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Another $800,000,000 is being paid to victims of child sexual abuse at the hands of people working for the Catholic church. So spare us all the false Christian claims about drag queens & LGBT people being dangerous to kids. The danger is coming from inside the house. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

ICE is moving deeper into the Bay Area. Community defense starts now—stay sharp, protect each other, and fight back.

27% are eligible!!

Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating. Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.

The wind of change…

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

In his letter, he didn’t apologize for going to a meeting organized by the Heritage Foundation, whose Project25 is causing great harm in our nation. He apologized for being caught on camera. What was he really expecting to achieve in such a meeting?

Losing Orban and Vucic is a blow to Putin. Let's hope a big setback to his most important Western ally (Trump and MAGA) is in the cards for next week.

@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

He had so many roles in his life but to me, he will always be Viper. RIP, Sir.

Trump’s personal Attorney General Todd Blanche doesn’t rule out challenging election certifications in various states (You are not alarmed enough)

thought about this bit out of nowhere this morning so i watched it again extremely solid use of my time www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLEC...

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Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

Enten: "Trump's net approval rating -- its all time low! -35 points, the worst he has ever been in the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Among independents he's 54 points underwater. NBC -- worst ever. ABC -- worst ever. Ipsos -- worst ever. Pew -- worst ever."

Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who's spent $100M+ against California's Prop 40, spent the weekend dining with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. These billionaires keep accidentally proving why we need a billionaire wealth tax.

The US military fired roughly 19 years’ worth of Patriot interceptor purchases in just seven months of Trump’s Iran War, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates.

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

🚨SENATE BLUE WAVE ALERT: Nate Silver’s model now gives Democrats roughly a 75% chance of winning the Senate — with the current polling map pointing to a possible 54–46 Democratic majority. Even a 2-point polling miss still leaves Democrats ahead, 52–48. Keep pushing. Vote. Volunteer. Donate.

NO KINGS! #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Trump #EpsteinFiles #POTUS

Taylor: He has turned the presidency into a side hustle. He has turned the White House into a deposit box for bribes, and he has turned your government into, forgive my words, a fucking ATM machine. So no, we don't want his name on the buildings.

Finding that the evidence supports Lula's claims that Mark Zuckerberg is consciously attempting to rig the Brazilian elections in favor of Bolsonaro, a Brazilian court urgently requires Meta to undo its offending logarithms and insure equal access to Lula. www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

California’s billionaires have a combined net worth of $2.4 trillion. Under Prop 40, their net worth would fall to…just under $2.3 trillion. What amounts to a rounding error for them would allow millions of their fellow Californians to afford healthcare. Vote yes on Prop 40.

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

Given the news that Meta throttled Lula in Brazil and stories like this one below every Dem state legislature should open an investigation into whether the platforms have attempted to influence elections in their states.

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Who were all of the executives at Apple involved with this decision? They all need to go, including Cook should be removed from the Board. How did they square a decision like this with the long time values of the company?

Gavin Newsom: -Pushed state AGs to accept a weak Paramount merger settlement -Opposes Prop 40, despite 65% support from California Democrats -Supports Prop 42, which cancels out Prop 40 and makes it impossible to pass future wealth taxes Is he really that desperate for billionaire campaign cash?

Newsom is on the billionaires’ side. He needs them to bankroll his presidential run. 😡

Under Trump: -Gas prices are up 43.7% -Grocery prices are up 3.7% -Household electricity prices are up 12.7% -Healthcare costs are up 14.6% -Childcare costs are up 7.6% -Rent is up 5.1% and mortgage rates are at 7.6% Tired of "winning" yet?

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.

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

Trump is openly siding with Putin, blaming Ukraine's self-defense rather than Russia's aggression for the war, and telling Ukraine to surrender. Worth calling it out every time. But hardly new. Ambushing Zelensky in DC, aping Russian propaganda, and insisting it's Ukraine's fault was March 2025.

To Trump, the word “dog” is an insult. Tell that to dog owners. 😡

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

❗️The US Treasury says OFAC is issuing a temporary license allowing Russian diesel onto the global market at Trump’s direction. The move comes weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions Act, which threatens tariffs on countries buying significant Russian oil and gas. #Russia

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

No matter the offense, the United States does not execute criminals on a live broadcast for spectacle. But that’s exactly what Hegseth says he intends to do. Maybe this is meant to distract from the disastrous war he has overseen? What will it take for Congress to impeach him?

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This is how it’s done. Plain vivid truth.

I note how Christian Nationalists, who think the public execution of Jesus was the most horrific thing humans ever did, are giddy at the prospect of getting to watch a public execution on live streaming—being so “pro-life” and all . . .

No better case for the billionaire tax than how hard they’re working to defeat it

He’s destroying everything he can. 😡

Ro's right. Newsom needs the billionaires to fund his presidential campaign. So he's willing to let millions of Californians lose their healthcare just so 250 billionaires don't have to pay a tax they won't even notice. Vote YES on Prop 40, NO on Prop 41 and Prop 42.

The whole world is watching to see if California can pass Prop 40 and tax the wealth of billionaires. This weekend in SF, the Curran Theatre was packed for a rally with @sanders.senate.gov and @rokhanna.bsky.social.

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

Thanks Manosphere

A group of interfaith leaders in California is marching 96 miles from an ICE processing center in the Mojave Desert to Downtown L.A. to protest ICE and demand a shutdown of "all detention centers."