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According to @moreperfectunion.bsky.social New York is seeking $36 billion in damages. Kalshi is valued at $22 billion. 😈
Department of Class Solidarity@solidaritydept.bsky.social · 5d agoBREAKING: New York just sued Kalshi for running an illegal gambling operation. The lawsuit filed today by New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges Kalshi circumvented obtaining a state gambling license to avoid regulation and taxes.
BREAKING: New York just sued Kalshi for running an illegal gambling operation. The lawsuit filed today by New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges Kalshi circumvented obtaining a state gambling license to avoid regulation and taxes.
Today's economy doesn't work for working class Americans. Instead, the entire financial sector is built to turn everything into a commodity for their balance sheets. These billionaires are the architects and engineers turning our labor into their personal piggy bank 🧵
The CDC has a lab dedicated to stopping outbreaks of Cyclospora, the "explosive diarrhea" parasite sickening thousands across the country. But according to @wired.com, its staff was decimated by DOGE's cuts.
There needs to be a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for ICE, and on the stand should not only be the agents who murder, rape, and kidnap, but also the billionaires who built their fascist disappearance machine.
Department of Class Solidarity@solidaritydept.bsky.social · 3w agoICE agents pulled the trigger, but it took an entire apparatus to commit this murder. Here are the companies that make up ICE's deadly Deportation Industrial Complex, and the billionaires that profit from it.
ICE agents pulled the trigger, but it took an entire apparatus to commit this murder. Here are the companies that make up ICE's deadly Deportation Industrial Complex, and the billionaires that profit from it.
Jess Craven ❌👑@jesscraven101.bsky.social · 3w agoProtestors flood the streets in Biddeford, Maine after ICE executes a Colombian man there. Footage from @amay.a100
Second time in just about a week when a man not targeted by ICE was killed by them
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w ago“The motorist killed by ICE officers in a Maine shooting Monday was not the target of the warrant the officers were executing, Sen. Angus King said Homeland Security Secretary Mullin told him.”
Jeff Bezos shut down Venice for his wedding. Taylor Swift is shutting down New York's Midtown for hers. Billionaire shouldn't be able to disrupt entire cities on a whim.
The community of Austin, Texas has long been fighting to keep Austin weird. More recently however, that fight has included standing up to a tech billionaire being a sadistic freak about homeless people—meet Joe Lonsdale
Charles Oakley is banned from MSG...but they'll let this guy in?
Elon Musk is working with Wall Street to rob your retirement from right under your nose. That's why we put these up in New York during our big protest on Friday. Because if you're going to act like a criminal, you should be treated like one. 📍Midtown, near NASDAQ HQ, NY
Genuinely disgusting that my 401k may be bailing out SpaceX and making Elon Musk a trillionaire. Fuck Wall Street.
Department of Class Solidarity@solidaritydept.bsky.social · 2mo agoElon Musk is on track to become a trillionaire, and your retirement fund is footing the bill. Ahead of SpaceX's IPO, Wall St tossed guardrails created to protect investors in order to fast track the company into index funds—and your 401k. The problem? SpaceX is losing billions
Elon Musk is on track to become a trillionaire, and your retirement fund is footing the bill. Ahead of SpaceX's IPO, Wall St tossed guardrails created to protect investors in order to fast track the company into index funds—and your 401k. The problem? SpaceX is losing billions
Since becoming Mayor, Zohran Mamdani has successfully navigated a historic blizzard, cracked down on bad landlords, balanced the city budget, won a tax on the rich, and now overseen a Knicks Finals Game One win. New York is entering a new golden age under sewer socialism.
We fact-checked Jeff BWith anti-billionaire sentiment at an all-time high, Jeff Bezos invited CNBC for an interview so he could present his vision for addressing the inequality crisis in the United States. We have fact-checked his remarks. ezos.
Everybody’s a capitalist on the way up, and a socialist on the way down. But if airlines are going to be this bad with money—they need to do it on their own dime. It’s time to nationalize the skies ✈️
Today is the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown vs. The Board of Education. It declared that segregation in schools was inherently unequal. A huge win at the time, that set a new standard for decades.
The rent is too damn high! And this billionaire is a major factor in that
On this day 91 years ago, the Works Progress Administration was founded in response to the Great Depression. Between 1935 and 1943, the economic recovery program employed 8.5 million people and became instrumental in building much of the U.S. public infrastructure we know today
If you’re wondering where politicians and the media get their pro-privatization talking points, look no further than the Manhattan Institute. The largest think tank of its kind, the Manhattan Institute manufactures consent for both parties to protect the oligarchy 🕵️
Jeff Bezos is worth $271 billion, which could cover: Solar panel installation for 127,859,137 households Healthcare for 19,440,459 children in low-income families Annual income for 506,833 nurses 7,738,435 public housing units Or the Met Costume Institute operating budget for 52,400 years.
Celebrating May Day is as American as baseball and apple pie 🇺🇸 May Day was established to honor the American workers killed fighting for the 8-hour work day. Today, we celebrate by striking once again to demand: ❌ NO ICE ❌ NO WARS ❌ END CORPORATE CONTROL OF DEMOCRACY
Kathy Hochul has a choice: Either gamble with New York’s future by banking on billionaires like Ken Griffin, or secure it, by taxing them
A relatively unknown tidbit of history, unearthed by @solidaritydept.bsky.social
Department of Class Solidarity@solidaritydept.bsky.social · 3mo agoToday is Freedom Day in South Africa, marking the end of apartheid and the country’s first steps to becoming a multi-racial democracy. It was a victory achieved through domestic struggle, international solidarity…and the cause of labor. Here’s how unions helped beat apartheid 🧵
