😡🔥 Not the State’s Incubator

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[😡🔥 Not the State’s Incubator @fourfacesofeve]

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[Negan @Roger_Negan]

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[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

A young woman named MacKenzie Tuttle graduated from Princeton in 1992 with a degree in English. One of her professors was Toni Morrison, who later described her as one of the finest creative writing students she had ever taught.

After graduation, MacKenzie took a job at the New York investment firm D. E. Shaw. There she met a colleague named Jeff Bezos, who had an ambitious idea: selling books on the internet.

She didn’t laugh at the idea.

They married in 1993, and the following year drove across the country to the Seattle area to build what would become Amazon.

In the beginning, there was no global empire.

There was a garage.

MacKenzie handled accounting, wrote business materials, answered customer emails and phone calls, and packed orders alongside Jeff. Like many startups, everyone did whatever needed to be done.

As Amazon grew, MacKenzie stepped away from day-to-day operations to raise their four children while continuing to pursue her own passion for writing.

Her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, won the American Book Award. She later published a second novel and quietly built a respected literary career.

Meanwhile, the story of Amazon became one of the most famous business stories ever told.

Jeff Bezos became one of the world’s most recognizable entrepreneurs.

MacKenzie’s role was rarely part of the public narrative.

She never seemed interested in changing that.

What many people don’t know is that she also knew financial hardship.

Her family filed for bankruptcy while she was still a student, and she has spoken about the kindness of people who helped her through difficult times—acts of generosity she never forgot.

In 2019, after her divorce, MacKenzie Scott received approximately 4% of Amazon’s shares.

Almost immediately, she made a decision that surprised the world.

She signed the Giving Pledge, promising to donate the majority of her wealth during her lifetime.

Then she did something even more unusual.

Instead of building a massive public foundation or attaching her name to buildings, she began giving away billions of dollars through large, unrestricted grants.

Universities.

Food banks.

Housing organizations.

Rural communities.

Women’s health initiatives.

Tribal colleges.

Climate organizations.

Small nonprofits that had never imagined receiving gifts of that size.

Many recipients reportedly thought the phone calls were scams.

They weren’t.

Since 2019, MacKenzie Scott has donated tens of billions of dollars to thousands of organizations, making her one of the most significant philanthropists of the modern era.

Despite giving away enormous sums, her fortune has remained substantial because of Amazon’s continued growth.

The woman who once packed Amazon’s first orders is now helping fund opportunities for millions of people she will probably never meet.

She never asked for buildings in her name.

She never demanded headlines.

Sometimes the greatest legacy isn’t the company you help build.

It’s what you choose to do with the success that follows.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Lincoln acted in the interests of future Americans - us. Donald Trump acts for himself, and him alone. Had enough?

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

If there's one thing Americans can agree on, it's that there's too much money in politics.

But the Supreme Court just decided to demolish some of the last safeguards we had left - creating an even bigger role for special interest spending.

We must do whatever it takes - including a constitutional amendment if necessary - to combat the influence of money in our political system.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Someone made a fortune betting that America was about to go to war with Iran. They placed that bet 71 minutes before it happened. I’m a member of Congress with access to classified briefings, and I had no reason to believe it was coming right then.

How is this legal? Because the guardrails that were supposed to stop this were never put in place. The CFTC was working on them under Biden, and the Trump Administration walked that effort back. And wouldn’t you know it, Donald Trump Jr. has a financial stake in these betting platforms.

No one should be able to cash in on advance knowledge of a war, especially when there are lives on the line. Betting on war, death, and regime change should be illegal. That's exactly what my DEATH BETS Act would do.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

A federal judge just ordered the Pentagon to temporarily lift the requirement that all journalists visiting the building be accompanied by an official escort.

The decision was another rebuke to the Trump admin's efforts to restrict reporters who cover the Department of Defense. https://t.co/UuNiRIUW0w

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸 Donald Trump purchased $5 million of Axon stock days before ICE awarded a $220 million Taser contract.

In any functioning democracy, this would be called massive corruption and He would have faced at least 2 years in jail.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Could've been Batman, decided to be Lex Luthor.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Inflation is at the highest level in three years.

Total household debt is at a record high of $18.8 trillion.

The personal savings rate is one of the lowest in decades.

Regular Americans are struggling to stay afloat — and Trump can't be bothered to stay awake.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Sen Tammy Duckworth: “If you have a different name on your birth certificate than is on your drivers license, you CANNOT vote, and so for the 69 MILLION American WOMEN who took their husband’s names, you cannot vote. That birth certificate is not valid. By the way, military IDs will not be valid for you to be able to vote, neither will your REAL ID…So you have to go in with a passport that matches your current ID, and you know how hard it is to get a passport? Number one, it’s expensive and number two, theres such a backlog in the State Department, some people are waiting 3-6 months to get a passport. And so, think about the 69 million American women who married and took their husband’s name, you can no longer vote under the #SAVEAct…and in order to have housing for young people who…don’t see home ownership as being something that they can achieve, he’s going to hold women who are married and took their husband’s name hostage.” 🤦‍♀️

[Janai Nelson @JNelsonLDF]

The first paragraph of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s concurrence is a devastating takedown of Justice Thomas’s heinous opinion:

“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.”

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

The same politicians who spent years demanding answers about Hunter Biden’s finances should have no issue holding the Trump family to that very same standard.

If reports that Barron Trump is worth $150 million at just 20 years old are true, then Congress should be asking the exact same questions it asked about Hunter Biden. Where did the money come from? What business generated it? Who was involved? Were family connections, political influence, or foreign ties part of the equation?

Those are not unreasonable questions. They are the very standard Republicans established.

They launched investigations, issued subpoenas, and spent years putting a president’s family member under the microscope. If that was justified then, the same principle should apply now.

If Hunter Biden’s finances deserved years of scrutiny, then reported wealth tied to the Trump family deserves the same level of examination.

The standard should be the same for everyone. Fair is fair.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch: “JD Vance is this country’s top prostitute. He believes in nothing. He’s changed his name three times, changed his religion three times. ‘Trump is America’s Hitler,’ we’ve done a complete 180 on that. He is a two-bit hooker”

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

When it comes to getting mental health help, Tom Kean Jr.'s logic appears to be "It's okay for me, but not for thee." https://t.co/fRVWXJGdZb

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: MAGA in Georgia are PANICKING after Senator Jon Ossoff drops a BRILLIANT new ad targeting SEX TRAFFICKING.

Ossoff passed a bill that saved countless young girls from the foster system. This is the leadership we need.

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

Let's keep the focus on working families, and the backwards priorities of a Republican trifecta that is doing anything but helping them.

Life is harder and more expensive under Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress, yet they refuse to do the things that would help families make ends meet.

That is a choice.

Remember in November.

#FlipCongressBlue

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

He wasn’t found liable for allegedly assaulting her, he was found liable for actually assaulting her.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Never in our nation's history have we witnessed such corruption and efforts at personal enrichment by a president and his administration.

This bill would make sure that Congress has the chance to approve or deny settlements like in Trump's IRS lawsuit.
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