This cartoon from The Seattle Times illustrates how America’s economic pizza is actually sliced per capita, highlighting the massive disparity between the Top 1%, the merely wealthy, the upper middle class, and the lower 50%.

Apparently engagement on that other site’s r/conservative dropped by 2/3 when Russian data centers went down due to drone strikes.

It’s not like Jeff Bezos had private dinners with Jeffrey Epstein or invited Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to his private, invitation only, weekend retreat at a private resort he rented out.

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Oh my fucking god 😭

Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to “undo the curse that was just put on our city.”

Smooth Dunk | Bluesky

A one-time 5% wealth tax would bring Silicon Valley’s billionaires’ wealth back to where it was just 31 days ago, on September 7.

ngl I think orange juice coffee is pretty good

https://xkcd.com/2228/

It was just after 2 a.m. on a pitch-black Friday morning when Bernadette Greene-Placentia’s life changed. The Democratic candidate for Congressional District 8 strolled across a parking lot to repair a damaged campaign sign. It was a routine she’d followed all summer. This time, she only made it a few yards.

Not only has Gov. Gavin Newsom vocally opposed the proposed California billionaire tax, but he also wants to prevent the state from ever passing a wealth tax in the future.

This is like when you hit a perfect skill-check in a game, but for a response. Funny, true, against bigotry, just generally good :3

The most successful political propaganda in our time was convincing millions of people that caring for others and the planet was somehow a threat to America.

ICE official, who was sleeping on man’s lawn and appeared ‘intoxicated’, faces felony charges, California police say

The poorest billionaire in California will make about $300 million this year. If we pass the CA wealth tax, he will only make $235 million. In exchange, millions of the poorest Californians will get health insurance. That’s the tradeoff billionaires are not willing to make.

I’m not the artist, War and Peas is. Source

Oh my fucking god, this might be the most badass comeback to those shitty “it’s gay” arguments I’ve heard in a long time 😂

Once again, Republicans are the shittiest Christians.

someone might want to crosspost to !196@pawb.social

It’s like being stuck behind a glass wall in my own head - watching myself be stuck unable to do what needs to get done