The border isn’t broken because poor people ask for asylum.
It’s broken because rich politicians discovered racism gets more votes than fixing wages, housing, healthcare, or labor rights.
🚨OMG. A fighter just declared “Michelle Obama is a man” on the White House lawn as Joe Rogan chuckles.
Tonight is a DISGRACE to our country, not a celebration.
The Tyranny of the Future.
Why Musk’s Power is a Civilisational Threat!
Elon Musk is not just a CEO, he is the architect of a new feudalism, where the levers of progress, information, and even human evolution are controlled by a single, UNACCOUNTABLE hand.
His empire
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Maddow: So in January, Trump buys hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Nvidia. Then a week later, his commerce department approves the sale of Nvidia chips to China.
Also in January, Trump buys between 50,000 and $100,000 worth of stock in AMD. One week after he buys it, his commerce department approves AMD doing business in China as well.
The following month, in February, Trump buys millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell. Nine days after he buys millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell, Trump veers off script in a speech in Georgia to tell the crowd literally, quote, go out and buy a Dell computer.
Then in March, Judd Legum at Popular Information reports that Trump repeatedly buys up Thermo Fisher stock, and then he goes and visits Thermo Fisher on a presidential visit and praises the company.
That same day, Trump bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Apple. And then that same day he bought the stock, he did another event where he singled out Apple and Apple CEO Tim cook for praise. Apple a great company.
Then after that, Trump buys Micron stock. The very next day, he calls into the Fox News channel and tells them Micron is one of the hottest companies.
CNBC reporting Trump makes seven separate purchases of Palantir stock. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Palantir stock. Then he gets on truth social and praises Palantir.
I’m struck by how often Trump referred to Xi as his “friend” and a “great leader.”
Xi Jinping, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, is a dictator. He also offered no such reciprocal praise for Trump.
That asymmetry makes Trump appear in a visibly weaker position.
@McFaul Bullies can be bullied by more powerful bullies. It only takes a small uprising to reduce the bullies to nothing. Provided the bullies are not protected by a group of weakling toadies.
On June 16th, 2025 Trump announced a new "Trump Phone" available for preorder.
$100 preorder towards a $500 phone.
To date, he's received 590,000+ preorders, taking in an estimated $59 million in sales.
Last month in April, Trump updated the Preorder terms stating there is "No guarantee a phone will be produced or sold".
This is beyond grifting.
And the Trump phone (which will never happen), is the perfect representation of the Trump Presidency:
A bait & switch scam.
He stole their money and told them to cry more.
@JoJoFromJerz@60Minutes@Zigmanfreud I grew up in a Republican family in Nebraska and never voted for Ben because I grew to view the world on my own. Despite my world view differing from his, I agree he is a good man. He is displaying a strength that far too many of today's Republicans don't have.
Luke Falk shared a Mike Leach story that stopped me cold:
Two kids. One rich. One poor.
Every training camp, Coach Leach told his team about these 2 kids.
The rich kid has two choices.
Get soft. Get entitled. Expect everything handed to him because he was handed more.
Or take the resources, the coaching, the opportunities, and compound them into something greater.
The poor kid has two choices too.
Say nobody gave him anything. Blame the world. Make his circumstances the reason he never became what he could have been.
Or outwork everyone in the room.
Luke said the locker room had both. Kids from wealth. Kids from nothing. Kids with every advantage. Kids who scraped for every inch.
Same choice for all of them.
Ownership or victimhood.
Fuel or excuse.
The rich kid can waste the head start or build on it.
The poor kid can drown in the deficit or weaponize it.
Greatness doesn't come from where you start.
It comes from which kid you choose to feed.
Credit to @coachlukefalk for continuing to share golden nuggets about Coach’s legacy