Mäki Henri
Robert Reich
Maxilo OveritMoney always finds a way, if it's large enough. I'm afraid at this point we're going to have to get rid of money and wealth to get it also out of power.
an actual bus@aka_quant_noir @rbreich Exactly, this is a zero-sum game between the people and the elite. Every inch they take, we lose.
Anton
Kevin RussellAnd those who took it.
SpaceLifeFormThe Citizens United ruling must be destroyed by Congress.
It is not currently on the horizon, but should be a high priority item.
Eugen Rochko@rbreich What's with these screenshots of text?
D2Peak irony is @rbreich posting content to a commercial non-fedi platform, then screenshotting it so us federated free-the-web stalwarts get sloppy-seconds versions: words cropped, no alt-text for the visually-impaired, etc.
C’mon, Dr Reich. We’re your core demographic. It can’t be that hard to either upgrade us to copy-paste text or (horrors) make posts to us your first choice.
Nagmay
Aaron Lord 
Toddrick Laneway@rbreich ...one of the roots of...
Nicole ParsonsKoch Network is leaving landmines behind to keep Republican corruption & blow up efforts to defend democracy & the planet.
https://popular.info/p/charles-kochs-5-billion-tax-loophole
Bradley's trust funds & think tanks bought a Supreme Court Justice, John Roberts, to end the Voting Rights Act.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/john-roberts-voting-rights-act-121222/
https://progressive.org/magazine/the-assault-on-voting-rights-has-a-long-history-daley-20240806/
Barre Seid's $1.6 billion in Irish tax evasion ended civil rights for 167 million American women. Privacy. Agency. Autonomy.
https://www.propublica.org/article/dark-money-leonard-leo-barre-seid
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Scaife's trust fund created the Claremont Institute & fostered a coup attempt on Jan 6.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/devos-bradley-claremont-trump-election-fraud-insurrection-1274253/
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/claremont-campaign-against-birthright-citizenship-john-eastman
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-claremont-institute-harry-jaffa-and-the-temptation-of-theory
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-hell-happened-to-the-claremont-institute
Zombie money left behind in trust funds from the Gilded Age, killed FDR's 2nd bill of rights.
https://www.propublica.org/article/for-trumps-rich-appointees-death-may-be-certain-but-taxes-arent
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/29/trump-project-2025-history
This isn't just tax evasion, it's fraud
https://qz.com/1428493/trump-organizations-four-steps-for-misleading-real-estate-investors
lin11c
Julie WebgirlYou left out
4. Donors become elected officials / Elected officials become donors.
5. Repeat.
CheeseburgerHey, I went through your account & it seems you NEVER add alt-text. Please don't do that. ADD ALT-TEXT!
@rbreich
I think even you know that the only way that this is going to happen is through public funding of elections. But that will never happen because our corrupt political system runs on money. Dumpty is nothing more than someone taking that corruption to an entire new level. But the system stunk before. Right now we are just seeing how bad it can get.
I think even you know that the only way that this is going to happen is through public funding of elections. But that will never happen because our corrupt political system runs on money. Dumpty is nothing more than someone taking that corruption to an entire new level. But the system stunk before. Right now we are just seeing how bad it can get.
Howard Chu @ Symas@rbreich must make Big Money extinct. Tax billionaires out of existence. Ban corporate mergers & acquisitions. Nationalize monopolies.
T2R
Derek Martin