The Clampdown

Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list ., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

YouTube video by Barry's Economics Why the Left and Right Are Both Wrong About Wealth - Barry's Economics

“A wealth tax is not punishment, it’s plumbing” #econsky

YouTube video by Cy Canterel The Deep Financial System is Cracking

The entire US economy is held up by reckless gambling? #econsky

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Historically, the 5th of November is usually a bit Monday, with it being on average a 0.142857 chance of it being the day after Sunday — Today however, it is Friday.

Fraud and scams count towards quarterly earnings too! 🤡 ♾️ #META

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

YouTube video by things your mom should’ve told you We can TAKE BACK our money from BILLIONAIRES w/o Gov

Actions you can take to institute your own “wealth tax” on the .1% —

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Oops Kash, you fired the wrong guy again. Look in the mirror and try again.

Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...

Great now chimps will be rubbing this in our faces.

a man with a beard and suspenders is sitting in the grass . Alt: a man with a beard and overalls from Letterkenny says “allegedly”

Sure bud.

A federal judge has denied OpenAI's request to dismiss a copyright suit from George R. R. Martin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, John Grisham and other authors.

The judge says that text generated by ChatGPT may infringe their copyrights.

This video is excellent with putting Bovino and CBP in context.

YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer Why Trump Wants Chaos

Essential historical context from @andreapitzer.bsky.social. Sobering but hopeful.

This is what “making deals” always meant to him.

Yep. He’s doing the thing the system incentivizes him to do.

Agreed @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social !

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

This is political correctness in the original soviet sense — the state enforcing the current regime-approved terminology and history, even retrospectively.

Farm bankruptcies are soaring amid low crop prices, while Trump considers bailout of up to $14 billion | Fortune In the second quarter, there were 93 bankruptcy filings, up from 88 in the first quarter and nearly double the 47 at the end of 2024.

Farm bankruptcies are climbing again for the first time since 2020. Trump’s tariffs wiped out U.S. soybean exports — now he wants to import Argentinian beef while American ranchers go broke.

Classic trickle-down: reward monopolies, punish workers.

This is political correctness in the original soviet sense — the state enforcing the current regime-approved terminology and history, even retrospectively.

Somehow creating a quality product that doesn’t crash doesn’t “create shareholder value” but stuffing halfbaked AI into everything does?

What a bunch of weenie dorks. They have no self-awareness of how pathetic they look.

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Why are white supremacists always the least supreme people you’ve ever met?
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Even more pathetic then that, wannabe cosplay Nazi weenies playing dressup.

“I’m a pathetic little weenie playing dress-up and everyone thinks I’m super based and cool”

a man with a mustache is laughing with his mouth wide open . Alt: a man with with a moustache is laughing uncontrollably on a TV program

They don’t realize how everyone can see how pathetic they are.

What a bunch of weenies

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.