Eric Smith

What Really Happened to the American Dream? (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 2) Friends,

According to a new WSJ poll, a record-low share of Americans feel optimistic about improving their standard of living, while a record-high say the American dream no longer holds true.

What really happened to the American Dream? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-really-happened-to-the-american

Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk — Reuters Lisa Tate is a sixth-generation farmer in Ventura County, California, an area that produces billions of dollars worth of fruit and vegetables each year, much of it hand-picked by immigrants in the U.S...

Not good. Not good for the workers. Not good for the farmers. Not good for food prices. Not good for food pantries. Not good for the country. Seriously, who voted for this?

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Hi everyone! I'm Eileen Laubacher, the Democrat, retired U.S. Navy Admiral, and mother of five running against Lauren Boebert here in Colorado.

I'd love if you could follow and share to help me get to 3,000 followers. Let's get rid of Boebert in November!

PS... love the fan art!

Regardless of your religion, beliefs, vibe, all of the above, or none of the above, the new Pope is what "good" is supposed to be.

Ugh…

Thank you.

No one person or entity in the US should be allowed to get rich enough to hire their own mercenaries. Security detail, fine. Mercenary army, no. He arguably has enough money to do this, and so do other people/entities. Our gov’t needs to keep that in check. That is gov’t 101.

When the sales numbers come in for Tesla and Starlink this time around, it is not going to be pretty. Anyone buying Tesla stock right now is a shill or a moron. Insiders are dumping it.

Time to take a chainsaw to his bottom line.

This is interesting, but I think his daughters would be just fine if they were fired from their jobs. They could get some other nice cushy job at some other corporation. More likely some other kind of threat or intimidation directly at Schumer. Or, he really believes this is the right path. 🤷‍♂️

Really nice work here. 👍🏼

Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid to Delay Foreign-Aid Payouts A divided Supreme Court declined to suspend a lower court’s order that directed the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid funding.

Thanks to all the SCOTUS justices that held the line and defended our Republic yesterday. This was not widely reported, but it was super important.

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@msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com

They have started running them…

Just read your website. Good luck to you all. As a tech startup professional, I know this story way too well. Sounds exactly like what happens when a valuable startup is consumed by an unscrupulous investor. Take @mcuban.bsky.social up on his offer and start your own thing. Good advice…

The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.

This article might dampen your weekend mood, but it's a must read.

The situation in the US government is already dire, but trying to comprehend what comes next is even more unsettling.

@maddow.msnbc.com @lizcheney.bsky.social @adamkinzinger.bsky.social

When this shit hits the fan, it will be time to rise up and strike with a new bi-partisan message.

Also, @maddow.msnbc.com. She can provide the megaphone.

@mcuban.bsky.social @lizcheney.bsky.social @adamkinzinger.bsky.social

You all really need to get together, talk to your friends, craft a message, and get it out there to the people. We need bi-partisan leadership and messaging if We The People are going to be able to rise and end this shit show.

Um, no one should be watching anything on Amazon or patronizing it at all.

This type of solidarity may be the only hope of the US coming back from this shit show. Live and let live, then fight together!!

It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”

Start here with Ronald Reagan: “Perhaps you and I have lived too long with this miracle to properly be appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction.

‘They’ve lost my trust’: consumers shun companies as bosses kowtow to Trump — Guardian US Americans are using their wallet to hurt where it matters – including during Friday’s planned ‘economic blackout’

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Keep it up. They will feel it…

Nobody actually needs Starlink. There are alternatives.

There is only one thing keeping these guys rich, and that is everyone of us still patronizing their businesses. #boycottthebillionaires

Cowards.

Amazon just started running commercials to tell us to not forget that many people who sell things on Amazon are small businesses. Great, then let’s do this… …if you find a product that you want from a small business on Amazon, go directly to their website and buy it!!! #boycottthebillionaires

Wow. Just wow…