@absolute-me.bsky.social
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
October 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.
📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.
📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.
October 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.
📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.
📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.
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"people used to be so much tougher they didn't need vaccines/pasteurization/air conditioning" no idiot they just died
July 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"people used to be so much tougher they didn't need vaccines/pasteurization/air conditioning" no idiot they just died
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Pharmacy benefit managers have helped drive local pharmacies out of business and increased the costs of your prescriptions.
I'm proud to say that's no longer the case here — we’re putting an end to their predatory practices.
The nation should follow suit.
I'm proud to say that's no longer the case here — we’re putting an end to their predatory practices.
The nation should follow suit.
As restraints on drug middlemen take effect in Illinois, Congress considers following suit
Pressure on pharmacy benefit managers is coming from both state and national lawmakers.
www.chicagobusiness.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Pharmacy benefit managers have helped drive local pharmacies out of business and increased the costs of your prescriptions.
I'm proud to say that's no longer the case here — we’re putting an end to their predatory practices.
The nation should follow suit.
I'm proud to say that's no longer the case here — we’re putting an end to their predatory practices.
The nation should follow suit.
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We have some good news in these dark times!
Narcisso Barranco, the father of three U.S. Marines, has been released from an ICE detention center in Adelanto, California.
I hope to see more releases and more families reunited.
Small steps lead to great victories.🔥
Please pass it on.
#OnYourSide
Narcisso Barranco, the father of three U.S. Marines, has been released from an ICE detention center in Adelanto, California.
I hope to see more releases and more families reunited.
Small steps lead to great victories.🔥
Please pass it on.
#OnYourSide
July 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
We have some good news in these dark times!
Narcisso Barranco, the father of three U.S. Marines, has been released from an ICE detention center in Adelanto, California.
I hope to see more releases and more families reunited.
Small steps lead to great victories.🔥
Please pass it on.
#OnYourSide
Narcisso Barranco, the father of three U.S. Marines, has been released from an ICE detention center in Adelanto, California.
I hope to see more releases and more families reunited.
Small steps lead to great victories.🔥
Please pass it on.
#OnYourSide
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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DOGE having access to Americans' Social Security data isn't just a major security breach.
It's part of a deliberate ploy to cut benefits — using the false pretext of "waste and fraud" — and have Congress use the savings to give billionaires another giant tax cut.
Be warned.
It's part of a deliberate ploy to cut benefits — using the false pretext of "waste and fraud" — and have Congress use the savings to give billionaires another giant tax cut.
Be warned.
February 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
DOGE having access to Americans' Social Security data isn't just a major security breach.
It's part of a deliberate ploy to cut benefits — using the false pretext of "waste and fraud" — and have Congress use the savings to give billionaires another giant tax cut.
Be warned.
It's part of a deliberate ploy to cut benefits — using the false pretext of "waste and fraud" — and have Congress use the savings to give billionaires another giant tax cut.
Be warned.
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How much is Congress cutting from their $6.5 billion/year budget? Don’t you think congress can operate on say, maybe, $5 Billion? And each congressman has 18 staff, they could operate on say, 14?
What about the White House?
What about the White House?
February 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
How much is Congress cutting from their $6.5 billion/year budget? Don’t you think congress can operate on say, maybe, $5 Billion? And each congressman has 18 staff, they could operate on say, 14?
What about the White House?
What about the White House?
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The CFPB has:
-Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud
-Cracked down on junk fees
-Fought against politically-motivated debanking
-Protected veterans from predatory lenders
-Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse
Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.
-Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud
-Cracked down on junk fees
-Fought against politically-motivated debanking
-Protected veterans from predatory lenders
-Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse
Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.
February 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The CFPB has:
-Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud
-Cracked down on junk fees
-Fought against politically-motivated debanking
-Protected veterans from predatory lenders
-Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse
Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.
-Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud
-Cracked down on junk fees
-Fought against politically-motivated debanking
-Protected veterans from predatory lenders
-Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse
Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.
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Dear Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Europe:
100 percent tariffs on Tesla.
100 percent tariffs on Tesla.
February 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Dear Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Europe:
100 percent tariffs on Tesla.
100 percent tariffs on Tesla.
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This is EXACTLY what our Senators and Representatives need to be hearing from ALL of us right now!!!
This is EXACTLY what our Senators and Representatives need to be hearing from ALL of us right now!!!
What The F***?!
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtube.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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This is EXACTLY what our Senators and Representatives need to be hearing from ALL of us right now!!!
This is EXACTLY what our Senators and Representatives need to be hearing from ALL of us right now!!!
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Donald Trump will be indoors for the inauguration with his billionaire pals. His core supporters will be left outside in the cold.
Think about that.
Think about that.
January 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Donald Trump will be indoors for the inauguration with his billionaire pals. His core supporters will be left outside in the cold.
Think about that.
Think about that.
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Again, the World Health Organization is the single most important global entity in preventing, tracking and controlling outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics and is especially important as climate change and deforestation allow pathogens to mutate, become more infectious and spread to new regions
January 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Again, the World Health Organization is the single most important global entity in preventing, tracking and controlling outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics and is especially important as climate change and deforestation allow pathogens to mutate, become more infectious and spread to new regions
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So it's dangerous for China to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.
But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.
Do I have this right?
But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.
Do I have this right?
January 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
So it's dangerous for China to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.
But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.
Do I have this right?
But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.
Do I have this right?
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Trump's treasury nominee Scott Bessent, who is worth ~$500 million, warned of "economic calamity" if Trump's tax cuts for the rich are not extended.
But when asked if we should raise the federal minimum wage above the current paltry $7.25/hr, he said no.
Economic populism.
But when asked if we should raise the federal minimum wage above the current paltry $7.25/hr, he said no.
Economic populism.
Trump’s Treasury pick rejects minimum wage hike, champions tax breaks
Scott Bessent summarized the incoming administration’s perspective perfectly: Yes to tax breaks for the wealthy, no to increasing the minimum wage.
www.msnbc.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Trump's treasury nominee Scott Bessent, who is worth ~$500 million, warned of "economic calamity" if Trump's tax cuts for the rich are not extended.
But when asked if we should raise the federal minimum wage above the current paltry $7.25/hr, he said no.
Economic populism.
But when asked if we should raise the federal minimum wage above the current paltry $7.25/hr, he said no.
Economic populism.
It's no mistake that we find our country in this place that no longer values the importance of science, trusts experts and scholars, and eschews the idea that strengthening community to ensure everyone can prosper. The concept of common good has been slowly attacked over decades...
In @naomiaklein.bsky.social’s 📕“Doppelgänger”, she says we are now “reaping the harvest” of decades of an attack on “the very concept of a public good” — the idea that we are all in this together, and government can be used for good.
(Aka @marshablackburn calling everything “socialism”)
(Aka @marshablackburn calling everything “socialism”)
January 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's no mistake that we find our country in this place that no longer values the importance of science, trusts experts and scholars, and eschews the idea that strengthening community to ensure everyone can prosper. The concept of common good has been slowly attacked over decades...
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Calm it pigeons. You're not The Beastie Boys.
November 17, 2024 at 10:36 AM
Calm it pigeons. You're not The Beastie Boys.
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Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from the far side of the moon this year, and they suggest that the moon may have some new stories to tell
Findings from the first lunar far side samples raise new questions about the moon’s history | CNN
The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, according to two new studies.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from the far side of the moon this year, and they suggest that the moon may have some new stories to tell