[Edit/correction:] Clarification: one lawmaker and their spouse were killed. The other survived (so far) but is in critical condition.
Two Minnesota state lawmakers were assassinated in apparent targeted incidents on Saturday. A manhunt is now underway for the gunman.
Homeschooling is being used as a pipeline into radicalization and Christian right indoctrination with very little oversight, thanks to Republicans. Listen: https://gaslitnation.libsyn.com/how-a-christian-school-kid-in-indiana-saw-the-fall-of-democracies-coming
Reuters: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-marines-carry-out-first-known-detention-civilian-los-angeles-video-shows-2025-06-13/
#USPolitics #USpol #Fascism #MAGA #antifa #resist #fight #oppression #oligarchy #tyranny #USNews #TrumpAdministration #KristiNoem #Immigration #ImmigrationEnforcement #Marines
”Trump has always been open about his plan to destroy the US. Project 2025 gave a road map. … I do think plutocrat donors play a major role, but so do religious fanatics of varying faiths and tech oligarchs who see human beings as disposable. Refuse their vicious logic, think around them, and hold on to your humanity.”
—Sarah Kendzior, Fake Feuds, Real Crises: Your Questions Answered
#trump #project2025 #oligarchy #techbros
The US Economy Runs on Billionaire Pocket Change https://jacobin.com/2025/06/the-us-economy-runs-on-billionaire-pocket-change/ #Oligarchy
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Successor Entity Liability for Violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/successor-entity-liability-for-3362678/ #Oligarchy
THIS is yet another blaring klaxon that Trump is an authoritarian and the institutions of constitutional democracy are collapsing:
"I am Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary," Padilla said to Noem, which prompted several men to physically push him out of the room. It was unclear who the men were, as several were dressed in plainclothes.
If you are not listening to this #podcast by #BenNorton, you should! All the truth behind #Trump’s and #Miller’s #propaganda .
#fascism #authoritarianism #oligarchy #deportations #ruleoflaw #protests #oppression #ICE #hypocrisy
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/geopolitical-economy-report/id1621947548?i=1000712458566
“David Richardson, [of Australian Institute,] calculated that in 2004 the combined wealth of the AFR richest 200 was equivalent to 8% of Australia’s annual GDP. Now they are worth 24.5% of our annual GDP.”
Take your time… think about this for a while. A quarter of Australia’s GDP… let it sink in. The ‘lucky country’?
"To understand how America might escape from the clutches of #oligarchy, it is worth reaching back through #history, to see how the people have pushed back against the elites to achieve reform." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-history-of-successful-liberal-reform/
Yes, undocumented immigrants do pay $100 billion in taxes each year. But they are ineligible to receive many of the benefits those taxes subsidize, such as social security and medicare. Consequently, they pay far more in taxes than they receive in benefits. See below:
And, yes again, the top 1% do evade around $160 billion in taxes each year. And it's only going to get worse with Trump's mass firing of IRS workers, with far less enforcement than the feeble amount the existed before. See below:
Democracy is a Grey Scale
In my Medium writings, I often mention how USA is losing its democracy. Some commentators point out: "The USA has never been a democracy." And they have a point.
This article explains how today's democracies are actually a combination of democracy and oligarchy.
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=33&id=428
"Your enemy is NOT the refugee.
Your enemy is the one who made him a refuge."
-- Willie Nelson
One of my key takeaways from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY
is just how old the Americans who have manufacturing tacit knowledge are getting?
Also reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_in_China and it shows just how much the neo-liberal economic and shareholder value models completely fuck with workers' and even national interests.
I mean of course they do, the members of the rentier class really do have no loyalty except to their wealth.
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Media Panics About “Crime Waves” — But Downplays Crime Committed by Corporations https://truthout.org/articles/media-panics-about-crime-waves-but-downplays-crime-committed-by-corporations/?utm_source=Truthout&utm_campaign=8e76b61f80-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_08_02_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bbb541a1db-8e76b61f80-651072241 #Oligarchy #EatTheRich
Strange night seeing the #Madleen boarded illegally by #Israel and its passengers kidnapped while, halfway around the world, the United States turns its armed forces against its own citizens shows how fleeting democracy is. These two nations still call themselves that when they probably haven't been for years.
We will have to start over. This doesn't end with an election.
This guy calls himself a Democrat??? Democrats are supposed to be on the side of the little guy, not the 1%. He sounds just like the Rush dittoheads of the 1990's whining about frivolous lawsuits. The billionaire corporations did it to themselves. If they don't want to be sued all the time, they should follow the law like everybody else. https://spotlightdelaware.org/2025/06/06/gov-meyer-to-defend-landmark-corporate-law-against-constitutional-challenge/ #Delaware #EatTheRich #Oligarchy
