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AP: “The median pay package for CEOs rose to $17.1M, up 9.7%. Meanwhile, the median employee at companies in the survey earned $85,419, reflecting a 1.7% increase year over year.”
The economy is rigged by a political system controlled by the rich. apnews.com/article/ceo-...
The economy is rigged by a political system controlled by the rich. apnews.com/article/ceo-...
September 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
AP: “The median pay package for CEOs rose to $17.1M, up 9.7%. Meanwhile, the median employee at companies in the survey earned $85,419, reflecting a 1.7% increase year over year.”
The economy is rigged by a political system controlled by the rich. apnews.com/article/ceo-...
The economy is rigged by a political system controlled by the rich. apnews.com/article/ceo-...
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Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
September 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
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Glad to see this response from Democrats. This is appropriate and decent.
And I want to remind everyone that Trump mocked Paul Pelosi, who was nearly killed by a deranged conspiracy theorist. Trump mocked him publicly at the RNC after surviving the assassination attempt.
And I want to remind everyone that Trump mocked Paul Pelosi, who was nearly killed by a deranged conspiracy theorist. Trump mocked him publicly at the RNC after surviving the assassination attempt.
I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
September 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Glad to see this response from Democrats. This is appropriate and decent.
And I want to remind everyone that Trump mocked Paul Pelosi, who was nearly killed by a deranged conspiracy theorist. Trump mocked him publicly at the RNC after surviving the assassination attempt.
And I want to remind everyone that Trump mocked Paul Pelosi, who was nearly killed by a deranged conspiracy theorist. Trump mocked him publicly at the RNC after surviving the assassination attempt.
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“That’s it, plain and simple. Put a bow on it.”
@jessicatarlov.bsky.social says the message Dems should carry is Trump and republicans have made life more expensive for regular folks and is cutting their health care, all to cut taxes for the rich and make the rich richer.
@jessicatarlov.bsky.social says the message Dems should carry is Trump and republicans have made life more expensive for regular folks and is cutting their health care, all to cut taxes for the rich and make the rich richer.
September 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“That’s it, plain and simple. Put a bow on it.”
@jessicatarlov.bsky.social says the message Dems should carry is Trump and republicans have made life more expensive for regular folks and is cutting their health care, all to cut taxes for the rich and make the rich richer.
@jessicatarlov.bsky.social says the message Dems should carry is Trump and republicans have made life more expensive for regular folks and is cutting their health care, all to cut taxes for the rich and make the rich richer.
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Here’s my shocked face: 😑
Susan Collins Raked in Wall Street Cash Before Advancing Trump Tax Bill
Susan Collins voted to advance Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill a day after her Super PAC received $2 million from Blackstone billionaire Steve Schwarzman.
www.rollingstone.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Here’s my shocked face: 😑
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We are overdue for a “ Have you no decency” kind of moment.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
September 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
We are overdue for a “ Have you no decency” kind of moment.
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On the water in front go Chief Justice John Roberts summer home on Upper Island. There were about 25 people in 17 boats ranging from paddle boards, kayaks, canoes, row boats and one motorized Zodiac. On the dock was several dozen people with signs. Thanks to Audacity CAT for pulling this together.
August 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
On the water in front go Chief Justice John Roberts summer home on Upper Island. There were about 25 people in 17 boats ranging from paddle boards, kayaks, canoes, row boats and one motorized Zodiac. On the dock was several dozen people with signs. Thanks to Audacity CAT for pulling this together.
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imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
August 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
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…And remember this the next time someone says they want a businessman to run the country like a corporation.
August 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
…And remember this the next time someone says they want a businessman to run the country like a corporation.
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Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
August 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
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Unfiltered on Gaza, demanding corporations pay for climate change, and committed to defending working people, this oysterman is vying to unseat Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine.
Read @premthakker.bsky.social’s full article on Graham Platner: zeteo.com/p/meet-the-d...
Read @premthakker.bsky.social’s full article on Graham Platner: zeteo.com/p/meet-the-d...
August 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Unfiltered on Gaza, demanding corporations pay for climate change, and committed to defending working people, this oysterman is vying to unseat Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine.
Read @premthakker.bsky.social’s full article on Graham Platner: zeteo.com/p/meet-the-d...
Read @premthakker.bsky.social’s full article on Graham Platner: zeteo.com/p/meet-the-d...
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Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."
August 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
August 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
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Federal law enforcement is being used to literally hunt down Texas Democrats in Illinois so Republicans can draw new electoral maps and disenfranchise millions of people.
An extremely scary precedent is being set right now and Illinois is the first proving ground: www.axios.com/2025/08/07/f...
An extremely scary precedent is being set right now and Illinois is the first proving ground: www.axios.com/2025/08/07/f...
FBI will help locate Texas Democrats who fled the state, Cornyn says
Texas GOP have been threatening the state legislators with "legal consequences" for breaking the quorum.
www.axios.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Federal law enforcement is being used to literally hunt down Texas Democrats in Illinois so Republicans can draw new electoral maps and disenfranchise millions of people.
An extremely scary precedent is being set right now and Illinois is the first proving ground: www.axios.com/2025/08/07/f...
An extremely scary precedent is being set right now and Illinois is the first proving ground: www.axios.com/2025/08/07/f...
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Rep. Mourdock
That’s fine. God also intended us to develop technology to control our bodies.
**
Mr. Lockman
Women can then use superior numbers when available to cut the rapist’s balls off while he watches, then let him bleed to death.
As a father of daughters and human being, I’m sick of this.
That’s fine. God also intended us to develop technology to control our bodies.
**
Mr. Lockman
Women can then use superior numbers when available to cut the rapist’s balls off while he watches, then let him bleed to death.
As a father of daughters and human being, I’m sick of this.
August 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Rep. Mourdock
That’s fine. God also intended us to develop technology to control our bodies.
**
Mr. Lockman
Women can then use superior numbers when available to cut the rapist’s balls off while he watches, then let him bleed to death.
As a father of daughters and human being, I’m sick of this.
That’s fine. God also intended us to develop technology to control our bodies.
**
Mr. Lockman
Women can then use superior numbers when available to cut the rapist’s balls off while he watches, then let him bleed to death.
As a father of daughters and human being, I’m sick of this.
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NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.
Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
www.npr.org
August 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.
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The devastation in Texas became the first major disaster to expose the grave effects of Trump’s extensive disinvestment from disaster resilience programs — and his administration’s newest food and hunger policies.
Trump’s Funding Cuts Force Food Banks to Ration Meals for Texas Flood Survivors
Texas already leads the nation in hunger rates with more than 5 million residents facing food insecurity.
truthout.org
July 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The devastation in Texas became the first major disaster to expose the grave effects of Trump’s extensive disinvestment from disaster resilience programs — and his administration’s newest food and hunger policies.
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The Trump administration is planning to destroy 550 tons of emergency food relief intended for children in impoverished and war-torn regions. The food assistance that was part of the now-defunct USAID program is set to be incinerated on Thursday.
Trump Administration Set to Destroy 550 Tons of USAID Food Meant to Go to Malnourished Kids
One Democratic U.S. senator condemned the plan to destroy the food as “disgusting.”…
buff.ly
July 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The Trump administration is planning to destroy 550 tons of emergency food relief intended for children in impoverished and war-torn regions. The food assistance that was part of the now-defunct USAID program is set to be incinerated on Thursday.
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A group of Nobel laureates and nuclear experts is meeting at the University of Chicago today, on the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, to discuss the risk of nuclear war. "We now have thousands of these weapons," says physics professor Daniel Holz. "Within an hour, civilization could end."
July 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A group of Nobel laureates and nuclear experts is meeting at the University of Chicago today, on the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, to discuss the risk of nuclear war. "We now have thousands of these weapons," says physics professor Daniel Holz. "Within an hour, civilization could end."
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Released on a $3,000 bond Narciso Barranco is still wearing the same clothes now covered in blood stains after being severely beaten by ICE almost 3 weeks ago.
The Barranco family is taking their father directly to a physician.
The Barranco family is taking their father directly to a physician.
UPDATE: Narisco Barranco, the landscaper father of 3 U.S. marines who was viciously beaten by Trump’s Gestapo, was just released
July 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Released on a $3,000 bond Narciso Barranco is still wearing the same clothes now covered in blood stains after being severely beaten by ICE almost 3 weeks ago.
The Barranco family is taking their father directly to a physician.
The Barranco family is taking their father directly to a physician.
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"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers.
Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us.
Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work.
It was a hoax.
Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us.
Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work.
It was a hoax.
July 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers.
Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us.
Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work.
It was a hoax.
Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us.
Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work.
It was a hoax.