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Busting up big corporations. Tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages. Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare... This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

submitted 3 days ago • 419 comments

The Trump family's crypto business just got a huge $2 billion investment from a UAE government-backed firm. We are witnessing a foreign government effectively bribe the President of the United States — right out in the open. Hello?

submitted 6 days ago • 513 comments

A Horrible Truth That Shouldn’t Be….

submitted 12 days ago • 378 comments

The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 12 days ago • 609 comments

See the problem here?

submitted 16 days ago • 423 comments

The economy is in free fall. The markets are collapsing. Our soldiers are dying. Our sensitive information is being leaked over text message and gmail. Random people are being kidnapped and sent to foreign torture prisons. And Trump is fucking golfing.

submitted 34 days ago • 588 comments

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Almost $6 BILLION.

submitted 35 days ago • 26 comments

By the way whenever we come out of a deep recession like 2008, the rich get richer

submitted 35 days ago • 1224 comments

Tonight, we forced Republicans to take a simple vote: Can we all agree that billionaire corporations like Amazon and Tesla - who take home over $1 billion in sheer profit a year - shouldn't get another tax handout? Republicans said no.

submitted 36 days ago • 204 comments

This was….five months ago

submitted 38 days ago • 1664 comments

Wisconsin's Supreme Court race is now the most expensive court race in U.S. history — largely due to donations from out-of-state billionaires. As Justice Louis Brandeis said, we can have great wealth in the hands of a few, or we can have democracy, but we can't have both.

submitted 40 days ago • 167 comments

All the right's fearmongering over George Soros, and this guy is literally out here buying votes for the world to see.

submitted 43 days ago • 584 comments

America’s raging inequality is on display. The corrupting power of wealth and giant corporations has never been more clear. Billionaires are running Washington and unleashing a tsunami of big money and legalized bribery. Serious question: Where the hell are the Democrats?

submitted 43 days ago • 209 comments

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 vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. Don't let them get away with it.

submitted 46 days ago • 523 comments

Pete Hegseth never should have been tapped for this job. It's too important. He should be fired immediately.

submitted 47 days ago • 1542 comments

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

submitted 47 days ago • 3673 comments

Forget lab leaks. This is what matters.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

#FireHegseth

submitted 47 days ago • 31 comments

Goldberg indicates Hegseth lied when he denied texting war plans

submitted 47 days ago • 1305 comments

So let me get this straight—Trump’s nat sec adviser added a JOURNALIST to a group chat on classified Yemen strike plans?? This isn’t a group project, it’s national security. They screamed “Lock her up” over emails, but leaking war plans is cool now? Make it make sense.

submitted 47 days ago • 604 comments

Reporter: Can you share how your information about war plans was shared with a journalist? Hegseth: So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes

submitted 47 days ago • 5284 comments

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Trump: widening inequality and the unchecked power of billionaires. There's no "center" anymore between a takeover of the government by oligarchs and true freedom. Dems need to learn this.

submitted 48 days ago • 342 comments

Nothing to see here—just a sitting U.S. president pumping his shitcoin, after countless Americans have already lost billions investing in it. The most corrupt president in history, by far

submitted 48 days ago • 1169 comments

Live look at the Trump coin pump and dump. Endless corruption.

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

When will media start calling the Musk-Trump axis what it is: the most audacious Bribery scheme in the history of the United States? Musk gives Trump and his political operations a record-setting $290 million pre-election, and post-election Musk stands to make untold billions off Trump’s largesse.

submitted 48 days ago • 120 comments

Elon Musk might be cutting government spending, but not on his own projects — billions in extra federal money is likely headed toward SpaceX, thanks to policy changes that will make the world’s richest man even richer. A NYT investigation examines the Trump-era shift toward SpaceX nyti.ms/4kPE8VJ

submitted 48 days ago • 173 comments

No, not Democrats being “bused in”—just regular Nebraskans waking up to the fact that their Social Security is on the chopping block to fund tax cuts for billionaires. Great piece by PBS.

submitted 50 days ago • 343 comments

Ossoff: Trump’s cabinet is worth like $60 billion. That’s not even including Elon. They are literally the elites they pretend to hate.

submitted 49 days ago • 197 comments

Lawson: Social Security works… And you know why? Because Wall Street doesn't get a piece of it. Because we don't let the billionaires reach their greedy little into it and that's why they hate it

submitted 49 days ago • 56 comments

Welp, there goes the US defense industry.

submitted 49 days ago • 2647 comments

Thanks, Trump and Musk! 🤬

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submitted 51 days ago • 141 comments

No one who's trying to destroy the Department of Education has ever spent three minutes in a public school, and neither have their children or their grandchildren. None of the people destroying any of our valued public services have ever relied on them.

submitted 50 days ago • 52 comments

Having already spent over $7M backing the right-wing candidate in Wisconsin's Supreme Court election, Elon Musk's Super PAC is now offering Wisconsin voters $100 each to sign its petition against "activist judges." This is what a broken campaign finance system looks like.

submitted 50 days ago • 300 comments

Trump’s Commerce Secretary told people to buy Tesla stock last night. The White House announced that it will use Starlink internet earlier this week. And Trump held a Tesla showcase at the White House last week. The robber barons of the first Gilded Age would be jealous.

submitted 51 days ago • 218 comments

Every American has the right to know what DOGE is doing with their personal information. I submitted a Privacy Act request to DOGE, demanding they tell me why they have my Social Security number and direct deposit information.

submitted 51 days ago • 837 comments

🔥 Rep. @aoc.bsky.social : “There’s a certain kind of word for this kind of thing: CORRUPTION.”

submitted 51 days ago • 97 comments

Today, a law firm with a storied history surrendered to fascism. Even with a former Attorney General, former Sec. of Homeland Security, two former U.S. Attorneys & a former federal judge among their partners, the firm decided that the rule of law would not protect them from Learned Hand’s “bad man”.

submitted 51 days ago • 97 comments

How do Republicans rationalize this? I'll wait. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

submitted 50 days ago • 99 comments

The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of the country controls $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?

submitted 53 days ago • 172 comments