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The FAA may cancel a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon and instead give it to Starlink, owned by Elon Musk, WaPo reports. This would be his latest opportunity to get richer off of taxpayers. Musk and his businesses have received $38 billion in federal contracts and subsidies.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them theonion.com/democratic-lea…

Pretty interesting that shit starts breaking after he got his hands on it and now the only thing that can fix it are his products

Devastating

Grateful for this beautiful article by Parul Sehgal discussing my and Astra Taylor’s work on solidarity nytimes.com/2025/03/15/mag…

We can debate if tariffs are good or bad, or this has been done poorly or well, but more people should be talking about the purpose of these tariffs: to create revenue by taxing the poor instead of the rich. This is their big ploy to cut taxes for the wealthy.

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg 2009: $2 billion 2025: $188 billion Wealth of Bottom 50%: $63 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2025: $7.25 Federal Tipped Minimum Wage 1991: $2.13 2025: $2.13 Mark Zuckerberg: "It's better to buy than compete." Break up Meta. Tax the rich.

Opposition is good politics.

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Rep. AOC has scorching criticism of Donald Trump, to a standing ovation: "Donald Trump is a criminal... If he wants to find the rapists and criminals in this country, he should look in the mirror."

Striking image, particularly in comparison with the massive enthusiastic crowds at Bernie/AOC rallies

Fighting is good, actually, and will be celebrated.

There are lots of misconceptions in the replies to Matthew Yglesias's post below. Will address some of them in this thread. 🧵

The House is preparing to vote next week on a resolution that would deem “Free Palestine” to be “an antisemitic slogan.” If anybody votes against this, they’ll say they voted to support the Colorado terrorist attack.

This is delusional

oh look you can actually change the importance of issues to votes through campaigning, who would have thought

Ezra is very smart but this theory of power strangely ignores power imbalances. It’s based on some kind of equivalence between business, unions, and non profits which is absurd. And it ignores media and propaganda.

The Democrats abundance-vs-populism fight is a dead end. The way forward is a synthesis: confront corporate power, redistribute economic gains, and build a state that delivers. It’s the New Deal and Great Society. What’s stopping us now? thenation.com/article/politi…

This is really bad