
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