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  1. “More important than the #stinginess of the #superrich, however, is the fact that their #wealth has brought great #politicalpower, arguably more than the #robberbarons ever possessed — power that they abuse on an epic scale.”

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mllfbgwpxk2n

  2. “More important than the #stinginess of the #superrich, however, is the fact that their #wealth has brought great #politicalpower, arguably more than the #robberbarons ever possessed — power that they abuse on an epic scale.”

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mllfbgwpxk2n

  3. “More important than the #stinginess of the #superrich, however, is the fact that their #wealth has brought great #politicalpower, arguably more than the #robberbarons ever possessed — power that they abuse on an epic scale.”

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mllfbgwpxk2n

  4. I’ve been reading stuff about the genuine #reality, stuff that sounds like The Onion on crack or a supervillain jumping straight out of a completely absurd script. Should I focus on real, dry reality, and how it would look like? Like a sugar-coated muffin or a musty, unironed shirt with tomato sauce stains?
    Let me take you on a reality travel steady.page/en/naturematchcuts

    #NatureMatchCuts #MatchCuts #blog #newsletter #realityCheck #realityGoesMad #scifi #supervillain #superrich #TESCREAL #journalism

  5. "Subsidies for ACA premiums are set to expire on December 31, 2025. The subsidies were killed by Republicans to pay for the billionaire tax cut in the Big Ugly Bill."

    ~ Robert B. Hubbell

    #Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
    /9

    roberthubbell.substack.com/p/f

  6. "Now I'm seeing that attitude kind of infect the healthcare debate ... Republican legislators are coming out and just saying explicitly, like, hey, if you're healthy, you're fine. If you're not, there's something wrong with you and you deserve not to get coverage. You know, you deserve to be sick and meet your fate because it's all your fault."

    #Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
    /6

  7. "Over the last year, it has become more and more common to hear Republicans say things that usually, you know, in years past, you would have seen them having to resign over it, like Trump's rants over Somali immigrants in Minneapolis, just completely racist garbage."

    Susan J. Demas

    #Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
    /5

    lincolnsquare.media/p/sicker-p

  8. "This is what it’s come to in Donald Trump’s America. Partisan politics has rarely been this destructive or painful. And for so many Americans, it’s a feeling of helplessness unlike anything they’ve felt before. The government is bankrupting and endangering its citizens."

    ~ Dan Rather

    #Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
    /4

    steady.substack.com/p/the-hoax

  9. "The Senate managed to fail at passing both a Republican and a Democratic plan — meaning life-saving subsidies for more than 20 million Americans will expire in 2026. Families could see premiums jump by $1,000 or more. This is the cost of Republican dysfunction: fake proposals, political stunts, and real people paying the price."

    ~ Mary Trump

    #Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
    /3

    marytrump.org/p/the-daily-wrap

  10. "The Senate rejected dueling health care bills Thursday, all but guaranteeing that Obamacare subsidies used by more than 20 million Americans will lapse at the end of the year."

    ~ Jordain Carney

    #Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
    /2

    politico.com/live-updates/2025

  11. "And as a consequence, they set the rules by which the rest of us live…and where it suits them, they violate those rules if only to prove to us that they are different."

    #Trump #EconomicElites #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
    /19

  12. "CEOs get geometrically richer while the minimum wage does not rise. The percentage of our wealth controlled by a tiny fraction of people rises while that for which the rest of us must struggle shrinks. A handful of families and kleptocrats control more wealth than the majority of humans on this earth."

    #Trump #EconomicElites #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
    /18

  13. "The Epstein case is an example of the degree to which the very rich have been able to carve out roles that while occurring within our society are not of our society. They live above us, exploiting us as they require or desire to but not subject to our laws or moral codes. …

    Inequality has exploded in our society."

    ~ David Rothkopf

    #Trump #EconomicElites #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
    /17

    davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/w

  14. "Many of the emails to and from Epstein are marked by a tone of haughty knowingness, a kind of worldly, smug cynicism I’ve encountered before in people who think that they are smarter than everyone else. Maybe in the haughty world of billionaires and private jets, it is considered provincial to think that adults should not have sex with children. Maybe to them, morality is for the little people."

    #Trump #EconomicElites #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
    /15

  15. "There is no evidence that these men participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s habitual sexual abuse of girl children. But their interactions with him suggest a kind of blithe tolerance of his presence in their midst, a seeming comfort in exchanging intimate – and sometimes lewd – exchanges with a man they must have known to have sexually exploited a child."

    #Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
    /14

  16. "But the documents also reveal the stunning breadth of Epstein’s connections among the nation’s elite, including long after his initial 2008 sex crimes conviction, and the extent to which other men in positions of great power considered him a confidant or voice of reason."

    ~ Moira Donegan

    #Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
    /13

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  17. "The Jeffrey Epstein story makes no sense unless you realize that he was deeply entrenched in the foreign policy elite, a fact that gave him much of the impunity he enjoyed for most of his life. Powerful people felt comfortable around Epstein because he was one of them."

    ~ Jeet Heer

    #Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
    /12

    thenation.com/article/society/

  18. "Contrast [what Bunch says] to a prominently displayed New York Times feature story that puts a nostalgic gloss on Epstein’s world. Looking back on that world and the people who inhabited it, it carried the headline, Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York."

    ~ Margaret Sullivan

    #Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein #food #prices #beef #coffee #tariffs #HealthInsurance #food #NewYorkTimes
    /11

    margaretsullivan.substack.com/

  19. "The timing couldn’t be better, or worse, for this midnight of the elites. The overblown stock market fueled by an AI hallucination is set to burst any moment, and new hiring is already grinding to a halt — just as the price of everything from steak to coffee goes through the roof and health insurance is doubling or tripling for millions of Americans."

    #Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein #food #prices #beef #coffee #tariffs
    /9

  20. (continued from /7)

    "about the much deeper rot that’s already been laid bare about the entire decrepit class of men (because they’re almost all men) who rule the world with atrocious grammar amid a non-stop booty call.

    I’m not a financial expert, but if I had disposable cash I’d avoid the hyperinflated AI bubble and invest in a company that manufactures pitchforks."

    #Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
    /8

  21. And as Will Bunch reminds us, the Epstein cover-up is part and parcel of this story of the overweening power and arrogant immunity of the grossly rich:

    "I don’t know if the emails, so far, are enough to take down Trump, but the president should be even more worried — and he probably is —" (continued in /8)

    #Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
    /7

    inquirer.com/opinion/epstein-e

  22. "It would be funny if it weren’t so perfectly tragic. The dopey-ist son of a fake billionaire (pre-crypto scams) turned fake president, who likes Gatsby parties and golden toilets, go on oligarch-tv to lecture the struggling masses about how easy it is to move half a billion dollars. While sipping Merlot."

    #Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge
    /6

  23. "And now, we’ve arrived at the logical conclusion of all this—Eric Trump, the barking embodiment of dumb-son nepotism. A laughable lout with inherited intellectual necrosis and the empathy of a Terminator wrapped in designer smugness."

    #Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge
    /5

  24. Pointing to Eric Trump as the "patron saint of the stupid rich," Cliff Schechter says,

    "Hello Second Gilded Age.

    An era where a reality-show President with the wit of a drunken walrus would actually fight in court to starve Americans. Yes, Trump argued in court that food our laws required him to give people—so they don’t die—should be denied. So they do."

    #Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge
    /4

    blueamp.co/p/end-stage-democra

  25. "First, ignore billionaires when they threaten to take their marbles and go home. The big money always responds to threats of tax hikes, or even mere verbal criticism, by threatening to go all Ayn Rand and move to Galt’s Gulch. In reality, they won’t even move to Florida."

    #EconomicElites #Mamdani #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge
    /3

  26. "Yesterday Arian Campo-Flores of the Wall Street Journal reported that the net worth of the top 0.1% of households in the U.S. reached $23.3 trillion this year, while the bottom 50% hold $4.2 trillion."

    ~ Heather Cox Richardson

    #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge
    /1

    heathercoxrichardson.substack.

  27. #Quakers condemn arrests of #activists at meeting house

    March 30, 2025

    "The arrests of six female supporters of activist group #YouthDemand at a Quaker meeting house have been condemned by the faith group.

    "Quakers in #Britain said the arrests were the first at a meeting house and 'an aggressive violation'.

    "The Metropolitan Police said six people were arrested on Thursday evening at the Westminster Meeting House on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a #PublicNuisance.

    "The force said it came amid concerns there were plans to 'shut down' London during April using tactics such as road blocks.

    "Youth Demand said more than 30 officers were involved with making the arrests.

    "Paul Parker, of Quakers in Britain, said he could not recall anyone being arrested at a Quaker meeting house in living memory.

    "'The forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when a society #CriminalisesProtest.

    "'#FreedomOfSpeech, assembly, and fair trials are an essential part of free public debate which underpins #democracy,' he said.

    "Police said a further five arrests for the same offence were made on Friday - four at addresses in #London and one in #Exeter.

    "Youth Demand, which is not affiliated with the Quakers, said the meeting was 'an opportunity to share plans for non-violent #CivilResistance actions' due to take place in April.

    "The group claimed a number of houses were also raided on Thursday and Friday as part of the operation.

    "Quakers in Britain said: 'Quakers support the right to non-violent public protest, acting themselves from a deep moral imperative to stand up against #injustice and for our planet.

    "'Many have taken non-violent direct action over the centuries from the abolition of #slavery to women's #suffrage and prison reform.'

    "The Met said the force understood the importance of the right to protest but added that Youth Demand had stated an intention to 'shut down' London in April.

    "'We have a responsibility to intervene to prevent activity that crosses the line from protest into serious disruption and other criminality,' a spokesman said.

    "On Thursday, officers raided a Youth Demand planning meeting where those in attendance were plotting their April action.

    "Six people were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.

    "A further five arrests for the same offence were made on Friday, 28 March. Four of the arrests were at addresses in London and one in Exeter.

    'Policing priorities'

    "Out of the 11 people arrested, 10 have been released on bail and one will face no further action.

    "Asked about the matter on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: 'I have made clear to the police this government's priorities for policing are reducing serious violence... and bringing back neighbourhood policing, those crimes in town centres like shoplifting.'

    "Youth Demand, which describes itself as a 'new youth resistance campaign fighting for an end to #genocide', began carrying out acts of #CivilDisobedience last year.

    "Its demands of the government include stopping all trade with #Israel and raising money from 'the #SuperRich and #Fossilfuel #elite' to pay damages for the effects of fossil fuel burning."

    Read more:
    bbc.com/news/articles/cj3x5j6g
    #UKPol #ThoughtCrime #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingActivism #PublicNuisanceLaws #Article20 #2023PublicOrderAct #Resistance #UKResistance #ProtectMotherEarth #FreePalestine #IsraeliWarCrimes

  28. @VeroniqueB99

    #USpol

    ...former "Allies" from the across the #Atlantic.

    As I wrote earlier, like #Mobsters.

    This is what we get for being to picky about #PamelaHarris.

    The #MAGAT's need to pay up the oligarchs having financed the #TrumpCoup.

    As #AOC said on #YT in a 90 min. speech a week ago or so:

    The #TrumpeanTaxbreaks for the #Superrich are sunsetting in just a few months. To refinance them, as the #US would not meet the #EU #DeficitCriteria by far, they need to find huge amounts...

  29. working for a #betterworld for everybody definately pays off but unfortunately the #corruption in this #finance #system is MASSIVE #garycseconomics youtube.com/@garyseconomics/vi Gary's economics - #socialmobility - most people end up being as #rich or #poor as their #parents what this means: in #capitalism #possession is not taxed enough and #work is #tax ed too much
    even worse: the #superrich basically avoid tax completely which of couse leads to massive social #inqeuality #economics #finance #money #bank #banks #wtf #stopthismadness

  30. working for a #betterworld for everybody definately pays off but unfortunately the #corruption in this #finance #system is MASSIVE #garycseconomics youtube.com/@garyseconomics/vi Gary's economics - #socialmobility - most people end up being as #rich or #poor as their #parents what this means: in #capitalism #possession is not taxed enough and #work is #tax ed too much
    even worse: the #superrich basically avoid tax completely which of couse leads to massive social #inqeuality #economics #finance #money #bank #banks #wtf #stopthismadness

  31. working for a #betterworld for everybody definately pays off but unfortunately the #corruption in this #finance #system is MASSIVE #garycseconomics youtube.com/@garyseconomics/vi Gary's economics - #socialmobility - most people end up being as #rich or #poor as their #parents what this means: in #capitalism #possession is not taxed enough and #work is #tax ed too much
    even worse: the #superrich basically avoid tax completely which of couse leads to massive social #inqeuality #economics #finance #money #bank #banks #wtf #stopthismadness

  32. working for a #betterworld for everybody definately pays off but unfortunately the #corruption in this #finance #system is MASSIVE #garycseconomics youtube.com/@garyseconomics/vi Gary's economics - #socialmobility - most people end up being as #rich or #poor as their #parents what this means: in #capitalism #possession is not taxed enough and #work is #tax ed too much
    even worse: the #superrich basically avoid tax completely which of couse leads to massive social #inqeuality #economics #finance #money #bank #banks #wtf #stopthismadness

  33. working for a #betterworld for everybody definately pays off but unfortunately the #corruption in this #finance #system is MASSIVE #garycseconomics youtube.com/@garyseconomics/vi Gary's economics - #socialmobility - most people end up being as #rich or #poor as their #parents what this means: in #capitalism #possession is not taxed enough and #work is #tax ed too much
    even worse: the #superrich basically avoid tax completely which of couse leads to massive social #inqeuality #economics #finance #money #bank #banks #wtf #stopthismadness

  34. '#InsatiableGreed': Richest 1% Have Already Burned Through Their #CarbonLimit for 2025

    "The #SuperRich continue to squander humanity's chances with their lavish lifestyles, polluting stock portfolios and pernicious political influence. This is theft—pure and simple."

    Jake Johnson, Jan 10, 2025

    "An #Oxfam analysis published Friday shows that the richest 1% of the global population has already blown through its global carbon budget for 2025—just 10 days into the New Year. The figures, which arrive amid catastrophic fires in Los Angeles that may turn out to be the costliest in U.S. history, highlight the disproportionate role of the #UltraWealthy in fueling a #ClimateEmergency that is causing devastation around the world.

    "Oxfam calculates that in order to keep critical climate goals in reach, each person on Earth must have a CO2 footprint of roughly 2.1 tons per year or less. On average, each person in the global 1% is burning through 76 tons of planet-warning carbon dioxide annually—or 0.209 per day—meaning it took them just over a week to reach their CO2 limit for the year.

    "By contrast, the average person in the poorest 50% of humanity has an annual carbon footprint of 0.7 tons per year—well within the 2.1-ton budget compatible with a livable future.

    "'The future of our planet is hanging by a thread,' Nafkote Dabi, Oxfam International's climate change policy lead, said in a statement Friday. 'The margin for action is razor-thin, yet the super-rich continue to squander humanity's chances with their lavish lifestyles, polluting stock portfolios and pernicious political influence.'

    "'This is theft—pure and simple―a tiny few robbing billions of people of their future to feed their insatiable greed,' Dabi added.

    "'Rich polluters must be made to pay for the havoc they're wreaking on our planet.'

    "Oxfam's new analysis came as the @CopernicusEU Climate Change Service confirmed that 2024 was the hottest year on record and 'the first calendar year that the average global temperature exceeded 1.5°C above its #PreIndustrial level.'

    "'All of the internationally produced global temperature datasets show that 2024 was the hottest year since records began in 1850,' Copernicus director Carlo Buontempo said in a statement. 'Humanity is in charge of its own destiny, but how we respond to the climate challenge should be based on evidence. The future is in our hands—swift and decisive action can still alter the trajectory of our future climate.'

    "Oxfam called on governments to move urgently to curb the emissions of the rich, including by implementing #WealthTaxes, banning #PrivateJets and #Superyachts, and imposing strict new regulations on #polluting companies.

    "'Governments need to stop pandering to the richest,' Dabi said Friday. 'Rich polluters must be made to pay for the havoc they're wreaking on our planet. Tax them, curb their emissions, and ban their excessive indulgences—private jets, superyachts, and the like. Leaders who fail to act are effectively choosing complicity in a crisis that threatens the lives of billions.'"

    commondreams.org/news/rich-car
    #EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #Oligarchy #CorporateColonialism #CorporateGreed #TechBros #CEOSeason

  35. Secret History of How #SuperRich Have Kept #WorkingClass Out of Work
    #TimGurner, viral Australian #multimillionaire wants more workers to be #unemployed, was debunked by economist in 1943.
    “Unemployment has to jump 40-50% in my view,” Gurner explained, “We need to see pain in the economy.” #Gurner’s soliloquy in particular has little to do w/fears that he and fellow titans of industry are making less money, want daily joy of watching inferiors grovel when in his presence
    theintercept.com/2023/09/23/ti

  36. @PDFlynn Charles Koch said he will “rip the federal government out by the root “. He also see himself as John Galt, had an actual Nazi nanny. He’s almost single-handedly destroyed this country & considers that a win.
    #bigoil #fascism under cover of #libertarianism #KochSecretSeminars for the #superrich #heirs