Amanda Powell

Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $436.3 billion

Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $244.2 billion

Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $257.8 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25

It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US

Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic

Playing a victim and saying she wished she never met Epstein, ok rapist IDGAFF what she has to say

What Ghislaine Maxwell Told the Justice Department Listening to the convicted sex offender’s lengthy interview reveals that she and her interviewer had one goal—to satisfy Donald Trump.

To read the 337-page transcript of Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with the Deputy Attorney General is to be horrified, even enraged, by Maxwell’s brazen airbrushing of her conduct, and by Blanche’s placid acceptance of her rendition of events.

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Portland, Oregon

It just keeps getting worse 💔

The key word here being “idiot.”

MAHER: "Russiagate was not completely made up… It's on tape. He's asking the Russians for help, he says hack some shit, and they did it that day. So don’t tell me there’s no smoke.”

Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪

Let That Sink In! 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏼👇🏾

The Radical Woman Behind “Goodnight Moon” Margaret Wise Brown constantly pushed boundaries—in her life and in her art.

Many readers now think of Margaret Wise Brown titles like “The Runaway Bunny” as tranquil introductions to storytelling. But the books, like their author, were radical for their time.

Border Patrol agents assembled outside a Los Angeles museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a rally and news conference on congressional redistricting. Local elected officials expressed outrage that the agents decided to stand there in a brazen show of force. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

EX AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA MCFAUL: “Putin doesn't look at all of this stuff as a sign of strength. He looks at it as a sign of weakness. He had to do absolutely nothing to get this meeting. Putin has gained everything and given nothing in return.”

The fact that an indicted war criminal has been invited to the US to meet with the President to look at maps of the country he invaded tells you Putin has already won.

The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin An older generation dismissed him as passé; a newer one has recast him as a secular saint. But Baldwin’s true message remains more unsettling than either camp recognizes.

James Baldwin didn’t believe in reform; he believed in revolution. “Anything less than a total social reckoning—a complete psychological makeover of white America—was worthless,” Louis Menand writes.

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

So Putin gets a red carpet welcome, a ride in the presidential limo, speaks first at the presser, frames the meeting as a successful talk among equals, while making absolutely no concession on the conduct or outcome of the war.

Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left

Bless these Alaskans!

Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.

Gavin Newsom with tank top, American flag and big muscles.

Let’s Not Ever Forget To Remind America 🇺🇸 Of This! 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾

“When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.”

-Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Trump with meme text "they stormed the Capitol for a pedophile."

#NoKings
New York

Picture of me with "Rainbow Brite"

Protest in Watertown, NY today

If you’re undocumented, don’t march tomorrow. Stay home. Let the rest of us get this one.

Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼