#oligarchy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oligarchy, aggregated by home.social.
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"Peter Thiel Snags Top Prize from Politico’s Owner"
Axel Springer honors Thiel - just doesn't mention the "$50 million he gave the CEO's son".
"Here’s an idea for a media company: don’t give your top prize to a billionaire who bankrupted one media outlet & is funding a machine to harass the rest."
"Axel Springer journalists with ethics & integrity should head for the nearest exit."
https://www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-snags-top-prize-from-politicos-owner/
#USPol #EUPol #PeterThiel #AxelSpringer #news #oligarchy #democracy #tescreal .
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"Peter Thiel Snags Top Prize from Politico’s Owner"
Axel Springer honors Thiel - just doesn't mention the "$50 million he gave the CEO's son".
"Here’s an idea for a media company: don’t give your top prize to a billionaire who bankrupted one media outlet & is funding a machine to harass the rest."
"Axel Springer journalists with ethics & integrity should head for the nearest exit."
https://www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-snags-top-prize-from-politicos-owner/
#USPol #EUPol #PeterThiel #AxelSpringer #news #oligarchy #democracy #tescreal .
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@Free_Press So… we DID have money for health care, social security, student debt forgiveness, free college, food for children and infants, free daycare, paid maternity leave…
#oligarchy #fascism #trumpism #idiocracy #TrumpsWar #VoteBlue #NoRepublicansEverAgain #GOP
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@Free_Press So… we DID have money for health care, social security, student debt forgiveness, free college, food for children and infants, free daycare, paid maternity leave…
#oligarchy #fascism #trumpism #idiocracy #TrumpsWar #VoteBlue #NoRepublicansEverAgain #GOP
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@Free_Press So… we DID have money for health care, social security, student debt forgiveness, free college, food for children and infants, free daycare, paid maternity leave…
#oligarchy #fascism #trumpism #idiocracy #TrumpsWar #VoteBlue #NoRepublicansEverAgain #GOP
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@Free_Press So… we DID have money for health care, social security, student debt forgiveness, free college, food for children and infants, free daycare, paid maternity leave…
#oligarchy #fascism #trumpism #idiocracy #TrumpsWar #VoteBlue #NoRepublicansEverAgain #GOP
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Excellent #podcast with Dave Regan of #SEIU on #CAProp40 ballot initiative to address the #healthcare shortfall created by Trump’s “big beautiful bill”.
The initiative will levy a one time 5% #WealthTax” on CA #billionaires. Unsurprisingly this has been met by #oligarchy anger
Opposition is also being led by #GavinNewsom. Regan suggests the governor’s objection is driven by presidential ambitions reliant on #SiliconValley political donations
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Excellent #podcast with Dave Regan of #SEIU on #CAProp40 ballot initiative to address the #healthcare shortfall created by Trump’s “big beautiful bill”.
The initiative will levy a one time 5% #WealthTax” on CA #billionaires. Unsurprisingly this has been met by #oligarchy anger
Opposition is also being led by #GavinNewsom. Regan suggests the governor’s objection is driven by presidential ambitions reliant on #SiliconValley political donations
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Wanted: AI that does not merely confirm biases. Not Wanted: The same.
By @ahoyuniverse
HT mstdn @ladyteruki
#oligarchy #plutocracy #broligarchy #kakistocracy #HalfHeartedFanatic
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Wanted: AI that does not merely confirm biases. Not Wanted: The same.
By @ahoyuniverse
HT mstdn @ladyteruki
#oligarchy #plutocracy #broligarchy #kakistocracy #HalfHeartedFanatic
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The Plot Against America
They're not hiding it anymore.
A network of billionaires is openly calling for the end of democracy—in their own words, in public, on the record.
https://theplotagainstamerica.com/
#US #USA #USPol #USpolitics #America #Democracy #Oligarchy #Thiel #Yarvin #Prince #Bannon #Miller #Trump #Musk #Vance #Roberts #Vought #Ellison #Karp #Sacks #Andreessen #Luckey #Lonsdale #Altman #Srinivasan #Zuckerberg #Kratsios
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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The fight against AI data centers is important – but it’s just a starting point | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/09/ai-datacenter-company-politics #AI #DataCenters #tech #pollution #PollutedWater #WealthConcentration #oligarchy
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The fight against AI data centers is important – but it’s just a starting point | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/09/ai-datacenter-company-politics #AI #DataCenters #tech #pollution #PollutedWater #WealthConcentration #oligarchy
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The fight against AI data centers is important – but it’s just a starting point | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/09/ai-datacenter-company-politics #AI #DataCenters #tech #pollution #PollutedWater #WealthConcentration #oligarchy
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The fight against AI data centers is important – but it’s just a starting point | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/09/ai-datacenter-company-politics #AI #DataCenters #tech #pollution #PollutedWater #WealthConcentration #oligarchy
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The fight against AI data centers is important – but it’s just a starting point | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/09/ai-datacenter-company-politics #AI #DataCenters #tech #pollution #PollutedWater #WealthConcentration #oligarchy
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More of this, please...!
Albania's Flamingo Revolution: Protests Against Kushner-Trump Luxury Resort Could Bring Down Gov't
"Plans for a luxury resort in an ecologically sensitive area have set off more than a month of protests in #Albania, where thousands have taken to the streets to oppose the #megaproject backed by #IvankaTrump and #JaredKushner. The #FlamingoRevolution — named for its feared impact on #MigratoryBirds — began as an #EnvironmentalProtest but has now turned into anger at the entire political system, threatening to bring down the government of Prime Minister #EdiRama."
http://www.democracynow.org/2026/7/9/albania_protests
#WorldPol #Oligarchy #Nepotism #TrumpSucks #TrumpCrimeFamily #PowerCorruptionAndLies
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More of this, please...!
Albania's Flamingo Revolution: Protests Against Kushner-Trump Luxury Resort Could Bring Down Gov't
"Plans for a luxury resort in an ecologically sensitive area have set off more than a month of protests in #Albania, where thousands have taken to the streets to oppose the #megaproject backed by #IvankaTrump and #JaredKushner. The #FlamingoRevolution — named for its feared impact on #MigratoryBirds — began as an #EnvironmentalProtest but has now turned into anger at the entire political system, threatening to bring down the government of Prime Minister #EdiRama."
http://www.democracynow.org/2026/7/9/albania_protests
#WorldPol #Oligarchy #Nepotism #TrumpSucks #TrumpCrimeFamily #PowerCorruptionAndLies
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More of this, please...!
Albania's Flamingo Revolution: Protests Against Kushner-Trump Luxury Resort Could Bring Down Gov't
"Plans for a luxury resort in an ecologically sensitive area have set off more than a month of protests in #Albania, where thousands have taken to the streets to oppose the #megaproject backed by #IvankaTrump and #JaredKushner. The #FlamingoRevolution — named for its feared impact on #MigratoryBirds — began as an #EnvironmentalProtest but has now turned into anger at the entire political system, threatening to bring down the government of Prime Minister #EdiRama."
http://www.democracynow.org/2026/7/9/albania_protests
#WorldPol #Oligarchy #Nepotism #TrumpSucks #TrumpCrimeFamily #PowerCorruptionAndLies
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More of this, please...!
Albania's Flamingo Revolution: Protests Against Kushner-Trump Luxury Resort Could Bring Down Gov't
"Plans for a luxury resort in an ecologically sensitive area have set off more than a month of protests in #Albania, where thousands have taken to the streets to oppose the #megaproject backed by #IvankaTrump and #JaredKushner. The #FlamingoRevolution — named for its feared impact on #MigratoryBirds — began as an #EnvironmentalProtest but has now turned into anger at the entire political system, threatening to bring down the government of Prime Minister #EdiRama."
http://www.democracynow.org/2026/7/9/albania_protests
#WorldPol #Oligarchy #Nepotism #TrumpSucks #TrumpCrimeFamily #PowerCorruptionAndLies
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More of this, please...!
Albania's Flamingo Revolution: Protests Against Kushner-Trump Luxury Resort Could Bring Down Gov't
"Plans for a luxury resort in an ecologically sensitive area have set off more than a month of protests in #Albania, where thousands have taken to the streets to oppose the #megaproject backed by #IvankaTrump and #JaredKushner. The #FlamingoRevolution — named for its feared impact on #MigratoryBirds — began as an #EnvironmentalProtest but has now turned into anger at the entire political system, threatening to bring down the government of Prime Minister #EdiRama."
http://www.democracynow.org/2026/7/9/albania_protests
#WorldPol #Oligarchy #Nepotism #TrumpSucks #TrumpCrimeFamily #PowerCorruptionAndLies
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Report: Andy Burnham may drop spy-tech firm Palantir from its NHS £330m deal.
Burnham, who is expected to become PM later this month, "is reviewing the government's artificial intelligence strategy."
"When the PM-in-waiting was mayor of Greater Manchester, the council issued no contracts to Palantir".
At least 34 Palantir contracts include UK police, child social care, refugees & environment.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/andy-burnham-drop-spy-tech-firm-palantir-nhs-reports-say
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Report: Andy Burnham may drop spy-tech firm Palantir from its NHS £330m deal.
Burnham, who is expected to become PM later this month, "is reviewing the government's artificial intelligence strategy."
"When the PM-in-waiting was mayor of Greater Manchester, the council issued no contracts to Palantir".
At least 34 Palantir contracts include UK police, child social care, refugees & environment.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/andy-burnham-drop-spy-tech-firm-palantir-nhs-reports-say
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Report: Andy Burnham may drop spy-tech firm Palantir from its NHS £330m deal.
Burnham, who is expected to become PM later this month, "is reviewing the government's artificial intelligence strategy."
"When the PM-in-waiting was mayor of Greater Manchester, the council issued no contracts to Palantir".
At least 34 Palantir contracts include UK police, child social care, refugees & environment.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/andy-burnham-drop-spy-tech-firm-palantir-nhs-reports-say
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Report: Andy Burnham may drop spy-tech firm Palantir from its NHS £330m deal.
Burnham, who is expected to become PM later this month, "is reviewing the government's artificial intelligence strategy."
"When the PM-in-waiting was mayor of Greater Manchester, the council issued no contracts to Palantir".
At least 34 Palantir contracts include UK police, child social care, refugees & environment.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/andy-burnham-drop-spy-tech-firm-palantir-nhs-reports-say
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#AynRand 's insanely influential Atlas Shrugged (1957). The novel is adored by Silicon Valley tech giants.
In a fictional America where the left holds sway, major business leaders—the only sources of true wealth—are on strike.
I could imagine #CoryDoctorow writing a version where big business leaders go on strike and things carry on as usual.
You don't have to read the 1000+ pages of the Atlas Shrugged :
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-great-political-fictions-atlas-shrugged/id1682047968?i=1000658864397 -
#AynRand 's insanely influential Atlas Shrugged (1957). The novel is adored by Silicon Valley tech giants.
In a fictional America where the left holds sway, major business leaders—the only sources of true wealth—are on strike.
I could imagine #CoryDoctorow writing a version where big business leaders go on strike and things carry on as usual.
You don't have to read the 1000+ pages of the Atlas Shrugged :
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-great-political-fictions-atlas-shrugged/id1682047968?i=1000658864397 -
A Revised Schedule of Trump’s Intel Trades
The financial disclosure filed with the Office of Government Ethics on Monday affords another look at Trump’s Intel trades.
The trades were made from eight accounts controlled by the president. For now, I’ve listed them on this schedule, which runs chronologically from January 2025 to March 2026.
There is lots to digest here, and lots of agita to go along with it, but for the moment I want to call out just one date on the schedule: 18 August, 2025. On that day, Trump Account 6 made its biggest trade of INTC, in the 250-500K range. It is whale-scale, much larger than any other transaction listed here.
I guess the president somehow caught wind of the rumors that the Department of Commerce was about to take a 10 percent stake in Intel.
The next day, 19 August, Howard Lutnick went on CNBC and talked up the idea of the stake; the deal was announced three days later.
Revised Schedule of Trump’s Intel trades 260702Download #INTC #corpgov #corporateGovernance #corruption #ethics #governmentEthics #Intel #kleptocracy #oligarchy #PaisnerVLipBuTan #PaisnerVTan #politicalInsiderTrading #power -
Donald brazenly gets his graft on while making his cronies richer and telling the middle class and working poor, “Fuck You!”
#Resist #RichieRich #BlueCrew #EatTheRich #HeGotHisFuckYou #PedoPrez #GrifterInChief #FascistTrump #Oligarchy #Kleptocracy #MagaMorons #TrumpRapesBabies #SatanicTrump -
Donald brazenly gets his graft on while making his cronies richer and telling the middle class and working poor, “Fuck You!”
#Resist #RichieRich #BlueCrew #EatTheRich #HeGotHisFuckYou #PedoPrez #GrifterInChief #FascistTrump #Oligarchy #Kleptocracy #MagaMorons #TrumpRapesBabies #SatanicTrump -
🎙️ "The Real Minority Rule Conspiracy - Amanda with Rep. Justin J. Pearson"
https://podcasts.wesfryer.com/episode/LU1IujE89CIEImwce7BP
#podcommons #ResistAndHeal #democracy #VotingRights #oligarchy #CultureWar #ConCW #racism #Whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #ConfrontingWhiteness
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🎙️ "The Real Minority Rule Conspiracy - Amanda with Rep. Justin J. Pearson"
https://podcasts.wesfryer.com/episode/LU1IujE89CIEImwce7BP
#podcommons #ResistAndHeal #democracy #VotingRights #oligarchy #CultureWar #ConCW #racism #Whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #ConfrontingWhiteness
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"In feeding USAID into the wood chipper, Elon Musk is responsible for the deaths of anywhere from hundreds of thousands of people to millions of them. "
#InternationalDevelopment #HumanitarianAid #USAID #ElonMusk #DOGE #DOGEBags #HerrPlugs #oligarchy #plutocracy #broligarchy #kakistocracy #corruption #ChrisHayes #HalfHeartedFanatic
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"In feeding USAID into the wood chipper, Elon Musk is responsible for the deaths of anywhere from hundreds of thousands of people to millions of them. "
#InternationalDevelopment #HumanitarianAid #USAID #ElonMusk #DOGE #DOGEBags #HerrPlugs #oligarchy #plutocracy #broligarchy #kakistocracy #corruption #ChrisHayes #HalfHeartedFanatic
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Anti-Prime Day is underway until June 26. Support bookstores over billionaries and balllrooms
bsky @bookshop.org
https://bookshop.org/info/anti-prime-day
#Books #PrimeDay #boycottamazon #boycott_amazon #oligarchy #plutocracy #broligarchy #patrimonialism #HalfHeartedFanatic
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Anti-Prime Day is underway until June 26. Support bookstores over billionaries and balllrooms
bsky @bookshop.org
https://bookshop.org/info/anti-prime-day
#Books #PrimeDay #boycottamazon #boycott_amazon #oligarchy #plutocracy #broligarchy #patrimonialism #HalfHeartedFanatic
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“Tenants at apartment complexes operated by Greystar, the largest owner and manager of apartments in the US, don’t just pay rent. They pay a mass of fees that many renters have never heard of before.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/apartment-renters-rising-fees
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Musk has become an “avatar of chaos, cruelty, and death.” #usa #elonmusk #trump #inequality #plutocracy #oligarchy #christofascism #whitesupremacy #racism #eattherich
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/19/elon-musk-and-the-politics-of-trillionaire-fascism/ -
Musk has become an “avatar of chaos, cruelty, and death.” #usa #elonmusk #trump #inequality #plutocracy #oligarchy #christofascism #whitesupremacy #racism #eattherich
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/19/elon-musk-and-the-politics-of-trillionaire-fascism/
