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America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth.
When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth.
When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth.
When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth.
When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Testing the boundaries for how much they can get away with. If your ID, birth certificate or passport isn’t enough to prove you’re a citizen, then no one is safe.
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Testing the boundaries for how much they can get away with. If your ID, birth certificate or passport isn’t enough to prove you’re a citizen, then no one is safe.
How many times does this guy have to essentially say, “I need to be our dictator” for people to wake up and finally take him at his word?
Trump: "We have to be unified. China is unified because they have one vote -- that's President Xi. He says 'do it' and that's the end of that. We have a different system."
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
How many times does this guy have to essentially say, “I need to be our dictator” for people to wake up and finally take him at his word?
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NEW: Our experts, along with @consumerreports.org and @moreperfectunion.bsky.social looked into how Instacart was deciding prices on grocery items across the country.
What we found will shock you.
What we found will shock you.
Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout - Groundwork Collaborative
groundworkcollaborative.org
December 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
NEW: Our experts, along with @consumerreports.org and @moreperfectunion.bsky.social looked into how Instacart was deciding prices on grocery items across the country.
What we found will shock you.
What we found will shock you.
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#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
(Published Oct. 2025)
(Published Oct. 2025)
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
(Published Oct. 2025)
(Published Oct. 2025)
Holy shit. When you think Jeffries couldn’t go any lower…. He’s unfit to serve and needs to resign. A perfect example of the “the Democratic Party is controlled opposition designed to fail”. Jeffries serves only the corporate interests that fund him.
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Holy shit. When you think Jeffries couldn’t go any lower…. He’s unfit to serve and needs to resign. A perfect example of the “the Democratic Party is controlled opposition designed to fail”. Jeffries serves only the corporate interests that fund him.
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Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry
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Drugs are not weapons.
Drug traffickers are not terrorists.
The US wasn't attacked.
Boats on open water far from US coasts aren't a security threat.
There is absolutely no argument for self-defense in Caribbean boat strikes, nor in possible war with Venezuela.
This campaign is lies upon lies.
Drug traffickers are not terrorists.
The US wasn't attacked.
Boats on open water far from US coasts aren't a security threat.
There is absolutely no argument for self-defense in Caribbean boat strikes, nor in possible war with Venezuela.
This campaign is lies upon lies.
This is fundamentally the wrong way to deal with drug problems.
The campaign is built on lies.
The campaign is built on lies.
The White House's lies about the illegal Caribbean boat strikes are so obvious and about such serious matters that they're floundering.
As @gregsargent.bsky.social and @jenrubin.bsky.social explain, specific strikes are criminal, but even more so, the entire campaign is blatantly illegal and wrong.
As @gregsargent.bsky.social and @jenrubin.bsky.social explain, specific strikes are criminal, but even more so, the entire campaign is blatantly illegal and wrong.
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Drugs are not weapons.
Drug traffickers are not terrorists.
The US wasn't attacked.
Boats on open water far from US coasts aren't a security threat.
There is absolutely no argument for self-defense in Caribbean boat strikes, nor in possible war with Venezuela.
This campaign is lies upon lies.
Drug traffickers are not terrorists.
The US wasn't attacked.
Boats on open water far from US coasts aren't a security threat.
There is absolutely no argument for self-defense in Caribbean boat strikes, nor in possible war with Venezuela.
This campaign is lies upon lies.
There is a special place in hell reserved for DHS personnel and local cops who aided and abetted this abuse. Once again, there is no bottom with these depraved monsters.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
There is a special place in hell reserved for DHS personnel and local cops who aided and abetted this abuse. Once again, there is no bottom with these depraved monsters.
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I like how these guys get to have it both ways
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an "extraordinary moment" but said no company would be immune if bubble burst.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I like how these guys get to have it both ways
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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There would not have been enough space on the opinion pages of newspapers or segments on cable news to cover the amount of outrage that the media would have directed at Joe Biden if he did not know the standard duration of a home mortgage, but Trump? Crickets.
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
There would not have been enough space on the opinion pages of newspapers or segments on cable news to cover the amount of outrage that the media would have directed at Joe Biden if he did not know the standard duration of a home mortgage, but Trump? Crickets.
Turned on Morning Joe today. Reminded in about 4 minutes between Joe and Chris Matthews rationalizing Democrats caving why I don’t watch this trash anymore.
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Turned on Morning Joe today. Reminded in about 4 minutes between Joe and Chris Matthews rationalizing Democrats caving why I don’t watch this trash anymore.
And just like that party leadership folds. We are absolutely cooked. If the leadership thinks Americans will give the party credit in December to pass an ACA extension, then they’re far more delusional than right now. The Democratic Party sold the American people out, and they won’t forget it.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
And just like that party leadership folds. We are absolutely cooked. If the leadership thinks Americans will give the party credit in December to pass an ACA extension, then they’re far more delusional than right now. The Democratic Party sold the American people out, and they won’t forget it.
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
When people say “Policing in America as we know it today cannot be reformed, it must be destroyed and rebuilt”, this is one of the MANY reasons why.
For one of my final stories with @wired.com, I teamed up with @peggylowe.bsky.social at KCUR to dig through a Kansas City, KS police hack
Inside were some of the most disturbing misconduct files I’ve ever read—and a secret list of cops the department said couldnt be trusted
Here are a few of them:
Inside were some of the most disturbing misconduct files I’ve ever read—and a secret list of cops the department said couldnt be trusted
Here are a few of them:
Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List
A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arres...
www.wired.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
When people say “Policing in America as we know it today cannot be reformed, it must be destroyed and rebuilt”, this is one of the MANY reasons why.
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A small town police force bragged that citizens "can't get a breath of fresh air in or out without us knowing" thanks to Flock surveillance cameras.
They used the cameras to wrongly accused a woman of a crime, forcing her to find other surveillance video to prove her innocence.
They used the cameras to wrongly accused a woman of a crime, forcing her to find other surveillance video to prove her innocence.
October 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
A small town police force bragged that citizens "can't get a breath of fresh air in or out without us knowing" thanks to Flock surveillance cameras.
They used the cameras to wrongly accused a woman of a crime, forcing her to find other surveillance video to prove her innocence.
They used the cameras to wrongly accused a woman of a crime, forcing her to find other surveillance video to prove her innocence.
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This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.
Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week
A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.
www.cbsnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.
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Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
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Short Thread...
It's been a full week since DHS issued a press release claiming TEN CARS ambushed them—and have since:
•charged ZERO of those alleged 10 drivers
•arrested ZERO of those alleged 10 people
•filed ZERO reports of alleged property damage, &
•offered ZERO evidence of their claim
1/4
It's been a full week since DHS issued a press release claiming TEN CARS ambushed them—and have since:
•charged ZERO of those alleged 10 drivers
•arrested ZERO of those alleged 10 people
•filed ZERO reports of alleged property damage, &
•offered ZERO evidence of their claim
1/4
October 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Short Thread...
It's been a full week since DHS issued a press release claiming TEN CARS ambushed them—and have since:
•charged ZERO of those alleged 10 drivers
•arrested ZERO of those alleged 10 people
•filed ZERO reports of alleged property damage, &
•offered ZERO evidence of their claim
1/4
It's been a full week since DHS issued a press release claiming TEN CARS ambushed them—and have since:
•charged ZERO of those alleged 10 drivers
•arrested ZERO of those alleged 10 people
•filed ZERO reports of alleged property damage, &
•offered ZERO evidence of their claim
1/4
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It’s not racial profiling, it’s reasonable suspicion, we simply think anyone with darker skin tones is suspicious and that this belief is reasonable, so it’s not racial profiling, how dare you.
McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."
October 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It’s not racial profiling, it’s reasonable suspicion, we simply think anyone with darker skin tones is suspicious and that this belief is reasonable, so it’s not racial profiling, how dare you.
I’m begging everyone to PLEASE listen to what the man is saying. He’s telling you what he will do, and what he believes. Take him literally, his followers and sycophants in this administration do. He’s posting about locking up the IL gov and Chicago mayor because he’s planning to do it.
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
October 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I’m begging everyone to PLEASE listen to what the man is saying. He’s telling you what he will do, and what he believes. Take him literally, his followers and sycophants in this administration do. He’s posting about locking up the IL gov and Chicago mayor because he’s planning to do it.
This is the dumbest and most infuriating timeline ever
SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street
TRUMP: Do you know who he is?
SORTOR: Oh yeah
TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions
TRUMP: Do you know who he is?
SORTOR: Oh yeah
TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions
October 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This is the dumbest and most infuriating timeline ever