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Best read tonight. Everything wrong in America can be traced to Citizens United and the oligarchy. open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

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Republicans called cancelling student loan debt a “giveaway” to the working class, so Trump is restarting predatory student loan repayments to fund tax breaks that are giveaways to corporations and the super-wealthy. This what an oligarchy robbing us blind looks like.

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.

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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

submitted 22 days ago • 1149 comments

Reminder: When companies pay less than a living wage and don’t offer healthcare, their workers are forced to rely on taxpayer-funded social safety nets like Medicaid and SNAP. That’s not a handout to workers. That’s a handout to the companies exploiting them.

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Animals rarely get to choose what to do. But what will you do about it?

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Cigna reported $3.4 billion in profit last year. Their profits are our denied claims, and the more people who are left to die and untreated while paying premiums, the more profitable they are. The US healthcare system is designed to transfer wealth upwards, not provide healthcare.

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Americans pay more for prescription drugs because Big Pharma poured $387 million into our elections over just the last 10 years so they could legally price gouge us. They force us to choose between debt and death because it’s profitable.

submitted 39 days ago • 36 comments

There it is…

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I See No Lies In This! Do you? 🤔

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When a government starts by stripping rights from a vulnerable group, it’s not the end goal—it’s the opening move. What’s tested on the marginalized today is used on everyone else tomorrow.

submitted 42 days ago • 39 comments

👇👇👇👇👇

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This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

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It only took 95 days to get to “arresting federal judges for defending due process.”

submitted 53 days ago • 379 comments

For the people celebrating the weaponized arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan by the trump administration because "she broke the law," just remember that it also used to be against the law to hide folks like Anne Frank. What side of history are YOU on?

submitted 53 days ago • 179 comments

The top 7 health insurers reported $34 billion in profits last year, while over 100 million Americans have $220 billion in medical debt. Medical debt is a uniquely American term to describe how private companies exploit sick people. Your debt is their profit.

submitted 53 days ago • 78 comments

The Trump administration is abducting, trafficking, and incarcerating people without due process — and those are just the people we know about and can track. How many more people have they just disappeared without a trace?

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #WhatComesNext?

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Tax Day Reminder: When billionaires and corporations get tax cuts, our taxes go up and the amount and quality of the services our taxes pay for go down.

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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

submitted 63 days ago • 526 comments

The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes per year — enough to end homelessness, hunger, and pay for universal childcare. 👆🏻 This is the crime wave we should be talking more about.

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The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.

submitted 68 days ago • 1784 comments

And there it is! That’s exactly how it was meant to work…

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This isn’t a trade war against China and the rest of the world. It’s an economic war against working class America.

submitted 69 days ago • 595 comments

It’s a recalibration of economic control. Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way. When the dust finally settles, they will own more. The rest of us will own less. A lot less.

submitted 71 days ago • 924 comments

Yes!

submitted 70 days ago • 5 comments

Burn it all to the ground and buy up the land and water and minerals at rock bottom prices. This a fire sale for the oligarchy. How do I know? They’ve already done it to rural America…

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Avoiding town halls, dismissing those who depend on social security, shamelessly hawking Tesla stock, firing thousands of veterans... They're telling you exactly who they are accountable to. Hint: It's not you.

submitted 85 days ago • 230 comments

Fact: They didn’t fear what breaking the Dept of Education would do to their kids. Their kids are in fancy private schools. They are dismantling the Dept of Ed so our kids have no choice but to be undereducated and work for their kids.

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