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If we can find a way out of oligarchy, the first priority should be taxing billionaires at Eisenhower rates. Decades of US tax policy insufficiently taxing the wealthiest Americans has become a threat to democracy worldwide.
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Climate risk “is a systemic risk that threatens the very foundation of the financial sector. If insurance is no longer available, other financial services become unavailable too.”

Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process. This is not lawful.

It's working sherwood.news/tech/consume...

Start funding Democrats on the ground at the state and county level. If anyone can get through to their neighbors, it's the people already doing the work on the ground.

I’m loving Chinese manufacturers airing luxury brand’s dirty laundry on TikTok. [Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjRMTmyP/ ]

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Why Xi won't be visiting the White House any time soon... From The Economist www.economist.com/internationa...

You will be pleased to know that the FBI says they have no information on the Russia-backed TEXIT initiative which has been brewing for the last decade. Because we stopped doing real counterintelligence 50 years ago. www.sacurrent.com/news/to-texa...

Every billionaire who is responsible for the shit we're in can go fuck themselves. This asshole is one of them. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/13/b...

It’s absurd how quickly Trump torched his honeymoon and now completely owns the economic crisis we’re facing. Historians will study it for generations.

There was a lot going on this week, so maybe you missed this pod on the current state of global electricity, but it is really worth your time. Tons of insights in here, some of which will surprise you. Perhaps a chain with some charts?

open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

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After losing homes and businesses, LA wildfire victims face a hurdle to rebuilding: Trump’s tariffs The uncertainty is keeping contractors from buying materials and discouraging would-be Good Samaritans from offering discounts as a home builder, I concur www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans don’t want you to vote. Understand this. They are requiring birth certificates, drivers licenses, no water in line, no car pools. They are lying, as usual, about fraud. Their long game is keeping as many people from voting as possible because when people vote Republicans fucking lose

Republicans have two and only two reasons for their tariffs: 1. To extort money from companies and other countries. 2. To sabotage the United States and its citizens. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/13/t...

April 12, 1945: death of FDR. Churchill: "His love of his own country, his respect for its constitution...were evident, added to these were the beatings of that generous heart which was always stirred to anger and to action by spectacles of aggression and oppression by the strong against the weak."

@golden.house.gov ran as a Dem, but he's a R. He doesn't have town Halla, just "coffee time" for big donors. We are going to primary him.

If I had to reregister to vote, post SAVE Act, I'd need: a $25 copy of my birth certificate, a $5 copy of my name change, a $3 copy of my marriage license, and an $89 drivers license. OR a $165 passport. Not only is it a poll tax, it's also a pink tax.

Hey billionaires! Know what 91% taxes on you would do? Help keep you from getting a guy elected who will impose tariffs that will destroy your companies! Help us help you by agreeing to 91% taxes on you!

I looked this guy up on linkedin and he's been at the SSA for 26 years. worked his way up from IT grunt to associate commissioner

The claim that the U.S. can’t get him back is 1) false and 2) obviously a pretext for their deliberate attempt to ignore the Due process clauses of the 5th and 14th Amendments. It’s the sort of transparent deception this SCOTUS majority would see through if it came from a Democratic president.

Unprecedented lying & constitutional crimes, now happening daily

@teslatakedown.com Marin County residents protest the DOGE destruction of our governmental agencies so a Billionaire’s activities and companies are not investigated, by the federal agencies he destroyed. Traitor to our country.

BREAKING 🚨: Target $TGT has now declined for 10 consecutive weeks, its longest losing streak in history 📉

I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Wow #FightOligarchy #LosAngeles

The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. But who benefits from those riches? Consider: the richest 10% of Americans hold nearly 70% of the nation’s wealth – while the bottom 50% hold just 3%. See the problem?

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

100%. It really is time to go there. Again.