“The academic..liked the billionaire glitz. Middle-class rightwingers at Edge functions..former New York Times columnist David Brooks and neuroscientist Sam Harris, now consorted with the likes of tech monopolists Jeff Bezos and Sergey Brin”
Time/money galore & they land on the ideas of Mein Kampf.
Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs.
Peter Thiel.
Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers.
Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024.
And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary.
The system is rigged.
This is an EXCELLENT read about the broken poverty line. Thanks @profplum99.bsky.social. I wish "financial bluesky" was more a thing.
“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” — Plutarch
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Speak up @governor.ca.gov!
"Newsom–positioning himself as a hero of the resistance—has little to say about tech’s role in MAGA fascism. The governor of California could play a powerful role in naming and shaming the wealthy interests underwriting Trump’s attack on democracy, but he remains silent."
A former Palantir exec just published an extortion letter in the Washington Post: Democrats must fund tech oligarchs, abandon antitrust, and create 15 deregulated corporate zones—or “lose.”
When I challenged her, she blocked me.
Tech’s moral rot, exposed:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Most Americans agree we need to get money out of politics. If that takes a constitutional amendment, then that's what we have to do. And if that's going to take years, then it's all the more reason to begin pushing now.
Everyday Americans get nickel and dimed while the rich dodge taxes.
They struggle to get by while the wealth of the 1% skyrockets.
They see their voices drowned out while the well-connected avoid accountability.
There are two sets of rules in America: One for the rich. Another for everyone else.
thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
What did they do?
The American people need protection from those who seek to exploit the workers for every last penny.
Some decry this view as "socialism."
I call it fair.
Meanwhile, CEOs make 280 times the typical worker today.
The system is rigged.
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship.
Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.
NEW: Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food.
“It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said.
Curtis Yarvin is planning flee the country.
Steve Bannon is worried about returning to prison.
Don't listen to anyone who says the fascists have already won.
The future is not yet written.
Venture capitalists want to eat the world.
The playbook: identify a target, flood it with capital, capture the system, cash out.
Today, their target is American democracy—and they're betting big on Trump.
My conversation with @catherinebracy.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_W...
"Democracy ... [is] being systematically hollowed out and replaced.
The question now is whether democratic societies can recognize this formation for what it is—and build alternatives before the infrastructure of control becomes too deeply embedded to dislodge."
Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.
The Lever: How Zohran Mamdani Fought The Master Plan
🚨BIG NEWS: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social just signed legislation putting public financing of elections on the 2026 ballot of the largest state in America.
Public financing of campaigns was - by far - the most significant factor in @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's ascent. Nothing else even comes close.
🚨NEW: The key reason @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
is likely to win is the factor nobody in media mentions because it's too threatening to power: Public financing that gave Mamdani enough cash to compete.
This system can be replicated everywhere, which is why oligarchs dont want you to know about it
NEW: Justice Anthony Kennedy authored the Citizens United decision & today released a memoir still defending his ruling that lets oligarchs buy elections - yet he's also saying he worries democracy may not survive.
And none of the media he's granting interviews has asked him about Citizens United.
This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.
There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
According to the numbers, these are the 26 most vulnerable MAGA House representatives. They've spent more time defending “Dear Leader” than the Constitution, and they can be beat. We're pledging to target them all in the 2026 midterms.
See anybody missing? Let us know here: https://t.co/geQUe7ptY6
“At one point, a microphone caught someone in the meeting muttering “idiot” as Levi was talking. It was not clear who the speaker was.”
