Melanie D’Arrigo

Start charging AI companies, in full, for the energy they use and the pollution they cause, and they’ll quickly find a way to be more energy efficient and environmentally friendly.

Companies profiting from ICE:

Amazon
AT&T
Motorola
Dell
Google
Microsoft
FedEx
UPS
Bank of America
Citizen's Bank

ICE’s abuses will never end because they are profit drivers for the companies donating to Trump for contracts, and boosting the stocks Congress invests in.

For-profit fascism.

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators” New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

Ken Klippenstein deserves all of the credit for breaking this story a week ago, that the media is just starting to report on now. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Trump’s message is clear:

If you defend immigrants, LGBTQ+, Black or brown people, or oppose billionaires and corporations exploiting us, or stand against his attacks on free speech and Democracy — you’ll be targeted as a terrorist.

This isn’t hyperbole.
It’s his directive.

44% of Americans are paid less than a living wage, while a union-buster who pays poverty wages, and buys elections to get more tax breaks hits $500 billion.

Our system isn’t broken.
It’s working exactly how billionaires want it to work.

Trump is directing his Sec of War to send troops, using full force, into a US city, to fight a siege he made up, being fought by a group that doesn’t exist.

He’s declaring war on Americans exercising their 1st amendment rights to speak out and protest his attacks on democracy.

Don’t let Trump indicting Comey stop you from talking about Trump…

- cutting healthcare for 15M
- raising healthcare insurance premiums by 75%
- tariffs costing the average American $5200/ year
- getting a $400M jet as a bribe
- doubling his wealth off the presidency
- covering up the Epstein files

The average middle class American earns $1.66 million in their lifetime.

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Larry Ellison each “earn” an American Dream every 2 minutes.

The American Dream isn’t for us. It’s a fairy tale we’re told by those at the top to sell us on our own exploitation.

Americans are already price gouged for their necessary medications.

Now Trump wants to make sure more Americans die and go into debt.

Absolutely sociopathic.

It only took 248 days to get to “demanding and indicting political enemies.”

At least 16 people have died in ICE custody so far this year.

At least 1,250 people detained by ICE are now missing.

Almost half of the people arrested by ICE have no criminal record.

This is fascism, and Trump made sure his oligarchs are profiting from it.

Trump is currently forcing taxpayers to pay almost $1 billion to upgrade the private jet he received as a bribe from Qatar.

TL;DR:
Republicans control Congress and the White House.
If the government shuts down, it means they can't govern in the majority.

ICE is denying people due process, abducting and trafficking them to prison camps in random countries.

Abolishing ICE has always been the moral position.

Tesla’s Full-Self Driving Software Is A Mess. Should It Be Legal? Elon Musk hypes the AI-enabled system, and getting more people to buy it is key to his new pay package. But in a recent test, it ignored some street signs and squashed a mannequin child.

www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

The federal agencies setting safety standards and investigating risks for Tesla’s self-driving cars, were gutted by Elon Musk and DOGE.

People thought DOGE was about cutting fraud and waste, when it was really about Elon spending $290M to kill investigations and regulations.

Trump’s executive order designating ANTIFA as a domestic terrorist organization is worded so that anyone protesting ICE agents, filming or asking them for ID, or informing people of their rights, can be charged as a domestic terrorist.

This isn’t an attack on ANTIFA.
It’s an attack on our rights.

The Trump family has nearly doubled their net worth since the election — profiting from the Presidency.

There's a reason why Trump fired the ethics watchdog who oversees conflicts of interest and corruption in the executive branch.

“If we don’t measure food insecurity, no one’s hungry”

“If we delete research on right-wing violence, there’s no right-wing violence”

“If we don’t release inflation data, there’s no inflation”

“If we stop Covid testing, we’ll have fewer cases”

You see what’s happening, right?

Trump has been looking for any excuse to target the "Left" for months, just like he was looking for any excuse to deploy the military to blue cities.

They just repeat the lies until people think they're facts, and have them boosted by right-wing media and social platforms.

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

The people they are kidnapping are disappearing.

Every union that worked on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, and works with Disney, Sinclair Broadcasting, and Nextstar should strike.

Just shut it all down.

No one’s jobs are safe when corporations put appeasing fascists over workers and their constitutional rights.

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.

They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.

They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.

“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

Republicans cut kids cancer research for this.

Food prices ⬆️
Utility prices ⬆️
Healthcare costs ⬆️
Student loan delinquencies ⬆️
Credit card delinquencies ⬆️
Auto loan delinquencies ⬆️
Rent delinquencies ⬆️

The wealth of the top .1% ⬆️

There are people profiting from our financial hardships, and they get tax breaks.

This is what it looks like when a guy who bankrupted casinos says his economic policies will “lower grocery prices on day one.”

It’s day 240.

Today would be a great day for teachers across the country to teach their students about the First Amendment and freedom of speech.

Trump is suing the NY Times for $15 billion because he didn’t like what they wrote about him.

CBS, ABC News, Des Moines Register, WSJ, and now the NYT.

The “freedom of speech” President is trying to crush the freedom of the press and their freedom of speech through lawsuits.

Social media algorithms reward extremism, divide us, and send people down rabbit holes, keeping them locked in echo chambers.

People like Elon, Zuckerberg and others are profiting from the division — and they’re not going to be held accountable while donating millions to Trump.

All 231 members of Congress who voted for the bloated military budget bill — that pushes military funding above $1 trillion for next year — received campaign donations from military contractors.

That's not "defense."
It's corruption.