The maximum amount an individual can donate to a candidate is $3500. Elon Musk has spent $380 million on the 2024 and the 2026 midterms — so far. Billionaires shouldn’t be allowed to buy elections. Overturn Citizens United.
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections. buff.ly/q0P4LIo
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ICE agents bought 6,000 pairs of shock gloves to subdue detainees and protesters. During a military exercise, the pain they caused was so severe that victims were debilitated and had PTSD. Every state should follow California's lead and outlaw them. cbsnews.com/news/shock-glove…
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Can MS NOW stop booking Thom Tillis? It’s getting ridiculous.
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Tom Steyer is the only billionaire who supports the California billionaire tax. He makes SO many powerful observations in the recent @NewYorker article about the selfish, decadent and morally corrupt elites running Silicon Valley right now. From the piece: "I suggested to several super-rich Californians, ‘Look, if you don’t like this, why don’t we sit down and come up with something that works from your standpoint and actually addresses the issues?’ And they had no interest in doing it." He lamented the passing of what he saw as tech’s originating spirit, entrepreneurial but also patriotic, which was exemplified by the Hewlett-Packard founders’ heavy involvement in philanthropy and public service." Can you imagine David Packard or Bill Hewlett doing the kind of self-promotion that Elon Musk does?” he said. “There’s obviously been just a really dramatic change. I don’t want to turn them into gods, but Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett felt a deep connection with the country and with the state and with the land. It doesn’t exist today.” I asked him how he explains this change. “The people who are making the big money in California are technology people,” he said, and many of them “are incredibly focussed on that and quite dismissive of the other kinds of learning. That is not something they respect. English literature is not something they respect.” It may be pertinent that we were speaking at the decidedly old-school Yale Club, in New York City—Steyer is an alum. “When you get too reductive in terms of focussing just on money, or just focussing on technology, there are a lot of things that you’re cutting away from that world view,” he went on. “And a lot of those things are what we would think of as human values, like compassion, some sense of honor, all the things that you read about in the soft courses. And, if you don’t have that, then O.K., good night. You have a different frame of reference and a different value system.”
Californians will vote on whether to impose a one-time, five-per-cent wealth tax on billionaires. “If it passes, it will be a revolution,” an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, said. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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Bernie Sanders calls California's 5% billionaire wealth tax the "most important ballot measure in America." It's a ONE-TIME tax, FFS. Yet Polymarket US gives it only a 28% chance of passing. Have billionaires convinced everyone to feel sorry for their super yachts?🙄
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🚨 California's economy is the largest of any state in the US. It is 44% bigger than Texas's.
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It cannot be overstated how every one of these tankers going down either in Europe or the Middle East is its own massive ecological disaster. Once you add them all up we’re talking about ecocide at that point. We’re killing everything with these wars. Not just us.
A Russian oil tanker is burning off Sochi this evening, likely a result of a Ukrainian attack. This will be very difficult to put out.
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This racist, misogynistic, piece of sh*t must be impeached and removed from office.
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So, just a little reminder from time to time: balloons won't reach Grandma in heaven. But they will fall back to Earth and suffocate the wildlife.
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The 25th Amendment is screaming out loud and jumping right off of the parchment.
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The crew of Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie is terrorizing a Montana town, with violence filmed in residential neighborhoods and security guards dressed like paramilitaries. Now the town says they've had enough. My latest False Flag newsletter for @BulwarkOnline: thebulwark.com/p/small-monta…
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One of the only existing groves of American Chestnut trees is scheduled to be destroyed next month to make room for a datacenter. I made an entire video about what this tree meant and the efforts to bring it back that have lasted decades. Consumption knows nothing of sacrament.
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The Palm Beach County Republican party kept Mike Caruso on the ballot, and he was endorsed by Donald Trump, despite the fact he raped his 5 year old grandson. 🤬
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So, out-going Senator turned media darling, Thom Tillis, is being treated like some kind of hero for standing up to the Administration. No, he is a coward who let AG Blanche slither through confirmation and delayed justice for the Epstein Survivors. Stick your stupid southern sayings somewhere and go away. @CNN @MSNOWNews @RogerLau @MaraGay @PostBaron @profgalloway @washingtonpost @ProjectLincoln @BulwarkOnline @SteveSchmidtSES
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25th Amendment NOW.
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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.
Community note
The proposed CA wealth tax (Prop. 40) is a one-time 5% tax on net worth above ~$1B for residents, not a reduction in annual earnings or what billionaires "make" that year. It taxes accumulated assets, unlike income taxes on earnings flows. calmatters.org/politics/2026/… ballotpedia.org/California_One… spur.org/voter-guide/20… taxfoundation.org/blog/comparing…
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JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”
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This is what the Trump administration did to the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. The "Grandmother Tree" was 250 years old. So is America. #loathehard
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Trump fully endorses Mike Caruso who raped his five year old grandson. "Caruso has my complete & total support!" Donald J. Trump.
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This is why the billionaire class is freaking out. Google co-founder Sergey Brin in particular has completely lost it - he has spent 102 MILLION, all to defeat a tiny tax on his ginormous fortune. It's honestly sad to see: so rich, and they still don't understand what's really scarce in life: your fucking time on this planet! Instead, this guy spends hours, days and weeks obsessing over this little tax that he'll barely notice. Pathetic.
If California’s “billionaire tax” passes, it will amount to the first time that a government in the U.S. has successfully taxed the assets, rather than the income, of extremely rich people as a class. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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