The @NHLBlackhawks are at the salary cap and still terrible. $9.85M sitting on injured reserve, $2.5M paid to Seth Jones to play for somebody else, $8M for a 38-year-old with a team-worst minus-11, and the scoring leader makes $986K. Bad again, by design.
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Congressman @RepTroyCarter , the numbers don't lie, but your caption does. The 25% is real, and it is not what you say it is. It comes from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances, which compares 2022 to 2025. That is three years, not "the last year," and two of those three years were Joe Biden's.
Here is the rest of the Fed's data. Median Black net worth fell from $49,100 to $36,800, but mean Black net worth rose about 5%. The losses sit in the middle of the distribution: home values, car values, and retirement accounts. And the economist behind your headline, Algernon Austin, says 2022 was a record high propped up by COVID relief that has since expired. A three-year slide that began under Biden, off an inflated peak, is a serious problem worth debating honestly.
Stamping Trump's name and a one-year timeline on it is a press release, not an argument.
Here is the rest of the Fed's data. Median Black net worth fell from $49,100 to $36,800, but mean Black net worth rose about 5%. The losses sit in the middle of the distribution: home values, car values, and retirement accounts. And the economist behind your headline, Algernon Austin, says 2022 was a record high propped up by COVID relief that has since expired. A three-year slide that began under Biden, off an inflated peak, is a serious problem worth debating honestly.
Stamping Trump's name and a one-year timeline on it is a press release, not an argument.
The numbers don’t lie. Trump poses a direct threat to the Black community.
While every other demographic’s wealth increased in the last year, Black American households declined by 25%.
This administration keeps gutting programs that provide Black Americans fairer access to housing, jobs, education, and business opportunities.
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Hey @RepJayapal , your own report gives the game away. It says Trump's 30 mega-mergers were more than "any single year between 2022 and 2024." Why does the clock start in 2022? Because in 2021, Joe Biden's first year, there were 46 mergers valued over $10 billion, one of the highest counts Bloomberg has ever recorded. There were 34 in 2022 and 31 in 2023, also under Biden, also at or above the number you are blaming on Trump.
Your list of villains is a Biden-era highlight reel. TV streaming? The $43 billion WarnerMedia and Discovery deal that built the streaming giant closed under Biden. Banks and tech? Microsoft's $68.7 billion Activision deal and Broadcom's $61 billion VMware deal were Biden years. So were Exxon/Pioneer's $59.5 billion and Chevron/Hess at $53 billion.
Consolidation is not a Trump invention. It is a bipartisan tradition, and your report had to crop the timeline to make it look like one.
Your list of villains is a Biden-era highlight reel. TV streaming? The $43 billion WarnerMedia and Discovery deal that built the streaming giant closed under Biden. Banks and tech? Microsoft's $68.7 billion Activision deal and Broadcom's $61 billion VMware deal were Biden years. So were Exxon/Pioneer's $59.5 billion and Chevron/Hess at $53 billion.
Consolidation is not a Trump invention. It is a bipartisan tradition, and your report had to crop the timeline to make it look like one.
TV streaming. Concert tickets. Banks. Cell phone carriers.
Last year, there were 30 corporate mega-mergers under Trump valued over $10 BILLION.
Co-authored a report with @SenWarren to expose how this consolidation and corruption is raising prices for all of us. ⤵️
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One billionaire signs a contract promising not to leave and you call the exodus fear-mongering? Ro, that agreement is the story. Free men do not need retention contracts.
The data on your state: California has ranked dead last on the U-Haul Growth Index six years in a row. The IRS says the state lost a net 205,788 residents in 2023 alone, and they took $13 billion in income with them, including 37,777 high earners. Hoover counted 352 corporate headquarters gone between 2018 and 2021, and the exits kept coming: Tesla, Oracle, Schwab, HPE, McKesson, Chevron after 145 years, SpaceX, X, Public Storage this year.
Meanwhile Sacramento runs deficits on the highest taxes in America: 13.3% top income rate, capital gains taxed as regular income, and a budget where the top 1% already pay 40 to 50% of all income tax. The LAO projects an $18 billion hole next year and structural deficits of $15 to $35 billion a year after that.
Prop 40 does not fix any of that. It tells the people funding half the state that their net worth is next, and six billionaires reportedly left before the January 1 residency date even arrived. Zuckerberg staying for a price is not proof nobody leaves. It is proof of what it costs to keep them.
The data on your state: California has ranked dead last on the U-Haul Growth Index six years in a row. The IRS says the state lost a net 205,788 residents in 2023 alone, and they took $13 billion in income with them, including 37,777 high earners. Hoover counted 352 corporate headquarters gone between 2018 and 2021, and the exits kept coming: Tesla, Oracle, Schwab, HPE, McKesson, Chevron after 145 years, SpaceX, X, Public Storage this year.
Meanwhile Sacramento runs deficits on the highest taxes in America: 13.3% top income rate, capital gains taxed as regular income, and a budget where the top 1% already pay 40 to 50% of all income tax. The LAO projects an $18 billion hole next year and structural deficits of $15 to $35 billion a year after that.
Prop 40 does not fix any of that. It tells the people funding half the state that their net worth is next, and six billionaires reportedly left before the January 1 residency date even arrived. Zuckerberg staying for a price is not proof nobody leaves. It is proof of what it costs to keep them.
Looks like billionaires will stay and figure out a way to pay the tax. If we pass Prop 40, poor California kids can have healthcare.
Gavin, can you and Sergey Brin stop with your fear-mongering of a billionaire exodus?
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I said yesterday it could only be a Republican. Easiest call in politics. But read your own quote tweet: Kolvet just told you TPUSA knew for years and nicknamed him Lady Graham. Nobody was hiding anything. The only new thing here is the timing. Graham has been dead for three months. He cannot answer these men, challenge their stories, or sue anyone, and you dropped this twelve days before an election, when it can do maximum damage and face zero pushback from the one person accused. That is not exposing a secret. That is exhuming one.
So, how long have conservative groups like @TPUSA known Lindsey Graham was gay and desperate to keep that hidden? How long did they know he had sex with underaged boys? Did they know about the tapes? Do they have the tapes? If they knew all this, why did they keep it hidden?
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Overreaction Thursday: The @Suns might not win a game this entire season. phxtri.com/sports/suns-se… via @phxtri
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Did not age well.
A new season is here, @Suns fans, and I’m fired up about this team!
One thing you can count on EVERY night is EFFORT! When you spend your hard-earned money, you deserve a team that brings energy, passion, and excitement!
It starts tonight against the Blazers and runs through April 11 against the Lakers!
What are YOUR expectations for this Suns team? What do you want to see this season? 🏀🔥
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California: $496.8 billion in state debt, #1 in the nation. $12,565 per resident, #10 per capita.
New York: $233.3 billion in state debt, #2 in the nation. $11,547 per resident, #12 per capita.
Illinois: $222.8 billion in state debt, #3 in the nation. $17,391 per resident, #5 per capita.
New York: $233.3 billion in state debt, #2 in the nation. $11,547 per resident, #12 per capita.
Illinois: $222.8 billion in state debt, #3 in the nation. $17,391 per resident, #5 per capita.
States with the highest GDP…
1. California
3. New York
5. Illinois
Fuck Trump.
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Scott Kirby made $32.28 million last year. United's median employee made $96,670. That is a ratio of 334 to 1, from United's own proxy statement.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby tells the New York Times that "wealth inequality has become a danger to our society" and must be addressed.
"We should have a national wealth tax... we should have inheritance taxes that get close to 100 percent at some level. I would pay them."
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17-0. Seven shots, zero makes, outrebounded 10-2, no assists, no points in the paint, 7:32 left in the first. The Suns have achieved something rare: a full quarter of basketball activity with no basketball. @Suns
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His super PAC, Lone Star Rising, has raised $31.27 million (FEC, through Sep 30), and at least $11.5 million of it came from one billionaire, Reid Hoffman, including a single $10 million check in June. Another $3.75 million came from a PAC funded by the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the big Democratic dark money hub. That PAC spent millions attacking Jasmine Crockett in the primary.
There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator.
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Appalled is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Here is what happened, per Reuters, the Guardian, and Lander himself:
Lander flew to the West Bank as a congressional nominee, joined an organized harvest action next to the Beitar Illit settlement fence, in an area the Israeli military says required prior coordination that was never obtained. Soldiers declared the grove a closed military zone and presented a 24 hour closure order. The group was held for identification, passports taken, and bused to a station. Lander filmed a statement before it started, posted a selfie from the bus during it, and was released within about three hours with a warning. Nobody was charged with anything.
The Palestinian family that owns the grove was detained too, and their situation is the real one: organizers say they have been unable to reach their own trees for about three years. They do not get released to a congressional campaign. They live there.
But notice the move in your post. A three hour detention of an American politician who announced the action in advance becomes the argument for the Stop Settlements Act. Lander was not evidence gathered. He was a participant who got exactly the footage he went there to get, and his detention tells us nothing new about the settlement question either way. It tells us a closed zone order was enforced against a group that came to test it.
If the case against settlements is strong, it does not need a campaign stop dressed up as an atrocity. And calling this an abuse on par with what Palestinians face daily diminishes the actual daily cases, starting with the family whose grove it was, who are still there tonight while the nominee is back on the trail.
Lander flew to the West Bank as a congressional nominee, joined an organized harvest action next to the Beitar Illit settlement fence, in an area the Israeli military says required prior coordination that was never obtained. Soldiers declared the grove a closed military zone and presented a 24 hour closure order. The group was held for identification, passports taken, and bused to a station. Lander filmed a statement before it started, posted a selfie from the bus during it, and was released within about three hours with a warning. Nobody was charged with anything.
The Palestinian family that owns the grove was detained too, and their situation is the real one: organizers say they have been unable to reach their own trees for about three years. They do not get released to a congressional campaign. They live there.
But notice the move in your post. A three hour detention of an American politician who announced the action in advance becomes the argument for the Stop Settlements Act. Lander was not evidence gathered. He was a participant who got exactly the footage he went there to get, and his detention tells us nothing new about the settlement question either way. It tells us a closed zone order was enforced against a group that came to test it.
If the case against settlements is strong, it does not need a campaign stop dressed up as an atrocity. And calling this an abuse on par with what Palestinians face daily diminishes the actual daily cases, starting with the family whose grove it was, who are still there tonight while the nominee is back on the trail.
I am appalled that Brad Lander, the Democratic nominee for NY-10, was detained by the IDF in the West Bank alongside rabbis and other activists in the annual olive harvest. It is a stark reminder of the abuses Palestinians face on a near daily basis doing even the simplest of tasks, like harvesting olives on the land their families have cultivated for centuries.
Next Congress, Democrats must pass the Stop Settlements Act to demand our government use its leverage to bring the illegal settlement movement to an end.
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The $20 billion is an authorization, not a check written yesterday. It is multi-year with no expiration date, approved after GM completed its earlier $6 billion program, and it follows about $23 billion in buybacks since November 2023 that cut GM's share count by 37%. Now the parts you left out:
"Instead of investing." GM's stated order of operations, per CFO Paul Jacobson on the earnings call: invest in the business first, protect the balance sheet second, return capital third. GM is spending $10 to $12 billion on capital investment in 2026, including roughly $5 billion to expand US manufacturing capacity, and it just raised its 2026 free cash flow guidance to $11.5 to $12.5 billion. The buyback is not instead of that spending. It is what is left after it.
"Instead of investing in their workers." GM's UAW members received profit sharing checks of up to $14,500 for 2024 and $10,500 for 2025, under the formula negotiated in the 2023 contract: $1,000 per worker for every $1 billion of North American profit, covering roughly 47,000 eligible workers.
"Pay themselves." Insiders own 0.17% of GM. About 83% of the company is held by institutions, led by Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street index funds, which is to say pension funds, 401(k)s, and IRAs. When GM buys back stock, the money goes overwhelmingly to retirement accounts, not the executive suite. And the stock fell roughly 6% on the day this was announced, which is a strange outcome for a robbery.
Argue that buybacks should be illegal if you want. But the case has to survive GM's own earnings release, and "robbing from the future" does not, because the investment you claim is not happening is printed in the same document.
Sources: GM Q3 2026 earnings release and call (October 20, 2026), Detroit Free Press on UAW profit sharing, SEC 13F ownership filings.
"Instead of investing." GM's stated order of operations, per CFO Paul Jacobson on the earnings call: invest in the business first, protect the balance sheet second, return capital third. GM is spending $10 to $12 billion on capital investment in 2026, including roughly $5 billion to expand US manufacturing capacity, and it just raised its 2026 free cash flow guidance to $11.5 to $12.5 billion. The buyback is not instead of that spending. It is what is left after it.
"Instead of investing in their workers." GM's UAW members received profit sharing checks of up to $14,500 for 2024 and $10,500 for 2025, under the formula negotiated in the 2023 contract: $1,000 per worker for every $1 billion of North American profit, covering roughly 47,000 eligible workers.
"Pay themselves." Insiders own 0.17% of GM. About 83% of the company is held by institutions, led by Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street index funds, which is to say pension funds, 401(k)s, and IRAs. When GM buys back stock, the money goes overwhelmingly to retirement accounts, not the executive suite. And the stock fell roughly 6% on the day this was announced, which is a strange outcome for a robbery.
Argue that buybacks should be illegal if you want. But the case has to survive GM's own earnings release, and "robbing from the future" does not, because the investment you claim is not happening is printed in the same document.
Sources: GM Q3 2026 earnings release and call (October 20, 2026), Detroit Free Press on UAW profit sharing, SEC 13F ownership filings.
GM just announced the biggest stock buyback in automotive industry history.
Instead of investing in their workers or new product lines, GM executives are robbing from the future to pay themselves and their shareholders today.
Stock buybacks should be illegal.
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Let's talk accuracy, since that is the topic. USDA's own numbers, FY2024:
Your list leaves out the biggest groups. Children are 39% of all SNAP participants. Adults 18 to 59 are the largest share at 41%. The elderly are 20%. You named A, B, and C and skipped the two largest categories in the program.
"Working at least part time." Only 28% of SNAP households had any earnings at all in FY2024. 62% lived on unearned income (Social Security, SSI, SSDI, and the like). 19% of households reported no income from any source. Working households are the minority, not the story.
"As little as $12 a month in EBT." The federal minimum benefit is $24 a month for FY2026, and about 9% of households receive exactly that minimum. The average benefit is $188 per person per month (FY2025, on 42.1 million participants and $101.7 billion in spending). $12 is below the legal floor for a one or two person household and has been for years.
What you could have said that is actually true: 79% of SNAP households include a child, an elderly person, or a person with a disability. That is a real number and it makes your broader point. Instead you inflated the work claim and cut the minimum benefit in half, because the real figures were not dramatic enough.
Sources: USDA Economic Research Service SNAP key statistics (FY2024/FY2025) and the FNS Characteristics of SNAP Households report.
Your list leaves out the biggest groups. Children are 39% of all SNAP participants. Adults 18 to 59 are the largest share at 41%. The elderly are 20%. You named A, B, and C and skipped the two largest categories in the program.
"Working at least part time." Only 28% of SNAP households had any earnings at all in FY2024. 62% lived on unearned income (Social Security, SSI, SSDI, and the like). 19% of households reported no income from any source. Working households are the minority, not the story.
"As little as $12 a month in EBT." The federal minimum benefit is $24 a month for FY2026, and about 9% of households receive exactly that minimum. The average benefit is $188 per person per month (FY2025, on 42.1 million participants and $101.7 billion in spending). $12 is below the legal floor for a one or two person household and has been for years.
What you could have said that is actually true: 79% of SNAP households include a child, an elderly person, or a person with a disability. That is a real number and it makes your broader point. Instead you inflated the work claim and cut the minimum benefit in half, because the real figures were not dramatic enough.
Sources: USDA Economic Research Service SNAP key statistics (FY2024/FY2025) and the FNS Characteristics of SNAP Households report.
@phxtri @UziCryptoo Oh, for fucks sake. Are you deliberately being obtuse? Most people on SNAP are
A. Working at least part time
B. Elderly
C. Disabled
Their incomes from jobs, SSI or SSDI isn't enough to sustain themselves. I work with seniors and disabled. Some get as little as $12 a month in EBT.
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Because everyone does it, it makes it OK. That's your argument. I think I've told my teenage son some different about a million times.
It's been common practice for many WNBA teams over at least the past six seasons to leave the court right before "The Star-Spangled Banner" is played. trib.al/rNKEj1d
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Agreed. Now apply it retroactively: the Mar-a-Lago search in August 2022 and four indictments totaling 91 counts while Trump was running for president. You were silent for all of it.
President Trump has used the DOJ to target his critics. It is no accident that this raid came three weeks before an election when @Ilhan will be on the ballot.
I stand with Congresswoman Omar. No president should be allowed to use the power of the federal government to threaten, silence, or intimidate political opponents. cnn.com/2026/10/12/pol…
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In 2019, SNL fired Shane Gillis before he appeared in a single sketch. Since then he has become the biggest touring comic in America, and SNL has brought him back to host. Twice. That is not a redemption story. That is a show that needs him a lot more than he needs it.
If Shane Gillis were to come back to SNL, “I’m sure we would have a conversation … like a little kid” about what he could have done differently, @nbcsnl cast member @kenanthompson tells @sarafischer at #MediaTrendsLive.
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The NFL plays its first-ever game in France on Sunday, in a country that's had nearly 2,400 arrests, 997 injured cops, and curfews this week. The league says it was "never close" to moving it. I was in Paris this summer — didn't like it. Loved London. The NFL should've booked great crowds, and nobody's burning anything.
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