Ken White

Ken White

@k2rm.bsky.social

Human rights activist. If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.” — Jack Kerouac. ☮️☮️☮️ 🌊🌊🌊 🌈🌈🌈

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Received yesterday - This is a message from the California Secretary of State on behalf of Alameda County Registrar of Voters. Your ballot for the November 3, 2026, General Election was received and will be counted. Thank you for voting!

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It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.

commondreams.orgNewsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth Taxes | Common Dreams"He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally p

Liberty Mutual commercials are way out of hand. Too many and too stupid. I would never insure with Liberty Mutual

When your CEO makes as much in a day as you do in a year, there's a problem.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Greg Olear@gregolear.bsky.social

Turned on Giants game. An ad for the sports gambling app that sponsors the broadcast, in which one of the ESPN talking heads is practically begging me to place a bet, comes on. This is insidious and must be outlawed…but I am not holding my breath.

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Hard to articulate exactly how much I despise Kaiser. I need surgery, pretty easy fix. Wait list is a year long. In spite of being in pain, they will not move it up. Great insurance as long as you never need it.

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The massive nationwide electricity rate hikes aren’t happening simply because utility services have gotten more expensive or customers have been receiving better service. It’s because utility monopolies have bought off the system that’s supposed to keep them in check. Watch.

youtube.comThe Secret Behind High Electricity BillsPrivate utility companies like PG&E, Duke, and Exelon control electricity for nearly 70% of Americans — and they're usin

Ken White reposted

The massive nationwide electricity rate hikes aren’t happening simply because utility services have gotten more expensive or customers have been receiving better service. It’s because utility monopolies have bought off the system that’s supposed to keep them in check.

youtube.comThe Secret Behind High Electricity BillsPrivate utility companies like PG&E, Duke, and Exelon control electricity for nearly 70% of Americans — and they're usin

Ken White reposted

I remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. Now, two unvaccinated people have died from measles. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.

Name one thing that private equity has improved. Just one. From fire trucks to fabric stores they destroy things.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

The city of Mesa, Arizona is suing major fire truck manufacturers for allegedly colluding to drive up costs and delay deliveries. A key player in the dangerous consolidation of this market has been private equity. Watch.

Kaiser has been my medical insurer since I was a child. Like most insurances, they are great until you need them I really need them and they are not there for me. Today I filed a grievance. I don't want to sue, but I will.