#oligarchy
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Starve the poor- embolden the #Oligarchy- #Trump fails #again
"Hunger grips a rural community hit by Trump’s cuts
Those on the front lines of feeding their neighbors in West Virginia’s coal country say they face unprecedented challenges brought on by Washington."
#Taco #Politics #News #USA #Democrats #MAGA #UN #EU #Canada #Economics #Trade #War #WW3 #Poverty #Hunger #Starve #Crime #Election #CivilRights #Humanity #NEWS
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/west-virginia-hunger-trump-cuts-food-stamps-gas-prices-iran-rcna601637
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Save beautiful Brazil
from Pedophile Trump tyranny
Never again Bolsonaro !
Salvar o Brasil
Salve a Liberdade
#Brazil #mexico #southamerica #freedom #liberty #tyranny #fascism#oppression #oligarchy #protest#nokings #climateChange #climate#world #news #politicshttps://todon.nl/@Persona/117408226641604346eer
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#Brazil: Students from the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), in Minas Gerais, and their supporters marched tonight in defense of democracy and against far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro.
#antifa #Lula #BoraLula #elections #eleicoes2026 #bolsonaro #farright
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RE: https://techhub.social/@fedipete/117380946866839875
I'm pushing 60 but that's still young enough that, barring an accident, I will get to see the post-oligarchy world. The current clusterfuck doesn't have generations of life in it - you can see the cracks widening in real time...
- and like @pluralistic@mamot.fr I am hopeful. Remember, hope is not optimism; hope is looking what needs doing & making a plan.
The worst in us rules right now, but the best in us has overcome worse. Pop the bubble & let's get to work.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 's latest post https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/03/full-employment/#make-sarsaparilla
The cautious optimism about the opportunities in rebuilding post collapse, gave me the same feeling as reading the brilliant N. K. Jemisin's short story "Emergency Skin, " which you should read immediately!
Open quoted postReport: "How Zohran Mamdani Helped Germany’s Left Party, Die Linke, Win in Berlin".
“The success of a democratic socialist in NY, the heartland of capitalism, is a huge achievement," said Die Linke. The party adopted Mamdani's "massive ground game", "lashings of social media flare" & "keep it simple & keep it real" motto.
Die Linke's campaign was laser focused on Berlin’s housing crisis: "The rent is too damn high."
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/21/how-zohran-mamdani-helped-germanys-left-party-win-in-berlin/
#USPol #EUPol #Germany #news #oligarchy #democracy .
Report: Nobel Prize-Winning Economists Back Billionaire Tax in California
Economist Joseph Stiglitz said that "a one-time 5% tax on billionaire residents of California could kickstart wealth distribution in the US & across the world."
During the 2000 federal election cycle, billionaire political donations made up only 1% of the total - compared to 19% by 2024.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/21/nobel-prize-winning-economists-back-first-billionaire-tax-in-us/#USPol #EUPol #CAElection #WealthTax #news #oligarchy #democracy .
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117313716231482340
Like Stoller I too feel strange pangs of hope - certainly helps having several different convos today hearing ppl from unemployed person to management being fed up to the point of genuine anger over AI, war for profit, surveillance capitalism, lack of environmental responsibilitiy & action... basically all the shit foisted on us by the oligarchy.
Not torches & pitchforks yet, but it's getting less improbable every day 🤞
#oligarchy #capitalism #resist
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Well, *fuck*. California AG Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned Ellison billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded out husk they've made of Paramount, leaving these two useless assholes to control Warners, Paramount and Tiktok:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/paramount-settles-with-california-other-states-clearing-major-hurdle-warner-bros-2026-09-21/
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/22/happy-chudmas/#baloney-in-our-slacks
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White House shredded for promoting its own news app after Trump’s media ban: ‘State run media’
The White House promoted its official app as a way to receive ‘the news that matters most.
#news #trump #media #monopoly #oligarchy
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-white-house-press-ban-media-app-b3053825.html
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Report: "How Zohran Mamdani Helped Germany’s Left Party, Die Linke, Win in Berlin".
“The success of a democratic socialist in NY, the heartland of capitalism, is a huge achievement," said Die Linke. The party adopted Mamdani's "massive ground game", "lashings of social media flare" & "keep it simple & keep it real" motto.
Die Linke's campaign was laser focused on Berlin’s housing crisis: "The rent is too damn high."
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/21/how-zohran-mamdani-helped-germanys-left-party-win-in-berlin/
#USPol #EUPol #Germany #news #oligarchy #democracy .
To the US --- hurry and get well
#music #arts #poverty #resistance #America #oligarchy #Epsteinclass #eu #europe #meidastouch #reddit #health #mentalHealth #songWriting #folk #democracy #resistance #civilrightshttps://youtu.be/1RNPtwwvgwg
To America, get well soon
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@Tutanota@mastodon.social Tuta, we are on the ledge...
Do we need Tuta-ledge in Root Cause Analysis, or should we barely survive, #BackIntoCaves, while the #TechBros and #FossilFuels #Oligarchy render us extinct?
“What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can’t take care of the elderly and the children.”
— Bernie Sanders
#music #arts #poverty #resistance #America #oligarchy #Epsteinclass #eu #europe #meidastouch #reddit #foodinsecurity #health #mentalHealth #songWriting #folk #democracyhttps://youtu.be/nN5qUGDLT0w
Upside down America
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Interview: “End Times Fascism” Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far Right
Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on the current fascist sequel, where dehumanization, othering, racial supremacy & hierarchy are now being applied in a time of global existential crisis.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/15/klein_taylor_end_times_fascism#Fascism #Democracy #News #Oligarchy #USPol #EUPol #Gaza #AI #racism .
choose your own adventure (to hell)
"The Revolving Door Project (RDP) scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest, rather than to entrench corporate power or seek personal advancement."
one of their 3 main focus areas is: "how the Trump administration’s corrupt governance is helping oligarchs and hurting ordinary people."
here's the nicely organized catalog of harms:
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/tag/trumpwatch/
#uspol #corruption #oligarchy
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“Rules for thee, but not for me.” North Carolina company fined half a mil for dumping forever chemicals into the Cape Fear River goes “oops, we’re broke, can’t pay” and gets away with it. No jail time, no repercussions.
Do you need any more proof we live in an #oligarchy where rich corporations pollute as they please? Imagine if you had a court fine and said you weren’t able to pay…you’d be locked up so fast it would make your head spin. #corporatocracy
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This week's comic on the folly of triangulating with oligarchs
#comic #cartoon #voting #uspol #oligarchy #democrats #elections #authoritarianism #corruption
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989 people in the U.S., out of 340 million, are billionaires. 3,428 people, out of 8.3 billion, worldwide as of March 2026.
That's roughly one in every 2.4 million humans. A tiny group of the human population and yet they do disproportionate damage to the planet and its people.
We are destroying the Earth to create wealth for these men. It doesn't have to stay this way. We can change this.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/pr/2026/03/10/forbes-40th-annual-worlds-billionaires-list-elon-musk-is-worlds-richest-person-ever-recorded/
#inequality #oligarchy #democracy
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Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black.
Tens of thousands of people have been without power for nearly two weeks.
Many are without safe water as well.
Yet every data center is up and running.
Using enormous amounts of both power and water to enrich the billionaire owners.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more.
#uspol #oligarchy #poverty #abolishbillionaires #indiana #gary #datacenters
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This is why I read @pluralistic@mamot.fr He's so good at succinctly summing up important high-level concepts and then connecting them with the current problems we face.
#capitalism #wealth #oligarchy




