Just a bunch of plutocrats utilising their free-speech rights..
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Pro-Israel billionaires pushed NYC Mayor to use police on pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University.
They donated to him & offered to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations.
The group included Howard Schultz, Michael Dell, Bill Ackman & Joshua Kushner, with Daniel Lubetzky, Daniel Loeb, Len Blavatnik & Joseph Sitt also associated.
Britain's record on homelessness is world beating, just not in a good way.
We've the highest recorded levels of homelessness in the developed world; while other counties have seen (albeit slow) declines in homelessness, since 2010 the UK's rate has been accelerating away.
The housing crisis has many dimensions, but here there's a direct correlation between the arrival of the current Tory govt. & massive increases!
The party of landlords is working for them & doing nothing for us!
At Justice #Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display
An upside-down flag, adopted by #Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case. #SCOTUS
An organization led by a wealthy Republican donor helped write a controversial new state law meant to force homeless people across Florida into state-sanctioned camps:
Sixty days in jail and forced psychiatric treatment: What Florida could do next to homeless people https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/sixty-days-in-jail-and-forced-psychiatric
I gotta say.. it’s fucking scary to see the far right rise so fast in so many countries with such extremes
We have had 2 world wars with so many deaths that also started with such ‘ideas’ and ‘thoughts’, we cannot and may not let that happen ever again
Unfortunately I don’t have the answers but I really much wish we could find some common ground and cool down things before it gets even further out of hand
As George Monbiot says, the answer to thwarting a fascist movement & its inevitable wars, is using tax dollars to benefit the citizens & voters of a nation, all of them, not just the 1% at the top.
Also, ensuring that the top pays their taxes.
It was the Post WW2 answer that worked for 75 years. It created trade not brinksmanship. It created diplomacy and mutual aid treaties like NATO.
That's the solution.
Tax the rich.
Good government geared towards the needs of the nation.
Enormous vehicles used to be used by people who needed them. Electricians. Plumbers. Carpenters. Delivery truck drivers.
Suddenly rich people wanted to use huge vehicles to publicize their inner insecurities & paranoid beliefs.
Fears about becoming poor. Fears about thieves & car accidents. Fears about not being masculine.
Fears about the end of the world & fake fears about things like a zombie apocalypses (ie hidden fears about race wars). Fantasies about mountain trails.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, according to his office, today will join Donald Trump in court in NYC and "will then address media outside of the ongoing sham prosecution of President Trump. Speaker Johnson will address the political persecution of the 45th President of the United States by President Biden’s weaponized Department of Justice and the left-wing Manhattan district attorney."
The fossil fuel industry went on a mergers & acquisitions blitz on the insurance industry.
The insurance industry is anticipating 1.2 billion climate refugees, 1 billion famine deaths, and billions in property damage. All costs to be dumped onto the taxpayers, not the fossil fuel industry
They plan on dumping fossil fuel cleanups on the taxpayers as coastal infrastructure is inundated as sea levels rise. Coal ports. Refineries. Pipelines. Crude oil terminals.
Two weeks ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk enacted widespread layoffs throughout the company, including the 500-strong team responsible for the brand's Supercharger.
💥Now, Tesla is looking to hire some of them back💥, Bloomberg reports,
👉as Musk promises to spend $500 million expanding the network.
Firing & rehiring employees is a way to suppress wages, reset the clock on vesting stock options & bonuses, evade labor laws regarding severance benefits, cancels leases, and is an attempt to evade contract obligations.
So we had this gaggle of lawmakers come to Trump's trial today to debase themselves and their office to do Trump's bidding in attacking Cohen, the judge and the jury on social media...and they expect everyone to believe they did this all on their own. Right. My question is, who paid for their travel, hotel, meals, etc.? Love to see an audit on that. Or, I wonder if they were stupid enough to believe Trump would reimburse them.
In the Texas Panhandle, which produces a fifth of the U.S. beef supply, communities are being choked by fecal dust from nearby feedlots. The state’s regulatory agency isn’t doing anything about it—and it’s about to get a whole lot worse.
Alexey Milchakov, war criminal, co-leader and co-founder of the Rusich Group, that operated from 2022 within the Wagner Group, calls for the killing of prisoners of war.
He says that he hasn't taken Ukrainians prisoner since 2014, but killed them right away.
Milchakov is known for torturing and executing Ukrainian prisoners of war. He has repeatedly been photographed against the backdrop of dead Ukrainian soldiers. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Ukraine#Russia
May 12, 2017 – Donald Trump shared highly classified information with the Russian foreign minister and Russian ambassador at a WH meeting. The disclosure jeopardized the identity of a source that had infiltrated the Islamic State—an extremely sensitive piece of information. Trump had, “revealed more information to the Russian Ambassador than we’ve shared with our own allies,” said a US official in The Washington Post.
GOP megadonors saw this happen, & with no consequences, & thought to themselves "I could buy a president & use it against my competitors, or disgruntled former employees, buy myself federal agency, or form my own foreign policy objectives..."
