Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
Speaker Johnson: ‘Medicaid is intended for vulnerable populations, elderly and pregnant women, not young able bodied men sitting shirtless with sweaty, glistening pecks and rock hard abs playing video games….’
BILL BURR: “There’s nothing wrong with being a billionaire, but if someone’s working 40 hours/week and can’t make rent you’re not paying them enough… maybe you should just be worth $900 Million. How do you take an 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”
Kinda starting to feel like 2020 where Trump is just gonna hijack summer. Monetized chaos is perfect formula for him and he damn well knows it. Anyone sharing his clips is building his brand to rage farm you for clicks. Also anyone who says: ‘BREAKING’ on someone else’s work.
The time is now to #ground and be ready to act proactively, not react, shut down, or fixate on things beyond our control.
"We knew this was coming. We knew it was coming. We here now. Ground yourself. Take care of yourself... We need you on the other side."
#wisdom#mindfulness#Iranbombing#build
Donald Trump forcing US troops to sleep on the ground in the scorching heat in Los Angeles, since he made 0 arrangements to house or feed them and only wanted to use them as props for his fascist porn and political manipulation.
MAGA will say "I voted for this"🤡
Republicans’ budget bill earmarks a staggering $45 billion for immigrant detention centers.
The biggest beneficiaries? Private prison companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group – who both donated hefty sums to Trump’s inauguration.
Always follow the money.
Musk staffer Conor Fennessy drafted a list targeting dozens of National Park Service grants for elimination including several aimed at protecting public lands from climate change.
As he was flying down to Trump Doral for a dinner and golf tournament with the Saudi backers of his LIV golf venture, on the same day over 2 trillion in wealth disappeared from the American economy.
CNBC's Steve Liesman doesn't mince words about the way the White House calculated its tariff rates:
"Nobody ever heard of this formula. Nobody has ever used this formula. So I’m sorry, but the conclusion seems to be the president kind of made this up as he went along... these are off the charts."
Just an FYI: Medicaid fraud is rarely perpetrated by beneficiaries. The fraudsters are almost always the doctors and CEO's that administer Medicaid. For example: when a doctor charges the government $600 for an $8 breast pump and pockets the cash and the third party administrator takes a cut.
Please, someone at OPM tally for me the number of "what I did last week" responses that just say "your mom." This is information of national importance.
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode the deficit.
3) Demand cuts to programs that millions of people rely on.
4) Repeat.
Don't let them get away with it.