Trump hosts awards party for tech billionaires, almost as if he doesn’t care about ordinary Americans

Amid a cost-of-living crisis, with US midterms a month away, the president held a ceremony to celebrate our tech overlords – again

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/08/trump-awards-party-tech-billionaires 

 

Tommy Vietor on Abdul El-Sayed's Interview with Martha MacCallum

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xIQaB-GGRFE

South Park DESTROYS Trump, MAGA, Billionaires and Data Centers in BRUTAL new episode

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YN1pYEietI

 

'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics' (Tonya Mosley, Fresh Air podcast)

Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place.

"My book is about a cult of Silicon Valley billionaires who believe that in the 21st century, technology will make democracy obsolete. And it goes back a few decades. In 1997, if you want to know the full root of it, there was a book that came out called The Sovereign Individual that predicted that in the 21st century, technology would result in the end of democracy and nation states like the United States. Specifically, the book said that two technologies - one, something called cybercurrency, which we would today consider crypto, and another called advanced automation, which is basically AI - would collapse the economy and thereby the government itself and would lead to the rise of a new cognitive elite, these sovereign individuals, wealthy individuals who, by making the right investments and the right moves, would be able to profit from the destruction of the United States and other democratic nation states."   

Interview: 

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/10/nx-s1-5925350/the-nerd-reich-tracks-the-unmasking-of-silicon-valleys-true-politics

Auchter's Art: Class in politics

“It did occur to me to make Elon Musk the guy in the cartoon. After all, the newly minted trillionaire is very much the poster child for an absurd concentration of wealth leading to an absurd concentration of power. 

 But I thought that would be letting all the other tech-bro billionaires off the hook. And there are plenty of them out there rigging systems, undermining democratic principles, and aligning with political authoritarians to spread fear so they can further concentrate their wealth and power...”

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/opinion/2026-07-10/auchters-art-class-in-politics

 

Billionaires Know Just How They Want Supreme Court Justices to Rule—and Are Spending Big to Tell Them – Mother Jones

As Jackson warned, it’s hard to view it as a coincidence that a Supreme Court majority built on fossil fuel money went out of its way to help the industry. Indeed, the case is emblematic of a broader distortion of American law. Billionaires and the industries they run have a well-monied thumb on the scales of justice, an oligarchic influence operation that, among other tactics, funds a flood of amici to push the justices toward a preferred outcome…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/supreme-court-amicus-briefs-investigation/ 

 

US activists plan May Day economic blackout: ‘No school, no work, no shopping’

…in protest of government policies they say put billionaires’ needs above those of workers…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/may-day-economic-blackout

 

James Talarico CALLS OUT GOP opponent for his billionaire tax cuts

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lmKXDSKeUn8

 

I will genuinely never understand. The more money I make, the more money...

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-dzJQqARXds

Tax day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it

The idea that billionaires should pay higher tax rates than working people is not radical. What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship – and where those billionaires can in effect opt out of contributing to the society that made their success possible…

 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/15/tax-day-united-states-unequal-taxation 

The billionaires controlling the Republican Party need the SAVE Act.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k2DyPE2MR5w

 

Sanders and Newsom clash over proposed tax on California's billionaires | PBS News

Newsom has long opposed state-level wealth taxes, believing such levies would be disadvantageous for the world's fourth-largest economy. At a time when California is strapped for cash and he is considering a 2028 presidential run, he is trying to block the proposal before it reaches the ballot. 

Analysts say an exodus of billionaires could mean a loss of hundreds of millions of tax dollars for the nation's most populous state. But supporters say the funding is needed to offset federal cuts that could leave many Californians without vital services...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sanders-and-newsom-clash-over-proposed-tax-on-californias-billionaires 

 

'This is INSANITY': Joe slams WH talk of invading Greenland

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9wknmuU6wLw

 

Why Billionaires Want You To Be "Christian" Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8swSkk9yeV8

 

The True Cost of Trump’s Gilded Ballroom

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9HF0VztdQlY

 

The REAL reason everything sucks now

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MYEAK-Uh-fo

 

Billionaires Losing Privilege Is Not the Same as Being Poor

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AOJuzUznnk4

 

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report

Meanwhile, over 40% of the US population, including nearly 50% of children, are considered low-income, with family earnings that are less than 200% of the national poverty line. 

When pitting the US against 38 other higher-income countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the US has the highest rate of relative poverty, second-highest rate of child poverty and infant mortality, and the second-lowest life expectancy rate...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/03/wealth-billionaires-increase-trump

Trump and GOP troll their supporters by flaunting their corruption and wealth on Halloween

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtvf8IkWB_g

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam

Exclusive: Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world's poorest 10%…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/americas-super-rich-running-down-planet-safe-climate-spaces-oxfam