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[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

The Trump administration just raided the home of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

It is disturbing that they are targeting political opponents in this way.

Any decent American needs to stand up and speak out.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

"Pro-Israel influence over US politics is weaker than ever—but that doesn’t mean the lobby’s demise is inevitable."

"While the lobby’s machinations have been dragged out of the shadows during Israel’s war on Gaza, pro-Israel campaign funding in the United States is operating on a grander scale than ever (often promoting issues that are totally unrelated to Israel in order to obscure the intentions behind the lobby’s support for the candidates it favors). And while Democratic voters are turning away from Israel in unprecedented numbers, the lobby’s allies still maintain power at the party’s highest levels."

“Which raises the question: Can the Israel lobby continue to win where it matters—in the White House and Congress—even as it rapidly loses popular legitimacy?”

- via @thenation

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I DON'T THINK PISSED REALLY COVERS IT! And this is from 2017 while republicans still attack SS.
Alan Simpson, the Senator from Wyoming calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security " to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. Here's a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS in Montana ... I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!
"Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight!!!
1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS.
2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).
3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.
4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and "your ilk" pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age, 67. NOW, you and your "shill commission" are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.
5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now "you morons" propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because "you idiots" mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from Medicare to pay the bills.
6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you "incompetent bxxxxds" spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.
To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bxxxxxxt" to your incompetence.
Well, Captain Bxxxxxxit, I have a few questions for YOU:
1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?
2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?
3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?
4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?
It is you, Captain Bxxxxxxt, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers.
And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed, leech.
That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic, political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.
And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bxxxxx.
P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits "entitlements". WHAT AN INSULT!!!!
I have been paying in to the SS system for 45 years “It's my money”-give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous by doling out these monthly checks.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Kiros: At the end of the day, the reason why we are not seeing legislation like Medicare for All, universal child care, and an arms embargo on Israel passed—despite a supermajority of support from the voters of this party—is because when corporations and special interests donate to campaigns, it’s not that they’re going to get an immediate return with legislation that is favored for them. Sometimes the return they get is stalling legislation that would actually make a meaningful difference for families.

And so, at the end of the day, the only way we can trust that members of Congress are actually fighting for that kind of legislation is for them not to be taking money from the very corporations and special interests that do not want to see that kind of legislation pass.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern American history. It's unleashed a flood of secret money, corporate money, billionaire money on both sides. Donald Trump's rise is a symptom of this deeper disease. Our task is not just to contain his wickedness, but to cure the rot that gave rise to it."

[Renee @TexasCowgrl1111]

Hypothetically…….. I’m being taxed on money I never made. Let that sink in.
If I bought my property outright for $60,000 in 2009
Now the county says it’s worth $246,000.
Did I sell it? No.
Did I make a profit? No.
Did I get a check for $246,000? No.
But my taxes jumped like I did.
That’s the problem.
This isn’t income.
This isn’t cash.
This is a number someone decided on paper — and now I’m being billed for it.
If my stock portfolio doubles, I don’t pay taxes until I sell.
If my income doesn’t increase, I don’t magically owe more income tax.
So why does owning a home work differently?
Why am I being taxed on unrealized gains?
A house isn’t just an investment — it’s where people live. And this system means you can do everything right, pay off your home, and still get squeezed harder every year because of a number you never turned into money.
You don’t truly own something if you can be taxed out of it.
This isn’t about “services” or “inflation.”
It’s about being charged for value you never received.
And people are starting to notice.

This needs to be on everyone’s mind✔️

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel dropped bombs on the historic Citadel of Tyre in southern Lebanon.

Not a military target.

A UNESCO World Heritage site — one of the region’s oldest surviving monuments.

This is a war crime and a crime against humanity.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel announced that they will occupy almost 10% of Lebanon, an area larger than Bahrain, New York, or Singapore.

What Israel is doing is clearly aimed at ethnic cleansing and colonization, and every world leader who's silent about this is complicit, along with their people.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Woman who lives only 1.6 miles from the META Data Center in Wisconsin speaks out

She says their water system has been completely destroyed

She says there is discharge that turns the entire river white like milk. She paid for testing and found extremely high heavy metal levels

“I live on a horse farm and I am an educator. I, for almost four 50 years, a natural creek has flowed through my property. It's 20 feet wide, up to four feet deep. It has persisted through drought, flood, seasonal change. It's part of a connected system. Groundwater, tributaries, watersheds, aquifers ultimately flowing into Beaver Dam Lake. Until construction began upstream on the data center, its behavior was stable and predictable

After construction started, all of that changed. Here in Beaver Dam, the creek began to stop flowing entirely without rainfall. It would abruptly return off in cloudy and opaque like milk, with enough force to cause drastic erosion and damage — Water testing on my property shows elevated strontium, a very dangerous metal, and other indicators consistent with deep groundwater influence”

[Richard @ricwe123]

China isn’t an enemy.
It’s simply a competitor of the US and now the leading economic power.
Why?
China didn’t waste trillions on endless stupid wars.
They invested in innovation, manufacturing and education.

US politicians hate China’s success because it makes them look like clowns....
🤡🤡

(Matthew Whitaker, US Ambassador to NATO)

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Mo Gawdat spent years inside the machine at Google X.

Now he is saying out loud what the economists will not.

Gawdat: “The very base of capitalism, which is labor arbitrage, to hire you for a dollar and then sell what you make for two, is going to disappear.”

That is not a prediction. That is a coroner’s report on a system that has not stopped breathing yet.

Capitalism was never about innovation. It was about one equation. Buy human time cheap. Sell the output high. Pocket the spread.

Every empire. Every fortune. Every supply chain on Earth was built on that margin.

AI just closed it to zero.

A humanoid robot now costs $9,000. It does not sleep. It does not negotiate. It does not quit. It runs every hour of every day at a quality ceiling no biological worker will ever touch.

When production costs fall to nearly nothing, the entire pricing structure of the global economy falls with it.

But here is what every CEO celebrating margin expansion has not thought through for five minutes.

Gawdat: “Even if you can have all of the productivity gains in the world, by firing people consistently, nobody’s able to buy what you’re making.”

That single sentence should end every strategy meeting on the planet.

Capitalism is a closed loop. You pay workers. Workers become consumers. Consumers buy products. Revenue funds the next payroll.

Cut the worker and you do not just eliminate a cost. You eliminate the customer.

Every company racing to automate headcount out of existence is quietly engineering the death of its own demand.

They are building the most efficient production systems in human history to sell to a population that no longer has income.

50% unemployment is not a recession. It is the demand side of the economy going permanently dark.

You cannot push infinite supply into zero purchasing power. The math does not care about your earnings call.

Gawdat: “Wealth is going to have very little meaning for most of us in a few years’ time.”

This is where it turns on the people who think they are winning.

If production approaches zero cost, scarcity begins to dissolve. And scarcity is the only reason money holds value in the first place.

The billionaire class is stockpiling a currency that is quietly losing its reason to exist.

Gawdat: “So the entire capitalist model has to be rethought.”

He is right. And nobody in power is doing the rethinking.

Every board meeting about efficiency is a conversation about dismantling the very economic engine that made the board meeting possible.

The question was never whether AI could produce enough.

It was whether capitalism could survive its own success.

The machine does not just replace the worker. It erases the consumer.

And a system that can produce everything but sell nothing is not an economy.

It is a machine that perfected itself into extinction.

[Richard @ricwe123]

In this interview with Alibaba’s founder, Jack Ma, America’s moral and strategic bankruptcy is put on full display.
For over 30 years, US corporations pillaged their own country, shipping jobs and industry overseas while stuffing themselves with profits so grotesque they eclipse the combined wealth of China’s four largest banks.

An astonishing $14.2 trillion was torched on 13 senseless wars,wars that achieved nothing except enriching defense contractors and geopolitical parasites,while the rest of the loot was shoveled straight into Wall Street’s bottomless maw.
Roads rot, bridges fail, cities decay, and working people are abandoned to scrape by in an economy rigged against them.

What remains is not a superpower, but a hollowed-out carcass: a nation addicted to greed, governed by incompetence, and utterly indifferent to its own collapse.
America didn’t fall,it sold itself off piece by piece, and now stands as a cautionary monument to unchecked profit worship.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 BREAKING: "Less than 24 hours after agreeing to a ceasefire, largely out of respect for our Pakistani brothers who were mediating, Israel has already violated it and Trump has began to twist his words and backtrack on his promises.

This is not how diplomacy works and Iran will NOT entertain it.’ – Iranian official

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 @RepRoKhanna to Democratic leadership: “Get out. Let a new generation lead. You’ve been ineffective. The base doesn’t like you. The base wants fighters.”

[Iran News 24 @IRanMediaco]

BREAKING: The expert in Iranian national security affairs:

"The ceasefire was broken by an attack on the Loyan refinery and the brutal Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Iran is in the process of assessing the situation and preparing to suspend the ceasefire and resume the war."

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

⚡️BREAKING: “Ceasefire” Update:

Iranian state TV reports that U.S. and Israel struck the Lavan oil refinery on Lavan Island, calling the attack a violation of the ceasefire.

This attack happened at 10 AM local Iran time during the “ceasefire”.

[Persian Girl @Persianserene1]

There is no point in “Islamabad talks” if Israel keeps bombing Lebanon

Cancel the goddamn Friday meeting NOW

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🚨🇱🇧🇮🇷🇺🇸 BREAKING: ISRAEL has already backtracked on the ceasefire deal stating "Lebanon won't be included in the ceasefire"

Iran, Pakistan & the U.S. all confirmed Lebanon is part of the ceasefire...