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Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap

"When pitting the US against 38 other higher-income countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the US has the highest rate of relative poverty, second-highest rate of child poverty and infant mortality, and the second-lowest life expectancy rate."

a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.

Venture capitalists Andreessen and Horowitz invest in startup that sells thousands of AI bot influencers to manipulate social media as a service, clearly violating major platform policies
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes

What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

The Trump administration just ordered two Gulfstream luxury private jets for Kristi Noem at a cost of over $172 million.

This comes as Americans can barely afford groceries.

Trump Gets the Retribution He Sought, and Shatters Norms in the Process

Trump Gets the Retribution He Sought, and Shatters Norms in the Process ... shatters the rule of law, not just "norms".. this is tyranny www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Comptroller finds NYPD force complaints way up under Mayor Adams The complaints are also concentrated in Black and Latino neighborhoods, the report finds.

⚠️NEW REPORT⚠️

Excessive force complaints against the NYPD have surged in past three years to highest since 2013—a dramatic increase during Mayor Adams's tenure.

“The FBI recorded Tom Homan, White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help agents posing as business executives win government contracts in a 2nd Trump administration… Trump’s DOJ shut down the investigation…” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

I really enjoyed this episode. Thank you!

This is from August 28th.

No address required.

Also, why aren’t you attacking Kash Patel for the mass shooting in Minneapolis. He diverted resources away from counter-terrorism to focus on terrorizing folks in DC, LA, etc and the FBI completely missed someone posting online about killing children.

I am glad you are attempting to highlight the disaster of Trump’s economic plan, but I would be more reassured if you would connect this to the fact that he’s doing this to try and fill a budget gap that Rs have created to give tax breaks to the wealthy.

Thank you. The system tried to connect me with Andrea Stewart Cousins, but I wasn’t connected with a person or voicemail. I hung up and wasn’t connected to the house speaker or governor.

I want to see a competition among elected Democrats, especially those with executive authority in state office over who can use that authority most effectively to stymie, impede, block and discredit Trumps efforts to create an autocracy. That should be the coin of future electoral success

I think 主义 in this context means -ism.

The first character means big/great, so I think this means a Big England as opposed to a little inward looking England—maybe?

Betteridge's Law of Headlines, illustrated.

("Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word No.")

Screen shot of NY Times article with photo of Kevin Hassett. Photo caption reads: Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House National Economic Council, declined to give evidence to substantiate the president's claims that economic data had been manipulated. Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times Text below reads: Two days after President Trump fired the top labor official in charge of compiling statistics on employment, Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House National Economic Council, insisted on Sunday that the administration was "absolutely not" shooting the messenger on the heels of a poor jobs report. But Mr. Hassett repeatedly declined to furnish detailed evidence that would substantiate the president's claims that the data had been rigged or manipulated to hurt him politically. Mr. Trump cited that justification in his decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in a widely rebuked move on Friday.

The headline/push notification writers are abysmal. The piece right below this one notes that Hassett ”declined to furnish detailed evidence that would substantiate these claims. It would have been simple to add this information to make the notification more accurate and useful.

The East Wing holds the office of FLOTUS. I have to think there is some subconscious message about his relationship with Melania in this plan.

The act is wearing so thin. Each new shark-jumping attempt so preposterous. A sad old clown so pathetically desperate for attention.

Hi, the link to FEMA in the paragraph below doesn’t work. Is the information available elsewhere?

www.fema.gov/media-librar...

Add the media to the list of law firms and universities who think the proper response to a bully stealing your lunch money is to carry more money.

Hi @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social, thanks for delaying this bill. Sounds like a quorum call might delay things further, no?

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.
 
This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

Photo of a crowd gathered at Foley Square to protest the arrest of Brad Lander.