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»Trump ally and tech billionaire Peter Thiel brings Antichrist warning to Paris
“I heard more about the Antichrist during those 45 minutes than during the rest of my life,”
[…] "I didn't understand much," said a third attendee who did not specify what the talk was about. […]«
This is not the first time he has been to Europe, this thoroughly conspiratorial creditor.
😕

Far-left billionaire George Soros and family donated $71,000 to Trump-hating NY AG Letitia James (Rich Calder/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/28/us-news/far-left-billionaire-george-soros-and-family-donated-71000-trump-hating-ny-ag-letitia-james/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251228/p24#a251228p24

Billionaire Tom Steyer, who is running for California governor, says he'll vote for the one-time 5% tax on billionaire wealth if it reaches the November ballot (Eliyahu Kamisher/Bloomberg)

Future Portrait Of A Billionaire's House...
Ozymandias, only an inscription and the views remain...
(From our snowy and icy morning walk yesterday... Hohenfreyberg, built & expanded between 1418-1608, burnt down (sacrificed) in 1646. Same fate for the other ruin on the neighboring hill (last image), which belonged to the father and also got destroyed previously (in 1525) by farmers of the surrounding villages...)

Plenty of billionaire deals going on, but:
"A person familiar with Witkoff’s thinking said the envoy is confident that any settlement with Russia would benefit America broadly, not just a handful of investors."
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-

Deeply concerning…
#TikTok turned into a #Trump propaganda platform overnight …
F*ck Larry #Ellison.

The annual fundraiser support for Wikimedia from the richest man in the world is a dystopian right-wing infused parody site of #Wikipedia.
So if you‘d rather support free access to the sum of all human knowledge instead of billionaire tech bros, you get a chance to donate out of spite.

I feel like there’s an extremely suspect form of implicit trust going on with generative AI, i.e. “everyone‘s using it, and everything will turn out alright!” No, it won’t! For you specifically!!! At least if you’re not already a fucking billionaire!

In Ukraine, the void left by the USA is bigger than Europe can fill. Russia continues to rape and destroy while the rest of the world looks away.
As an American, each day is a new descent into shame and disgust as I witness the cruelty and greed of my fellow citizens and Trump's band of billionaire bastards.
All I can do is try to share information that might raise awareness sufficient to instill some true empathy and concern amongst the comfortably uninformed.
Giorgio …

Nothing brings tech titans together like taxes.
This week, as the specter of a California “#billionaire #tax” ballot initiative gained momentum,
the moguls grew furious.
The outrage reached a fever pitch on X,
where the following scenarios were predicted, should the initiative be approved in Nov…

Sources: WaPo is laying off up to 300 employees, including over 100 staffers in the sports, metro, and foreign teams; the sports desk may be shuttered entirely (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-cuts-jeff-bezos

Trump allowing billionaire donors [the Winklevoss Twins] funding his sons to cripple key federal agency: NYT - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-billionaire-donors-sec/

The Trump regime imposed sanctions on HateAid from Germany, for its support for victims of hate and intimidation on the social media platforms owned by Trump's billionaire buddies. You can follow HateAid here: @…

Did you know?
You can help struggling billionaire owners of big tech companies that can’t build AI data centers fast enough by closing accounts and canceling subscriptions

"In 2025 I have spend some time to untangle my digital life from billionaire/fascist run platforms. So at the beginning of 2026 maybe it makes sense to talk a bit about what I did, why I went certain ways and what works and what doesn’t."
(Original title: Exiting the Billionaire Castle)
https://

#Mark #Zuckerberg’s decision to cut off funding to the pro‑immigration group FWD.us
marks a sharp turn away from the high-profile social advocacy that once defined his philanthropy...
even as #MacKenzie

They have more money than there is investment growth to be found. Give a hungry person money and they’ll buy food; give a billionaire some money, and they’ll look for a high-risk investment that has a 1% chance of paying off 1000x.
Want to get rich? Convince them you’re one of those investments! 99% chance you’ll fail; 1% chance your BS is actually some kind of genius moonshot! Give them FOMO about it, get free money!
3/

Lightning AI merges with data center operator Voltage Park to create an "AI cloud" with a $2.5B valuation, managing 35,000 Nvidia GPUs across six data centers (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

It is one of the miracles of capitalism that a company that has been in business for a century or more, making crazy fat profit margins for generations, can manage to die in debt.
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026

The #Washington #Post has consistently produced high-quality, news cycle-leading reporting over the first year of Donald Trump’s chaotic and unpredictable second administration.
But that work has been produced under a cloud of uncertainty and rumors of widespread

Need to ensure Oracle's “investments" into AI continues to crash their stock and Ellison's wealth. Ellison has now eclipsed Musk as the most democratically dangerous billionaire.
Outrage after CBS pulls 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s Cecot prison https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/22/cbs-pulls-60-minutes-segment-el-salvador-prison?CMP=share_btn_url

Okay, for those who want to switch Email providers and think about Fastmail (as I described in my article https://tante.cc/2026/01/05/exiting-the-billionaire-castle/ ):
This link gives you 10% off your first year. (It will give me 10 USD, too, so you can consider this a…

I am wondering why people still pay their Federal taxes?
(I sent my quarterly payment to the IRS about a week ago. And I cringed at the thought of what ill uses it might be used for.)
'How “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump”'
https://www.

From 350.org
🧵Long thread 9
This week, Carney’s Billionaire Budget passed by a narrow margin.
This budget is part of a dangerous pattern of disregard for people and the planet. A pattern that attracted international attention this week at the UN climate negotiations in Brazil, where Carney’s absence and agenda earned Canada the dubious dishonour of being named the “Fossil of the Day.”
Here’s a list of the most alarming developments in Canadian climate politics in the…

I heard the tech Billionaire who invented Mastodon sold out and is now a tech Trillionaire and... just kidding! I'm happy that I've been a user (and supporter!) of Mastodon for three years now. The coolest fucking people on the Internet are on the Fediverse.

lmao tom steyer hired some of mamdani's campaign people for his new campaign its so funny to see that aesthetic applied to a billionaire

”Yet far fewer people would disagree that when a billionaire uses their wealth to buy a politician, to influence a government, to own a newspaper or a social media platform, or to out-lawyer any opposition to ensure them impunity from justice, that these actions are inimical to progress and fairness. Such power gives billionaires a grasp over all our futures, undermining political freedom and eroding the rights of the many.”

Why is the billionaire minority making all the decisions anyway? I mean, they are clearly and vastly outnumbered 🤔

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115817516444921648
Trash indeed, billionaire's shouldn't exist!

How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory (Tom Burgis/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/ronald-lauder-billionaire-donor-donald-trump-ukraine-greenland
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p88#a260115p88

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115754133273687027
Reminds me of a book I recently read, "Death of the Author" by Nnedi Okorafor. Of course, she has her billionaire character being unrealistically innocent of the politics and crimes of Bezos and the…

In case you were wondering whether you should cancel your Paramount subscription…
“Ellison’s [spawn of the Oracle billionaire] goal is to turn Paramount into a MAGA-friendly environment, with content in the TV and movie divisions expected to be more ‘America-centric’ and geared toward ‘the middle of the country.’”

The Texas Billionaire Trying to Tame the Wild West of College Sports - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/texas-tech-cody-campbell-2d796cb1?st=JXDYkd&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Bitmine, the largest corporate holder of ether, invests $200M in MrBeast's Beast Industries, set to close on January 19; Bitmine holds ~4M ETH valued at ~$13.6B (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/<…

Usually on point, but @… makes a very easily falsifiable claim in this essay, https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-st…

"So long as the pain of using the service is lower than the pain of leaving it, the companies can turn the screws on users to make their lives worse in order to extract more profit from them. This is why Musk killed the block button and why Zuck fired all his moderators."
https://plural…

Betaal jij meer of minder belasting dan Elon Musk?
https://maps.greenpeace.org/gpafrica/billionaire-taxometer/

Bitmine, the largest corporate holder of ether, invests $200M in MrBeast's Beast Industries, which reaches 450M subscribers across its YouTube channels (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/

Crooked president, crooked deals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-pardon-of-crypto-billionaire-sparks-concerns-over-use-of-pardon-power-60-minutes-transcript/

https://resist.bot/petitions/PSOMXK

A sheriff, a billionaire, a tinge of scandal. California governor's race packs drama, uncertainty (Michael R. Blood/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-newsom-porter-scandal-tom-steyer-39abafa3e201d767b13f3db71c2fd0ed
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p20#a251123p20

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

B.C. Billionaire Jimmy Pattison and a connection to ICE?
ya! really!
#bcpoli #canpoli #cdnpoli #fascism

The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans
it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress "American viewpoints".
The Europeans, characterized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “radical” activists and “weaponized” nongovernmental organizations,
fell afoul of a new visa policy announced in May to restrict the entry of foreigners deemed responsible for censorship of protected speech in the United States. …

They could solve world hunger, but instead do this
https://mastodon.social/@amalia22/115552322301509094

Here's a piece about $billionaires threatening to leave California because of a proposed 5% wealth tax.
Hey guys (and as far as I can tell they are all guys): Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
They say "oh, California you will lose taxes because we are gone." Boo hoo - don't these guys know the concept of a non-performing asset, you know, a thing that produces no revenue? Well, from the point of view of Calif. these guys already pay no…

I’d bet that there’s illegal drugs on some of those boats… @… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Elon Musk Is Gaming the Internet for Fascism
The billionaire X owner is accelerating his AI-driven assaults on reality and Europe had better harden its defences, argues Heidi Siegmund Cuda
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinesupplement/p/elon-musk-is-ga…

Pro tip: The very LAST person you should ever be taking financial/career advice from is a billionaire. Why?
1️⃣ They typically have an extreme competitive, narcissistic mindset focused on their own success, not yours. Advice they give is usually oriented toward helping them attain their goals.
(1/3)

https://calgaryherald.com/feature/toys-r-us-canada-closes-at-least-38-stores-this-year-puts-another-12-up-for-sale

No, fuck off. I don’t subscribe to Nazis, liberals, conservatives, or whatever corporate nazi media circus you’re drooling over.
You think I’m siding with the billionaire suits? Have you completely fucking lost it?
Are you out of your fucking mind?

Beyoncé is now the fifth billionaire musician, Forbes reports | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/29/beyonce-billionaire-forbes

Filing: Larry Page moved assets out of California ahead of the proposed CA wealth tax, meeting an end-of-2025 deadline; a source said he has left the state (Hugh Langley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-leave-c…

banger shirt after banger shirt
#shirt

Morrissey fan - BLOCK
Musk fan - BLOCK
Radiohead fan - BLOCK
"But.. but.. THIS billionaire is lovely, really!" - BLOCK
I skip around gaily, throwing out blocks like confetti.
In 2026, please remember, you never have to engage with fuckwits on the internet.
Save your energy, block with abandon.

Why do none of these articles even touch on how much data DOGE stole from the US government, how much damage they caused to the security of government IT systems, and how much DOGE exposed all of our data to foreign adversaries?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Fact Check: Stolen Louvre Jewels Were NOT Seized From Zelenskyy Associate, Ukrainian Billionaire Timur Mindich: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/01/fact-check-stolen-louvre-jewels.html

"if we were listening to people on the grounds of whether they had a good track record, the world would not spend a lot of time on #BillGates and climate. "
#ClimateChange
#ClimatePolicy

I didn’t think she could go this far.
Anna Paulina Luna is
DEFENDING the almost TOTALLY REDACTED Epstein files.
I'm telling you, this is what the government does. Defend the Billionaire class at all costs.
It's Earle Ford, and I've spent my career as an attorney going after them when they try to cheat on their taxes.
I quit that job because I know just how vulnerable Luna is.
FL-13 deserves someone who will do something to level the playing …

Let’s raise a glass to 2026, the year of more billionaire trash!
#Billionaire #Trillionaire #Rich

Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads announces a new generation of chips slated for mass production from 2026, just weeks after its blockbuster IPO in China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-20/ex-nvi…

"the billionaire businessman Vincent Bolloré, one of #Sarkozy’s longtime patrons and the owner of Fayard, publisher of “Le Journal d’un Prisonnier,” has been doing his most to propel the far right to victory."
"Twenty days behind bars, and not long before France may very well have a far-right head of state for the first time in nearly a century. "

In a conversation at this year's
Billionaire's convention
—aka the World Economic Forum
—Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI will lose public support
unless it's used to "do something useful that changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries."
"We will quickly lose even the social permission to take something like energy,
which is a scarce resource,
and use it to generate these tokens,

Tom Steyer is running for California governor as a populist billionaire (Bill Barrow/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-election-tom-steyer-1de30f4501b91c3bc9969c54aa13c19d
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p104#a251119p104

Lock up all the fascists, especially the billionaire fascists https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/115679107107139559

"In a talk in November 2024, Starbase General Manager Kathy Lueders announced that SpaceX hoped to be able to catch a Starship upper stage sometime in the next 6 months and have as many as 25 launches in 2025.
This did not occur. Starship was launched just five times by mid-October, with no planned launches during the remaining months of 2025."
—Wikipedia Starship article
I've been pretty vocal about all of Starship being what's essentially a scam—yes, including the engineering behind it.
But there's always white knight tech people riding to the rescue of the Nazi billionaire even when it's obvious it's not working right.
I'm sure they'll reply to this post as well.

The easiest role to replace with AI is that of a Billionaire CEO.
#ProveMeWrong #AI

I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.
I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188
…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.

Damning Poll Reveals Americans Struggling to Buy Holiday Gifts Under Billionaire Trump
https://archive.ph/qDrFS

Palantir co-founder #Peter #Thiel has donated 👉$3m to a California lobbying group advocating AGAINST a proposed wealth tax that would target billionaires in the state.
The seven-figure contribution comes as several ultra-wealthy tech moguls have left or threatened to leave California over the tax.
Thiel, worth so…

Lee Enterprises stabilizes its finances as investors buy $50M in new stock, led by $35M invested by David Hoffmann, who will become chair of the company (Josh Funk/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/lee-enterprises-news…

I spent the last year migrating off of US billionaire controlled platforms and services. But there's very few clean ways and I am not 100% happy with all solutions. Might still make sense to make a short post on what I went for and why

Xu Bo, a Chinese billionaire, was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children,
and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more
—all through surrogates.
When called in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023,
he never entered the courtroom, according to people who attended the hearing.
The maker of fantasy videogames lived in China and appeared via video, speaking …

Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27, show Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a "side show", more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/863319/highlights-musk-v-altman-open…

Billionaire Larry Ellison,
the largest shareholder of Paramount,
often speaks to connections at the White House but, in at least one of the calls,
engaged in a dialogue about possibly firing CNN hosts whom Donald Trump is said to loathe, including Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar.
Senior White House officials have discussed internally their preference for Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery in recent weeks,
and one official has discussed potentia…

Sources: Binance has been exploring ways to reboot its Binance.US affiliate, including a recapitalization to cut CZ's stake, which is a hurdle to expansion (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/binan…

Donald Trump acknowledged that he informed oil companies about his plans to attack Venezuela and abduct its leader
-- despite not bothering to notify Congress.
Speaking aboard Air Force One on Sunday, the billionaire president told reporters that he talked to oil companies “before and after” the attack,
describing them as crucial to “fix the infrastructure” in the South American country after the capture

Sources: WBD chose Netflix partly fearing limited recourse if Paramount's bid failed, since Larry Ellison has not provided a personal guarantee (Lauren Hirsch/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/business/paramount-warner-bros-netflix-dea…

Make America Trumpless Again
(and remove all the Republicans and their Billionaire masters from power)
#USPolitics

I have never voted for a capitalist or their party, and I never will, not on a burning planet ruled by billionaire nazis. So don’t bother asking; the answer will always be no.

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115838050969984568
Since there was some interest: Here's what I did last year to Exit the billionaire castles:

Renewables: the only source of energy that actually is too cheap to meter. And that is why Trump, the Republicans and their Billionaire bosses want to make sure renewables are at least slowed down if not stopped.… See more https://polyglot.city/@carbsrule_en/115487780310346171

Trump relaxes Venezuelan oil embargo, benefiting MAGA billionaire (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/update-trump-relaxes-venezuelan-oil
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p45#a260108p45

Farage insists Thai-based crypto billionaire wants nothing in return for £9m donation to Reform UK
The Reform UK leader promoted the cryptocurrency company which Christopher Harborne holds shares in
– one month after receiving a record donation for the party
https://www…

Tech Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen has long criticized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
— calling it an impediment to fintech and crypto companies. 
Andreessen’s investment firm (Andreessen Horowitz aka A16Z) backed many fintech/crypto players that were under CFPB scrutiny,
Under the Trump administration, the CFPB’s enforcement efforts were sharply scaled back:
investigations suspended,
consumer-protection rule-makings shelved,
and …

The "People Over Billionaires" March Tours San Francisco's Ritziest Neighborhood
Activists assembled in Alta Plaza Park, San Francisco's billionaire epicenter, on November 15
for a rally and march to demand,
"housing, healthcare, and food for all," from the ultra-wealthy.
During the rally,
Socialists and Communists set up literature tables,
and people distributed kits containing a whistle and ICE reporting instructions.

Sources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies (Jake Pearson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-vall…

Inside the billionaire network shaping MAGA's post-Trump future (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/04/chris-buskirk-maga-vance-post-trump/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYyMjMyNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzYzNjE0Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjIyMzI0MDAsImp0aSI6Ijk5YWZhMmE5LTZhYWEtNGE3NC1iMWMxLTUxNjUzMmZmOWJkMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjUvMTEvMDQvY2hyaXMtYnVza2lyay1tYWdhLXZhbmNlLXBvc3QtdHJ1bXAvIn0.Nk3INROYmwwt16HaHUNQ_iWxt9l3u1o1G7ZftWlMiH4&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p37#a251104p37

Vienna,
the billionaire #RonaldLauder
and the Greenland policy of the Trump administration.
What do they have to do with each other?
A note in the online regional newspaper #zwischenbrücken
At the time, Lauder was more likely to speak of a purchase of Greenland, the New Y…

It's Hakeem Jeffries. I’m about to let you in on what’s going on behind the scenes.
𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧: Republicans raised a record-breaking $36 million to keep control of the House.
𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡: They used that massive war chest to launch attacks against 25 swing-seat Democrats. 
𝗡𝗢𝗪: The latest polls show a neck-and-neck race for the House majority.
Republicans and their billionaire donors think they can buy this election. We’re here to prove them absolutely wrong.
I’m launchi…

Billionaire tech advisers overcame a MAGA rebellion over AI in the Trump Whitehouse
A power struggle over the future of technology is playing out inside the administration,
as officials confront high-stakes decisions that touch everything
from national security and jobs
to online safety for children.

Michael and Susan Dell say they will deposit $250 in individual investment accounts for 25M kids, totaling $6.25B, comparing the gift to Dell's direct model (Nicholas Kulish/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/business/dell-children-trump-acco…

Billionaires are spending massive sums on politics. A backlash brews.
Christina Persson,
a 55-year-old English teacher in a small town of just over 2,600 people,
is fed up with billionaires.

In May, during the debate over Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,”
she spearheaded a move to erect a billboard reading,
“Tax breaks for billionaires. CUTS for everyone else.”

Two months later, she set up shop at the county fair and sold
“Eat the Rich” ice c…

Europe’s populist worries will intensify today
when right-wing billionaire Andrej Babiš becomes Czech prime minister.
Combined with Hungary’s Viktor Orbšn and Slovakia’s Robert Fico,
Babiš has the potential to jam up the legislative machinery in Brussels as it works on key files.
Czech President Petr Pavel is set to appoint Babiš to the position
after resolvinglongstanding conflict-of-interest issues related to the PM-elect’s conglomerate, Agrofert.
Babiš…

Marc Andreessen is one of America’s most well-known investors and an outsize figure in the so-called fintech industry.
His firm seeded eight companies since 2016 that landed in the crosshairs of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
-- the small watchdog agency that Congress created after the 2008 financial crisis to protect vulnerable consumers from exploitation.
Some of those inquiries have resulted in consent orders, fines and, for one company, a lifetime industry ba…

Think of this as a good place to start
— for you and your loved ones
— to expand your knowledge of indie news outlets
who are more deserving of your time and money than corporate, billionaire-owned media.
And feel free to add your suggestions in the comments.
https://www.thehandbask…

Think of this as a good place to start
— for you and your loved ones
— to expand your knowledge of indie news outlets
who are more deserving of your time and money than corporate, billionaire-owned media.
And feel free to add your suggestions in the comments.
https://www.thehandbaske…

Money has always distorted U.S. politics,
but the current Trump regime has entered new territory with
🔥an unabashed pay-to-play setup that’s stuffing the president’s political coffers
while enriching him and his family.
💥Donald Trump’s coldly transactional dealings have been on full display
as he’s tapped billionaire allies and major corporations
to shower his administration with donations to pay for his latest vanity project:
a 90,000-square-foot, $…

Demolition of the East Wing,
which once housed the first lady’s office,
began in October.
Trump has said the new ballroom will be 90,000 square feet and hold 1,000 people,
a complex that will be much larger than the main White House building,
which is about 55,000 square feet.
Cost estimates for the ballroom project have ballooned from $200 million to as much as $350 million.
Wealthy individuals and corporate donors — including billionaire Steve Sc…

California is considering a new tax initiative aimed at billionaires, known as the
"2026 Billionaire Tax Act."
It seeks to impose a one-time 5% tax on individuals with a net worth exceeding $1 billion.
The tax would apply to approximately 200 billionaires residing in California
as of January 1, 2026.
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