Washington Post: At Mar-a-Lago, Trump asked oil CEOs to raise $1 billion for his campaign and told them if he gets back in the White House he'll immediately reverse dozens of Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted. https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy
Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":
The #Biden admin paused the shipment of thousands of weapons to #Israel, including controversial 2k-pound bombs, amid mounting concern about the country’s plan to expand a military operation in southern #Gaza that could dramatically increase the conflict’s death toll, U.S. ofcls said Tues.
Gotta protect the administrators from checks notes professors.
“A group of 11 professors arrived at Gibson Hall Friday morning to deliver an open letter signed by 250 faculty members that condemned the university’s response to a pro-Palestinian encampment and demanded it drop suspensions against seven students involved.
“Nine armed police officers stopped the group from entering Gibson.”
Post secondary education stopped being free when it started being used as a springboard for social mobility under the GI Bill with Vietnam War veterans who weren't white.
It was marketed by Reagan as a "tax revolt". It was really a war on democracy.
The Holocaust started with rich people, like an obsolete aristocratic elite and industrialists trying to evade taxation, trying to blameshift an economic crisis to someone else, anyone else.
These wealthy individuals funded a divisive propaganda campaign that amplified "us vs them" narratives.
On June 1, 2020, he hid in an underground bunker like Adolf Hitler, then emerged briefly to gas his own people & clear a path for a photo op in front of a church he never attended with an upside down Bible he never read. — Don’t normalize him. Donald Trump is a wannabe dictator.
Donald Trump is funded by Republican billionaires who want him to be a dictator.
This isn't about getting tax cuts for the rich, this is about ending "government by the people , for the people" and replacing it with "government parasitized by the rich, for public corruption. "
the Nantucket Current has been chronicling the first cybertruck on the island and is making fun of them parking like a dick. this is the reason a free press is crucial to democracy.
Concealing the true toll of letting a pandemic run amok is one reason why Republican megadonors are funding the GOP to win at all cost.
They don't want scientific studies, DOJ investigations, or Congressional hearings on how over 1.2 million Americans died of covid, or will die of long covid in future.
#USPol
In #NewHampshire a bill was passed to end child marriage and raise the min. age to marry to 18.
The bill passed the Senate unanimously and in the House it passed 192 to 174.
ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY FOUR!!! voted to sustain child marriage! WTF? And they say they need to protect kids from trans people!
One GOP representative argued this would restrict the freedom of those who are of “a ripe and fertile age”.
This is the modern day republican party folks.
"Child marriage" is forced marriage and a human rights violation. It's a recipe for an overpopulated planet & climate crisis. https://www.unfpa.org/child-marriage
Absorb this graph—but note that the final year is 2018, the year of Trump’s tax cuts. That’s #Trump’s big goal, always has been: to rip off working people and hand huge bags of cash to the ultra-wealthy, like himself and his Mar-a-Lago buddies.
Rutger Bregman:
Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.
Timothy Mellon, an ultra-wealthy political donor bankrolling Donald Trump's Super PAC,
is also giving millions for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the third-party candidate who has been blamed as a potential spoiler in the 2024 presidential race.
It's an unusual arrangement that Democrats have highlighted as they seek to paint RFK Jr. as someone far more closely aligned with the Republican ex-president's Make America Great Again movement than with causes on the left
Mellon is heir to the family fortune of banking and industrial magnate Andrew Mellon.
He has donated to many anti-immigration measures and was a major contributor to a Texas-led fund to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico.
Since 2023, the donor has given $20 million to the super PAC that supports Kennedy and $15 million to the super PAC that supports Trump.
