@jimmy1sky.bsky.social
Resident of Dumfukistan since November 6, 2024.
Trump, Musk, Miller, Vought, Johnson.. My whole life I felt Americans were the good guys. Today we’re just the world’s assholes.
Trump, Musk, Miller, Vought, Johnson.. My whole life I felt Americans were the good guys. Today we’re just the world’s assholes.
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The vicious cycle of monopolization:
1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market.
2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers.
3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations.
4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement.
5) Repeat.
1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market.
2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers.
3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations.
4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement.
5) Repeat.
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The vicious cycle of monopolization:
1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market.
2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers.
3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations.
4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement.
5) Repeat.
1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market.
2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers.
3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations.
4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement.
5) Repeat.
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Elon Musk’s new pay package could amount to $100B per year.
That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined.
It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks.
It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks.
Billionaire greed is out of control.
That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined.
It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks.
It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks.
Billionaire greed is out of control.
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Elon Musk’s new pay package could amount to $100B per year.
That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined.
It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks.
It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks.
Billionaire greed is out of control.
That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined.
It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks.
It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks.
Billionaire greed is out of control.
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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The corporations and billionaires funding Trump’s ballroom aren't paying for chandeliers or marble floors; they’re investing in power and a pay-off for deregulations, tax cuts, and government contracts.
Trump’s Team Offers to Keep Some Ballroom Donors Incognito
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The corporations and billionaires funding Trump’s ballroom aren't paying for chandeliers or marble floors; they’re investing in power and a pay-off for deregulations, tax cuts, and government contracts.
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Human brains aren’t great at conceptualizing extremely large figures.
Here’s a useful illustration I reference often:
1 million seconds = 12 days
1 billion seconds = 31 YEARS
Billionaires shouldn’t exist—they should be taxed out of existence. This is sickening.
Here’s a useful illustration I reference often:
1 million seconds = 12 days
1 billion seconds = 31 YEARS
Billionaires shouldn’t exist—they should be taxed out of existence. This is sickening.
Jeff Bezos’ stake in Amazon is up almost $30 billion since Friday.
Jeff Bezos Becomes $10 Billion Richer As Amazon’s OpenAI Deal Boosts Stock
Jeff Bezos’ stake in Amazon is up almost $30 billion since Friday.
www.forbes.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Human brains aren’t great at conceptualizing extremely large figures.
Here’s a useful illustration I reference often:
1 million seconds = 12 days
1 billion seconds = 31 YEARS
Billionaires shouldn’t exist—they should be taxed out of existence. This is sickening.
Here’s a useful illustration I reference often:
1 million seconds = 12 days
1 billion seconds = 31 YEARS
Billionaires shouldn’t exist—they should be taxed out of existence. This is sickening.
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Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
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From Big Crypto to Big Oil to Big Pharma to Big Tech, corporate special interests from every corner of the market gave Trump enough money to shamelessly destroy the People's House and construct his $300 million ballroom.
October 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
From Big Crypto to Big Oil to Big Pharma to Big Tech, corporate special interests from every corner of the market gave Trump enough money to shamelessly destroy the People's House and construct his $300 million ballroom.
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“Are you telling me we can spend $40B on Argentina, $1B on Trump’s Qatar jet, $250M on Trump’s ballroom, $150M on Trump’s golf, $520M on Trump's National Guard deployments & $172M on Kristi Noem’s jets - but we can’t spend a penny on lowering our healthcare
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #EMSky
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #EMSky
October 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Qatar gave Trump a $400M jet. Trump gave them a military facility on US soil.
The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.
Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.
If this isn't corruption, what is?
The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.
Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.
If this isn't corruption, what is?
October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Qatar gave Trump a $400M jet. Trump gave them a military facility on US soil.
The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.
Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.
If this isn't corruption, what is?
The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.
Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.
If this isn't corruption, what is?
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I think tariffs hurt consumers, police shouldn't wear masks, and the President must obey the law - and shouldn't use his office to run personal profit-making schemes on the side.
This apparently makes me a radical Marxist.
This apparently makes me a radical Marxist.
October 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I think tariffs hurt consumers, police shouldn't wear masks, and the President must obey the law - and shouldn't use his office to run personal profit-making schemes on the side.
This apparently makes me a radical Marxist.
This apparently makes me a radical Marxist.
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Billionaire grifters are about to dismantle your government. So instead of your tax dollars going to your Medicare or your Medicaid or your affordable care act or to veterans benefits or your social security - it will go to THEM in the form of tax cuts for the wealthy.
November 15, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Billionaire grifters are about to dismantle your government. So instead of your tax dollars going to your Medicare or your Medicaid or your affordable care act or to veterans benefits or your social security - it will go to THEM in the form of tax cuts for the wealthy.
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Friedman was right on the money
"We aren't divided; we are being divided by companies for profit. And we have our divisions; we always have. But what is new in my life: it is now a giant industry to make people stupid and angry."
"We aren't divided; we are being divided by companies for profit. And we have our divisions; we always have. But what is new in my life: it is now a giant industry to make people stupid and angry."
Bill Maher panel tells how tech bros get rich making Americans 'stupid and angry'
Some political scientists, seeing how bitterly divided the United States is politically, fear that the country is entering a period of political violence comparable to The Troubles in North Ireland."R...
www.rawstory.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Friedman was right on the money
"We aren't divided; we are being divided by companies for profit. And we have our divisions; we always have. But what is new in my life: it is now a giant industry to make people stupid and angry."
"We aren't divided; we are being divided by companies for profit. And we have our divisions; we always have. But what is new in my life: it is now a giant industry to make people stupid and angry."
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Bill Maher: Headline in your paper today, 'Most voters say U.S. can't repair severe divisions.'
Tom Friedman: We aren't divided. We are being divided by companies for profit… [Social media] is now a giant industry to make people stupid and angry.
Tom Friedman: We aren't divided. We are being divided by companies for profit… [Social media] is now a giant industry to make people stupid and angry.
October 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Bill Maher: Headline in your paper today, 'Most voters say U.S. can't repair severe divisions.'
Tom Friedman: We aren't divided. We are being divided by companies for profit… [Social media] is now a giant industry to make people stupid and angry.
Tom Friedman: We aren't divided. We are being divided by companies for profit… [Social media] is now a giant industry to make people stupid and angry.
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The thing that bothers me so much is not the “we have to enforce our borders and laws.” We do.
It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate.
Always punching down
It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate.
Always punching down
October 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The thing that bothers me so much is not the “we have to enforce our borders and laws.” We do.
It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate.
Always punching down
It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate.
Always punching down
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
September 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
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It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.
September 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.
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Let's not forget this little Charlie Kirk gem. He did not deserve to die, but he was not a good man. 👇
September 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Let's not forget this little Charlie Kirk gem. He did not deserve to die, but he was not a good man. 👇
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The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
August 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.”
My latest in @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
My latest in @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military
If there’s no difference between upholding the Constitution and attacking it, then there’s no honor in service.
www.thebulwark.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.”
My latest in @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
My latest in @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
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live your life in such a way that millions of people don’t joyfully await your demise
August 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
live your life in such a way that millions of people don’t joyfully await your demise
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