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[thinkahol @thinkahol]

Everyone is one of us.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

This world isn’t collapsing because humanity became too compassionate, too equal or too free. It is collapsing because greedy fucking sociopaths converted governments into protection rackets for wealth and empire.

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

Studies now present a striking picture of what happens when private equity firms acquire hospitals and nursing homes: predictable increases in harm and deaths. One landmark study shows: patient deaths up about 11% after such acquisitions.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

The Supreme Court just struck down all spending limits for political parties.

This means parties can spend unlimited amounts of money in upcoming elections.

[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

Rovina Naboi in Kenya lost her little daughter Jane to starvation in a refugee camp. After Elon Musk threw USAID into the woodchipper, food was rationed to 40 percent of daily caloric needs, and one meal a day.

The world's richest man did this.

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

4 out of 10 Americans ration the drugs they need because they cannot afford them.

Big Pharma's price gauging is out of control.

As our co-president @Rob_Weissman notes: the government grants Big Pharma their monopolies, and it's time to stop!

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

BOMBSHELL reporting finds Princeton climate researchers took tens of millions of dollars from BP to publish research, shaped and edited by BP, promoting carbon capture & storage and fossil fuels.

Landmark "Wedges" climate paper promoting CCS now confirmed to be BP propaganda.

[Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley]

After noting that the Supreme Court majority seemed oddly reluctant to include any examples of Trump's "repellent and racially inflected" statements about Haiti in its TPS ruling that downplayed them, Justice Kagan provided some receipts:

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

The Supreme Court’s immigration decisions today fly in the face of the law and human decency. I always expect Sam Alito to rewrite the law to fit his own vile ideology and partisanship. There was a time when I was shocked that he could get four others to go along. Now he regularly gets five.

[Dittie @DittiePE]

Did you know?

82% of Gen Z can’t afford to buy a home.

Not because they’re lazy. Because the median home costs $417,700 and the median salary is $62,600.

The housing market is heading negative for the first time in three years and experts say brace for worse.

US housing foreclosures hit a six-year high, with filings climbing double digits year-over-year.

How does Trump fix this? He throws a temper tantrum and refuses to sign the one bill that will help Americans keep or buy their homes.

#TrumpsHousingCrisis

[Pitchfork Economics @PitchforkEcon]

The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.24/hour since 2009. Senator @ChrisMurphyCT just introduced a bill to raise it to $25/hour.

This is how we actually tackle the affordability crisis.

How high do you think the minimum wage should be?

[Rep. James Walkinshaw @Rep_Walkinshaw]

You can’t claim to fight waste, fraud, and abuse while looking the other way as Trump hands millions in no-bid contracts to his crooked Mar-a-Lago buddies.

If Republicans were serious about accountability, they’d investigate the waste and fraud inside this administration.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

If Flock cameras everywhere become normalized for our kids, what will be normal for their kids?

Once surveillance becomes invisible, people stop questioning it, opposition dulls, and attention fades.

The most powerful systems don't need enforcement, they just need acceptance.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Wow. This focus group on the MAGA cult.

Spoiler alert: these folks aren’t MAGA anymore.

Tori Hurst: "They made me watch a documentary on January 6th, and I didn't even know what happened on January 6th prior to the PBS documentary. And I looked at him, and I said, 'Scott, did that really happen?' And he was like, 'Where have you been?’”

Fascinating.

[Social Security Works ❌👑 @SSWorks]

"Jeff Bezos, one of the wealthiest men in the world, only pays himself $80,000 in wage income.

That means he pays less into Social Security than someone making $184,500.

The Social Security Expansion Act would fix that." – @SenSanders

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ansari: I didn’t think I could be shocked by anything he does, but he was literally handed a bipartisan housing bill that would lower costs on a silver platter. It was such an easy win for him at a time when he’s so unpopular because of his cover-up of the Epstein files and this illegal war he screwed up. He could’ve said, “I did this big housing bill,” and because he is so committed to rigging the election, he chose to blow it all up. Their party is a mess. Trump is a joke.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Its 36 years since one of the most famous deceptions in history.

A deception the US deep state invented to justify the bloody first invasion of Iraq.

"Kuwaiti girl" Naira tearfully testified before the US Congress in October 1990, where she claimed to have witnessed horrific scenes in one of Kuwait's hospitals

"Iraqi soldiers stormed the hospital, threw newborn babies out of incubators, and left them to die on the cold floor!"

The story pushed the country to war. US senators passed a resolution to invade Iraq by a margin of five votes. Seven of them believed the girl's words.

Two months before the testimony, 17% of Americans supported US involvement in the conflict. Two months later, nearly half of Americans believed military intervention was necessary.

After the war ended, it was revealed that Naira was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US, and her story was fabricated by the PR agency Hill & Knowlton, hired by the Kuwaiti government. During the first Iraq war over 135,000 Iraqis were killed.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Society Explained — 100 Theories of How Society Works https://t.co/FC66Rw92PE

[DiEM25 @DiEM_25]

This heat is not only a climate emergency, it is class war. The rich burn the planet, then buy air conditioning, private pools and second homes while workers are left in overheated flats, unsafe jobs, failed public services and burning cities. Climate Action Now!

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

‼️ US economy runs on one thing above all: consumer spending. It accounts for 68% of GDP as of Q1 2026.

But the real story? The K-shaped economy is becoming more extreme.

- Top 10% of earners now drive nearly 50% of all consumer spending: the highest share on record.

- Top 20% (those earning over ~$175k) account for nearly 60% of outlays in Q1 2026

- The wealthy are spending strongly (boosted by asset gains), while the bottom 80% are barely keeping pace with inflation.

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

Independent analyses estimate that your actions to dismantle USAID and drastically reduce lifesaving foreign aid have already killed 700,000 people. Here are some of those people. 🧵https://t.co/aKdQpk9QTW