Del Norte County, California
Retired educator: theater arts, ending in administration at a High School I adored! Go Braves! Now living large on the coast of California at the edge of Oregon. Someone has to manage such a hellscape!
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.
Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.
If only there were a law that said: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned"
We could call it 18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting
It’s not “an oil deal with Venezuela.” It’s Trump kidnapping an autocrat, refusing to hold elections, then leaving the remainder of the regime in place but only if they allow him to pillage their natural resources, which they are doing to remain in power oppressing the people.
Jon Ossoff: What those who build ballrooms and monuments to themselves, who rake in billions through foreign princes while the people's savings vanish, along with their hospitals, what they hate the most is when the people hold them accountable at the polls.
#ProudBlue#Pinks#SheShed
Gas prices are up 24.6% from a year ago and still significantly higher than they were before the Iran War.
Meanwhile, the world's 8 biggest oil companies have made a $93B profit windfall in just the last three months.
Big Oil is raking it in as the world burns — and we're paying for it.
TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS:
That’s the ICE budget for gloves that shock a human being on contact. Not a weapon of last resort. A weapon of convenience.
The manufacturer says they are INTENDED as non-lethal tools. Intended.
No wonder he wants that non-prosecution agreement so badly. The dude is a walking crime spree.
Money laundering has been the family business for decades, but it's harder when you're president and everyone is watching your every move.
🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/
The world's first trillionaire received 38 Billion Dollars from the US government. But, no, we won't have enough money to pay for school lunches for your kids. Or give you healthcare.
Reposted again...
Don't buy Tesla cars etc etc
"You're only getting out deported or dead."
A chilling new report from Human Rights Watch and the ACLU details alleged abuse inside Camp East Montana, America's largest ICE detention center.
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social shares more.
Warning: Some of the accounts are disturbing.
Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate?
Dahl: Yes.
Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000?
Dahl: 2.2%.
Nick Fuentes says that women should not be able to go to college or travel by themselves: "Islam is right about that. Freedom of movement should not exist for women."
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
The GOP Platform:
Protect the fetus; starve the child.
Honor the soldier; abandon the veteran.
Enrich the corporation; fleece the worker.
Quote the Bible; ignore the verses.
Listen up, California:
Chad Bianco is not the candidate that you want for Governor. Here he is in uniform, sworn to uphold the law—endorsing a convicted felon for the highest office in the land.
You can do better than him.
#VoteBecerraforGovernor@XavierBecerra.bsky.social
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This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
So dark. Kushner raises billions for his fund while the family of a soldier killed in Truml’s war gets help on Go Fund Me: www.gofundme.com/f/major-alex...
No matter what happens…
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.
No matter what.