As billionaires’ wealth soars, US workers struggle: ‘The rich keep getting richer for no good reason’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/billionaires-wealth-soars-as-workers-struggle

> Ultrarich face backlash as billionaire tax in California makes it to the ballot and Americans organize for higher wages

#capitalism #USA #uspol #taxTheRich #eatTheRich

'Under Cover of Night,' #GOP Unveils Plan to Kick Over 8 Million Off Medicaid

"This bill confirms what we've been saying all along: #Trump and #Republicans have been lying when they claim they aren't going to cut #Medicaid and take away people's #healthcare."

Jake Johnson
May 12, 2025

"House Republicans late Sunday unveiled legislation that analysts said would rip Medicaid coverage from millions of low-income Americans—including children and people with disabilities—to help fund #TaxBreaks that would disproportionately benefit the #wealthy."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/republican-medicaid-bill-text

#KillThePoor #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #CompostTheRich #MedicaidCuts #CapitalismKills #DisabilityServices #GOPAreMurderers #MAGADeathCult #USPol #TrumpSucks #GOPThieves

Paul Krugman: "A Verdict on (the) Slaughter"

"It’s highly likely that a significant fraction of this rise reflects increased monopoly profits in an age of enshittification and the destruction of workers’ rights.

Now, thanks to the Supreme Court, trump can grant favors to the oligarchs free from legal restraint, as he completes his evisceration of the FTC, which is supposed to limit monopoly power, and the NLB, which is supposed to protect workers’ rights."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-verdict-on-the-slaughter
#UsPol
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Graph of rising profits as a share of national income

Paul Krugman: "A Verdict on (the) Slaughter"

"Why, then, give the Fed special treatment? Probably because the Court feared the market reaction if it allowed Trump to take immediate control. The WSJ editorial openly acknowledged this concern.

Evidently, the Journal editorial board thinks it is only the little people who will be victims of Trump’s destruction of America’s regulatory institutions, while those who have big stock portfolios will be A-okay."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-verdict-on-the-slaughter
#UsPol
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Jared Bernstein writes:

"Perhaps normal presidents would resist such temptations. But giving this president such carte blanche is crazy. Name one firing or removal he’s made or attempted to make that was motivated by anything other than personal retribution, prejudice (it is not a coincidence that Lisa Cook is a Black woman), or personal greed."

https://econjared.substack.com/p/the-scotus-protects-fed-independence
#UsPol #SCOTUS
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"DOGE Cut Off Small Town America’s 250th Birthday Money

Then Trump redirected the money for his own beautification projects."

Anna Kramer for Notus

#news #uspol #politics #trump

https://www.notus.org/agencies/doge-cut-small-town-america-250th-funding

Where are the #Epstein files?

https://www.jezebel.com/jane-doe-who-was-allegedly-abused-by-trump-as-a-minor-has-been-living-in-fear-new-report-says

#USPol

"Ethnic Cleansing 3.0: How Israel Became the Transfer State"

"After the successful cleansings of 1948 & 1967, the next stage of the Zionist enterprise... has arrived. Everything is going according to the phased plan."

Israel is something worse than an apartheid state; "it is a transfer state. Apartheid in South Africa never intended to clear the country of its indigenous inhabitants. Israeli apartheid does."

Haaretz: https://archive.is/jnt9b

#USPol #EUPol #palestine #IsraelTransferState .

Trump’s most recent financial disclosure reveals more than $1.4 billion in income from his crypto-related ventures alone, and even that’s an incomplete picture.

https://www.citationneeded.news/trumps-crypto-disclosure/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

Wow! So #AmyBarrett went against #Traitors #ImpeachClarenceThomas #ImpeachSamuelAlito and #ImpeachBrettKavanaugh ! And now the #MAGA scum are losing their freakin' minds. GOOD! Can we send #MAGAScum to #Mars with #ElonSucks ? Puh-lease?!

MAGA is outraged over birthright ruling. Are drastic steps coming?

Story by Zac Anderson, July 1, 2026

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maga-is-outraged-over-birthright-ruling-are-drastic-steps-coming/ar-AA26Zv64?

#USPol #SCOTUS #14thAmendment #SCOTUSIsCompromised

This post was made on Instagram on June 30th. The date of the 911 call was June 14th, Trump's birthday 😂

Has anyone seen or heard anything about #MitchMcConnell during the past 2 weeks?

#USPOL #Corruption #Resist

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This is an image of what appears to be the U.S. Capitol building as background for the audio recording being played. The text over the image reads: Desiree Townsend (assumed to be the 911 operator) time and date stamp - 8:36 a.m. June 14, 2026 Senator Mitch McConnell found unconscious, according to emergency dispatch audio.

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The same image of the capitol building from instagram account: cheering4change Text reads: This emergency dispatch recording was obtained from Washington, D.C. fired and EMS dispatch and captures the call on June 14, 2026 at 8:36 a.m. requesting an Advanced Life Support (ALS) response after Senator Mitch McConnell was reported unconscious. According to the dispatch, paramedics were sent to the Senator's residence near Capitol Hill.

"Trump🚨is profiting from #ICE concentration camps. "The FIN disclosure also highlights Trump's involvement in other ventures, such as buying & selling stock in GEO Group, a private prison co."

Inst investors🚨must DIVEST from $GEO."
-NL Sterns

Trump🚨made sigif investments in the #GEOGroup shortly after his inauguration, with purchases ranging from $143K to $445K.🚨These investments coincided with an increase in IMM detainees from 35K to nearly 70K.
#DHS #DeathCamps #USPol
https://700wlw.iheart.com/content/2026-07-01-trump-made-millions-from-crypto/

Next up, REM's #RadioFreeEurope! Their first single, released in 1981

"Beside yourself if radio's gonna stay
Reason, it could polish up the gray
Put that, put that, put that up your wall
That this isn't country at all"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac0oaXhz1u8

#80sMusic #RevolutionDanceParty #Authoritarianism #USPol #TrumpSucks #BadDOGE #REM #FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightMusic #MusicVideos #FridayNightVideos #JukeboxFridayNight

"Exhuming McCarthy
(Meet me at the book burning)"

- #REM, 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZDGkqXCkSA

#McCarthyism #Censorship #Fascism #USPol #MusicVideos #SignOfTheTimes

Heh. I always thought #KateBush was singing, #RooseveltBelieved. I guess it was "Rosabel believed." But still, "I want this man to go away now..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN7Nse-eIIY

#Houdini #TrumpSucks #USPol

Well, if he's talking to dead presidents, maybe he's on the threshold himself? 🤷🏼 Or did he do a seance (sue-ance?) with #Houdini?

Trump baffles with bizarre claim he had a conversation with #TeddyRoosevelt

Nicole Charky-Chami
July 1, 2026

"President Donald Trump stunned the internet on Wednesday when he talked about how he chatted with long-dead former President Teddy Roosevelt."

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-theodore-roosevelt/

#USPol #DeadPresidents #ISeeDeadPeople #RooseveltBelieved

More of this, please...!

#Socialist Momentum Grows as #MelatKiros Wins in Denver
A #DemocraticSocialist who lost her job for speaking out about #Gaza unseated a 29-year incumbent.

by Akela Lacy
July 1 2026, 12:09 a.m. ET

"#Leftists toppled a three-decade incumbent they’d made the face of the Democratic Party’s failures on Tuesday in Denver amid an #AntiEstablishment wave that has powered #progressive and #socialist midterm victories across the country.

"Voters chose democratic socialist Melat Kiros, an attorney who lost her job for condemning her industry’s silence on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, ahead of longtime Rep. Diana DeGette, a Democrat representing Denver who touted progressive positions on domestic issues but drew criticism that she had grown complacent over three decades in Congress and generally followed the party line on support for Israel.

"DeGette’s defeat in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District brought more bad news for Democratic incumbents reeling after losses in New York last week. Party leaders are facing a surge in public frustration with their brand and a cascade of voters who say they don’t wield power effectively. Though some Democratic leaders have discounted those races and claimed that the ascendant candidates’ vision is out of step with the party’s base, leftists and progressives are continuing to notch wins under their noses as they take the battle over the future of the Democratic Party to the polls.

" 'In the last week, we have taken out 40 years of incumbency,' said #UsamahAndrabi, spokesperson for #JusticeDemocrats, which backed Kiros and two of the candidates who won in New York.

"Members of the #DemocraticEstablishment 'hate that they can no longer simply spend unlimited sums of money to buy a seat in Congress, and we are truly proving that organized people power and mass movements can beat the money,' he said. 'We’re just having an amazing fucking cycle.'

"Kiros, who will face Republican Christy Peterson in November, is heavily favored to win in the solid Democratic district."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/07/01/colorado-primary-results-midterms-socialists-kiros-degette/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/uLQeV

#USPol #DSA #BeatTheMoney #PeopleHaveThePower #2026Elections #USElections

They look for a scapegoat as a way out. Fascism is always ready to provide one. In its bid for power, it is ready to drive wedges that will disunite the people and weaken the nation. It supplies the scapegoat — Catholics, Jews, Negroes, labor unions, big business — any group upon which the insecure and unemployed can be brought to pin the blame for their misfortune.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

Mad King is Mad.

But there's the non-zero possibility his aides are dressing up as dead Presidents to amuse him...

#USPol #USPolitics #Trump #TeddyRoosevelt #25thAmendment

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Aaron Rupar © @atrupar.com Trump: "I even had a conversation with Theodore Roosevelt. | said, "What do you think about the Panama Canal? Do you consider that your greatest achievement and how do you feel about the fact that the Democrats gave the Panama Canal away to Panama for $12"

Sports theory, politics: #usPol
The reason Nazis separate boys and girls to play sports is because they want to enforce a gender binary. The reason they want to enforce a gender binary is so boys can go on leadership pathways and girls can cook and clean. Because it's all for the boys. The boys will rule the girls and the boys will be ruled by an authoritarian, and the authoritarian with rule with powers given to him by god.

Unless the devil tricks voters and they elect a Democrat, of course

It's not just the #TrumpCrimeFamily, others in the #TrumpRegime are profiteering. They're on a treasonous crime spree:🚨"FBI Dir Patel failed to properly disclose a 6-fig purchase of stk in a bitcoin-fueled bus intelligence & mobile software co that's contracted with the DOJ.

Patel, who's regularly traded indiv stocks since becoming FBI dir,🚨purchased btw $100K & $250K worth of stock in MicroStrategy on Nov. 21 *didn't disclose the trade until May 26-."
#Corruption #USPol
https://www.notus.org/money/kash-patel-stock-act

Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building antenna. They are holding a banner that reads: “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace”
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3mpm32pioec2j
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From resistance team of US Natl Park Svc
500+ char posts not resent
Unaffiliated w/ AltNPS
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#AltNPS #Coup #Activism #NationalParkService #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump

"Trump Bought Hundreds of Stocks the Day Before He Paused Tariffs and Sparked a Historic Rally"

@donnydonny for @sludge

#news #uspol #trump #politics

https://readsludge.com/2026/07/01/trump-bought-hundreds-of-stocks-the-day-before-he-paused-tariffs-and-sparked-a-historic-rally/

RE: https://solarbird.net/blog/2026/07/01/today-tell-the-post-office-they-dont-get-to-throw-away-votes/

Tell the post office TODAY:

FUCK YOU, YOU DON'T THROW OUT OUR VOTES.

Which is the literal plan. They plan to refuse delivery of ballots unless states - which includes all Cascadian states - give Shitstain control of the voter list so he can edit it to win.

Even North Korea has elections. They even have three official political parties with representation.

They're just elections the Dear Leader can't lose.

Do this TODAY. Deadline's 2pm tomorrow our time, 5pm Eastern, and y'can't afford to forget. So do it _now_.

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA #FuckYouShitstain #Cascadia #CascadiaNow

A staunch Republican for 50 yrs,💙is now a Dem, & chiding centrist Dems for not welcoming DSAs. Are other Rs:🚨too: racist/greedy/fascist/Trumped-up to side with #humanity, the #law, #rights...?

B Kristol:⚡"The Dem estab & Dem centrists can wring their hands & complain about the results in CO.
Or they can learn a lesson:⚡Their repudiation was in lg part about their perceived unwillingness to stand up firmly & unhesitatingly to #Trump.
So start doing so!"

#Democrats #USPol
https://www.ms.now/news/democratic-socialists-dsa-primary-victories

TX Rs🚨are pushing their belief that certain ppl: white RW Christians: “real” Americans -means: 🚨everyone else deserves 2nd-class status. Forcing kids to read Bible pass' signals to anyone outside the white, evangelical tribe🚨*don’t belong➡️a grotesque violation of Am values of equality & freedom.

LIKELY TO BACKFIRE:🚨hope they➡️skip: assigned reading bc direct exposure to what the Bible actually says:⚡often the 1st step to walking away from #ChristianFundamentalism..
#USPol
https://www.salon.com/2026/07/01/texas-republicans-may-regret-mandating-bible-in-classes/

Rebecca Solnit on the state of the nation as the USA hits 250.

"I do not believe that Trump will destroy the US, but he has badly broken it, and what comes after has to include consequences for the criminals and a massive cleanup operation. There will be no return to how things were, and we must go ahead by fixing what allowed this destruction to happen."

"What is the United States of America now?"

#USpol #Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/01/what-is-the-united-states-of-america-now?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

"I say this as a fan" she said of the rapist and paedophile.

Well there's a quality person whose opinion should be valued!

Sick of these parasites 😡

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/i-say-this-as-a-true-fan-megyn-kelly-admits-she-cant-stand-trump-sons-grift/

#USPol #USPolitics #Trump #Corruption #MegynKelly

In our magazine, the latest from Texas Observer cartoonist Ben Sargent.

Read more from our July/August 2026 issue: https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/july-august-2026/

#SCOTUS #comics #racism #politics #USpol

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A burly Ku Klux Klan member in white robes with the signature red cross sits atop a heap of dirt marked The South, holding a noose in one hand and a copy of the Louisiana v. Callais decision of the United States Supreme Court. Next to him is a small crow, wearing a MAGA-red hat that's labelled "Jim." In big, evocative letters, the Klan member declares, "I'm Back Baby!!"

Not just #crypto deals: 🚨"#Trump racked up 10s of $Ms from fees & lic deals in new hotel, resort & condo deals overseas.🚨Many of those Cs were at the same time negotiating w the US over tariffs, military aid & other impt matters.

A property🚨in the UAE took in $10.4M; 1 in Saudi Arabia being built by a RE developer close to the ruling family sent his co $Ms +in Bucharest, RO, & another in QA each sent Trump $5M.

➕>$86M🚨from setlls with media & SM cos.
#Kleptocracy #USPol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/30/trump-1bn-crypto-businesses-2025?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Image of Trump at an event, with a blue backdrop displaying logos and text related to a coalition. He points confidently, and there are two eagle statues in the background. The text at the bottom indicates a news headline regarding significant earnings from cryptocurrency…

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The image features a tweet from Aaron Rupar discussing a financial disclosure regarding a substantial amount earned by Trump from cryptocurrency. It includes a video still of Trump interacting with individuals outside, with a luxury vehicle in the background. The text highlights Trump’s alleged lies…

#Trump🚨profits off the presidency: "More #Grift. Trump reported more than 21,000 trades across eight investment accounts in 2025,🚨averaging 80 trades per day, which revealed bursts of buying and selling around important announcements by companies and his regime, per FT.
-A Siskind
#MarketManipulation #InsiderTrading #Corruption #Kleptocracy 3Uprising #USPol

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Excerpt from FT on Trump's trading.

Of course he does.

Gov. #Abbott blasts Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship
#TXPol #USPol
https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2026-06-30/texas-birthright-citizenship-supreme-court

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1008867415365404

#uspol #palantir

NPR: He sent a harsh email to ICE's top official. 5 months later, federal agents tracked him down

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/01/nx-s1-5874124/dhs-tracks-ice-critic

#fascism #1stamendment #uspol

RE: https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/116840121327540309

This started nice and informative but then the 2nd half of the video devolves into shilling for GenAI. The dude even goes into how he used GenAI to "diagnose" a medical condition for himself. Absolute crazy talk. If you are not feeling well, seek professional medical advice!

This video and interview should have been cut in half. Sorry, Taylor, but I can't share this video with my friends and family.

There are reasonable ways that we can regulate GenAI that don't involve banning them outright. For example, how about holding them liable for their massive intellectual property (IP) theft? Or, how about holding them accountable for their delusions? Or, how about charging them their fair share for harming local utilities and environments?

GenAI enthusiasts contradictions:

- this technology needs proper human oversight
- this technology is great for people that don't know what they're doing

#AgeVerification #KidsAct #UsPol #GenAI #Regulation #Privacy #Censorship

"No doubt thinking they’re clever, the school board attached many of the required Bible passages to lesson plans for other books, such as requiring the Adam-and-Eve tale as supplementary reading for “The Scarlet Letter."

I've written on The Scarlet Letter (& thank god won't be subject to these curricular shennanigans) and would use Adam/Eve to show how the main characters are ALL Eve! Hawthorne booted Adam out of the story, aka long live the matriarchy!

https://www.salon.com/2026/07/01/texas-republicans-may-regret-mandating-bible-in-classes/

#USPol
#Books

Trump borrowed more than $50 million from Charles Schwab Bank last year.

But what we don't know—

💰️ why he needed the funds

💰️ how he used the funds

💰️ what assets he pledged as collateral

💰️ the exact amount he borrowed

💰️ when it's due

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@danalexander21 for Forbes

#trump #uspol #politics #news

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2026/06/30/trump-took-out-giant-mysterious-loan-last-year/

#Trump administration silent on Iranian school strike four months later

By Julia Frankel, July 1, 2026

"The Trump administration has yet to directly accept the blame or formally release findings of a Pentagon investigation into the bombing, even though the military possessed evidence almost immediately that the site of the school had been struck, a U.S. official with knowledge of the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss an ongoing investigation, told The Associated Press.

"The AP has reconstructed the story of the attack, beginning in the schoolyard on the morning of Feb. 28, drawing from open-source information, video footage, human rights reports and interviews with researchers and civilians inside and outside Iran to reveal previously unreported details about the bombing in #Minab, including the diversity of children killed."

https://apnews.com/article/iran-school-strike-baluch-trump-2a134a5c74d80db763db4c3eb6d0d847

#TrumpIsAWarCriminal #WarOnIran #TrumpSucks #WarCrimes #USPol #WorldPol

Yeah, I can think of two criminals that should be put away for a loooong time... One is #TrumpSucks, the other is #RJKJr! You were right @justbob , they want to lock up #Homeless people and a lot of other folks!

Trump’s actions signal a move toward institutionalizing people with disabilities, advocates warn

By ANNIE MA
Updated 12:12 AM EDT, July 1, 2026

Excerpt: "Meanwhile, following a #WhiteHouse push to police #homelessness, the Department of Justice released guidance that lowered the barrier to institutionalizing any person with a disability. "

https://apnews.com/article/trump-rfk-disability-autism-special-education-institutionalize-c6f064dcf4a1185d23cc5693f4b2df69?

#USPol #Disabilities #Unhoused #PrivatePrisons #Institutions #CharacteristicsOfFascism

CO AG Weiser⚡won the Dem primary race over Sen Bennet for governor, making Bennet the 1st sitting senator to lose a guv primary in 15 yrs.

Weiser tweaked Bennet🚨for voting to confirm 8 of Trump’s Cab mems. Bennet stood by his votes, except for EG Sec Wright -argued➡️support: nec to help the state secure fed resources.

Kiros’s victory⚡over the 15 term incumbent, D Degrett, for the Dem CO-01 primary, fuels nationwide exuberance of Democratic Socialists.
#Elections #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/01/voters-are-angry-with-washington-other-takeaways-colorado-primaries/

Democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeats 15-term incumbent in Colorado House primary

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/01/melat-kiros-democrat-defeats-diana-degette-blue-state-colarado-house-primary-denver?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#uspol

Avi Loeb has been appointed by the White House to head a new UFO council.

"His hand-picked team includes more than a dozen scientists and UFO activists. Among them is Timothy Gallaudet, a retired rear admiral who has warned about UAP controlled by "nonhuman intelligence," claiming the U.S. has recovered crashed aircraft. Also, Ben Lamm, a billionaire working to revive extinct species."

What did you expect from this anti-science, pro-grift White House?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/white-house-picks-harvard-professor-with-polarizing-alien-theories-to-lead-new-ufo-council
#UsPol
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@startswithabang/116842606811387084

Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel provides his unfiltered opinion of Avi Loeb.

"On those metrics, there is no better qualified astronomer in the country than Avi Loeb, who will no doubt find himself surrounded by like-minded individuals like Dr. Oz, Lee Zeldin, and RFK Jr. in the quest to destroy what remains of the American scientific enterprise entirely, and to replace it with Lysenko-esque policies that will lead to both long-term and short-term harm to all.”

https://fosstodon.org/@startswithabang@mastodon.social/116842606863256935
#UsPol
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It's terrifying that the birthright citizenship case was a 5-4 decision. Thought it might be 6-3 or maybe even 7-2. In a rational world, it would have been unanimous. #USpol #SCOTUS

trump made over $1.4 billion from crypto ventures last year.

His net worth has nearly TRIPLED, from $2.4 billion to $6.3 billion, since taking office.

trumps disclosure form is 927 pages long. By comparison, President Obama’s final disclosure form was 8 pages, while President Biden’s was 11.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/financial-disclosure-1-billion-cryptocurrency-earnings-meme-coins-rcna352497
#UsPol #Corruption
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Tweet by MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch 🚨 TRUMP’S FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE JUST DROPPED…AND IT’S WORSE THAN YOU THOUGHT. The U.S. Office of Government Ethics released Donald Trump’s 927-page financial disclosure today. Here’s what a sitting U.S. President made in 2025: 💰 $635 MILLION from the TRUMP memecoin, while retail investors watched it crash from $74 to $1.68 💰 $594 MILLION from World Liberty Financial token and stablecoin sales, a crypto venture co-founded with his own sons 💰 $65 MILLION from selling equity in that same company 💰 $80+ MILLION in media settlements from ABC, CBS, Meta, and YouTube, paid to his own presidential library Total crypto haul: over $1.4 BILLION. In one year. While serving as President of the United States. His net worth has nearly TRIPLED, from $2.4 billion to $6.3 billion, since taking office. And while Trump pocketed $1.4 billion from crypto, the everyday Americans who bought his memecoin? They lost. 764,000 wallets ended up in the red. This is the most corrupt presidency in American history. Period.

#JDVance #Couchfucker #USpol #USPolitics #NiceneCreed #Catholicism

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Cornopolous, Robespierre of the City State @cornopolous.bsky.s... - 6h The grocery list in my pocket is such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed Lasagnaless @lasagnaless.bsky.social - 4h In this house we need: Milk Eggs Butter Qs 26 Q 295 A a

MAGA Men with "St. Epiphanius of Salamis" tattooed across their chests...

#JDVance #Couchfucker #USPol #USPolitics #MAGA