Market concentration → Less competition → Higher prices for consumers → Corporate profits at record highs → Record stock buybacks → Higher shareholder value → More power for corporations and the rich.
How do we fight back? Break up monopolies and rebuild union power.
Posts by Skatay
Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.
I raced there in the oughts. Had a certain charm - smooth concrete, gentle sloping banks…
Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.
Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.
This is what corporate greed looks like.
Everybody was tricep fighting 🎵🎤🥁
Hey everyone, my new and upcoming memoir l, “Welcome to Your Life: Love, Death & Tears For Fears” is the upcoming memoir set to release on August 4th 2026. Make sure you preorder it before the release. There will be signed copies when the book gets released.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/welcome-to...
We call it CSF at our house: Content Search Fatigue.
War, what is it good for? 🙌🏽
Absolutely nothing‼️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Springsteen aka The Boss still knows how to shake the ground & remind us what really matters. 💃🏽🤘🏽🎸🕺🏼
Why not use some of the $18 trillion trump said his tariffs brought in to pay for the war instead of cutting health care, again???
Is it legal for a convicted felon to vote?
Why is Trump allowed to vote?
Concert ticket prices are absolutely out of control at this point.
And honestly the artists need to speak up. Its bad enough there is a monopoly with Ticketmaster. But people can't afford these prices.
Read the room.
There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash.
ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to.
The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty.
Budgets are moral documents.
Where's Netanyahu?
Freedom of Speech with Edwin Starr singing
WAR! WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? HUH! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
So when he bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, you were cool with that?
When he made fun of a handicapped reporter, you were cool with that?
When he had a mob attack the capital to steal the election, you were cool with that?
But now gas is expensive so you regret your vote?
Yeah?
If young men channeled all their anger away from guns and back into lyrics in a recording studio, there would be a rock/metal industry renaissance we haven’t seen in decades.
“'The administration thoughtlessly terminated people with crisis experience, and now they’re left without depth in the bench in the middle of a wide scale and broadening crisis,' said a former official with more than a decade experience in evacuation operations..."
www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/p...
(cartoon Adam Zyglis)
Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"
"No one voted for this!" said the people who voted for this.
The question is, did we really elect him, or did someone manipulate vote tallys in five swing states to give him the win.
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If we are required to show a passport in order to vote, doesn’t that make passport fees an illegal poll tax?
64 was the original official death toll for Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria. It was later revised to 2,975.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrica...
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
I’m not a constitutional scholar but if a president advocates for a change to election laws that is contrary to the constitution, isn’t that a violation of his oath of office?
Let the characters drive the plot and give them lots of rein, see where they lead you.
"There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one."
-- Kazuo Ishiguro (interview)
two women on a couch Couple excited for another night of looking through all the streaming platforms not finding anything then going to bed
"Couple excited for another night of looking through all the streaming platforms not finding anything then going to bed"