@PaulWermer@sfba.social2024-05-01 11:52:08
Helpful assessment of a political problem I really hadn't recognized - and well worth thinking about as we try to improve the pipeline of candidates for Congress
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/opinion
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2024-05-01 11:52:08
@paulwermer@sfba.social2024-05-01 11:52:08
Helpful assessment of a political problem I really hadn't recognized - and well worth thinking about as we try to improve the pipeline of candidates for Congress
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/opinion
@benrosstransit@mastodon.social2024-03-01 14:00:55
Nimbyism in wealthy neighborhoods isn't a specifically left-wing problem #69347658. (If anything, it's more severe in right-wing areas.) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/us/poli
@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-02 04:16:05
Dec 14, 2023
The former 👉 head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office was
🔸 sentenced to just over four years in prison for
🔹working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch after leaving the government.
Charles McGonigal, a 22-year veteran of the FBI, pleaded guilty in August to one count of ♦️conspiracy to violate US sanctions and money laundering for working for Oleg Deripaska♦️ a wealthy Russian with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
@markhburton@mstdn.social2024-02-27 07:48:16
Tibet, China, and the violent reaction of a wealthy elite
https://www.historicly.net/p/tibet-china-and-the-violent-reaction
@paulwermer@sfba.social2024-02-29 23:05:37
An unsettling piece to read; describing a scary roadmap of how "conservatives" will get to a "Christian" state where the wealthy do well:
What I Learned When I Read 887 Pages of Plans for Trump’s Second Term https://www.nytimes.com…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2024-02-29 23:05:37
An unsettling piece to read; describing a scary roadmap of how "conservatives" will get to a "Christian" state where the wealthy do well:
What I Learned When I Read 887 Pages of Plans for Trump’s Second Term https://www.nytimes.com…
@spamless@mastodon.social2024-03-18 23:36:26
How Wealthy Investors Got Rich Looting America's Needy Hospitals
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-wealthy-investors-got-rich-looting-needy-hospitals-healthcare-system-2024-3?utm_medium=email
@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-04-01 08:46:07
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06320 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…
@servelan@newsie.social2024-03-21 15:19:33
'Authoritarianism is bad for business': Morning Joe panel warns wealthy Trump donors - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-crony-capitalist/
@drahardja@sfba.social2024-02-26 06:46:59
Content warning: dark musings
Sometimes I wonder how much more money I would have made if I had decided to treat business as a purely abstract way to maximize profits instead of a flawed and exploitive system that consumes the lives and wellbeing of other humans, one that must constantly be fought with humanizing regulation.
The temptation to be cruel and exploitive is strong. Most wealthy figures in tech are near-psychopathic in their ruthlessness for exploiting the bodies and minds of workers for profit. Sometime…
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.ca2024-04-19 02:53:40
Wealthy Canadians demand the Liberals also raise taxes on the capital gains of the poor
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/04/wealthy-canadians-demand-the-liberals-also-raise-taxes-on-the-capital-gains-of-…
@UP8@mastodon.social2024-04-05 20:21:49
🚼 The wealthy are starting to have more babies than the poor again
#demographics
@Give_A_Damn@newsie.social2024-03-12 12:54:16
The plundering of America's hospitals
When hospitals sold off their land, investors got rich. Patients paid the price.
by Bethany McLean
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-wealthy-investors-got-rich-l…
@blakes7bot@botsin.space2024-04-26 11:59:31
Series A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
MANDRIAN: There are plenty of ready markets for the neutrotope. If it was stolen and sold, a man could be wealthy beyond - beyond imagining. That thing is a temptation even for those of us with our homes, families, and lives at stake. You have nothing at stake, nothing to lose.
AVON: It is frequently easier to be honest when you have nothing to lose.
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/107/184 📺 B7B3
@spamless@mastodon.social2024-03-18 23:36:26
How Wealthy Investors Got Rich Looting America's Needy Hospitals
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-wealthy-investors-got-rich-looting-needy-hospitals-healthcare-system-2024-3?utm_medium=email
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2024-02-20 09:00:02
VR glasses as mechanism for the wealthy to escape the (to them) unpleasant realities of the world they created truly is probably the most relevant use case for those devices.
(Original title: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Augmented)
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/augmented-3
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2024-03-10 23:01:00
Democrats attack Senate GOP's wealthy "carpetbagger" candidates (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/10/senate-republicans-carpetbagger-wealthy
http://www.memeorandum.com/240310/p43#a240310p43
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2024-03-26 02:27:16
Yesterday, I finished reading Nevil Shute's Trustee from the Toolroom.
The wealthy characters are mostly cut from cardboard, but the normal characters have some personality. You don't have to understand the technical details of aviation and hobby model …
@cooljeaniusbot@botsin.space2024-02-28 07:23:03
KiwiFarms probably supports tax cuts for the wealthy, which is sycophantic
2024-03-27 12:53:16
@… being one $80 per month or so, in my country even a decently wealthy person wouldn't pay.
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange2024-02-22 16:27:35
Long but intriguing article about one more way the wealthy will continue to insulate themselves from the choices they inflict on everyone else
https://newrepublic.com/article/178452/clean-air-rich-luxury-good
@benrosstransit@mastodon.social2024-03-27 01:26:41
New Florida law upends nimbyism masquerading as historic preservation along coastline. Truly historic/wealthy historic areas (Palm Beach, St Augustine, Key West, heart of Miami Beach) still preserved. https://www.
@gevoel@mastodon.green2024-03-20 14:16:23
Trump als marionet van een club christelijke witte rijke hetero mannen. Complot of complottheorie? https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/112128364159090445
@UP8@mastodon.social2024-02-25 19:54:26
🪚 Populism Belongs to the Left
#leftism
@pre@boing.world2024-04-19 10:22:27
re: #ukpol #sicknote
😡: There are too many people off sick. What can we do?
👿: We could give the NHS doctors the pay-restoration they've asked for so that they don't all quit?
😡: But how would that make our corporate sponsors more wealthy?
👿: Ah, good point. Perhaps we can give billions of pounds to Crapita and ask them to assess the sick?
😡: Brilliant! But they have no expertise on the issue and no prior knowledge of any of the patents.
👿: No problem, we'll just tell them to find half those assessed are lying malingerers, you don't need expertise to do that.
😡: Brilliant, call the press, I'll do an announcement.
@wmclark@publishing.social2024-02-19 11:56:45
Overlooked No More: Pierre Toussaint, Philanthropist and Candidate for Sainthood https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/obituaries/pierre-toussaint-overlooked.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&…
@servelan@newsie.social2024-04-04 02:50:09
How investment firms shield the ultrawealthy from the IRS - ICIJ
https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/04/how-investment-firms-shield-the-ultra-wealthy-from-the-irs/
@randombaywatch@mastodon.social2024-02-19 04:55:00
The Wealthy At The Club
#RichardRoat #JoanneHouse
Season 1 Episode 7 "The Drowning Pool"
#RandomBaywatch
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-07 06:07:06
Two billionaires, a wealthy election denier and a mysterious Russia-linked trust invested in the Trump company long before it went public.
#Marty #Davis, the wealthy Minnesota head of a kitchen countertop manufacturing company, is a steadfast supporter of Donald Trump.
He contributed hundreds of thousands of dol…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2024-04-27 23:44:33
I'm disappointed - We are in an election year, and I, like many, are frustrated by the ballot choices. I will hold my nose and vote #Democratic as the #GOP has demonstrated how much of a threat they pose to all but the wealthy - and how they will mobilize the rest with
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2024-04-27 23:44:33
I'm disappointed - We are in an election year, and I, like many, are frustrated by the ballot choices. I will hold my nose and vote #Democratic as the #GOP has demonstrated how much of a threat they pose to all but the wealthy - and how they will mobilize the rest with
@anneroth@systemli.social2024-03-08 01:09:13
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2024-02-11 19:45:34
Yeah, listening to RNZ - this person talking about the Ōtautahi Stadium (which will compete with the brand new, already under-utilised Convention Centre) is clearly willfully deluded in her claims about future usage. This stadium is a massive subsidy of the wealthy by the poorer majority (many of whom will never be able to afford to participate in stadium events). Such an utter crock of shit. More here:
@benrosstransit@mastodon.social2024-03-27 01:26:41
New Florida law upends nimbyism masquerading as historic preservation along coastline. Truly historic/wealthy historic areas (Palm Beach, St Augustine, Key West, heart of Miami Beach) still preserved. https://www.
@denmanrooke@social.coop2024-04-11 08:41:42
For those who don't know, & maybe only follow my art, I'm also an activist.
And, I've decided to run for Galway City Council this year.
I've just launched a GoFundMe for my campaign, and any little bit would help get me on the council fighting for workers as a socialist voice.
https://
@scott@carfree.city2024-03-10 05:40:50
Content warning:
District 5 is one of the most progressive in SF, soundly rejecting Prop E for example, so to have a shot at beating Dean Preston, Bilal Mahmood is going to try to downplay his wealthy backers' politics and cast himself as "the real progressive."
Expect this to involve absurdities, such as relying on a VC and buddy of Garry Tan who blocked most SF progressives on Twitter to vouch for Mahmood's progressiveness.
@jae@mastodon.me.uk2024-02-11 13:36:56
I saw a sign for The Kindness Games as I was driving today. It was in the style of The Hunger Games.
The problem with anti-bullying campaigns is they are either patronising or trying to capitalise on pop culture.
Until we root out racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, religious-induced bigotry and work on our unconscious biases we won’t be able to stop bullying with these campaigns.
Every day I deal with wealthy customers who are bigots to me because I’m trans. Who …
@servelan@newsie.social2024-04-04 02:50:09
How investment firms shield the ultrawealthy from the IRS - ICIJ
https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/04/how-investment-firms-shield-the-ultra-wealthy-from-the-irs/
@grumpybozo@toad.social2024-02-10 21:15:33
In an alternative timeline, I followed my father into Librarianship, am today insanely wealthy for having one good info-science idea in the 90’s, and am today quietly funding WikiCatalog, a free and open definitive aggregate catalog of all published works, destroying the commercial market.
I’m old enough that I remember #OCLC being the good guys.
@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-22 17:14:12
Hi, it's Jon Tester. One year ago today, I launched my reelection campaign for Montana’s Senate seat.
Since then, we’ve been named one of the most important races on the map, there’s over $80 million reserved in TV buys, and a wealthy out-of-stater has launched his campaign to defeat me.
Whew, a lot can change in a year.
We always knew this race would become Mitch McConnell’s top target, and now it’s time we kick it into high gear.
So a generous group of donors ha…
@gevoel@mastodon.green2024-03-20 14:16:23
Trump als marionet van een club christelijke witte rijke hetero mannen. Complot of complottheorie? https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/112128364159090445
@wyliesau@noauthority.social2024-03-08 12:37:46
@denmanrooke@mastodon.ie2024-04-11 08:33:45
I'm tired of the same old politics from Fine Gael, Fianna Fšil, and so called 'independents' in the Council.
Unlike other politicians I do not have the backing of business interests, landlords, or other wealthy donors, so I rely on small contributions from people like you.
@shuttle@mastodon.online2024-02-09 16:15:00
They hate me not because I’m wealthy
Not because I’m pretty
They hate me because I write rust
@arXiv_csMM_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-04-24 07:23:42
G3R: Generating Rich and Fine-grained mmWave Radar Data from 2D Videos for Generalized Gesture Recognition
Kaikai Deng, Dong Zhao, Wenxin Zheng, Yue Ling, Kangwen Yin, Huadong Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14934
@servelan@newsie.social2024-03-26 16:12:07
RFK Jr. Is Expected to Name Nicole Shanahan as His Vice-Presidential Pick - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/politics/rfk-jr-vice-president-nicole-shanahan.html
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2024-03-19 12:54:32
The very wealthy as job creators?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/19/bentley-profits-personalised-cars?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@paulwermer@sfba.social2024-03-19 12:54:32
The very wealthy as job creators?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/19/bentley-profits-personalised-cars?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@josemurilo@mato.social2024-02-04 00:54:55
[Bad]"#journalism is a direct reflection of billionaire media owners who don’t want to offend sources, advertisers, or sponsors with bold, truth-telling journalism.
…you get a simulacrum that fails to critique wealth, corruption, or power with any real consistency, since the wealthy owners very obviously don’t want that."
@drahardja@sfba.social2024-04-13 19:18:35
The rampant pillaging and straight-up “appropriation” of human-generated training data from the Internet—without compensation—is a hallmark of many of today’s #AI giants. Now that they are starting to step on some wealthy toes, I think litigation is about to smack them down hard this year. NYTimes got a head start; who’s next?
“YouTube CEO warns OpenAI that training models on its videos is against …
@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-15 23:21:46
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2024-03-11 23:10:58
Biden proposes tax increase on fuel for private jets, casting it as making wealthy pay their share (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/fuel-tax-business-jets-biden-budget-aefab96e0479ac174d624374f30a5870
http://www.memeorandum.com/240311/p78#a240311p78
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2024-03-03 16:24:47
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2024-03-07 19:21:15
Content warning: NZPol
Seems to me that the only likely purpose of the gov't's cuts to the public service is to soften them up for 'PPP's (Public Private Partnerships) with the eventual aim of making all public property privately owned (by the very few very wealthy people who funded all 3 parties' campaigns).
They are privatising commonly owned public resources, so 99% of us can be precarious sharecroppers in our own country.
@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-22 16:39:35
The nation’s millionaires and billionaires are evading more than $150 billion a year in taxes, according to the head of the Internal Revenue Service.
The IRS, with billion of dollars in new funding from Congress, has launched a sweeping crackdown on wealthy taxpayers, partnerships and large companies.
“We have to make investments to make sure that whether you’re a complicated filer who can afford to hire an army of lawyers and accountants, or a more simple filer who has one i…
@wyliesau@noauthority.social2024-03-08 12:37:46
@UP8@mastodon.social2024-04-19 12:20:21
💥 California's wealthiest farm family — and scores of their workers — accuse UFW of bait and trick
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-05/wonderful-accuses-ufw-of-fraudulent-tactics-in-kern…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-21 04:20:05
Leonard Leo, the wealthy neo-conservative Catholic puppet master.
Leo has funded 60 of over 80 #Project2025 initial advisory groups,
including over half the Advisory Board in 2022,
using hard-to-track dark money.
Leo's world is a tight knit, overlapping network of friends, Christian Right activists,
and GOP lawyers at The
@shuttle@mastodon.online2024-02-09 16:15:00
They hate me not because I’m wealthy
Not because I’m pretty
They hate me because I write rust
@wmclark@publishing.social2024-02-05 03:36:52
Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs | Paris | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/04/parisians-vote-in-favour-of-tripling-parking-costs-for-suvs
@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-04-23 07:07:11
The benefits and costs of agglomeration: insights from economics and complexity
Andres Gomez-Lievano, Michail Fragkias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13178 htt…
@servelan@newsie.social2024-03-20 21:52:01
Fox News host Mark Levin Demands to Know Why Republican Billionaires Aren't Willing to Post Trump's Bond
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/mark-levin-demands-to-know-why-republican…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-22 00:32:11
@… @…
Forgive us our trespasses: forbidden rambles with a right-to-roam campaigner
England is still owned by a relatively small number of wealthy individuals and institutions: by the law of trespass, w…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-20 20:16:37
Bischof and her colleagues have developed a course for doctors interested in longevity medicine.
In theory, anyone with a computer can take the course, but it has been accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education,
which means that doctors who take the course earn credits that support their continued medical education in the US
— something that is required by some medical employers.
And it is already being implemented in four medical schools,…
@servelan@newsie.social2024-03-20 16:49:39
Donald Trump may not pay bond — and instead let Letitia James seize Trump Tower: insiders
https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/business/donald-trump-may-not-pay-bond-and-instead-let-letitia-james-seize-trump-t…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2024-03-16 16:00:00
"Polluting private jets could face a 400% fuel tax increase under new Biden proposal"
#US #USA #America #PrivateJets
@UP8@mastodon.social2024-03-14 22:05:27
🗳️ The Plutocratic Plan to Remake Colorado Elections
#politics
@cooljeaniusbot@botsin.space2024-03-16 16:20:19
It would be craven for CPAC to (continue to) push for tax cuts for the wealthy
@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-18 19:31:16
Whenever a new scam makes headlines, it’s not uncommon to hear people ask,
“How did anyone fall for this?”
This may be easy to say in hindsight.
But even when a con is outrageous—or downright obvious—unsuspecting targets keep getting duped, from wealthy individuals to government officials to experienced journalists.
@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-18 19:31:16
Whenever a new scam makes headlines, it’s not uncommon to hear people ask,
“How did anyone fall for this?”
This may be easy to say in hindsight.
But even when a con is outrageous—or downright obvious—unsuspecting targets keep getting duped, from wealthy individuals to government officials to experienced journalists.
@servelan@newsie.social2024-04-14 17:23:00
Because "Business requires the rule of law"
Tax cuts for the rich are a bad deal for corporate elites—and everyone else
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/14/2234715/-Tax-cuts-for-…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-17 01:37:27
Leonard Leo is not a household name in these United States,
unless you reside in the household of a conservative billionaire
or a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS).
Then you would be aware that Leo is one of the most influential individuals in the country,
who has been remarkably successful in serving as a
matchmaker between conservative justices and fabulously wealthy conservative Americans.
He’s forged a convenient marriage of monetary power w…
@cooljeaniusbot@botsin.space2024-03-13 10:24:34
we should protest against tax cuts for the wealthy
@lilmikesf@c.im2024-02-09 23:37:17
@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-16 20:28:08
With just days to go before the Ohio Republican primary election, the three-way Republican Senate primary race in Ohio has turned into a food fight, fueling concerns about former President Donald J. Trump’s favored candidate, Bernie Moreno.
The contest on Tuesday to decide who will face Senator Sherrod Brown has been contentious for months, with Mr. #Moreno, a wealthy former car dealer who has never h…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-11 03:51:52
Consider the possibility that the hyper-wealthy, ensconced in a world of luxury and privilege, might actually be more racist than the fanny pack crowd sitting in the cheap seats at a Trump rally.
Certainly, Donald Trump thinks as much and indicated so at a recent fundraiser in Palm Beach, Florida.
As reported by the New York Times, the event was held at the home of the billionaire financier #John…
@servelan@newsie.social2024-02-03 02:11:58
Grassroots Co-Sponsor of the Public Banking Act Now!
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tows-banking-act
@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-13 01:49:33
Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’
Since 2022, political groups like Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, GrowSF, and TogetherSF Action have raised millions to influence political battles — and they have won several major victories.
In large part, their war chests are funded by extremely wealthy individuals with interests in tech or real estate.
The groups share many of the same donors and support many of the sa…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-13 01:49:33
Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’
Since 2022, political groups like Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, GrowSF, and TogetherSF Action have raised millions to influence political battles — and they have won several major victories.
In large part, their war chests are funded by extremely wealthy individuals with interests in tech or real estate.
The groups share many of the same donors and support many of the sa…
@cooljeaniusbot@botsin.space2024-02-05 01:20:18
Full Republican control of government would make tax cuts for the wealthy more likely to be enacted, which would be stomach-churning.
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-12 23:12:25
It's Gay Valimont- the only Democrat running against Matt Gaetz.
Make no mistake- Gaetz and Trump are in this together.
For Trump to achieve his radical MAGA dream
- banning abortion nationwide, destroying DEI programs, allowing gun violence to run rampant, and for the wealthy Christians to control everything,
Trump doesn't just need to be president, he needs congress to be stacked with MAGA loyalists.
And that's their plan.
Even in Florida, Ga…
@lilmikesf@c.im2024-02-09 23:37:17
@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-07 16:12:37
@cooljeaniusbot@botsin.space2024-02-06 15:20:28
If you say "badpolicy" (case-sensitive!) to me I'll try to reply w/a policy I consider bad, for example, "tax cuts for the wealthy" (or something)
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-07 01:45:29
These billionaires abandoned Trump after Jan. 6.
Taxes are bringing them back in line
One thread runs through much of the wealthy opposition to the president: #taxes.
💥“At the end of 2025, on Dec. 31, all of the individual tax provisions of the 2017 tax bill will expire,” 💥said Howard Gleckman of Washington’s Tax Policy Center.
That includes some popular provisions such as the high…
@denmanrooke@mastodon.ie2024-04-11 08:33:28
I've officially launched my campaign fund for the local elections! #LE2024
As a socialist I will fight for workers & ordinary people in Galway City Council. It's time we had a voice for people instead of the private interests of landlords & the wealthy.
#Galway #Ireland #LE2024 #PeopleBeforeProfit #Socialism #EcoSocialism
@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-08 03:06:35