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Billie Eilish asked an important question: "If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?"

There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:

1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance

Billionaires are the result of a failed system.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

I’d just like to reiterate that if you put on a mask, and go out without a warrant and kidnap people because they aren’t white enough, you’re a huge piece of shit…

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

The only way we can build a better future is FOR everyone, WITH everyone.

In 2025, first-time home buyers sank to a record low of 21%. Housing is unaffordable.

We need to take private equity out of the housing market and return purchasing power to ordinary Americans.

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It's terrible to me that Cuomo is even in the race at all. We, as a nation went, "oh geez! A lot of powerful men are harassing and assaulting women! Well, we've talked about that enough, let's all forget it happened."

It's an affront to women's dignity!

"Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings." ~ Nelson Mandela

Fund SNAP. Reverse the Medicaid cuts. Restore USAID.

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I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us:

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

Between what came before and what happened tonight, Dems ought to treat encounters with CBS reporters as presumptively hostile and untrustworthy. A small thing, but there’s no way out of this disaster if the party continues helplessly submitting to unequal treatment from ~all mediating institutions.

Racists are using AI to create fake videos intended to smear SNAP recipients

No one deserves to starve.

We have enough food to feed everyone, but we have a serious problem with wealth inequality.

We must stop viewing those who are disabled and/or poor as moral failures and start recognizing the system is rigged against us.

It’s rigged against everyone but the 1%

Friendly reminder that Republicans are garbage, entirely devoid of empathy, compassion, or honor. They are terrified little babies who are filled with hate, scared to death of anything they don't understand. And they don't understand most things, because they are also deeply incurious.

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Because hope IS a strategy, as @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social has emphasized, a thread of quotes from admirable people to keep hope front and center in these trying times.

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."
- Desmond Tutu

Good on you! You did important work and it wasn't for the money. Congratulations on a well deserved retirement!

this is evil

The wealth inequality pandemic really does reach every corner of our society. There is no industry where the middle class hasn’t paid a growing price for the obscene wealth of a limited few. Mine included.
The whiplash of that is those same few hold the reins of power and only tighten their grip.

If you think that food prices will decrease if people aren’t getting SNAP you are an idiot.

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

Officially boycotting Amazon. Laying off 30,000 employees while your shitty company makes RECORD PROFITS?? Fuck. You.

I cut it a while back and don't miss it. Down with the broligarchs!

Over 71 million Americans are paid less than a living wage, and are forced into social safety nets like SNAP.

If you think too many people are receiving SNAP benefits, don’t shame them.

Shame their employers paying them poverty wages and forcing taxpayers to subsidize the rest.

Calling Black and Brown women "low IQ" while you brag about passing a cognitive test is peak white man