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If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.

This is what oligarchy looks like:

If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.

If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.

Obscene.

The regime in the White House is making devastating cuts to the social safety to finance tax cuts for the super rich.

And the richest man in the world, who used his wealth to get this regime elected, is on track to be paid $274 million every day for the next 10 years.

Oligarchy.

All four constitutional amendments have been officially ratified across The United Methodist Church!

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How to answer a loaded question.

(This is Joe Neguse, Congressman for Colorado's 2nd District.)

All of this

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more

that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

They will price people out of healthcare, a living wage, and now even basic necessities. Millions will starve without funding for SNAP benefits. Now, the Republican Party has started interfering with private businesses. They want to prevent them from being able to help the communities they serve.

This is extrajudicial murder. It is illegal and unethical. And it is a pathetic use of American military force, demonstrating not strength but weakness.

So no terrorism then?

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

We have laws against murder. Those laws should be enforced against the people murdering people on Caribbean boats.

Nicely done!

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t. Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.

Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.

Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.

Authoritarianism hurts all of us.

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Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

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The need to silence your critics only reveals how weak and fragile you are.

outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois:

a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work.

a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.

It's dictatorship consolidating power.

Navy blue graphic reading "1st Amendment of the United States Constitution “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The Trump administration can’t threaten to punish media organizations like ABC and the New York Times because they don't like what they have to say.

The right to speak freely, protest peacefully, choose our own religious practice, and access a free press is foundational to our democracy.

Homelessness is a policy failure, not a personal one.

Robert Reich How Trump is Following Hitler's Playbook | Robert Reich

Crime in D.C. hit a 30-year low last year.

Trump deploying the National Guard on the city is yet another authoritarian show of force.

It's straight out of the dictator's playbook. https://youtu.be/WSxJRIiCNs8?feature=shared

First it was troops in L.A., sent to provoke and assault peaceful protesters under the banner of “immigration enforcement.” Now it’s troops in our capital to disappear the homeless. See the pattern? Sooner or later, the monster comes for us all.

Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich

Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF

Not. A. Victim. Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of sexually abusing children. Yes. Children. She herself. That was in addition to recruiting grooming for Jeff Epstein.

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YouTube video by Robert Reich How to Take the Fight to the Oligarchy

People ask me all the time: how do we actually fight the oligarchy?

Here's my answer.

Let me also say that one day I would love to see these male clerics with such strong Marian devotions sit the Blessed Virgin down and explain to his Lady Mother why she is unqualified for to hold the major offices in the Church she birthed, in between their prayers of adoration.⚓️

The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth.

The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.

Read that back.

Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

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