The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at S&P 500 companies last year was 285-to-1. The median employee would have had to start working in the year 1740 to earn what the average CEO received in 2024. Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?
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On left:
ABC: Ghislaine Maxwell told "Blanche that Trump had never done anything in her presence that would have caused concern."
On right:
Maxwell said same about Epstein, under oath.
DOJ 2022: "Simply put, the defendant lies when it suits her."
Whatever is the truth, she's no source for it.
06.08.2025 21:05 — 👍 3808 🔁 1294 💬 245 📌 72
The Voting Rights Act Explained
The landmark 1965 law is one of the most successful civil rights measures in history, but the Supreme Court has eviscerated it.
The Voting Rights Act was designed to protect individual voting rights against state interference. The Supreme Court majority has eviscerated it in favor of deference to state suppression. Now the GOP wants to use that to destroy representative democracy.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Ghislaine Maxwell, Elizabeth Holmes and Jen Shah are now all together in the same minimum security prison. American exceptionalism at its apogee.
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Virginia Guiffre statement to Maxwell read on the day of her sentencing.
Virginia Guiffre statement to Maxwell read on the day of her sentencing.
This is Virginia Guiffre's statement to Ghislane Maxwell, read by Guiffre's attorney in court the day Maxwell was sentenced.
I had to divide it into 2 parts. Please read each & share.
These are the words of a child rape victim, a victim of the monster Trump now protecting & arranging her freedom.
03.08.2025 03:19 — 👍 1865 🔁 1080 💬 38 📌 64
Whether it's conservatives assassinating State Senators in Minnesota or liberals refusing to sell Alan Dershowitz pierogis in Martha's Vineyard, both sides have taken incivility to an extreme.
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i sound like a broken record about this, but they *paid money* to keep their rapes out of the news.
03.08.2025 05:06 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
i sound like a broken record about this, but they *paid money* to keep their rapes out of the news.
03.08.2025 05:06 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
same here. i think it's just late.
03.08.2025 05:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
obviously, both of these 'choices' are true, and they're the reason we're experiencing social upheaval rather than civil unity and widespread satisfaction.
03.08.2025 04:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
this isn't funny to anyone and is only beneficial to fewer people than attend a minor league, small town baseball game (less than a thousand).
everyone else knows that the richest need to pay more taxes, and that their refusal to do so is sociopathic.
03.08.2025 04:51 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
might be me, too. but that wasn't my intention.
03.08.2025 04:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
YouTube video by The Daily Show
Jon Stewart Urges Dems to Fight Like Republicans and Exploit Loopholes | The Daily Show
we vote against this when enough of us are fed up.
youtu.be/HNcmo-K5Xsg?...
03.08.2025 04:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
i have no desire to do anything even similar to this. not sure how this got personal.
03.08.2025 04:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
it's (obviously) illegal to pay to kill someone in america. in practice, the victims' families rarely have the resources to compete in our legal system. they aren't able to assert their rights.
03.08.2025 04:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
one thing to wanna go to bed. another to act like something i said was wrong. but sure, peace out.
03.08.2025 04:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
this is where the difference btwn legal and legitimate becomes clear.
03.08.2025 04:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
nope, it's the same for everyone if you can get a team to bring it. this is explicitly why trump went after the big firms. they routinely (or used to) argue pro bono for less moneyed folks.
03.08.2025 04:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
and they're not punished for it because less wealthy victims (or their families) can't afford to fight them.
03.08.2025 04:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
and in america, every action you take is admissible as evidence.
03.08.2025 04:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
no, it's absolutely not.
03.08.2025 04:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
you can't just pay money for a life.
03.08.2025 04:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
and again,
3) it was THOUSANDS OF OUR DAUGHTERS
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trump is trying to 'rehabilitate the character' of ghislaine maxwell right now.
1) she wasn't just an adjunct, she was a pervert who *participated* as evidenced by multiple oath-bound witnesses
2) ask why the President of the United States would help her
03.08.2025 04:10 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
trump is trying to 'rehabilitate the character' of ghislaine maxwell right now.
1) she wasn't just an adjunct, she was a pervert who *participated* as evidenced by multiple oath-bound witnesses
2) ask why the President of the United States would help her
03.08.2025 04:10 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
and it wasn't 'an accident', it was a pattern of behavior.
THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS
ffs
03.08.2025 04:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Epstein's not going away because the people who raped these girls paid settlement money to the girls they raped. You don't do that unless you did the rape. And everyone knows this, despite how much money they pay to convince us otherwise.
03.08.2025 04:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Epstein's not going away because the people who raped these girls paid settlement money to the girls they raped. You don't do that unless you did the rape. And everyone knows this, despite how much money they pay to convince us otherwise.
03.08.2025 04:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
the only way out of this is for all of us to truth test everything (every assertion) we interact with, and intentionally filter the stuff we amplify.
nobody's gonna save us.
each of us has to do the work.
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