Jeff (at)jeffwaid.bsky.social Waid

"Oh, I say you been misled. You been had. You been took."

[Jeff (at)jeffwaid.bsky.social Waid @nowwaid]

See ya.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Taxing net worth over $1B in the U.S. at 100% would leave $5.8T to help society.

Oh, that’s extreme?

Not as extreme as letting people die because they can’t afford healthcare, starve because they can’t afford food, and homeless when they can’t afford housing.

Tax billionaires.

[American Veteran @amvetsupport]

I realize that I am just a general contractor. Not a big city developer who has never brought in a project on budget and many of his projects have gone bankrupt. But here is what I know.

Never in the history of any public works project has any legitimate contractor neglected to deal with the National Registry of Historic Properties before demolishing a property. Never in the history of such projects has any contractor not submitted, plans, for permits and approvals. Never in recent history has any project like this not been cleared through environmental agencies who would make sure that asbestos and lead were not in a very old building. Finally, it is unbelievable that in less than a week he has literally doubled the budget for the project.

And since contractors have to be licensed who is the contractor?

This is egregious. This man needs to be reminded that he is one year into a four year lease and he did not even consult the building owners before he destroyed history.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Data centers should pay for the electricity they use, and utility companies shouldn't be forcing customers to pay more to cover their massive discounts to these hugely profitable companies.

This shouldn't be a controversial take.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

📢 One more time:

Nothing is free. We pay taxes.

It’s not “radical” to want our tax dollars to fund programs that help the working class, instead of going towards tax breaks and giveaways to whichever billionaire or corporation donates the most money.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Why would Trump buy beef from Argentina while US farmers struggle?

Maybe it’s because the Trump-connected fund managers at BlackRock, Fidelity and Pimco, and his mega-wealthy friends are heavily invested in Argentina.

Always follow the money and you’ll find Trump’s corruption.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

This isn’t a $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

This is a $40 billion bailout to the Trump-connected fund managers at BlackRock, Fidelity and Pimco, and mega-wealthy friends who invested heavily in Argentina.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.

They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.

They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.

“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

[Sigh. Must you really? @MaskedSquish61]

So a Trump supporter can literally say anything, incite violence, engage in hate speech, harass & encourage harassment of anyone who disagrees w them but if you dare bring any of this up for a dialogue, you lose your job. A profound fuck you to every major media outlet.

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.

I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct”.

https://t.co/GuKm57zQJe

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

I think everyone should take a moment and watch every second of this and ask themselves why the media is not showing any of these clips on TV.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley: “Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated. But I’m overwhelmed seeing the flags of the United States of America at half-staff calling this nation to honor and venerate a man who was an unapologetic racist and spent all of his life sowing seeds of division and hate into this land. And hearing people with selective rage who are mad about Charlie Kirk, but didn’t give a damn about Melissa Hortman and her husband when they were shot down in their home, tell me I ought to have compassion for the death of a man who had no respect for my own life. I am sorry, but there’s nowhere in bible where we are taught to honor evil. How you die does not redeem how you lived. You do not become a hero in your death when you are a weapon of the enemy in your life”

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

As union membership goes down, more wealth gets transferred up to the top 10% from the working class.

There’s a reason why corporations and billionaires spend $400 million per year busting unions.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

“Billionaires and millionaires will leave if you tax them” is a myth invented by billionaires and millionaires so you won’t tax them.

[Jennifer Berkshire @BisforBerkshire]

kind of ironic that the most popular Dems - southerners like Roy Cooper and Andy Beshear - are popular in part because they led very visible fights against school vouchers. And yet there is intense pressure to get Dems to embrace vouchers in order to *stay relevant*

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Sinclair Broadcast pushes right-wing propaganda into 40% of local news markets.

Fox News is in 70M homes.

The WaPo and Politico owners are Trump donors.

CBS has a political bias monitor

Our news is carefully curated by conservative billionaires.
https://t.co/7fPJMwpQES

[A.R. Moxon 🦋 @JuliusGoat]

It's hard to credit MAGA with ignorance. If they were ignorant they'd sometimes choose less evil over more evil, but no matter where you set them, no matter how many times you spin them around, their moral compasses point with unerring certainty toward maximum atrocity & cruelty.

[Eric Blair🔥🟧 @protecttruth_]

Abundance and WelcomeFest are neoliberal deregulation with a new name slapped on. This is a rebranding exercise.

It’s like when Phillip Morris rebranded as Altria.

[Abby D. Phillip @abbydphillip]

As you can see in the video, Sen. Padilla clearly identifies himself. DHS still wrote this post falsely claiming that he did not.

[Jeff (at)jeffwaid.bsky.social Waid @nowwaid]

@abbydphillip Can't believe I'm over here even briefly, but I wanted to thank you for drilling into Stephens's "fact vs. truth" sophistry. Is man-made climate change fact or truth? Is the right to due process a fact or truth? He loves facts when the truth is inconvenient. Thanks.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

Democrats ARE YOU LISTENING?????