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Lake Superior Academy is a beautiful school that had offered an incredible outdoor learning experience — that is until this Bitcoin mining farm moved in…

Wow wow wow wow… How women can collapse the economy😉

Exactly

Kroger just announced the largest layoffs in its history, with plans to cut 3,000 employees as it ramps up use of AI. Reminder that Kroger has spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 and paid its CEO $14M last year — 417x its median worker's pay. AI is turbo-charging corporate greed.

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

Severe weather coming this weekend across New England. Four seasons every day here. We are tough souls. But storms create a deep, profound sadness. I miss DarkSky. I MISS DarkSky. I miss DARKSKY!

Seattle just became the first city in America to ban grocery stores from engaging in surveillance pricing. This is a huge win for consumers against companies that abuse their personal data to rip them off. Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain.

CEO pay is up 1,316% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 28%. CEOs are now paid 325 TIMES as much as the typical worker in their industry, according to @epi.org Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Slava Ukraine!

As a new NFL season begins, here’s a reminder: publicly funded stadiums for billionaire sports team owners are a scam. Watch.

Walmart spent $43.4B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2025, enough to give each of its 2.1M workers annual bonuses of $2,953. Last year, retiring CEO Doug McMillon pocketed $29.2M — his largest payday ever and 958x Walmart's median worker pay of $30,520. Textbook corporate greed.

It’s been almost 90 days since the American people have seen or heard from Mitch McConnell. We’re still paying his salary.

We're witnessing the culminating rot of shareholder capitalism in real time. Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned. Remember this.

🚗☀️ Solar panels are moving beyond rooftops. Chinese automotive glass manufacturer Fuyao Glass says it now has mass-production capabilities for vehicle-integrated solar roofs, with PV cells built directly into laminated car glass.

Republicans win the White House, enact trickle-down tax cuts, and collapse the economy. Feel like we've been here before? Here's why it keeps happening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIoEbmltMIk

Private equity is price gouging firefighters now. Yes, you read that right. Firefighters. Is this the most evil thing they've done yet?

PSA: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

Morons. People should be ashamed to work for these tech companies.

AOC Makes A Great Point 👉.......

How did inequality spiral out of control? If you’ve never watched a video of mine, please watch this one.

The Odyssey cost $250 million to make. Guess who got a tax break worth more than 30x that last year? Amazon—after firing 30,000 workers.

Clair Patterson. Saved us from lead poisoning. Science matters.

The decimation of our federal agencies has upended the lives of thousands of workers. These are the people who oversee food safety, public health, and much more. The squalor of this moment is bringing us back to basics — and reminding us of what our priorities should be. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

Trump has slapped a new batch of tariffs on 60 foreign trade partners, including Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, and the EU. Once again, foreign countries won't be paying the cost of these tariffs. You will. One estimate puts the cost of these new tariffs to consumers at $100 billion/yr.

Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

It’s your right and your obligation to call out corruption and abuse.

Innovation. Innovation. Innovation.

RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now? A cyclosporiasis outbreak has sickened thousands across 34 states. "Make America Healthy Again."

Meta is contaminating public water supplies with deadly bacteria. Cupriavidus gilardii is resistant to multiple antibiotic agents (even Carbapenems) and can cause fatal human infections.

Let's face it: ICE is *not* a law enforcement agency. It is a ragtag collection of angry, arrested development vigilantes and malcontents that has gone "Lord of the Flies" on us.

how cool that we don't even need to think for ourselves anymore

“Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million. This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs. Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.” - Bernie Sanders

#Morocco is finding a clever way to produce #cleanenergy while protecting one of its most valuable resources: water. By installing floating #solarpanels on reservoirs and dams, the country is allowing the same surface to generate electricity while helping reduce water evaporation during dry periods

Switzerland mandated in 2023 that all new buildings exceeding 300 square metres of roof area must install solar panels covering a minimum percentage of that surface — the most aggressive building-integrated solar mandate in continental Europe #ActOnClimate #SolarPower #Renewables

CEO of Toyota just announced their solid state EV battery, with an 1100 mile range, that does not use LITHIUM! This is epic 😏

People who can barely afford food or rent are stuck paying a trillionaires bills. Fuck that.