the day the pilot should have taken one for the team

Good ideas are popular, from @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/07/the-people-no-2/

Sanders Takes #Oligarchy Fight to Appalachia With Standing-Room-Only Crowd in #WestVirginia https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-fighting-oligarchy-tour-dates

It’s not just sexism; it’s systemic. Our society excuses abusers, forgets the victims, and feels bad for powerful men who face consequences. Listen to philosopher Kate Manne on Gaslit Nation: https://gaslitnation.libsyn.com/naming-the-rot-kate-manne-exposes-the-lies-holding-up-the-patriarchy

Sanders Takes #Oligarchy Fight to #Appalachia With Standing-Room-Only Crowd in #WestVirginia

"Whoever said West Virginia was a conservative state?" #BernieSanders asked the crowd in Wheeling. "Somebody got it wrong."

from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Aug 09, 2025

...some in the crowd sported red bandanas around their necks—a nod to the state's long history of labor organizing and the thousands of coal mine workers who formed a multiracial coalition in 1921 and marched wearing bandanas for the right to join a union with fair pay and safety protections.

"Fifteen million Americans, including 50,000 right here in West Virginia, are going to lose their healthcare," #Sanders said of the Medicaid cuts...

Seven hospitals are expected to shut down in the state as a result of the law's #Medicaid cuts, and 84,000 West Virginians will lose #SupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram benefits, according to estimates.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-fighting-oligarchy-tour-dates

“Trump’s trade war should be seen as part of a package of policies that amounts to class warfare — class warfare against middle and lower-income Americans in favor of the affluent, especially the top 10 percent of the income distribution.”

Instead of delivering on his promise of lower inflation for working class Americans, he lavishes more riches on the wealthy.
#Oligarchy #TaxTheRich #Inequality #Tariffs #Trumpcession #Stagflation #Kleptocracy #USPol
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-economics-of-smoot-hawley-20-cf7?triedRedirect=true

“Trump’s trade war should be seen as part of a package of policies that amounts to class warfare — class warfare against middle and lower-income Americans in favor of the affluent, especially the top 10 percent of the income distribution.”

Instead of delivering on his promise of lower inflation for working class Americans, he lavishes more riches on the wealthy.
#Oligarchy #TaxTheRich #Inequality #Tariffs #Trumpcession #Stagflation #Kleptocracy #USPol
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-economics-of-smoot-hawley-20-cf7?triedRedirect=true

We live in a sort of 2nd gilded age-the rich ever richer & #inequality on the rise. Trump said shortly after taking office: “We were at our richest from 1870-1913 -when we were a tariff C. Lutnick said about how much he pref things -when “we'd no income tax, & all we'd was #tariffs.”

Our govt is scheming how to Make America Gilded Again -missing from the show are the slums/factories/disease *few regs -not hard to see ourselves hurtling toward a crisis.
#Oligarchy #USPol https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/opinion/gilded-age-tv-finale-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dE8.__hs.09Ll8CNz18Os&smid=tw-share

"David Pecker, a longtime friend of Donald Trump and former publisher of The National Enquirer, helped BURY DAMAGING STORIES about Trump ahead of the 2016 'election'. Now, a NY attorney who aided the effort is speaking out in regret."

We need more than “regret,” these former Trump supporters must lead protests, boycotts, book appearances on all media outlets, to tell all…
#Oligarchy #Kleptocracy #Republicans #Fascism #Protest #USPol
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2673872051/

It is August 9th

PLEASE DO NOT SPEND TODAY

"On Aug 9, a grassroots advocacy group: The People's Union USA+is calling for Americans to put their wallets on lockdown. Don't spend a dime-unless it's absolutely nec. No online shopping/streaming/fast food/big-box store runs. If you must buy: support small, local bus' instead of the corp giants.

The organizers are encouraging people to take it a step further: organize peaceful protests ...
Participate, share !

MAGA turns on Trump & his loyalists in this explosive video.

Once in a while, #AI works for the good of society. Trump & his regime are torched. Please watch and share:
#TrumpRegime #Oligarchy #Kleptocracy #Plutocracy #Traitors #USPol
https://youtu.be/dbebXrdT8EY?si=t756_OwJYVK-IAKv

https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP101-Oligarchs.mp3
The Robber Barons - the first Oligarchs.
#history #Oligarchy

"On Aug 9, a grassroots advocacy group: The People’s Union USAis calling for Americans to put their wallets on lockdown. Don’t spend a dime—unless it’s absolutely nec. No online shopping/streaming/fast food/big-box store runs. If you must buy: support small, local bus' instead of the corp giants.

The organizers are encouraging people to take it a step further: organize peaceful protests...
Participate, share
#Boycott #Protest #Oligarchy #TrumpRegime #Kleptocracy #USPol
https://thegrayvine.com/threads/a-nationwide-economic-blackout-is-set-for-august-9%E2%80%94here%E2%80%99s-what-the-boycott-is-about.67398/

"How a Beltway Brain Trust Sells #Oligarchy to Liberals.

Abundance co-author Derek Thompson used slimy tacticsto protect wealth & power in America. He used #antitrust as a catch-all for ppl concerned about oligarchy & conc power, ref to the critics he's responding to as the “antitrust left/critics/housing folks.”

The neoliberal faction won’t go down easy or fight fair. They're terrified by Lina Khan's ideas, mayoral cand Mamdani winning young vot...
#Democrats #USPol https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-abundance-of-sleaze-how-a-beltway

Here, Elena Rossini explains Why and How she is purging #BigTech out of her life. While she readily admits she is not totally free of it, she has gone a long way. She has a blog where she talks about her journey to #Freedom from #Technofeudalism and calls out the hypocracy of some #TechWriters along the way。

“I watched a brilliant TED Talk by journalist Carole Cadwalladr about the broligarchy titled “this is what the digital coup looks like.” Shortly thereafter I discovered that Cadwalladr is using Substack (the Nazi-friendly newsletter platform funded by the broligarchs at A16Z) for her blog; her social media platform of choice is Bluesky (funded by crypto bros at Blockchain Capital). Sadly Cadwalladr has no social profiles on the Fediverse and isn’t using - as far as I know - any FOSS platforms to publish her reporting. This feels incredibly incongruous.”

It’s well worth a read. And for those still ‘fenced in’ by commercial social platforms, she offers hope and some ways to ditch them.

Personally, My tie to #TechBros #oligarchy is Gmail (though not for much longer as I am mostly migrated off). Otherwise, I’m on Signal and an Australian hosted mail server (until that one starts getting ideas I won’t agree with). My blog is about to transfer to a platform based in Australia for less $$ (of @shlee fame - I’m gettting there Shlee!) and getting off WordPress hosting (I’ll be using a #cpanel equiv #EnhanceDotNet.). My #Microsoft days are numbered with #LinuxMint on my other laptop ready to take over very soon. I’m still tied to Apple with my iPad (tooting away on it atm). My mobile is an old & cheap #Android device. My browser is #LibreWolf. My mail client is #Thunderbird .

Best thing that ever happened to me was to find out about the #Fediverse. I’ve never looked back from this, only forward.

I’m not going to lie, there is a cost to bear. I have lost digital links to all my friends and family (some overseas). But I’ve managed to keep those closest to me via other means (Face-to-face, phone calls, SMS, emails and Signal for those using it). Bottom line is, If am I going to #Rage against #TechBros, I should walk the talk as Elena Rossini is doing. So should you IMO.

#FOSS #Mastodon #Fediverse #cpanel

For Australian hosting See: https://fedicloud.au/

Read more:

https://news.elenarossini.com/technofeudalism-disclosing-my-tech-stack/