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Jen Sorensen<p>This week's comic: Playing the wealth card</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartoon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/comic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a></p>
JdeB<p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Bernie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bernie</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/RedTownHall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedTownHall</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> [1]</p><p>"Bernie Sanders: Republicans are scared to death of Elon Musk" [ ± 1min]<br>by podsaveamerica</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zrzgCouUGMU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/shorts/zrzgCouUGMU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>Quote by psa:<br>"Mar 13, 2025<br>His primary threats are having an impact at every level."</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USbeware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USbeware</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/FascistsAreHere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FascistsAreHere</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/TimeToResist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeToResist</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/WorkersUnite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorkersUnite</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/UnionStrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnionStrong</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>Trump arrived in the Oval Office at a moment when levels of inequality in the United States approached those of Russia. Wealth and income in the United States had not been so unevenly distributed between the top 0.1% and the rest of the population since 1929, the year before the Great Depression.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
Marcus Jenkins<p>It seems that the method in the madness of the current US government is this. Crash the stock market and fire all the public workers. Then the billionaires can buy all the stocks at bargain prices and build environmentally disastrous industries with as few employees and as much AI and robots as possible. 99% of US Americans will live in poverty and ill-health.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceKaren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceKaren</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceNazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceNazi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>Oligarchy works as a patronage system that dissolves democracy… American and Russian oligarchs have far more in common with one another than they do with their own populations.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>Inequality of income and wealth grew drastically from the 1980s through the 2010s.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>Whereas workers paid an increasing tax burden through payroll taxes, corporations and wealthy families saw theirs drop by half or more. Even as the percentage of income and wealth at the top of the American distribution increased, the percentage of tax expected from the most fortunate decreased.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>At the same time, the United States was very weak on the basic policies that stabilized middle classes elsewhere: retirement pensions, public education, public transport, health care, paid vacation, and parental leave.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>In the 1980s, the federal government weakened the position of trade unions. … The productivity of the American workforce grew…at about 2% a year, but the wages of traditional workers increased more slowly, if at all. Over the same period, the pay of executives increased, sometimes drastically.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
GaslitNation<p>What is Trump’s “Quantum Leap” ponzi scheme? It’s accerationism by another name. Listen to this week’s Gaslit Nation: Nerd Reich here or wherever you get your podcasts: <a href="https://gaslitnation.libsyn.com/nerd-reich" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gaslitnation.libsyn.com/nerd-r</span><span class="invisible">eich</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictatortrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatortrump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> Seeks to Put $100M Directly Into <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> *Political Operation*</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> has signaled he wants to make donations not just to his own <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/superPAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>superPAC</span></a>, …but to an outside entity.</p><p>It is unheard-of for a WH staffer, even one w/*part-time* status, to make such large contributions to support the agenda of the boss. But there has never been someone in the direct employ of an admin like Musk, the world’s richest person, who is leading Trump’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-donation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=DFBA3C3D-559A-4CDE-A0FB-ECD75001BA03" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/elon-musk-trump-donation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=DFBA3C3D-559A-4CDE-A0FB-ECD75001BA03</span></a></p>
Dave Rahardja<p>“What Europe needs is a DOGE”</p><p>This is what the CEO of Deutsche Telekom, the owner of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TMobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TMobile</span></a>, said.</p><p>If you’re a T-Mobile customer, maybe get ready to switch carriers.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/techbros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techbros</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/@TLisaB/114132319348462149" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zirk.us/@TLisaB/11413231934846</span><span class="invisible">2149</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>His [Putin’s] grandest campaign was a cyberwar to destroy the United States of America. For reasons having to do with American inequality, Russian oligarchy won an extraordinary victory in 2016. Because it did, inequality became a still greater American problem.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/donaldtrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>donaldtrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/cyberwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyberwar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
Voting is Your POWER<p>DESTROY the NAZI Regime and its Robber Barons! <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/bernie-sanders-democrats-trump-c213d5ae42737c956d46f6f7f17e5abd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/bernie-sand</span><span class="invisible">ers-democrats-trump-c213d5ae42737c956d46f6f7f17e5abd</span></a></p>
GaslitNation<p>Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk says Ukrainians aren’t scared of Trump, because they aren’t scared of Putin. Listen to our 2019 interview with her here: <a href="https://loom.ly/aMNkxyY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">loom.ly/aMNkxyY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictatortrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatortrump</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>”Nobody voted for Elon Musk,” protestors chanted at a Tesla dealership… “Oligarchs out, democracy in.””<br>—Heather Cox Richardson, March 9, 2025<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tesla</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>“…Elon Musk and Donald Trump… are destroying the government that works for all Americans in favor of using the government to concentrate their own wealth and power. …Americans are protesting the idea that the role of government is not to protect equality and democracy, but rather to concentrate wealth and power at the top of society.”<br>—Heather Cox Richardson, March 9, 2025<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a></p>
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“In the 1890s the rise of industry led to the concentration of wealth at the top of the economy, and once again, wealthy leaders began to abandon equality for the idea that some people were better than others.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 9, 2025
#history #oligarchy #usa

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“The victory of the United States in the Civil War ended the power of enslavers in the government, but new crises in the future would revive the conflict between the idea of equality and a nation in which a few should rule.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 9, 2025
#history #civilwar #oligarchy #usa

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“Musk and his team of tech bros at the Department of Government Efficiency are not actually promoting efficiency… Rather than looking for efficiency, they are simply working to zero out the government that works for ordinary people, turning it instead to enabling them to consolidate wealth and power.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 9, 2025
#trump #musk #oligarchy #broligarchy #techbros #doge #usa

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