Dee Reads
deebreads.bsky.social
Dee Reads
@deebreads.bsky.social
I read, garden, cook, and try to human humanely.
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America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.

The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.

Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
December 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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#prompt #sensewrds #poetry #prompt160
Customer Service Will Be With You Shortly

Empathy is sold by weight now.
We scrape it off disasters with a spatula,
wrap it in paper that says Thoughts & Prayers,
and charge extra for eye contact.
Please take a number.
December 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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It really can be this easy btw.
December 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I would beg to differ on the not breaking any laws part. They’ve broken plenty.

I am hoping that eventually this will affect enough people that they will realize what they’ve done … and it won’t be too late.

From @allenanalysis.bsky.social (I wish he’d post more here)
December 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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"When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts."

Michael Ende - The Neverending Story
December 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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When I used to write about "trade" I would always point out there were great benefits when one country produces bananas and another country something the banana-producting country needs. Corn, or bicycles. Trade bananas for bicycles. Everyone benefits.

/1
December 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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I’m from the generation that remembers when these diseases ran rampant. Perhaps we need to be reminded with a dose of repeated history
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Layoffs have hit over 1.1M so far this year — the most since the pandemic.

Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders.

This is what a rigged economy looks like.
December 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...
The Paradox of Global Warming and Colder Winters - WhoWhatWhy
If the cold weather makes it harder for you to argue with climate change deniers about the existence of global warming, this story is for you.
whowhatwhy.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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There are now 2,900 billionaires, and they hold $15.8 trillion.

The wealth of the bottom 50% of the global population, over 4 billion people, is estimated at $3.7 trillion.
December 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.

Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.

The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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dɯnɹʇ's an Epic, (twice in our country's history-level,) Fückup.
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

—FDR, 1944
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Told You So. Trump and Republicans will Bankrupt our America. 🇺🇸 Trump’s Tariff Tax he imposed on us is not enough, he will need to increase the tariff Tax on us 😡😡😡😡👏😎👊⚖️⚖️🇺🇸
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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The Biden administration sought to create a streamlined refund system free of hoops for passengers who experienced canceled or significantly changed flights.
Trump Axes Biden-Era Plan To Compensate Passengers For Flight Disruptions
The Biden administration sought to create a streamlined refund system free of hoops for passengers who experienced canceled or significantly changed flights.
www.forbes.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM