Speaking of waste and fraud and abuse, why is SpaceX being allowed to launch one faulty rocket after another?
The environmental impact is colossal.
All that debris is causing airports to be shut down.
People and private property are at risk.
If anything, shut down SpaceX !!
#Fraud #Waste #Abuse #SpaceX #Wednesday #Florida #US #Corruption #Greed #Capitalism
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/spacex-debris-grounds-flights-at-south-florida-airports/
The Road from ‘Citizens United’ to Trump, Musk & Corruption
A ‘naïve’ #SupremeCourt delivered lawless #greed & #cruelty. We’ll have to save ourselves, if we can.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-road-from-citizens-united-to-trump-musk-and-corruption-campaign-finance-supreme-court
"The court’s 5–4 #CitizensUnited decision, allowing unlimited corporate, interest-group, & individual spending on elections, did trigger dire predictions... But even the most pessimistic among them fell short of imagining #American reality today."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/06/republicans-oligarchy-economic-democracy Families in the US are exhausted. They deserve a government that chooses them over billionaire donors. The Republican budget plan that passed the House last week calls for $4.5tn in tax giveaways for the ultra-rich and corporations. It will be paid for with enormous cuts to Medicaid, food assistance and other federal programs that serve our families and the working class. These are the folks Elon M$$k refers to as the “parasite class” #GOP #Inequality #Greed
"Since he began overseeing the newly created Dept of Govt Efficiency, #Musk has upended the norms of bureaucracy...
But his team’s recent appearance at the #FAA presents the starkest test yet of Musk’s ability to not just shrink #government, but to transform his #political power into potential #business for his companies."
https://archive.is/BUV7L#selection-2115.251-2115.455
Just saw this cartoon posted on the enshittified, dying legacy blogging platform a few worthwhile writers still use. The article says the cartoon is banned on the enshittified, dying legacy social media platform still used by a few worthwhile people - and a lot more worthless ones. (Hint: it's now owned by the cartoon's subject, Cylon Musk.)
Good cartoon, imo.
Dozens of times a day, I wonder about this...
Corporations will not stand up to fascism. They are engines to create profit for shareholders so protecting profit is their only guiding principle. They will bend to the felon-in-chief rather than face costly repercussions from a petty tyrant who wields unconstitutional power without any oversight.
"How did a drug rooted, like many, in seed money from the US #government — that is, American taxpayers —... end up with such a price tag?
...taxpayers & private charities... subsidized much of the #science that yielded Zolgensma...
Yet that support came with no conditions — financial or otherwise — for the for-profit companies that brought the drug over the finish line, particularly when it came to pricing."
- @ProPublica
@w7voa #Corruption is rampant in the Trump swamp.
@arstechnica #YouTube is just more #Google trying to shake the change of of your pockets for it's own #greed , and I can't wait for it to fail.
Yes, there's a lot of content on there I appreciate, and that's useful, but it's become too enshittified, much like Google itself.
A 22-year-old Wisconsin man died of a severe asthma attack because he couldn't afford the price of his inhaler, which was no longer covered by his insurance.
This young man was murdered by the for-profit healthcare system in the United States.
*Wealth of world's billionaires rose by $2 trillion in 2024, 3x faster than in 2023
*within a decade, there'll be at least 5 trillionaires
*44% of the planet's people are now living below the World Banks poverty line of $6.85/ day
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/20/wealth-of-worlds-billionaires-grew-by-2tn-in-2024-report-finds
"The populist pose masks an unabashed oligarchic takeover. Mr Trump has duped ordinary voters into believing he’s their champion while framing Democrats as out-of-touch elitists. Yet his conflicts of interest are staggering. At the weekend, Mr Trump made billions through a branded crypto token, a windfall tied to regulatory decisions he controls."
~ The Guardian
#Trump #grift #EconomicElites #SuperRich #greed #corruption #TrumpCoin #memecoin #oligarchy
/7
"While newsrooms are focusing on the rule of law, MAGA opinion outlets are focusing on Trump's rule."
~ Brian Stelter
#Trump #grift #EconomicElites #SuperRich #greed #corruption #TaxCuts #RuleofLaw
/5
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1737468266447ab22cbbd83a9/raw
"Get ready for 'just us,' not justice. Americans who believe Trump is fighting for them fail to understand that for Trump, politics is purely transactional, a matter of what he can extract from people in exchange for his ability to pull the levers of power on their behalf."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #TrumpCoin #grift #EconomicElites #SuperRich #greed #corruption
/4
"Imagine going to sleep every night knowing you could cure world hunger, end global homelessness, and still have more money than you could ever spend. And yet, you actively choose not to."
via political nation
UPDATE: Success. The problem was immediately resolved and so far so good.
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Please check on your loved ones in senior home facilities.
Over the past two weeks I couldn't figure out why at night the retirement home hot water was not working .
I spoke with the afternoon shift PSWs and they claimed they had to clue as to why.
Sensing bullshit, I waited for midnight shift changes over several nights and began talking with nursing staff during the middle of the night..
They said they were troubled because they couldn't clean up ill residents with warm water after 9:00 pm.
Imagine late at night having severe intestinal flu and needing a shower, or at the very least warm soap and water to clean up , while waiting as your bedding is changed and having to wait until 6:00 a.m smelling like feces. (not me, others)
Today management and I had words...yet AGAIN!
I mentioned it was quite interesting that immediately after the owners bought another retirement residence our hot water was restricted, and this could be the reason why the flu is ripping through the home...unsanitary conditions, especially since they wash soiled bedding during the middle of the night..
I was assured the hot water settings would immediately be reconfigured to run 24/7.
This is not the first time I "caused problems" for management and I may need a place to stay when they get fed up with my big mouth... 
Please keep checking on your loved ones in LTC and retirement homes.
#Aging #Seniors #Greed
@CelloMomOnCars
I saw someone on #bigCorp #media call the LA fires a "natural disaster".
WRONG
This was brought to us by #greed, #hubris and bad planning.
Where are the rich standing in front of their multi-million burned out mansions say "if this can happen to me it can happen to anyone, we need to do something about this".
