Chris

Chris

@cdek.bsky.social

Billionaires are the reason we can't have nice things

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Chris
@cdek.bsky.social

"If members comply with the core 3.5 percent target by 2030, that would mean a total of $13.4 trillion in military expenditure." This alone would already be enough to give every NATO citizen a UBI !

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Chris
@cdek.bsky.social

'We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" [...] It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.' —MLK (Letter from Birmingham Jail)

Clay Bennett@claybennett.bsky.social

6/14/2025- Trump's Parade www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ju...

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Cartooning for Peace
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[BLOG] "Repression in Los Angeles: #Trump's authoritarian drift?" - a cartoon by @kaltoons.bsky.social (USA) on our blog #Libéronslescrayons via @lemonde.fr: www.lemonde.fr/blog/cartoon...

lemonde.frRépression à Los Angeles : la dérive autoritaire de Trump ?Kal (États-Unis) "Manuel de l'autocrate - C'est quoi cette tenue ? - Peut-être que Los Angeles est sa répétition en costume." À Los Angeles en Californie, la police fédérale de l'immigration (ICE) mèn...

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Rob Rogers
@rob-rogers.bsky.social

Trump doesn't need Marilyn Monroe singing him "Happy Birthday" because he can just throw himself a North Korea-style military parade. #MilitaryParade #Trump #HappyBirthday #tank #despot #regime #DictatorTrump #dictator

Chris
@cdek.bsky.social

Trump suggested children are capable of cutting back on a basic school supply: pencils. "I'm just saying they don't need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. They don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five." eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

eu.usatoday.comA 'beautiful baby girl' doesn't need so many dolls, Trump says. Also: five pencils are enough'I don't think that a beautiful baby girl needs – that's 11 years old – needs to have 30 dolls,' Trump said, defending his tariffs. Also: five pencils are fine.
Matt Wuerker@mwuerker.bsky.social

It's a bribe, it's a plane, it's a cartoon cliché!

Chris
@cdek.bsky.social

The wealthiest individuals are directly responsible for most of the global warming. Politicians have an undeniable moral responsibility to impose regulation and taxes on the rich. The tax revenue should be used to address climate injustice and economic inequality.

sarahschoengart.bsky.social@sarahschoengart.bsky.social

New study on linking wealth-based emissions to climate impacts: We find that 2/3 of global warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10% and so are climate extremes. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @iiasa.ac.at, @usyseth.bsky.social 1/

Chris
@cdek.bsky.social

"Trump’s so-called border czar Tom Homan suggested Wisconsin officials could be arrested if they follow local immigration policies that defy Trump’s mass deportation agenda" www.democracynow.org/2025/5/5/tom...

democracynow.org“Chilling”: Wisconsin Gov. Evers Pushes Back After Trump’s Border Czar Threatens to Arrest HimWe go to Wisconsin as the state’s Democratic Governor Tony Evers pushes back after Trump border czar Tom Homan says Wisconsin officials could be arrested over local policies that defy Trump’s mass dep...
Phil Hands@phil-hands.bsky.social

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is wanted for arrest in my latest cartoon for the Wisconsin State Journal. madison.com/opinion/cart...

Chris
@cdek.bsky.social

We need to heavily regulate and tax the billionaire class! It's the only thing they're afraid of and the only survival chance for the rest of the world. "the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating"

Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

theguardian.comThe rise of end times fascismThe governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
Chris
@cdek.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/o...

nytimes.comOpinion | ‘The Lowest White Man’ (Published 2018)For white supremacy to thrive, the lowest white man must be exalted above those who are black.
Brooklyn American@brooklynamerican.bsky.social

President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

Chris
@cdek.bsky.social

Says the billionaire ...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."

Chris
@cdek.bsky.social

"To satisfy the Lockean Proviso, asset-based wealth should be as open to any ‘levy’ as labour-based income." Private wealth is no longer justifiable without a levy that would redistribute a big part of it as a Citizen's Dividend or a UBI. (It would also avoid fascist dictatorships.)

Chris
@cdek.bsky.social

'Congress: Do Your Job' — Steve Corbin 'Mr. Trump is not worried since Congress has been sitting on their duff watching chaos and uncertainty reign with small business owners, corporate CEOs, 340 million citizens and all of our heretofore allies.' thefulcrum.us/governance-l...

thefulcrum.usCongress: Do Your JobOne of President Trump’s 111 record-setting executive actions, 25 proclamations, and 27 memoranda called for election security. Our 535 congressional delegates should have initiated such an action, bu...