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The real choice before us is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works just for the rich. If the Democrat's mega-donor class chooses the latter, it may be acting in its narrow self-interest — but it will also be acting against the future of this nation.

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now pumped over $100M into stopping California's billionaire tax ballot initiative. So he and his fellow oligarchs can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections?

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The Attorney General of the United States should be the people's lawyer, not the president's personal attorney. And the Department of Justice should act to protect the public, not the occupant of the Oval Office and his political allies. The squalor of Trump is bringing us back to the basics.

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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.

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Two years ago, ABC kicked off corporate media’s capitulation to Trump by settling a defamation lawsuit with him. Now, they’re fighting back against Trump’s FCC, accusing the agency of violating their free speech rights. Kudos to ABC for taking a stand. More media companies should follow suit.

Brian Stelter@brianstelter.bsky.social

BREAKING: ABC has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the FCC in DC District Court. The suit says the Trump administration "has waged a retaliatory campaign against ABC for a single reason: it disapproves of what ABC broadcasts." www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/m...

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In 2025, a majority of S&P 500 CEOs made more in one day than the median US worker made the entire year. Meanwhile, the median U.S. worker would need to work 43,154 years to earn what Trump made in 2025 thanks to his crypto scams and various grifts. Is it any wonder why so many people are fed up?

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NEW: Our government is supposed to be there for us during natural disasters. But Trump has unleashed a perfect storm of incompetence and cruelty that is already making floods, tornadoes, and wildfires even worse. Watch.

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Random reminder that the GOP's tax cuts for their billionaire donors ballooned the deficit, so they're blaming the problem on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid — while making cuts to programs that millions of Americans rely on. It's socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.

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We have a president who took the nation into a war for reasons he could not articulate, without a strategy for how to respond when Iran flexed its control over the Strait of Hormuz, and without an exit strategy if Iran doesn’t surrender. This is the "Forever War" Trump once railed about.

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An increasing portion of our nation’s budget — and your tax dollar — is dedicated to paying interest on our growing national debt. But who exactly receives the interest payments? This is an issue you hear very little discussion about, because the wealthy and powerful would rather you not know

robertreich.substack.comWho’s Raking it in as the National Debt Explodes?What the wealthy and powerful — and Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent — don’t want you to know

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Tyson Foods just settled a price-fixing lawsuit and has almost doubled its profits this year compared to last. Its CEO makes $34.5M — 798x more than his median employee. Remember this as it closes plants in Illinois and Utah, laying off 3,200 with little notice.

kwqc.comJoslin workers describe tears, chaos after learning Tyson plant shutting down permanently Tyson Foods is permanently closing its Joslin, Illinois beef plant, leaving more than 2,500 workers without jobs. The f

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Walmart gets a big tariff refund and promises to lower its prices. So now prices will be closer to where they were BEFORE Trump's tariffs? And is that supposed to make up for the higher prices customers ALREADY PAID due to the tariffs? If you feel like you are losing your marbles, you are not.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Walmart just received a $2.9 billion tariff refund, massively boosting the company's profits. Regular people paid the costs of tariffs by and large across America. But now corporations are getting huge checks from the government, while working people get nothing.

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BREAKING NYT: A month after the Trump admin declared without evidence that thousands of noncitizens had illegally registered to vote in Nevada, DHS officials were unable to substantiate the claim — finding just 185 potential anomalies, not the 16,000 claimed last month.

nytimes.comHomeland Security Unable to Prove That Thousands of Noncitizens Registered to Vote in NevadaThe Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
Steven Beschloss@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social

“Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of N Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with S Korea.” This man is failing to defend the United States. This man is a traitor. This man should be removed.

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“Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of N Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with S Korea.” This man is failing to defend the United States. This man is a traitor. This man should be removed.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

I've never seen anything like this. The Trump admin just granted preliminary approval of a federal bank charter to the family's crypto firm World Liberty Financial. Remember: Trump raked in almost $800 million from WLF last year. No president has used their power to profit the way Trump has.

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