Ecocidal mining billionaire who sued her own kids, and dedicated a poem to a lump of iron ore in a Perth shopping centre gets triggered by art. #GinaRinehart #Art #FragileConservatives #Billionaires
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"Subscription-model capitalism", where you own nothing and just pay a monthly subscription forever (or until the corporation decides to make it unavailable), is especially funny after decades of "under communism you won't be able to own anything!" propaganda.
-- Wade Lahoda
#Capitalism #billionaires #Poverty #poor #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis
#ElonMusk Drew Winces From #Billionaires’ Gathering w/ #Trump Pitch
#Musk reportedly urged a group of fellow billionaires & top political strategists in Feb to tell their friends to vote for Trump in the 2024 election because he believes the #GOP candidate will stop illegal #immigration.
#FarRight #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #VoteBlue #Harris2024
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-told-private-gathering-of-billionaire-pals-why-hes-voting-trump
Latest comic: Weirdo Welfare
#2024election #uspol #vance #democracy #fascism #billionaires #extremism
#Trump #MAGA #GOP #billionaires have created this judicial #hellscape from which there is no exit - #SupremeCourt Rocked by New #Leak of Bitter #Abortion Split. A months-long internal feud among the justices over a key case about #abortion access in #Idaho has been leaked—the latest internal communication to escape the high court. #democracy #civilliberties #courts #SCOTUS #constitution #corruption #ethics #WomenRights #justice #paytoplay #womenshealthcare #healthcare https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-rocked-by-new-leak-on-bitter-split-over-idaho-emergency-abortion-ruling
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UAW Says It Knows How to Defeat Trump & Billionaire Class
"This is brilliant" said author Naomi Klein in response to new United Auto Workers ad
https://www.commondreams.org/news/uaw-working-class-solidarity
There is only one answer to the threat we face as a nation. The answer is solidarity.
Fight For a Better Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ubJFPJgL3Y
#UAW #TradeUnions #LaborUnions #unions #NaomiKlein #solidarity #Trump #GOP #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #billionaires #fascism
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without total control of media publishing, broadcasting, distribution & trading, there are no #techbro American billionaires; and without American #tech #billionaires, there is no American Fascism as we know it today.
if billionaires have no right to exist; neither their #media companies as we know them — the #FAANG & corporate media.
to kill American fascism you need to kill American corporate media as it is off and online.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235958/internet-archive-loses-appeal-ebook-lending
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[thread] Trump, MAGA
Trump’s Wildly Unhinged Ramblings Reveal True MAGA
Speaks directly to MAGA’s increasingly radicalized obsessions
* flatly declaring his right to interfere in last presidential election
* mused God chose him to fix sick country
* seethed about enemy within
* Trump feeding MAGA audience’s pathologies getting darker/uglier
#Trump2 #MAGA #Trumpism #GOP #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #fascism #disinformation #FOXnews #authoritarianism #extremism #ElonMusk #billionaires
S&P 500 is up by more than half since #Biden took office. #Billionaires such as #SteveSchwarzman have doubled their net worth ($50bn in his case). Yet they're going for #Trump with eyes wide open. Edward Luce’s @FT column on "What Croesus wants from Trump".
https://archive.ph/2024.10.22-192444/https://www.ft.com/content/1698fc6f-fc2d-49d9-afd1-84b33367fc98
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How #Tech #Billionaires Became the #GOP’s New Donor Class
#ElonMusk & a group of #SiliconValley allies have built a shadow campaign to put #Trump back in office.
Last Feb, the #billionaire financier #NelsonPeltz summoned a group of about 20 wealthy, predominantly #Republican donors & a handful of GOP strategists to dinner at his $334 million waterfront estate in Palm Beach, FL.
#Kleptocracy #RulingClass
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/magazine/trump-donors-silicon-valley.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Nature editorial: World needs U.S. president who respects evidence
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03417-y
*science, evidence-based policy threatened
* need society that creates jobs, promotes health, advances science
* solutions for world’s problems come only f. shared, accurate understanding of reality
Nature readers: U.S. election monumental for science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03479-y
#politics #PostTruthism #GOP #MAGA #conservatism #billionaires
Comment (image): I have long advocated the same issues/solutions
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Via @indivisibleteam:
#Republicans have a new talking point for gutting #Medicaid & #SNAP to give #billionaires even more #TaxCuts:
“We are all going to die.”
If your senator is a #GOP ghoul like #JoniErnst, they need to hear from the constituents they’re betraying with #Trump’s #TaxScam
#IApol #USpol #Senate #law
https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-tell-your-republican-senators-you-dont-want-pay-price-their-billionaire-tax
#SEC Drops #Binance Lawsuit Days After #Crypto Exchange Lists #Trump’s #Stablecoin
The Securities & Exchange Commission dropped a lawsuit against Binance on Thursday, days after the crypto exchange began listing a stablecoin created by #WorldLibertyFinancial, one of Trump’s #blockchain ventures.
#law #corruption #billionaires #Broligarchy #plutocracy #kleptocracy #fraud #crime #felon47
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/05/29/sec-drops-binance-lawsuit-trump-stablecoin-listed/
"Despite their constant reassurances to the contrary, Republicans have officially begun the process of cutting Medicaid and SNAP benefits to offset the cost of tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. And right on cue, Republicans are playing dumb."
~ Brian Tyler Cohen
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #Medicaid #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
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https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/republicans-play-dumb-on-medicaid
There is no war but #ClassWar.
We outnumber #oligarchs.
We are better than #billionaires.
What Happened the Last Time a #President #Purged the #Bureaucracy. The impact can linger not just for years but decades. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/06/government-workers-purge-1950s-communism-00202336 #democracy #government #justice #freedom #nationalsecurity #loyalty #dictatorship #billionaires #oligarchy #power #corruption
Let's be clear about the goals #Trump and his circle-jerk of fascist #billionaires have in mind as they bang their expansionist drums.
⛏️ They want to "annex" #Canada and #Greenland so they can 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙨.
⛓️ They want to "annex" #Mexico so they can 𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 #𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙧. (Someone has to work the new mines, after all.)
These goals can theoretically be achieved under the status quo. But they become much easier when the targets are US subjects and US territory.
#billionaires should be allowed nowhere near government or the press
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[thread] Resisting Trump2/GOP fascism
#HumanRights #SocialJustice #resistance #CivilDisobedience #ConscientiousObjection
#transgender #TransRights #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter
#Trump #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #autocracy #extremism
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #whiteSupremacism #antiLGBT #transphobia
#misogyny #paternalism #sexism
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #SelfDetermination
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #libertarianism
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As boring as this topic may be and resentful as we may be that this man continues dominating news cycles, it's impossible to avoid either, because the damage is ongoing.
Heather Cox Richardson writes,
"The stock market continued to fall today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell another 478 points, or 1.14%; the S&P 500 fell almost 0.8%; & the Nasdaq Composite fell almost 0.2%."
#Musk #Trump #economy #stagflation #recession #StockMarket #billionaires #tariffs
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This week's comic: Playing the wealth card
#cartoon #comic #billionaires #uspol #oligarchy #authoritarianism #economy
Money is pouring into Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election so fast that political observers now believe it is likely to reach $100 million by Tuesday, election day.
Already, it has become the costliest judicial race in U.S. history.
#News #Wisconsin #SupremeCourt #Election #ElonMusk #Billionaires #Musk
I read this with interest…
"Billionaires think that they're the smartest people who've ever lived, because they're the wealthiest people who've ever lived. If they were wrong about anything, then why would they have been so financially successful? […] They believe that everything can be quantified, like a person's IQ, and that money is a good measure of how much someone is worth."
#tech #technology #BigTech #billionaires #TaxTheRich #capitalism #AI #LLM #LLMs #ML