Department of Class Solidarity

This is what Elon Musk's trillion dollar payout looks like when annualized and compared to the total annual income of every EMT, school bus driver, nurse, teacher, cashier, and even CEOs.

This is class war. And the oligarchs are winning. The time to organize is now.

Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined See how Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s new payment package compares with other occupations in the United States.

Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary school teacher combined.

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We're going to have to update Peter Thiel's entry on the DOCS website: classsolidarity.org/audits/peter...

Oh look. Thiel and Epstein were friends. Because of course they were.

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Marc Rowan is trying to end academic freedom as we know it.

The billionaire Trump donor is demanding higher ed institutions to sign a loyalty oath to gain access to federal funds.

Here's how faculty, students, and @aaup.org @psc-cuny.org @debtcollective.bsky.social responded.

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That’s $53,792,403 that could have gone to feed families who had their SNAP benefits cut by Trump. $53,792,403 that could have helped rent-burdened tenants. Almost the same amount that it would take to fund Zohran’s proposal for five city-owned grocery stores.

Here are the names of the billionaires who burned $53,792,403 in donations to super PACS trying to stop Zohran Mamdani. All because they didn’t want the working class to have a city they can afford.

@aaup-penn.bsky.social Vice President Lorena Grundy took to the streets alongside @psc-cuny.org @debtcollective.bsky.social and more to denounce Trump ally and billionaire Marc Rowan's assault on academic freedom.

Proud CUNY graduate @jumaane.bsky.social stood in solidarity with @aaup.org @psc-cuny.org outside oligarch Marc Rowan's office to denounce the Educational Trump Loyalty Oath.

The people beat the oligarchs to elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. We'll beat them again to preserve academic freedom.

Looking good, NYC! Thank you for standing up for academic freedom, security, and affordable & accessible higher education. #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @AAUP

Today, @aaup.org @aaup-penn.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org outside Apollo Global Management's Midtown office to protest Marc Rowan's "Compact for Higher Education". PSC-CUNY President James Davis explains why this assault on higher ed undermines academic freedoms and our democracy itself.

November 7: Hands Off Higher Ed: No Compact! No Loyalty Oaths! ​Protest Marc Rowan, the billionaire oligarch behind Trump's "Compact" for colleges and universities, outside his private equity firm, Apollo Global Management. Defend the freedom to teach, learn, re...

On Friday, November 7th, join students, educators, and defenders of higher ed at Rowan's NYC office to tell him loud and clear: we won't let his loyalty oath turn our education system into Trump’s brainwashing factory.

Hands Off Higher Ed! ✊

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November 7: Hands Off Higher Ed: No Compact! No Loyalty Oaths! ​Protest Marc Rowan, the billionaire oligarch behind Trump's "Compact" for colleges and universities, outside his private equity firm, Apollo Global Management. Defend the freedom to teach, learn, re...

On Friday, November 7th, join students, educators, and defenders of higher ed at Rowan's NYC office to tell him loud and clear: we won't let his loyalty oath turn our education system into Trump’s brainwashing factory.

Hands Off Higher Ed! ✊

actionnetwork.org/events/nyc-n...

Worth $10.2 billion, Rowan donated $1 million to the Trump campaign before drafting this loyalty oath. Before that, he gave $50 million to create the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a key weapon against student loan cancellation. Ruining student lives is his passion.

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Billionaire Marc Rowan wrote Trump's "Academic Compact" loyalty oath in order to, in his words, destroy universities the way seen in Europe in the 30's and 40's.

His private equity firm Apollo also owns the University of Phoenix, the country's biggest creator of student debt.

62 billionaires spent over $18.7 million to try and buy an election.

Their millions should help pay for Zohran's affordability agenda instead.

New Yorkers won a mandate for a New York we can afford. Now it’s time for the rich to pay their due.

Tax the rich, @governor.ny.gov.

Bill Ackman has spent more money attacking free childcare than he would be taxed to help make childcare free.

Over the last few decades New York City has become a playground for the oligarchs, who collectively are worth $717 billion even as tens of thousands of working class New Yorkers are forced out of their homes every year.

It's time we taxed the rich. And Zohran will make sure it happens.

Right now, all income above $90,000 is taxed at the same rate. Which mean Michael Bloomberg, who reports an annual average income of $2 billion, is in the same top tax bracket as a teacher or bus driver.

No wonder he's leading the pack with $8.3 million donated to anti-Zohran expenditures.

Why are the billionaires lining up against Zohran?

He's proposing a 2% tax increase on residents making more than $1 million in annual income and a 2.65% increase in the tax rate on corporations that operate in the city, to match that of New Jersey. The result? $9 billion a year in new revenue.

Almost all the billionaire cash is going to Andrew Cuomo (98%) with 58 of the 62 billionaire spenders giving a total of $18.4 million to Cuomo super PACs. Among them are descendants of billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein associate Ronald Lauder and John and Lizzie Tisch, parents of Commissioner Tisch.

The billionaires are trying to buy the next Mayor of New York.

An analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness reveals that 62 billionaires and their descendants have contributed over one-third - $18.7 million – of all the donations to super PACs involved in the race. Their target? Zohran Mamdani.

Bill Ackman's wealth alone could fund two years of Zohran's proposed universal childcare program, or eleven years of free busses.

A much better use of his wealth than destroying our democracy.

Bill Ackman's wealth alone could fund two years of Zohran's proposed universal childcare program, or eleven years of free busses.

A much better use of his wealth than destroying our democracy.

Zohran Mamdani on MAGA billionaire, Bill Ackman, donating to the campaign against him: "He's spending more money against me than I would even tax him. Everyday is like a million dollars, I'm like, I don't even want that much."

Instead of attacking affordability, Bill Ackman's wealth could make life more affordable for millions of Americans.

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