@georgetakei We don't hate billlionaires enough. #TaxbillionairesOutofExistence
Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

The New Republic
Bill Ackman pledges to bankroll any NYC mayoral candidate capable of defeating Zohran Mamdani

Ackman and his allies are ready to pour 'hundreds of millions of dollars' into the campaign of an aspiring New York City politician.

Fortune
Elon and Vivek want you to pay their taxes

All Trump's rich boy cosplayers are offering is a chance to expose the GOP's lust for cutting billionaires' taxes. Democrats are taking the most generous gift they’ve been offered for years and turning it into a care package for the worst billionaires on earth. And it’s time they

The Last Billionaires
@emptywheel.bsky.social how much money do these sociopaths need? #taxtherich #taxbillionairesoutofexistence
Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content

Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads

The Guardian

One of the redemptive aspects of the current horrible moment is that a lot of the dirt is finally coming out. It was, for example, always assumed, but couldn’t be proven, that a class of Jewish supremacist billionaires acting at Israel’s behest were exerting financial pressures on academia. The machinations of the Ackmans, Krafts, Sternlichts et al. have now been exposed.

#KillingTheFirstAmendment #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence

https://open.substack.com/pub/normanfinkelstein/p/conspiracies-do-happen?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

CONSPIRACIES DO HAPPEN

The British Guardian reported today that Israeli secret services were blackmailing former ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. Already four years ago I wrote a full book documenting Bensouda’s disgraceful record of whitewashing Israel. It was perfectly obvious at the time that extra-legal pressures were being exerted on Bensouda. Indeed, I stated in the very last sentence of my book that Israel was bringing “to bear every squalid and sordid instrument in its arsenal” against the ICC. It was also obvious that extra-legal pressures were exerted on Richard Goldstone to recant his milestone report on Israeli crimes in Gaza, even as “Goldstone’s secret will perhaps never be revealed” (from my book Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom). It is also my considered opinion that ICC Judge Peter Kovacs was subject to extra-legal pressures or enticements and current ICJ Vice-President Julia Sebutinde has been subject to extra-legal pressures or enticements by Israel. At the very least, Israel has assisted their whitewashing endeavors. (The flagrant, shameful and shameless lie that former ICJ president Joan Donaghue uttered on BBC last month—she purported that the ICJ did not find that Israel was “plausibly” committing genocide in Gaza--was morally debased but almost certainly traced back to careerism and opportunism, not Israeli dirty tricks.) One of the redemptive aspects of the current horrible moment is that a lot of the dirt is finally coming out. It was, for example, always assumed, but couldn’t be proven, that a class of Jewish supremacist billionaires acting at Israel’s behest were exerting financial pressures on academia. The machinations of the Ackmans, Krafts, Sternlichts et al. have now been exposed. If the Harvard Corporation wouldn’t let the 13 anti-genocide students attend graduation, was it not because “he who pays the piper calls the tune”?

Norman Finkelstein
Pro-Israel billionaires urged New York crackdown on Gaza protests: Report

WhatsApp leaks reveal group of business leaders discussed ways to pressure officials to clear pro-Palestine protesters.

Al Jazeera

#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence: worldwide billionaires grew by 141 in the past year, with 2,781 people holding wealth that exceeds $1 billion.
Those people own combined assets of $14.2 trillion, exceeding the gross domestic product of every country in the world except the U.S. and China.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/forbes-list-billionaires

World's Richest People Have Their Best Year Yet as Billionaires Amass Record Wealth

The Forbes Billionaires List "is essentially an annual calculation of how much of the wealth created by the global economy is captured by a tiny caste of oligarchs rather than being used to benefit humanity as a whole."

Common Dreams