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🇺🇲 Red States Cracking Down on Squatters Despite No Crisis
exposedbycmd.org/2025/08/11/re

* ha 🤔 ! Well-known model acts / state capture / culture wars (noise) / normalized hate speech, abhorrent behavior / voter apathy / voter suppression

🇺🇲 #GOP #Christofascism #Gilead #SCOTUS #transgenocide #TLM #theocracy

React or do nothing & suffer consequences: your "choice" (for now).

#ALEC #ModelActs #ModelLegislation
#JoeLonsdale #billionaires #CiceroInstitute #antiHomelessness #ModelActs

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Incessant nattering #TERF: JK #Rowling urges boycott of store for having trans employees
lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/jk-row

* anti-trans Harry Potter / gender-confused self-hating author #JKRowling furious that trans employee offered to assist teenage girl
* calling for boycott of iconic British retailer Marks & Spencer 🤔

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 #Christofascism #SCOTUS #transgenocide
🇨🇦 #Trumpism

🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #TLM #BTLM #TransRights
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#capitalism #billionaires #inequality
#socialism #justice

I just learned something - commercial #US #airline passengers subsidize private jets’ use of #FAA air traffic control systems. Basically, the #billionaires have an annual $1B shortfall to make up to us.

Sadly, I don’t think #Congress has the courage to fix it at this time. But maybe #Democrats should also run on this? Who knows what could happen after a #BlueWave?

nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

www.nytimes.com · Video: Opinion | If You Fly Economy, You’re Paying for Someone Else to Fly PrivateThe Times editorial board argues that Congress must change the Federal Aviation Administration’s funding structure.

🎶 "Imagine there's no #billionaires
It's easy if you try
No hell around us
Above us, only sky

Imagine all the people
Livin' for today
Ah

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace
You

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one"
🎶

"Imagine: Anarchy edition"

"So on the one hand, this is all pretty dismal. It also makes the trend towards electing anti-democratic politicians who want to abolish elections a lot easier to understand: if you (correctly) believe you live in a world where politicians don't care about you, then why not vote for a strongman who'll punish your enemies and maybe leave you with a few more crumbs?

But on the other hand, this is very exciting, because it shows us what a truly democratic world would look like (and just how different that world would be from the billionaire astroturf-dominated social media world)! If the popular will can achieve primacy, we would live in a veritable paradise!

It also explains how candidates like Zohran Mamdani were able to clobber the political establishment simply by a) telling people that he would do popular things; and b) convincing them that he meant it.

Suppressing popular preferences in (nominal) democracies isn't easy. It requires absolute unity of the ruling classes. Whenever the faintest crack appears in capital's unity, good policies gush out of it. That's what's happened with antitrust this decade, where the divisions between billionaire rentiers like Apple/Google and the millionaire capitalists who want to escape their 30% app tax has allowed a rush of effective antitrust enforcement to sweep the world, to the detriment of both:"

pluralistic.net/2025/08/07/the

pluralistic.netPluralistic: Good ideas are popular (07 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Todays 100+ #billionaires according to #Bloomberg:

#1: Elon Musk - $366B - USA/Tech

#2: Larry Ellison - $301B - USA/Tech

#3: Mark Zuckerberg - $267B - USA/Tech

#4: Jeff Bezos - $245B - USA/Tech

#5: Steve Ballmer - $178B - USA/Tech

#6: Larry Page - $176B - USA/Tech

#7: Sergey Brin - $165B - USA/Tech

#8: Jensen Huang - $157B - USA/Tech

#9: Bernard Arnault - $153B - France/Consumer

#10: Warren Buffett - $140B - USA/Diversified

#11: Michael Dell - $139B - USA/Tech

#12: Jim Walton - $126B - USA/Retail

#13: Rob Walton - $124B - USA/Retail

#14: Alice Walton - $123B - USA/Retail

#15: Bill Gates - $123B - USA/Tech

#16: Amancio Ortega - $105B - Spain/Retail

#17: Carlos Slim - $103B - Mexico/Diversified

#18: Mukesh Ambani - $99.6B - India/Energy

Total wealth: $3.09 Trillion

Full List: bloomberg.com/billionaires

AIs are not going to save the world, or change it for the better. They are only there because they will work for #billionaires more cheaply than humans do. Everything today is *FOR PROFIT*.

#AIs will not save us. We need to do that ourselves.

aeon.co/essays/what-godels-inc

<p>Illustration by <a href="https://making-pictures.com/artists/andy-goodman/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Andy Goodman/Making Pictures</a></p>
AeonWhat Gödel’s incompleteness theorems say about AI morality | Aeon EssaysMany hope that AI will discover ethical truths. But as Gödel shows, deciding what is right will always be our burden