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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine. (...) We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor" #3E #EndOligarchy

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Mockler: What would be your message to Elon Musk… DNC Chair Martin: Go to hell…

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Decent people thank Ukraine.

submitted 9 days ago • 233 comments

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

submitted 10 days ago • 2320 comments

www.kyivpost.com/post/47630

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I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 16 days ago • 1554 comments

There is a wave of anger building across the entire country. People are already becoming fed up with Trump and Musk. These algorithms can try to hide it all they want, but they won’t be able to avoid reality for long.

submitted 16 days ago • 347 comments

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

submitted 19 days ago • 1190 comments

SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:

submitted 29 days ago • 460 comments

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

submitted 30 days ago • 159 comments

Republicans are going along with Elon Musk's unlawful power grab. They're okay with an unelected billionaire who has no congressional authority having his hands on the Treasury's payment system and your Social Security number. Remember this.

submitted 32 days ago • 201 comments

During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.

submitted 32 days ago • 816 comments

If you voted Republican, and you care about your country, please act rather than rationalize. Unless you cast your ballot so that South African oligarchs could steal your data, money, country, and future, tell your elected officials that you wanted something else. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 33 days ago • 56 comments

Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:

submitted 35 days ago • 206 comments

None of this has anything to do with reducing spending on shrinking the size of government. Trump is deliberately trying to get SCOTUS to reverse 50 years of precedent on impoundment so he can concentrate even more power in his hands.

submitted 38 days ago • 60 comments

Trump's spending freeze was unconstitutional and a violation of the Impoundment Control Act. But the public uproar yesterday should serve as a reminder that Trump's plans to gut federal programs are deeply unpopular. Keep fighting. Keep up the pressure. Don't tune out. www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/p...

submitted 39 days ago • 82 comments

Let Denmark cook.

submitted 40 days ago • 1696 comments

Let's be clear about what happened today: Donald Trump tried to cut a giant chunk of government funding — hurting preschoolers, seniors, and veterans. Trump's illegal shutdown is blocked for now — but don't forget that he tried to cut programs supporting working families.

submitted 40 days ago • 753 comments

Trump's pause on tens of billions of dollars in federal spending is plainly illegal. But his real goal isn't to shrink government. It's to get the Supreme Court to concentrate even more power in his hands.

submitted 40 days ago • 61 comments

Basically, the country’s been taken over by a bunch of internet trolls and podcasters who thought running the government would be as easy as complaining about it.

submitted 40 days ago • 224 comments

The president can veto or support legislation. He can make recommendations to Congress. But he doesn't have the unilateral right to change laws. Trump has very little respect for the rule of law & our Constitution. He is moving us toward authoritarianism. We must stop him.

submitted 40 days ago • 568 comments

While 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg, combined, own more wealth than the bottom half of America. Apparently, that’s not enough. Republicans want to give them a massive tax break by slashing Medicaid. Together, we will stop them.

submitted 42 days ago • 201 comments

Pete Hegseth’s confirmation will make our nation less safe. It is a sad and dangerous day when Republican Senators put loyalty to President Trump ahead of our national security.

submitted 43 days ago • 333 comments

January 24, 2025

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Lamentations: Twenty-Two Songs about John Coltrane aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/01/21/lamentations-twenty-two-songs-about-john-coltrane ... an almost-cubist portrait of Coltrane’s legacy, with various planes of his vision and influence superimposed upon one another at odd angles

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Happy National Beer Can Appreciation Day. We're shotgunning Dive Beers! 🍻

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