He’s rewording the 300 Billion reparations for “investment” #IranDeal

Tomorrow's I.P.O. of SpaceX could turn out to be the universe's largest Ponzi scheme, and you and I are paying part of the price whether we like it or not. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/musks-galactic-ripoff

Corporation: We made $5 billion but spent $4.9 billion to keep going, so our net taxable income is $100 million. Gov’t: That’s right. Worker: I made $50,000 but spent $45,000 to keep going, so my net taxable income is $5,000. Gov’t: That’s wrong.

HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. has made no public comments about the Ebola outbreak for weeks. He reportedly refused to be briefed on last year’s measles outbreak. Multiple divisions of HHS are being run by acting directors. This is who’s in charge of the health of 330 million Americans?

Kennedy Shows Minimal Engagement With Vast Health Portfolio

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In January, Zohran Mamdani took action against bankrupt landlord Pinnacle, which was responsible for over 5,000 housing violations. Thanks to his intervention, Pinnacle's new owners have forgiven millions in tenants' back rent. This is what governing for the people looks like.

"Wherever people are discriminated against because of their national, ethnic, religious or linguistic origin, or because of their economic or social status, the universal principle of the equal dignity of all human beings is seriously violated." -Pope Leo XIV

The world’s ten richest people — almost all Americans — saw their collective net worth increase by $220 billion in May. These ten people are now worth a combined $2.9 trillion. The bottom 50% of U.S. households, is worth $4.3 trillion. Wondering if inequality is out of control?

At least 10 Trump officials hold as much as $43.8M in stock in Elon Musk's SpaceX or in xAI. That means the SpaceX IPO — which will make Musk a trillionaire — would also directly enrich Trump's lackeys. SpaceX has been boosted by over $10B in government contracts since 2025. See the problem here?

A year ago: We're building data centers everywhere to run you out of your job and double your power bill. It's so you can look at fake videos of talking dogs on your phone Now: Why are people so hostile about the data centers

SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court found intentionally discriminated against Black voters. A Court so fundamentally hostile to the rights of minority voters places it at odds with democracy itself. This is Chief Justice John Roberts’ legacy.

The Maryland Break the Bonds Campaign announced that the Maryland State Retirement & Pension System has divested roughly 85% of its Israeli bond holdings, representing $62 million in divestment from Israeli sovereign bonds believed largest state-level divestment from Israeli bonds so far-Mondoweiss

Mandani fixed NY in 5 months. 12 billion deficit fixed. Which proves if you really want to fix things it's possible.

Indiana told the public it gave less than $1 million in data center subsidies in 2025. The real number? $655 million. And $561 million of that went to a single company: Amazon. While Hoosiers pay sales tax on groceries, Amazon paid nothing. This isn’t economic development. It’s a heist.

13 Investigates: You pay sales tax. Some Indiana data centers didn’t. Here’s what we found

New records show some Indiana data centers have reported hundreds of millions in state sales and use tax exemptions.

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Reminder that banning elected officials from trading stock is a total no brainer. They can use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake — it’s legalized corruption.

not now, giant mysterious explosion over New England. We've got a lot going on already.

🥳 A small town in #Oregon is celebrating after officially stopping a large data center from being built in their community‼️ The #LaPineCity Council voted unanimously to reject the proposed project 👏

Hourly wages are up 3% since 2019. Corporate profits are up 50%. Labor’s piece of the economic pie is the smallest it’s been in over 75 years, while corporate profits’ share is the *biggest* it’s been since 1950. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Inflation is at a three-year high. Wage gains are being wiped out. Personal savings levels are dwindling. Americans are taking on massive amounts of debt to get by. "New Golden Age."

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PCE inflation, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, rose to 3.8% in April, marking its highest level in nearly three years.  Core PCE inflation, which excludes food and energy prices, also increased to 3.3%.

Cryptocurrency PAC Fairshake notched another win in last night's Texas runoff after spending nearly $6.5M to defeat Democratic Congressman Al Green. But if you saw their ads, you'd never know who was behind them.

Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026

Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou

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The BC Conservative Leadership Race Ends Under a Cloud via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026... Not much substance here!

The BC Conservative Leadership Race Ends Under a Cloud | The Tyee

No matter who wins Saturday, the party’s deep divisions will continue.

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The Trump admin: -Gutted USAID and foreign health aid to Uganda and Congo, the epicenters of the Ebola outbreak -Withdrew from WHO, which monitors global health emergencies -Made deep staffing cuts to CDC, which coordinates disease response The pro-virus president.

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

And now Trump and Blanche’s corrupt Star Chamber Secret Tribunal will convene behind closed doors to dole out $1.7 billion to their criminal co-conspirators, with everything hidden from the American people. They will keep secret who gets paid, how much they get paid, and why.

Big announcement on March 3. No part of this ever happened.

Congress works 140 days a year and earns $174K annually, plus full benefits. How can anyone survive on that without a few stock trades and a little insider trading? They get 225 days off a year and think it’s okay to hold the federal minimum wage at $7.25 an hour for 17 years.

“.. This is an insane amount of trades,” he said, adding that it looks more like something done by “a hedge fund with massive algo trades” that buys and shorts securities than a personal account. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"CBS is assenting to its own diminishment." "The biggest loss is to core America values, including the right to speak freely, even in brutally mocking terms, about those in power..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...

Opinion | CBS Cancels Itself, Not Just Colbert

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End the weekly work and enjoy the upcoming weekend

Former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra will lead California's new consumer protection agency. His experience defending Americans from corporate predators make him the perfect choice for the job. Watch him expose Trump's giveaway to credit card companies.

Trump Sold You Out to Credit Card Companies (ft. Rohit Chopra)

Trump promised a cap on credit card rates.Instead, he delivered a giveaway to credit card companies at your expense.Form

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Scams Are Booming. The Latest Numbers, And How To Protect Yourself

Scams Are Booming. The Latest Numbers, And How To Protect Yourself

According to the FTC, fraud losses hit $15.9 billion in 2025. Imposter scams led in sheer number of reports, but investment scams caused the steepest financial damage.

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