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Elon Musk’s team of Texas lobbyists during the 2025 legislative session did not rival those of huge energy and telecommunications companies,
which typically employ dozens of people to represent them.
⭐️But Musk and his companies still hired more lobbyists this year than any other since 2021, according to data from the Texas Ethics Commission.
❌Musk, the billionaire businessman behind carmaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. …

@scott@carfree.city
2025-06-03 01:07:01

This seems bad. We just learned in the past week via @… that ICE agents are searching Flock cameras nationwide, and so did a Texas cop trying to track down a woman who got an out-of-state abortion. Now, without any guardrails against that, a crypto billionaire wants $9m more of these cameras in SF.
There's an ordinance to accept the gift that will…

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-07-04 19:00:33

* He exploits public office for private gain, enriching himself and the billionaire class while abandoning the poor and working people.
* He undermines justice, ignores the rule of law, and places himself above accountability.
* He disregards science, endangering lives in times of crisis and sacrificing the planet for profit.
* He fans division and incites violence to maintain power, wielding fear as a weapon against the people.

@gevoel@mastodon.green
2025-05-31 15:41:29

Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025 - DeSmog
desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-
> Unraveli…

See how the game works?
Republicans have long instinctively understood, far better than their oft-bumbling opponents,
that capturing the language is crucially important.
When you do that, when you frame the terms of debate,
you have a darn good shot at winning hearts and minds. Particularly weak minds.
I’ll leave it to the shrinks to diagnose the passivity of the Democratic mindset,
to try to fathom why the blue party has long allowed "class warfare&qu…

@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com
2025-07-02 21:21:54

I, for one, am more than okay with the current tax rate I pay.
And I probably pay a higher tax rate than any of these billionaire bozos.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-03 17:38:07

"A last-minute provision inserted into President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful” budget reconciliation bill would allow Chile’s wealthiest business magnate — and former landlord to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump — to begin mining operations on protected federal lands."
A Chilean Billionaire Strikes Gold In The Budget Bill
levernews.com/a-chilean-billio

Deepening divisions are threatening the fate of the sprawling bill,
which includes large tax cuts;
reductions to Medicaid, food assistance and clean energy programs;
and additional money for border security and the military.
They erupted online on Tuesday after Trump lashed out at an outspoken Republican opponent of the legislation
-- and as Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who recently left his governmental role leading the Department of Government Efficiency, …

@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.world
2025-07-02 17:42:38

Today I met a thirtyish brother wearing a purple Billionaire Boys Club track suit in an office job. IN AN OFFICE JOB. Coolest guy ever. The GOAT of Cool.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-28 02:01:22

Billionaire and radio host John Catsimatidis prefers Eric Adams over fellow Republican in mayor's race (Emily Ngo/Politico)
politico.com/news/2025/06/27/b
memeorandum.com/250627/p163#a2

'Elon Musk is right'
to criticize spending bill
says House Republican
who voted for spending bill
Representative Scott Perry,
a Pennsylvania Republican and member of the far-right House Freedom caucus,
just seconded Elon Musk’s criticism of the massive spending bill
that passed the House by a single vote
as “a disgusting abomination”
and added that the billionaire Republican donor
“is right to call out House Leadership”.

@steve@s.yelvington.com
2025-05-31 21:04:57

Forsyth Park, Savannah

Fight the billionaire takeover of our government
@MediaActivist@todon.eu
2025-05-25 22:03:42

"What is different, is that before what were largely fringe anti-Semitic and white supremacist theories floating around the far corners of the Alt-Right, have now become the backbone of the Republican party. 'The Great Replacement,' once a conspiracy pushed by only hardline neo-Nazis and white supremacists, is now being touted by everyone from pharma billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, Swason frozen foods heir and Twitter troll Tucker Carlson, to the billionaire backed Turning Point US…

For Trump,
“it’s no billionaire left behind
— and good luck to everyone else.”
“It’s telling that President Trump has chosen to release his budget on a Friday night with no fanfare whatsoever,”
said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee,
following the administration’s release of approximately 1,200 pages of budget documents.
“That’s probably because his budget would raise costs for working people,
destroy basic s…

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-05-29 02:01:24

Well, I guess Im calling it, the next big pandemic will be some variant of #birdFlu. 🧠🐛’s fingers are all over this bullshit, and Oz’s too.
Here’s an idea: how about some billionaire chips in some of their spare change to keep funding this program. It’d be really sweet if part of the deal was a requirement that any resultant vaccines that are developed shall distributed worldwide-wide, at cost…

@aredridel@kolektiva.social
2025-05-27 22:05:05

I should make t-shirts that say "I'm being attacked by a billionaire and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2025-06-30 07:35:29

Went to Threads to check if we're there yet with the federation of the eurotrash portion of the userbase. Found Zuck's currently busy no-commenting to a bunch of angry writers whose books he used to train his AI.

https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/DHbau1vvgLl

vanbadham
24/03/2025
You stole five of my books and I demand compensation
jamesrbenn
25/03/2025
You have stolen my intellectual property for your AI research.
stevezettlerauthor
27/03/2025
You and everyone else in print.
isabelle_broom
22/03/2025
I’m into NOT having every word I’ve ever written stolen by you to train AI. You’re just a guy with a llama and no morals.
dwadamsauthor
23/03/2025
I'm into billionaire puppets not stealing my work to trai…
@wfryer@mastodon.cloud
2025-06-29 01:29:16

new podcast recommendation: Peter Thiel and the Antichrist - Pocket Casts pocketcasts.com/podcasts/045f3 The billionaire Peter Thiel is unimpressed with our…

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-06-28 16:58:23

One of the reasons I appreciate walking, biking, and public transit so much (aside from just being a more joyful/connected way to travel, and better for our environment) is because they starve so many absolutely awful billionaires/corporations/oligarchs of profit. Oil companies, car manufacturers, large chain stores..

@Treppenwitz@sfba.social
2025-07-02 13:00:13

| When you're that rich or adjacent to it, the rules bend. Climate guilt is something for the rest of us. For them, "awareness" is enough — even if it means standing on a yacht with champagne while Venice floods below.
| This isn’t just hypocrisy — it’s obedience. Participation in these rituals of excess is a display of loyalty to the system that sustains them. The same energy as the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, calling Trump “daddy.”

@jerome@jasette.facil.services
2025-05-29 04:40:47

Good riddance. It was always meant to end eventually, 2 big egos can’t stay together for a long time. But with all the damage that he did, I’ll be having a hard time forgiving anyone still supporting him. nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/poli

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-06-26 16:07:41

Once AI takes over the billionaire elite will try and get the definition of what a human is redefined.

Last week, billionaire and onetime unofficial co-president Elon Musk ended his tenure as a special government employee after four months of spreading chaos, misery, and death throughout the federal government and world.
Much reporting has attributed his departure to philosophical differences with Trump.
Musk has criticized various Trump policies,
most recently the House GOP spending bill for adding trillions to the federal deficit.
But a crucial factor in Musk’s dep…

@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2025-05-27 18:50:32

This is why people are sending donations to Luigi's defense lawyers...
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

@JorgeStolfi@mas.to
2025-04-26 21:02:55

I thought that police recruits had to take a basic training course that included the very basics principles of law. Like:
"Every person (not just every US citizen, not just every white US citizen, not just every rich white US citizen, not just every billionaire white US citizen) is to be presumed innocent by the government until proved guilty of a crime." 🧵‍>

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-05-15 11:57:38

"Comment le boom des milliardaires alimente les inégalités et menace la démocratie."
"Avec une richesse qui se concentre au sommet, l'Europe doit agir maintenant pour défendre la démocratie et la stabilité économique pour tous."
#TaxTheRich #démocratie

@mho@social.heise.de
2025-05-23 19:27:42

💯💯💯
"If a billionaire bought one of your local haunts, renamed it, humiliated the employees, brought back many of the people who’d been banned for harassing other regulars, eliminated basic rules of decency, started having town halls with Republicans and a leader of the #AfD, taking your business elsewhere would be perfectly rational."
#

@danyork@mastodon.social
2025-05-23 21:51:07

Dear @… ,
I get that you need to FOCUS, but I'm personally bummed you are killing off #Pocket, as it's a service I use pretty much ** every single day! ** 😞 (I don't care about Fakespot )
But please... literally *** NO ONE *** is asking for mor…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-06-25 19:25:49

A profile of NFL reporter Jordan Schultz, whom some accuse of trading on family wealth as the son of Starbucks' Howard Schultz to get access to players (Ben Strauss/Washington Post)

@qbi@freie-re.de
2025-06-23 13:04:16

#Tesla vermeldet, dass es in #Austin mit einem #Robotaxi autonom herumfährt.
Die real befahrene Fläche ist der blaue Teil der Karte unten.
So richtig autonom ist es auch nicht. Es sitzt immer eine Kontroll…

Hoarding syndrome is considered a psychiatric condition, not a crisis for democracy itself
-- with one giant exception:
When people with hoarding syndrome are born with or come into massive wealth
-- suddenly what was once a personal, psychiatric issue can become a crisis for all of society.
It happens every few generations.
It’s what drove the fascist oligarchs of the Confederacy to reach out and try to conquer the entire United States in the 1860s.
It …

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-17 14:10:54

Bernie Sanders, seven other senators urge Democrats to break with billionaire donors (Maeve Reston/Washington Post)
washingtonpost.com/politics/20
memeorandum.com/250617/p52#a25

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-18 06:30:54

JD.com founder Richard Liu calls the past five years the company's "darkest period" and vows to speed up overseas expansion and challenge Meituan in new areas (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-06-25 08:17:09

Billionaire oblivious to the effects of his actions, his lawyers tell court.
gizmodo.com/techno-king-elon-m

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-06-22 18:18:22

We need to reclaim the tradition of imposing taxes on the rich to cover the costs of war. It’s why we got the income tax in the first place.

War is a mechanism that concentrates wealth at the top. If that is not countered with policy, it suggests that part of the purpose of the war is that concentration.
(see the past 25 years as an example)

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-19 14:48:23

"The alleged sex ring operated from at least 2018 to 2019 and masqueraded as regional **teen beauty pageants**, modeling agencies, as well as dating websites"
Investigative Report Alleges Links Between Billionaire Deripaska and Prostitution Ring Involving Minors - The Moscow Times
themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/19/

@tydalforce@mastodon.world
2025-05-23 10:24:17

Bummer. Mozilla, makers of Firefox, are shutting down their "Pocket" and "Fakespot" services.
I use Fakespot constantly, every time I go to buy something from Amazon (or another supported retailer). I'd pay to use it, but it's going away. Ugh...
@… @…

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-05-14 10:33:59

"Comment le boom des milliardaires alimente les inégalités et menace la démocratie."
"Avec une richesse qui se concentre au sommet, l'Europe doit agir maintenant pour défendre la démocratie et la stabilité économique pour tous."
#TaxTheRich #démocratie

@crell@phpc.social
2025-06-08 04:04:22

Billionaire Republicans have destroyed the American Dream.
#uspol

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-06-22 14:04:37

For some reason my old billionaire boss who hates me didn't block me on Instagram and his stories are the dumbest takes on every topic.

@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.social
2025-04-15 15:01:55

"This is not, repeat not, a giant leap for womankind. This is an intergalactic episode of Real Housewives meets The Kardashians Go to The Moon. It’s a quick “getaway” for the billionaire set as six gal pals cosplay astronauts in tight blue Star Trek at their very own CosmicCon."

@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social
2025-06-10 09:42:01

Huge respect for Andrea Sella. He's returned his Faraday prize to the Royal Society as protest against the Society's inaction over #ElonMusk. He joins Dorothy Bishop and Andrew Miller who resigned from the society.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-11 01:25:58

Billionaire Walmart Heiress Promotes Nationwide Anti-Trump Protests (Jemima McEvoy/Forbes)
forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/
memeorandum.com/250610/p148#a2

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-06-09 23:38:40

OMG, forget KD, I LOL'd so hard listening to Casey's unholy rant about that self-righteous billionaire, #MatIshbia. 🤣
▶️ The Kevin Durant Trade Just Took a Crazy Turn - A.M. Hoops
youtub…

@steve@s.yelvington.com
2025-05-22 12:39:20

Pity the poor billionaire who will never be happy, never be satisfied, never achieve whatever he is hoping to achieve, because there is never ever going to be enough. The greed eats away like a cancer and the rest of the world will suffer for it.

We can say this at least:
Musk is one of the most malignant people ever to hold a position of influence in American politics.
His actions, without exaggeration, have devastated the health and security of American society
and directly caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people all over the world, with millions more to follow given the course that he has set.
Musk’s DOGE, which is more or less a conspiracy to destroy constitutional government in this country, has …

@pdmckone@mstdn.ca
2025-05-17 13:02:07

I've seen outrage expressed at this one percent decrease of the lowest marginal tax rate as "not being a 'middle-class tax cut' since everyone -- billionaires included -- will benefit from it."
It's true; it means that anyone making more than $57,375 will pay 1% less on that first $57K. So, yes, a billionaire and I will both pay $573.75 less. That's how tax brackets work.
It's bad enough that some people don't understand taxation; it's worse that others exploit that to foment outrage.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-16 12:40:52

Digital asset platform Tron plans to go public via a reverse merger with Nasdaq-listed SRM Entertainment, after the US paused a probe into founder Justin Sun (Financial Times)
ft.com/content/13a6cead-af71-4

@floheinstein@chaos.social
2025-06-06 02:45:04

I don't want to write spoilers or need content warnings here, so:
It's popcorn 🍿 time in the US 🇺🇸! Bring out your best bullshit bingo sheets for billionaire battles!
#uspol #spacekaren #drump

The White House has withdrawn Jared Isaacman as its nominee for Nasa administrator,
abruptly yanking a close ally of Elon Muskfrom consideration to lead the space agency.
Donald Trump said he would announce a new candidate soon.
“After a thorough review of prior associations, I am hereby withdrawing the nomination of Jared Isaacman to head Nasa,”
Trump posted online.
“I will soon announce a new Nominee who will be mission aligned, and put America first in space.”…

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-08 17:05:18

'Just Desperate for a Paycheck': Sen. Tim Scott Mercilessly Mocked for Jumping In to Defend Trump Who 'Abandoned His A--' to Take Shots At Elon Musk In Growing Billionaire Feud
atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/0

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-16 18:35:41

EchoStar's stock jumps 45% after a report said EchoStar's chairman met Trump, a day after meeting FCC's Carr; EchoStar faces FCC spectrum license uncertainty (Monica Alleven/Fierce Network)
fierce-network.com/wireless/he

The New York Times reports that President Trump has enlisted the firm Palantir, founded by far-right billionaire Peter Thiel,
to carry out his March executive order
instructing government agencies to share data with each other.
The order has increased fears that the government is putting together a database to wield surveillance powers over the American public.

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-06-08 15:22:26

This still nauseates me.
☑️ Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss - The Washington Post
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-16 20:10:57

Sources: Meta's talks with Scale AI started in mid-April, with Zuckerberg floating a $5B investment in early May, which Alexandr Wang later countered with $20B (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/me

@scott@carfree.city
2025-06-06 01:04:57

This is so out of touch. ICE is ambushing and kidnapping our neighbors and we're going to "cover the entire city with drones"? The SFBOS should reject this "gift"
missionlocal.org/2025/06/were-

BREAKING: New Mike Lee Amendment to sell off public lands has been approved to be part of Trump's Big Beautiful Mess.
Senators like Steve Daines will be voting on this bill at any moment and we need to let them know loud and clear that we strongly oppose the sale of ANY of our public lands.
This land belongs to us, and greedy billionaire developers can't have it.
Add your name to make your voice heard:

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2025-06-06 09:26:24

Such a principled, stand-up guy. I am considering going back to X to help the cause ->
Trump-Musk row explodes as billionaire claims President named in Epstein files | BBC News - BBC News
youtube.com/watch?v=8vg2D3Pi9R

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-16 12:20:40

The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE's Chaotic Takeover of Social Security (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/poli
memeorandum.com/250616/p20#a25

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-07 03:33:23

ER Doc Explains: Trump’s Big Bill Will Kill Americans | Crooks and Liars
crooksandliars.com/2025/06/tru

Indian Creek Village,
the “Billionaire Bunker” near Miami,
couldn’t get approval to discharge its waste into a neighboring town’s sewer lines.
So the village quietly persuaded state lawmakers to force the issue.
In a world where billionaires are increasingly exercising political clout,
the fight over sewage in Indian Creek suggests the degree to which their influence is extending not just to policy in the White House and Congress but to some of the most foundat…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-07 01:01:35

Sources: Musk's feud with Trump will complicate xAI's attempt to raise $5B in debt, and might increase lending costs or cause some lenders to walk away entirely (Eric Platt/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/57d5b733-9060-4

Sen. Mike Lee is trying to shoehorn a provision into
Trump’s Tax Bill that would bring
🆘 federal public land sales for hundreds of thousands of acres.
If passed, this bill would give radicals in the Trump administration the power to declare our land “excess” 
and sell it to private developers and fossil fuel interests.
⭐️Public Lands Warriors is trying to bring attention to Mike Lee and his billionaire buddies attempts to sneak this crap into the Senate bill.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-07 23:25:17

Like Elon Musk, Russ Vought wants to break Washington. Unlike the billionaire, the budget guru might just succeed. - POLITICO
politico.com/news/2025/06/07/r

Didn’t Trump refuse to attend the dignified transfer of four Army soldiers who died during a military training mission—just to attend a Saudi-backed golf dinner with his billionaire Saudi donor buddies?
This parade isn’t about honoring the Army’s anniversary. It’s 100% about boosting Trump’s ego.

Star-studded nuptials between Amazon founder, billionaire Jeff Bezos, and Lauren Sšnchez, a former TV journalist.
The days-long shindig,
expected to begin from 24 June,
will be the biggest wedding held in Venice California since George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin in 2014.
While Venice residents mostly embraced the Clooneys’ fairytale big day,
the Bezos wedding has been met with much more antipathy.
As soon as Venice’s millionaire mayor, Luigi Brugnaro…

NO KINGS Santa Barbara
Rally · Volunteer organized
Saturday, June 14
10:30am – 12pm PDT
Chase Palm Park
236 E Cabrillo Blvd.
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Map
mobilize.us/nokings/event/7880

Errol Musk, the father of U.S. billionaire Elon Musk,
has arrived in Moscow to attend the Forum of the Future 2050,
a pro-Kremlin event scheduled for June 9-10,  the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported on June 8.
kyivindepend…

It may not come as a surprise that the fracking billionaire who helped launch The Daily Wire has also denied that the climate emergency is real. 
desmog.com/2024/09/09/inside-t

NO KINGS Santa Barbara
Rally · Volunteer organized
Saturday, June 14
10:30am – 12pm PDT
Chase Palm Park
236 E Cabrillo Blvd.
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
mobilize.us/nokings/event/7880

Multiple Republican lawmakers appeared split as the feud between Trump and Musk escalated into an all-out social media war on Thursday.
At the heart of the breakup is their disagreement over Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which Musk has called a “disgusting abomination.”

Hi there, it’s Ryan Busse.
I’ve spent my life protecting public lands.
I’ve hunted them, hiked them, raised my kids on them.
And now, I’m watching a MAGA-backed billionaire wrecking crew try to sell them off.
Donald Trump is back. And with the help of Congressional Republicans, he’s letting Elon Musk and DOGE gut protections and auction off your land to oil companies and developers.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆—𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗳𝘁. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗻𝗲, 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗻𝗲.
That’s why I…

Sen. Mike Lee is trying to shoehorn a provision into Trump’s Tax Bill that would bring back large-scale federal public land sales for hundreds of thousands of acres.
If passed, this bill would give radicals in the Trump administration the power to declare our land “excess” 
and sell it to private developers and fossil fuel interests.
Public Lands Warriors is trying to bring attention to Mike Lee and his billionaire buddies trying to sneak this crap into the Senate bill.

If you feel comfortable doing so, please register for this event at mobilize.us/nokings/event/7880.
It helps us with our planning to have an idea how many people to expect. Thanks!