Casar: You can quickly explain Doge with just two numbers.

First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts.

Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…

Amazing! Way to go Denver! Drove to Greeley from Wyoming to see you today. Thank you for all you’re doing!!!

C’mon.

If you’re gonna do a town hall, don’t use the time to insult your constituents.

Laramie, population 31,407, is the fourth-most populous city in Wyoming and home to administrative offices for the 2.9 million ac. Medicine Bow - Routt National Forest and Thunder Basin National Grassland.

We’re now in the Second Gilded Age. As in the first, America’s wealth is in the hands of a few, conspicuous consumption exists alongside homelessness and hunger, monopolies crush competition, money corrupts politics, and working people are abused and exploited. The good news? Just like back then, we can fix it. From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

The question today is the same as it was during the first Gilded Age: Will we fight for an economy and a democracy that works for all rather than a wealthy few?

Thank you, Representative Green.

BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:

MAGA Bootlicking and Flip-Flopping Some Missouri lawmakers should start their mornings with toast and boot polish.

Why don't you wear a suit? Do you own a suit? A lot of Americans have a problem with you not respecting the dignity of the office,”

I wanted to cry. And then I wanted to punch something. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

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Jane Fonda gives politically-charged speech at SAG Awards: ‘Woke just means you give a damn about other people’ | CNN Jane Fonda persevered against some audio issues Sunday night to encourage activism at Sunday night’s SAG Awards.

Jane Fonda in SAG Awards speech: "Woke just means you give a damn about other people" cnn.it/3XdUSvy

Seeing an unelected South African billionaire in the Oval Office giving a briefing next to the mute and demented US President is jarring to say the least…

They are pulling back the curtain to let us all know who is in charge.

The absurd disappointments just keep rolling in. What a mess 😢

The irony of being at the “prayer breakfast!” WTF

RBG PAC’s $20M last-minute pro-Trump abortion campaign wasn’t just shady (and completely opposed by RBG’s surviving family members)—it was fully bankrolled by Elon Musk, new campaign finance reports show. Billionaire meddling in our elections must be stopped.

A tweet from Americans For Tax Fairness announces that the combined wealth of four wealthy Americans has reached $1 trillion. It names Musk, Bezos, Ellison, and Zuckerberg, noting their wealth was $74 billion twelve years ago.

This is unsustainable, especially now that billionaires are taking over our government.

A reminder #itwasntalandslide

Title: "Participatory Disinformation The “Big Lie” during the 2020 Election and the January 6, 2021 Attack on the U.S. Capitol" This is a visual graphic explaining the dynamics between “political elites” and “audiences” in this phenomenon. Political elites are at the top of the graph, audiences at the bottom, with several arcing arrows from elites to audiences on the right, and from audiences to elites on the left, in a kind of clockwise motion, showing a cyclical process. The arcing arrows have labels, explained below. Political elites repeatedly spread the message of a rigged election, which set an expectation of voter fraud among their audiences. This became a “frame” through which events around the election were interpreted. Online “crowds” generated false/misleading stories of voter fraud, reinforcing the frame. Sometimes these stories were produced intentionally (with knowledge that they were false). But often they were generated sincerely, through misinterpretation. Activists and social media influencers helped amplify these stories, passing the content up to the political elites. Political elites echoed the false/misleading stories back to their audiences, reinforcing the frame, building a sense of collective grievance. As audiences echoed and reiterated this growing sense of grievance, violent language and calls to action increased. Political elites then began to mobilize and organize the audiences… into a series of rallies and protests. And one of these led to the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6.

Here's a graphic explaining how the Big Lie was seeded and mobilized into the events of January 6, 2021 through a kind of "participatory disinformation" process. Trump's "war on drugs" refrain could catalyze a similar kind of participatory propaganda and mobilization cycle.

Climate denial a unifying theme of Trump’s cabinet picks, experts say Loyalists selected for important roles have offered staunch support to fossil fuels and downplayed climate crisis

Trump's cabinet picks are united in denying the climate crisis.

The consequences of climate denial — including on agriculture, infrastructure, and human health — will cost our planet up to $3.1 trillion a year by 2050.

Do they have another planet to live on?