Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Just paid $1.50 for this small-ish red bell pepper. Thanks, Donald…

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I just got back from a short trip to Paris. Did I miss anything in the news over the weekend?

#brodalisque #louvre

Just stopped in Memphis on my trip x-country. Lovely downtown, lots of shops & restaurants, very clean and full of friendly people (of many colors). Beautiful park along the Mississippi, lots on new housing and THE BEST music playing at the gas station (instead of irritating ads).

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

#girlpower

Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldn’t be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.

I’m beginning to think the revolution WILL be televised.

'A book that doesn’t mention my language or my country, and has maps of every place except for my birthplace, as if I were an illegitimate child on Mother Earth.

Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets.'

Mosab Abu Toha, from “Palestine A–Z,”

My favorite Hands Off sign.

Albuquerque here respresenting!

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How do you spell chaos?
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Lovely Valentine’s Day bouquet!

Thank you Lamar, for bringing back my style.

So…. It’s a cold day in hell.

And now I am here.