Reposted by MewGooRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/02/2025The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like. 21681252327
MewGoo @mewgoo.bsky.social · 23/02/2025so is this part of the immediate price relief executive order ??? why not punish people who devote their lives to public service in an effort to boost them financially with some debt relief? Banks get boosted, but not the working class?? #wakeUp #pslf 000
Reposted by MewGooAnguirus @anguirus.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Me: BATMAN BEGINS is great, but I was amused by the writers’-fiat plot device that a place can be SO corrupt that some reasonably-organized foreign actor can just puppeteer it on a whim. Me, 20 years later: fuck 145137801705
Reposted by MewGooRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Remind you of anyone? [Cartoon by Brendan Loper] 7052751068
Reposted by MewGooAndrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Nearly every medicine we benefit from started with NIH-funded research. Early discovery work starts in academia. Immunotherapies? Gene therapy for rare diseases? Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s medicines? Vaccines? Novel cancer treatments? Psychiatric medicines? You betcha. 1/ 8545701033
Reposted by MewGooRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/02/2025When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh? 24677803963
Reposted by MewGooSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 12/02/2025The top health care companies in America spent 95% of their profits to make their CEOs & stockholders obscenely rich. How many Americans would be alive today if those companies spent $2.6 trillion on disease prevention and primary care, instead of stock buybacks and dividends? 24181492332
Reposted by MewGooBo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Fuck, when the object of my deepest political enmity, Mitch McConnell, is on the right side of history over unqualified power grabs, I can hear the band playing as the Titanic sinks. 2915898494
MewGoo @mewgoo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Wow do you ever remember a little version of yourself and just want to hug them and congratulate them and tell them it’s all going to be worth it in the end? Like, all the hard times. Do you want to tell them how much better it is going to get? 000
Reposted by MewGooElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11/02/2025It’s no secret that Chair Powell and I disagree on a lot, but today we agreed: without the CFPB, there is no federal regulator making sure giants banks don't cheat you. 403144873995
Reposted by MewGooSocial Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 11/02/2025Giving unelected billionaires unchecked power over our government will do nothing to lower costs. Elon Musk needs to stay the hell away from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid! youtube.com/shorts/r4hJM...youtube.comUnelected billionaires want to steal our earned benefits!YouTube video by Social Security Works 8291120
MewGoo @mewgoo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025the track has a beginning, middle, and end. sonic mAsTeRy??? 000
Reposted by MewGooRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/02/2025DOGE's chaos isn't preventing waste — it's causing it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comNearly $500m of food aid at risk of spoilage after Trump USAid cutsUS government auditors find cuts have ‘degraded USAid’s ability to distribute and safeguard humanitarian assistance’ 13546241717
Reposted by MewGooRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Banning noncompetes. Changing OT pay rules to include more workers. Capping credit card fees. Erasing student loan debt. All Biden Admin executive actions to help working people that were blocked by Trump-appointed judges. And Republicans didn't have a problem with any of it.independent.co.ukAlarm as JD Vance says federal judges ‘aren’t allowed’ to control presidentExperts argued expansive view of executive power could cause constitutional crisis 1773878979
Reposted by MewGooPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology? 30305583811815
Reposted by MewGooSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 10/02/202547,000+ Palestinians killed. 111,000 injured. Trump’s response? Forcibly expel Palestinians to make Gaza “a real estate development for the future. A beautiful piece of land.” No. Gaza must be rebuilt for the Palestinian people, not billionaire tourists. 21967031079
Reposted by MewGooKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 09/02/2025"’America's competitors will relish this self-inflicted wound,’ Owens says. ‘We urge NIH leaders to rescind this dangerous policy before its harms are felt by Americans.’” www.npr.org/sections/sho...npr.orgNIH announces new funding policy that rattles medical researchersThe National Institutes of Health has dramatically changed its grant-making terms by limiting how much it will disburse for costs such as equipment and administration. 24391812781
