Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion
Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion
Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25
It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
The U.S. Constitution. Members of the U.S House and Senate cannot be recalled. They can resign from office, lose reelection to a next term, or be expelled by two-thirds vote of the House to which they belong, but they can’t be recalled from office by popular recall.
A lot depends on whether the SAVE Act becomes law. If it does, it will create a lot of voter registration and voting nightmares.
@barackobama.bsky.social: "When I was POTUS, I suppose I could have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."
Even Nevada Southern students didn’t want to be called UNLV at first.
Mike Johnson is violating the rights of the voters that elected her. He is canceling their votes. He is undermining civil rights. For the record, Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, is undermining the civil rights of U.S. citizens. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/p...
The new password is DrapeauBlanc.
Unbelievable.
As in, literally, not credible.
Donald Trump appeared to describe a dementia screening he underwent at Walter Reed Medical Center as a 'very hard' IQ test while speaking with reporters inside Air Force One
The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟
This is what @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn & Trump refuse to even discuss, as even Marge points out.
It’s not that we can’t afford Medicare for All, it’s that we can’t afford not to do it.
How much longer are y’all gonna let this go on?
They don’t GAF about the Constitution, and they’ll do whatever it takes to keep Trump breathing long enough to seize a third term.
So when you start thinking your vote doesn’t matter, remember this: they know it does. That’s why they’re trying to take it from you.
This isn’t going to end well.
Again, I guess this law has just...been rendered moot but it's very much there in black and white
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidef...
Odds are this aggressively did not happen. But it would of course be just as unconstitutional to spend money donated to the government without a duly enacted appropriation as it is to spend tax money that way.
A blaring red warning signal for the rule of law; a President declaring “we’re just gonna kill people” without a trial or even a shred of due process.
"Destruction of federal property is a federal crime-18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines it as willfully injuring or committing any depredation of U.S. gov't property-Damage exceeding $1k is a felony w/ a fine-up to 10 yrs in prison or both"
Meanwhile-took me forever to get permits to repaint my mailbox.
I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...
That’s quite a difference in numbers. Is counting and addition really so difficult that the result swung by that much?
My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.
NEW from me at The Dispatch. Imagine if a president could just eliminate border spending on a whim. Or gut defense, Medicaid or veterans spending. Even defund SCOTUS after a decision, or end SocSec in blue districts.
This is the power Trump seeks with impoundment. 🧵
thedispatch.com/article/trum...
Frank Caprio, who became known as America's nicest judge for his empathy and humor in handling cases, has died at 88
Con Law professor walks into class. Stands in the center of the room. Lights a cigarette.
"Idk what to tell you," he says. He opens a Four Loko and chugs half.
"Vibes," he says. "It's just vibes now." Students ask him questions but he has nothing more to say. He just continues with his drink.
A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.
Police officers file civil lawsuit seeking court order to hang Jan. 6 plaque at U.S. Capitol
“There seems to be no indication that congressional leadership is going to install this without judicial intervention”
www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...
The New York Times front page.
I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
Impressive creativity in San Francisco here
Farmworkers are hiding because Trump made them targets.
Without farmworkers, the crops that feed our nation rot and our tables go empty.
This isn’t strong immigration policy — it’s economic sabotage fueled by hate.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is corrupt. We all know that. So...why can't people -- msm -- say it?
www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...
MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe
TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day
MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship
Read what Reagan said about immigration and America just 36 years ago, and try to imagine any Republican saying it now. It’s become a gutter party.
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
