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  1. Gas Prices Soar While Big Oil Reaps $26.5B: Inside the 2026 Affordability Crisis

    by Winston Wendell Every time we stop for gas and see the price creeping past four bucks a gallon, it stings—it’s a blunt reminder of how much harder life’s gotten for regular folks. Meanwhile, the oil giants? They’re swimming in profits. Costs for everything else just keep rising. Families are stretched to the breaking point, but big oil corporations are basically making out like bandits, especially now with all the chaos in Iran. Let’s just say it straight: after President […]

    bluepress.blog/2026/07/31/gas-

  2. Gas Prices Soar While Big Oil Reaps $26.5B: Inside the 2026 Affordability Crisis

    by Winston Wendell Every time we stop for gas and see the price creeping past four bucks a gallon, it stings—it’s a blunt reminder of how much harder life’s gotten for regular folks. Meanwhile, the oil giants? They’re swimming in profits. Costs for everything else just keep rising. Families are stretched to the breaking point, but big oil corporations are basically making out like bandits, especially now with all the chaos in Iran. Let’s just say it straight: after President […]

    bluepress.blog/2026/07/31/gas-

  3. Gas Prices Soar While Big Oil Reaps $26.5B: Inside the 2026 Affordability Crisis

    by Winston Wendell Every time we stop for gas and see the price creeping past four bucks a gallon, it stings—it’s a blunt reminder of how much harder life’s gotten for regular folks. Meanwhile, the oil giants? They’re swimming in profits. Costs for everything else just keep rising. Families are stretched to the breaking point, but big oil corporations are basically making out like bandits, especially now with all the chaos in Iran. Let’s just say it straight: after President […]

    bluepress.blog/2026/07/31/gas-

  4. Gas Prices Soar While Big Oil Reaps $26.5B: Inside the 2026 Affordability Crisis

    by Winston Wendell Every time we stop for gas and see the price creeping past four bucks a gallon, it stings—it’s a blunt reminder of how much harder life’s gotten for regular folks. Meanwhile, the oil giants? They’re swimming in profits. Costs for everything else just keep rising. Families are stretched to the breaking point, but big oil corporations are basically making out like bandits, especially now with all the chaos in Iran. Let’s just say it straight: after President […]

    bluepress.blog/2026/07/31/gas-

  5. CAUGHT IN THE CRUNCH: The Surveillance State Comes to Your Local Supermarket

    Walk into any Coles outlet today and you're not just buying milk. You're feeding a surveillance machine processing 10 billion rows of data through Peter Thiel's Palantir Technologies. In early 2024, Coles signed a deal to deploy Palantir's "Foundry" platform across more than 840 stores, analysing every transaction, every worker's movement, every shift allocation. Workers across Victoria are monitored, with one shelf-stacker in Ballarat saying: "The computer knows where I am before my manager does."

    urbanwronski.com/2025/12/07/ca

  6. @GovTrack
    I'd REALLY like a *knowledgeable* reporter to ask the #BankruptcyBarron to explain how #tariffs "DON"T" cause prices to go up.

    T****'s understanding: If you put a tariff on imported goods, they are more expensive, making "American Made" products more competitive.

    Sounds good.

    PROBLEM: Where's the incentive for American manufacturers to LOWER their prices? If a tariffed product is MORE expensive, U.S. made product prices will GO UP to match them. Only solution? A #WindfallProfitsTax

  7. @GovTrack
    I'd REALLY like a *knowledgeable* reporter to ask the #BankruptcyBarron to explain how #tariffs "DON"T" cause prices to go up.

    T****'s understanding: If you put a tariff on imported goods, they are more expensive, making "American Made" products more competitive.

    Sounds good.

    PROBLEM: Where's the incentive for American manufacturers to LOWER their prices? If a tariffed product is MORE expensive, U.S. made product prices will GO UP to match them. Only solution? A #WindfallProfitsTax

  8. @GovTrack
    I'd REALLY like a *knowledgeable* reporter to ask the #BankruptcyBarron to explain how #tariffs "DON"T" cause prices to go up.

    T****'s understanding: If you put a tariff on imported goods, they are more expensive, making "American Made" products more competitive.

    Sounds good.

    PROBLEM: Where's the incentive for American manufacturers to LOWER their prices? If a tariffed product is MORE expensive, U.S. made product prices will GO UP to match them. Only solution? A #WindfallProfitsTax

  9. @GovTrack
    I'd REALLY like a *knowledgeable* reporter to ask the #BankruptcyBarron to explain how #tariffs "DON"T" cause prices to go up.

    T****'s understanding: If you put a tariff on imported goods, they are more expensive, making "American Made" products more competitive.

    Sounds good.

    PROBLEM: Where's the incentive for American manufacturers to LOWER their prices? If a tariffed product is MORE expensive, U.S. made product prices will GO UP to match them. Only solution? A #WindfallProfitsTax

  10. @GovTrack
    I'd REALLY like a *knowledgeable* reporter to ask the #BankruptcyBarron to explain how #tariffs "DON"T" cause prices to go up.

    T****'s understanding: If you put a tariff on imported goods, they are more expensive, making "American Made" products more competitive.

    Sounds good.

    PROBLEM: Where's the incentive for American manufacturers to LOWER their prices? If a tariffed product is MORE expensive, U.S. made product prices will GO UP to match them. Only solution? A #WindfallProfitsTax

  11. @philip_cardella @CarlG

    #USpol #PoliceReform #DefundThePolice

    (3/3)

    ...crime, less police 🚔, less power, less controls, less unnecessary searches, less costs for law enforcement and the judiciary, more money for #UBS,...a virtuous circle.

    Just to be dure: tons of studies on #UBI in different countries over decades have all shown that it works. It just would need to be implemented...and refinanced (#WealthTax, #WindfallProfitsTax!)

    //

  12. @philip_cardella @CarlG

    #USpol #PoliceReform #DefundThePolice

    (3/3)

    ...crime, less police 🚔, less power, less controls, less unnecessary searches, less costs for law enforcement and the judiciary, more money for #UBS,...a virtuous circle.

    Just to be dure: tons of studies on #UBI in different countries over decades have all shown that it works. It just would need to be implemented...and refinanced (#WealthTax, #WindfallProfitsTax!)

    //

  13. @philip_cardella @CarlG

    #USpol #PoliceReform #DefundThePolice

    (3/3)

    ...crime, less police 🚔, less power, less controls, less unnecessary searches, less costs for law enforcement and the judiciary, more money for #UBS,...a virtuous circle.

    Just to be dure: tons of studies on #UBI in different countries over decades have all shown that it works. It just would need to be implemented...and refinanced (#WealthTax, #WindfallProfitsTax!)

    //

  14. @philip_cardella @CarlG

    #USpol #PoliceReform #DefundThePolice

    (3/3)

    ...crime, less police 🚔, less power, less controls, less unnecessary searches, less costs for law enforcement and the judiciary, more money for #UBS,...a virtuous circle.

    Just to be dure: tons of studies on #UBI in different countries over decades have all shown that it works. It just would need to be implemented...and refinanced (#WealthTax, #WindfallProfitsTax!)

    //

  15. @philip_cardella @CarlG

    #USpol #PoliceReform #DefundThePolice

    (3/3)

    ...crime, less police 🚔, less power, less controls, less unnecessary searches, less costs for law enforcement and the judiciary, more money for #UBS,...a virtuous circle.

    Just to be dure: tons of studies on #UBI in different countries over decades have all shown that it works. It just would need to be implemented...and refinanced (#WealthTax, #WindfallProfitsTax!)

    //

  16. @philip_cardella @CarlG

    #PoliceReform #USpol

    (2/2)

    ...replaced. However, who is gonna train all these new officers and can communities foot the bill?

    (With the decades overdue #WealthTax and #WindfallProfitsTax, they could. 😏)

    Hm, maybe a double teamlead, always "integrated" with at least one of them BIPoC/Hispanic and possibly man + woman etc., switching "comand" every week or so could be an idea...

    //

  17. @philip_cardella @CarlG

    #PoliceReform #USpol

    (2/2)

    ...replaced. However, who is gonna train all these new officers and can communities foot the bill?

    (With the decades overdue #WealthTax and #WindfallProfitsTax, they could. 😏)

    Hm, maybe a double teamlead, always "integrated" with at least one of them BIPoC/Hispanic and possibly man + woman etc., switching "comand" every week or so could be an idea...

    //

  18. @philip_cardella @CarlG

    #PoliceReform #USpol

    (2/2)

    ...replaced. However, who is gonna train all these new officers and can communities foot the bill?

    (With the decades overdue #WealthTax and #WindfallProfitsTax, they could. 😏)

    Hm, maybe a double teamlead, always "integrated" with at least one of them BIPoC/Hispanic and possibly man + woman etc., switching "comand" every week or so could be an idea...

    //

  19. @philip_cardella @CarlG

    #PoliceReform #USpol

    (2/2)

    ...replaced. However, who is gonna train all these new officers and can communities foot the bill?

    (With the decades overdue #WealthTax and #WindfallProfitsTax, they could. 😏)

    Hm, maybe a double teamlead, always "integrated" with at least one of them BIPoC/Hispanic and possibly man + woman etc., switching "comand" every week or so could be an idea...

    //

  20. @philip_cardella @CarlG

    #PoliceReform #USpol

    (2/2)

    ...replaced. However, who is gonna train all these new officers and can communities foot the bill?

    (With the decades overdue #WealthTax and #WindfallProfitsTax, they could. 😏)

    Hm, maybe a double teamlead, always "integrated" with at least one of them BIPoC/Hispanic and possibly man + woman etc., switching "comand" every week or so could be an idea...

    //

  21. @si_irini

    #DEpol #Volkswirtschaft

    (4/n)

    ...#Finanzkrise im Jahr 2009 herauszubilden begann:

    ritholtz.com/2023/11/revisitin

    Deshalb wäre eine #Übergewinnstreuer (#WindfallProfitsTax) wichtig gewesen. Daran ist im derzeitigen wirtschaftlichen Klima nun jedoch nicht mehr zu denken.

    Nachdem #JoeBiden mit dem #BuildBackBetter-Plan (#BBB) das grösste nationale Investitionsprogramm seit dem #NewDeal von #FDR in den 1930er Jahren auflegte 4) mit seinem "Buy American-"...

    4)
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_Ba

    //

  22. @si_irini

    #DEpol #Volkswirtschaft

    (4/n)

    ...#Finanzkrise im Jahr 2009 herauszubilden begann:

    ritholtz.com/2023/11/revisitin

    Deshalb wäre eine #Übergewinnstreuer (#WindfallProfitsTax) wichtig gewesen. Daran ist im derzeitigen wirtschaftlichen Klima nun jedoch nicht mehr zu denken.

    Nachdem #JoeBiden mit dem #BuildBackBetter-Plan (#BBB) das grösste nationale Investitionsprogramm seit dem #NewDeal von #FDR in den 1930er Jahren auflegte 4) mit seinem "Buy American-"...

    4)
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_Ba

    //

  23. @si_irini

    #DEpol #Volkswirtschaft

    (4/n)

    ...#Finanzkrise im Jahr 2009 herauszubilden begann:

    ritholtz.com/2023/11/revisitin

    Deshalb wäre eine #Übergewinnstreuer (#WindfallProfitsTax) wichtig gewesen. Daran ist im derzeitigen wirtschaftlichen Klima nun jedoch nicht mehr zu denken.

    Nachdem #JoeBiden mit dem #BuildBackBetter-Plan (#BBB) das grösste nationale Investitionsprogramm seit dem #NewDeal von #FDR in den 1930er Jahren auflegte 4) mit seinem "Buy American-"...

    4)
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_Ba

    //

  24. @si_irini

    #DEpol #Volkswirtschaft

    (4/n)

    ...#Finanzkrise im Jahr 2009 herauszubilden begann:

    ritholtz.com/2023/11/revisitin

    Deshalb wäre eine #Übergewinnstreuer (#WindfallProfitsTax) wichtig gewesen. Daran ist im derzeitigen wirtschaftlichen Klima nun jedoch nicht mehr zu denken.

    Nachdem #JoeBiden mit dem #BuildBackBetter-Plan (#BBB) das grösste nationale Investitionsprogramm seit dem #NewDeal von #FDR in den 1930er Jahren auflegte 4) mit seinem "Buy American-"...

    4)
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_Ba

    //

  25. @si_irini

    #DEpol #Volkswirtschaft

    (4/n)

    ...#Finanzkrise im Jahr 2009 herauszubilden begann:

    ritholtz.com/2023/11/revisitin

    Deshalb wäre eine #Übergewinnstreuer (#WindfallProfitsTax) wichtig gewesen. Daran ist im derzeitigen wirtschaftlichen Klima nun jedoch nicht mehr zu denken.

    Nachdem #JoeBiden mit dem #BuildBackBetter-Plan (#BBB) das grösste nationale Investitionsprogramm seit dem #NewDeal von #FDR in den 1930er Jahren auflegte 4) mit seinem "Buy American-"...

    4)
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_Ba

    //

  26. @lolgop
    Unfortunately, the MOST EFFECTIVE means of fighting #PriceGouging AND raising Worker Pay is a #WindfallProfitsTax.

    Corporations can easily avoid the tax by reinvesting in their companies, raise wages and cutting prices.

    But as long as the #GOP controls The House, it'll never pass. 🤬 #inflation

  27. @lolgop
    Unfortunately, the MOST EFFECTIVE means of fighting #PriceGouging AND raising Worker Pay is a #WindfallProfitsTax.

    Corporations can easily avoid the tax by reinvesting in their companies, raise wages and cutting prices.

    But as long as the #GOP controls The House, it'll never pass. 🤬 #inflation

  28. @lolgop
    Unfortunately, the MOST EFFECTIVE means of fighting #PriceGouging AND raising Worker Pay is a #WindfallProfitsTax.

    Corporations can easily avoid the tax by reinvesting in their companies, raise wages and cutting prices.

    But as long as the #GOP controls The House, it'll never pass. 🤬 #inflation

  29. @lolgop
    Unfortunately, the MOST EFFECTIVE means of fighting #PriceGouging AND raising Worker Pay is a #WindfallProfitsTax.

    Corporations can easily avoid the tax by reinvesting in their companies, raise wages and cutting prices.

    But as long as the #GOP controls The House, it'll never pass. 🤬 #inflation

  30. @lolgop
    Unfortunately, the MOST EFFECTIVE means of fighting #PriceGouging AND raising Worker Pay is a #WindfallProfitsTax.

    Corporations can easily avoid the tax by reinvesting in their companies, raise wages and cutting prices.

    But as long as the #GOP controls The House, it'll never pass. 🤬 #inflation

  31. #Politics
    It's easy:
    Don't meet with #Nazis.
    Don't provide a platform for Nazis.Don't talk to Nazis.

    And as a #Ukrainian wrote today: "Hit them, where it hurts: money 💰 !"

    -》 Dry up the #DarkMoney flows
    -》 #WealthTax
    -》 #WindfallProfitsTax
    -》 #AbolishBillionaires 1)
    -》 impose a maximum on land ownership, in particular regarding #ResidentialHousing per family and related parties
    -》 #NationalizeBigOil by making them pay for the ecocide they have willfully committed 2)

    1)
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1116

  32. #Politics
    It's easy:
    Don't meet with #Nazis.
    Don't provide a platform for Nazis.Don't talk to Nazis.

    And as a #Ukrainian wrote today: "Hit them, where it hurts: money 💰 !"

    -》 Dry up the #DarkMoney flows
    -》 #WealthTax
    -》 #WindfallProfitsTax
    -》 #AbolishBillionaires 1)
    -》 impose a maximum on land ownership, in particular regarding #ResidentialHousing per family and related parties
    -》 #NationalizeBigOil by making them pay for the ecocide they have willfully committed 2)

    1)
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1116

  33. #Politics
    It's easy:
    Don't meet with #Nazis.
    Don't provide a platform for Nazis.Don't talk to Nazis.

    And as a #Ukrainian wrote today: "Hit them, where it hurts: money 💰 !"

    -》 Dry up the #DarkMoney flows
    -》 #WealthTax
    -》 #WindfallProfitsTax
    -》 #AbolishBillionaires 1)
    -》 impose a maximum on land ownership, in particular regarding #ResidentialHousing per family and related parties
    -》 #NationalizeBigOil by making them pay for the ecocide they have willfully committed 2)

    1)
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1116

  34. #Politics
    It's easy:
    Don't meet with #Nazis.
    Don't provide a platform for Nazis.Don't talk to Nazis.

    And as a #Ukrainian wrote today: "Hit them, where it hurts: money 💰 !"

    -》 Dry up the #DarkMoney flows
    -》 #WealthTax
    -》 #WindfallProfitsTax
    -》 #AbolishBillionaires 1)
    -》 impose a maximum on land ownership, in particular regarding #ResidentialHousing per family and related parties
    -》 #NationalizeBigOil by making them pay for the ecocide they have willfully committed 2)

    1)
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1116

  35. #Politics
    It's easy:
    Don't meet with #Nazis.
    Don't provide a platform for Nazis.Don't talk to Nazis.

    And as a #Ukrainian wrote today: "Hit them, where it hurts: money 💰 !"

    -》 Dry up the #DarkMoney flows
    -》 #WealthTax
    -》 #WindfallProfitsTax
    -》 #AbolishBillionaires 1)
    -》 impose a maximum on land ownership, in particular regarding #ResidentialHousing per family and related parties
    -》 #NationalizeBigOil by making them pay for the ecocide they have willfully committed 2)

    1)
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1116

  36. @Npars01

    #AbolishBillionaires #Plutocracy

    Very interesting view.
    I can see the point.
    Unless the masses all avoid the overpriced goods of the respective billionaires' companies, an argument could be made to save the poor, all must buy from them again, so that price-gourging becomes unnecessary.

    Other than that, theoretical solutions are easy:
    #WindfallProfitsTax and a #WealthTax and an inference tax that brings wealth distribution of the top 10% back to levels before the #RoaringTwenties...

  37. @Npars01

    #AbolishBillionaires #Plutocracy

    Very interesting view.
    I can see the point.
    Unless the masses all avoid the overpriced goods of the respective billionaires' companies, an argument could be made to save the poor, all must buy from them again, so that price-gourging becomes unnecessary.

    Other than that, theoretical solutions are easy:
    #WindfallProfitsTax and a #WealthTax and an inference tax that brings wealth distribution of the top 10% back to levels before the #RoaringTwenties...

  38. @Npars01

    #AbolishBillionaires #Plutocracy

    Very interesting view.
    I can see the point.
    Unless the masses all avoid the overpriced goods of the respective billionaires' companies, an argument could be made to save the poor, all must buy from them again, so that price-gourging becomes unnecessary.

    Other than that, theoretical solutions are easy:
    #WindfallProfitsTax and a #WealthTax and an inference tax that brings wealth distribution of the top 10% back to levels before the #RoaringTwenties...

  39. @Npars01

    #AbolishBillionaires #Plutocracy

    Very interesting view.
    I can see the point.
    Unless the masses all avoid the overpriced goods of the respective billionaires' companies, an argument could be made to save the poor, all must buy from them again, so that price-gourging becomes unnecessary.

    Other than that, theoretical solutions are easy:
    #WindfallProfitsTax and a #WealthTax and an inference tax that brings wealth distribution of the top 10% back to levels before the #RoaringTwenties...

  40. @Npars01

    #AbolishBillionaires #Plutocracy

    Very interesting view.
    I can see the point.
    Unless the masses all avoid the overpriced goods of the respective billionaires' companies, an argument could be made to save the poor, all must buy from them again, so that price-gourging becomes unnecessary.

    Other than that, theoretical solutions are easy:
    #WindfallProfitsTax and a #WealthTax and an inference tax that brings wealth distribution of the top 10% back to levels before the #RoaringTwenties...

  41. @[email protected]

    (1/4)

    I would like to make a counter proposal:

    Implement or expand: #WindfallProfitsTax, #WealthTax, #InheritanceTax

    It is not the obligation of the rich to pay 4 s.o. else's #Social #Security.

    However, the earth +its resources belong 2 all humanity. If 1 generation earned something, it cannot be fully passed on 2 the next 1, in particular 4 #billionaires.

    Trusts + "charity foundations" are an issue 4 the same reason: wealth transfer.

    But we must also talk about #IncomeTaxes: ...

  42. @[email protected]

    (1/4)

    I would like to make a counter proposal:

    Implement or expand: #WindfallProfitsTax, #WealthTax, #InheritanceTax

    It is not the obligation of the rich to pay 4 s.o. else's #Social #Security.

    However, the earth +its resources belong 2 all humanity. If 1 generation earned something, it cannot be fully passed on 2 the next 1, in particular 4 #billionaires.

    Trusts + "charity foundations" are an issue 4 the same reason: wealth transfer.

    But we must also talk about #IncomeTaxes: ...

  43. @[email protected]

    (1/4)

    I would like to make a counter proposal:

    Implement or expand: #WindfallProfitsTax, #WealthTax, #InheritanceTax

    It is not the obligation of the rich to pay 4 s.o. else's #Social #Security.

    However, the earth +its resources belong 2 all humanity. If 1 generation earned something, it cannot be fully passed on 2 the next 1, in particular 4 #billionaires.

    Trusts + "charity foundations" are an issue 4 the same reason: wealth transfer.

    But we must also talk about #IncomeTaxes: ...

  44. @[email protected]

    (1/4)

    I would like to make a counter proposal:

    Implement or expand: #WindfallProfitsTax, #WealthTax, #InheritanceTax

    It is not the obligation of the rich to pay 4 s.o. else's #Social #Security.

    However, the earth +its resources belong 2 all humanity. If 1 generation earned something, it cannot be fully passed on 2 the next 1, in particular 4 #billionaires.

    Trusts + "charity foundations" are an issue 4 the same reason: wealth transfer.

    But we must also talk about #IncomeTaxes: ...

  45. @[email protected]

    (1/4)

    I would like to make a counter proposal:

    Implement or expand: #WindfallProfitsTax, #WealthTax, #InheritanceTax

    It is not the obligation of the rich to pay 4 s.o. else's #Social #Security.

    However, the earth +its resources belong 2 all humanity. If 1 generation earned something, it cannot be fully passed on 2 the next 1, in particular 4 #billionaires.

    Trusts + "charity foundations" are an issue 4 the same reason: wealth transfer.

    But we must also talk about #IncomeTaxes: ...