End Billionaires

This entire administration is, at the core, all about bilking average Americans to give more money to the ultra-wealthy. I wondered if they would try to disguise it but it’s just the most visible the oligarchy has ever been

These fuckers aren’t gonna learn the lesson peacefully at this point, are they?

Clarification: I say ‘while heavily white’ to indicate that undocumented students are less likely to be here. The state is NH, which just went more red in November’s election.

I’m currently college faculty in a state that, while heavily white, is not going to resist the Trump admin on this. If ICE enters my classroom or even my building, I’m putting myself in between them and the students

This country is about to have a huge brain drain.

Who had the front row at Trump's inauguration? Billionaire tech CEOs.

Every decision he makes, this is who he has in mind.

Bought and sold.

But what did she do to deserve this? Be part of running the corrupt Clinton foundation and a bad campaign that gave us the first Trump presidency? In any case, this medal has just become a status symbol for celebrities and politicians who the current president happens to like

Of course, it does reduce what people pay for care in many cases, but that fact only serves as an indictment of how out of control costs are under modern capitalism

Even though my political and social awareness was still very incomplete as a college student, I considered an insurance career until I realized that something seemed very wrong about running algorithms to determine who would and would not get coverage. The whole industry is a scam against humanity

Double revelation here. First that the right-wing partisans who claim everyone to their left is a socialist or communist know they’re lying; second, even when they think they’re being fair-minded or literal, they don’t know what a socialist or communist is. cc @rickperlstein.bsky.social

Gerontocracy Gives Us One Last Cringe Before 2025 VIDEO: 74 year old congressman could barely speak in painful TV appearance today

The gerontocracy gives us one last cringe before 2025:

this is the biggest obstacle to making the information environment better for left-wing politics - the right wing is simply much better funded

and, of course, any funding from billionaires for ostensibly left-wing projects is unlikely to support messages like "there shouldn't be billionaires"

The year of Luigi promotional campaign

Nintendo announces that due to a release date error 2025 will be the official year of Luigi

YouTube video by Hysteria Vivek Ramaswamy: Everything You Didn't Know About His Sh*tty Past

when we first made this Vivek Ramaswamy episode of This Fuckin' Guy, I was worried it would lose relevance fast because he's too annoying to remain in the public eye for long. Glad to be wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BJe...

I thought my eyes were open then I started reading Binding Chaos by @heathermarsh.bsky.social

Thanks to @youranoncentral.bsky.social for shouting about this book. If you claim to be on the left you have to read it.

#PromoteGreatWork

‼️⁉️Holy f#cking sh#t. Per Forbes, Marc Andreessen—a MAJOR Tech Bro & Elon Musk ally who advises “DOGE” & supports the Network State movement—is invested in New Founding, an organization founded by Nate Fischer. This is Nate Fischer. (See post 2 for article. I’m gobsmacked) @raskin.house.gov 1/

My state’s governor is an absolutely shameless bootlicker

🚨 Jimmy Carter now eligible for congressional leadership position

“Some employers said they hired H-1B workers in part because these workers would often accept lower salaries than similarly qualified U.S. workers." — Government Accountability Office

The government admitted what the program is used for https://buff.ly/3ZO7UR2

Elon Musk tweet in which he claims to support H-1B visa system.

My problem with the H-1B visa system is not that it allows tech workers express entry into the U.S. It's that it puts those workers in a position where they are subject to abusive treatment while simultaneously depressing benefits for all workers.

Here's a quick recap of how this works. …

And this is before I get to Manufacturing data from major cities around the country.

There are no new orders coming in and their backlogs from Covid are completely gone.

Layoffs on that level are imminent as well.

Not a SINGLE place have I seen reporting this.

Justice Clarence Thomas Did Not Disclose Additional Trips From Billionaire Patron, Democrats Say (Gift Article) The revelation was included in a report by Democratic staff members on the Senate Judiciary Committee who had conducted a 20-month investigation into ethics practices at the Supreme Court.

After a 20-month investigation, Senate Democrats have found that Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose an additional two trips from conservative megadonor Harlan Crow.

Although Thomas knew he was legally required to report these trips... 1/

🎁 NYT Article

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/u...

Finland gave every homeless person a house and within 6 months 85% had a job and were financially independent.

Less crime, less hospital visits, less suffering and even including the cost of the house, LESS COST than the UK/USA method of abandoning them on the streets.

To see who they value, pay attention to their words. School massacres are labeled "mass shootings. Street executions are described as "officer-involved shootings." But the killing of a CEO is immediately called "terrorism."

If the government shuts down Saturday, the richest man in the world will be largely to blame.

You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way.

If this isn’t oligarchy, I don’t know what is.

Across this country, working people are fed up with CEOs and corporations working us to death so they can continue to get richer.

We’re with Starbucks & Amazon workers demanding a fair contract now & an end to all unfair labor practices!

#NoContractNoCoffee #SolidaritySeason

That’s a curious one. Maybe he thinks AI porn feeds on Twitter might keep some weirdos more engaged?

BREAKING: Starbucks Workers United is going on strike.

Tomorrow unionized Starbucks workers are walking out in multiple key cities. And @sbworkersunited.org's rolling strike will grow in the coming days.

537 stores and 10,000+ workers are in the union and could potentially strike.