Trump told you he’d run America like a business.
He is.
It’s called asset stripping. You go in, sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, & walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag.
Venture capitalist politics.
Biggest takeaways of the cycle so far:
✅ Dem voters are extremely pissed off (much more than DC insiders realize)
✅ Dark money spending is not moving the needle (or, in some cases, backfiring) for incumbents
✅ Gaza is seen as a moral litmus test for Dem candidates
How the fuck do we have $300 billion to rebuild Iran after we spent $80 billion bombing it, when we don’t “have the money” for pediatric cancer research?
Just found out that the designer and creative director of JMakxParis, Alvin JMak got into a partnership through an organisation that helps victims of the conflict in Congo and those victims helped create the uniforms 🥹
Never forget that as Elon Musk became a trillionaire today, it is estimated that 750,000 people have died as a result of his cutting of USAID. The majority of those deaths were children.
I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.
Millionaires stop paying into Social Security once they've made $184k.
That's a couple of months into the year, tops.
Meanwhile, politicians keep raiding Social Security and moving the depletion date up.
Our benefits don't have to be threatened if we just scrap the damn cap.
Republicans didn’t cut “government waste.”
They cut your health care.
They cut your social security.
They cut your retirement.
They cut your SNAP.
AND they raised your taxes.
They’re just hoping you don’t notice.
Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3