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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Wolff Responds: "Why rising Interest Rates Matter" Dated October 12, 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLVz...
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Wolff Responds: "Why rising Interest Rates Matter" Dated October 12, 2026
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 18h
#WolffBites: Capitalism made the already richest man in the world - Musk - much richer (a trillionaire). Musk uses that money to buy US elections so officials will preserve the capitalism that enriched him. That is the opposite of democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#WolffBites: US consumer confidence just fell (in September) to its lowest level since the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile Trump and Bessent repeat, like robots, how "great" the economy is.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#WolffBites: French protests grow against cuts in gov't spending on education and other social needs. Now Belgian students join too. Stupid gov'ts' first response: police repression. All Europe edges closer to social explosion. And the US? www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-WI...
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'RIOT WAVE' HITS EUROPE: Belgium Rocked By Clashes After France Student Unrest | Watch
YouTube video by Times Of India
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#WolffBites: As yes-women clap for him, he wants a new name (either Trump or America) for the Atlantic or Pacific oceans. As the actual US empire and its leader decline, growing their names becomes more urgent and desperate. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Trump floats renaming Atlantic or Pacific 'Trump Ocean' to huge cheers
The president joked about finding another major river or ocean to rename before leaving office, while ruling out changing the Hudson or Mississippi rivers.
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Rania Khalek @raniaakhalek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
MAGA members of Congress are threatening to individually subpoena me and my Breakthrough News colleagues if we don’t forfeit our First Amendment rights. All because they don’t like our reporting on Gaza and ICE. Help us fight this attack on freedom of the press breakthroughnews.org/2026/10/09/m...
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MAGA Congress escalates against BT, threatens reporters and editorial staff - BT News
Rania Khalek, Zoe Alexandra, and Amanda Yee, and other staff are now being personally targeted by the House Ways and Means Committee.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
French students lead against gov't cuts in public services (like schools), healthcare, pensions. Instead, Macron uses tax revenues to aid big business, rearm, fund Ukraine's war, save the rich from paying fair taxes. What "Alors enfants de la patrie" really means. www.cnn.com/2026/10/06/e...
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Unprecedented student protests are rocking France. Here’s why they’re angry | CNN
France is struggling to contain its biggest student protests in decades. What started as a demonstration in support of striking teachers at a suburban high school to the north of Paris has snowballed ...
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#WolffBites: Stock market hits record highs. When empires decline, the top 10% keep squeezing wealth despite decline. They push the rising costs of decline onto the masses (think DOGE). The richest 10% own 80% of US stock markets. The masses merely watch. finance.yahoo.com/markets/live...
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Stock market today: S&P 500, Nasdaq hit record highs as Nvidia, AMD lead tech higher
Stocks continued to march higher despite elevated bond yields.
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fernando Cerimedo’s International Network Includes the PRI and Sí por México In Contralínea, Aníbal García Fernández shows how Cerimedo's network reaches Mexico's right-wing opposition, through the man who ran an anti-Morena group's social media. mexicosolidarity.com/cerimedo-ne…
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Fernando Cerimedo’s International Network Includes the PRI and Sí por México
In Contralínea, Aníbal García Fernández shows how Cerimedo's network reaches Mexico's right-wing opposition, through the man who ran an anti-Morena group's social media.
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CIA Conspired with the Right on the Eve of Mexico’s ’68 Massacre Declassified records show the agency bankrolled a far-right student shock group for decades and trained future spy chief Nazar Haro, while key 1968 files stay censored. mexicosolidarity.com/cia-right-6…
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CIA Conspired with the Right on the Eve of Mexico’s ’68 Massacre
Declassified records show the agency bankrolled a far-right student shock group for decades and trained future spy chief Nazar Haro, while key 1968 files stay censored.
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nadia Beller Reveals Photos of Cerimedo With Trump’s Son Cerimedo awaits trial for the attempted femicide of his ex-partner while Beller ties him to an undisclosed CIA contact, the Mossad, the IMF, and a Trump-world dirty-campaign network. mexicosolidarity.com/cerimedo-tr…
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Nadia Beller Reveals Photos of Cerimedo With Trump’s Son
Cerimedo awaits trial for the attempted femicide of his ex-partner while Beller ties him to an undisclosed CIA contact, the Mossad, the IMF, and a Trump-world dirty-campaign network.
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
US Revokes Visa of Bolivia’s Attorney General for Investigating Cerimedo Mariaca vowed to keep investigating Cerimedo, a Trump-aligned disinformation operative accused of trying to kill his pregnant ex-girlfriend. mexicosolidarity.com/us-revokes-…
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US Revokes Visa of Bolivia’s Attorney General for Investigating Cerimedo
Mariaca vowed to keep investigating Cerimedo, a Trump-aligned disinformation operative accused of trying to kill his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#WolffBites: Richest 0.1% of Americans (330,000) own 15% of US wealth or an average $200 million per household. Extreme US inequality became more extreme over last 10 years. The rich fund Trump. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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The Gap Between the Rich and the Very, Very Rich Is Getting Wider
The 0.1% are worth $28 trillion, or about 15% of the nation’s total wealth. The average wealth for a household in this group is over $200 million.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#WolffBite: Most in US now oppose Trump/MAGA. Yet among richest 5% - the US ruling class - enough support him to let him keep power. In return, he makes the ruling rich still richer, himself included. How long will we tolerate this?
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Julio Izquierdo @mustanghead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Decline of U.S. Empire Is Here, with Prof. Richard Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social
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‘The Decline of the US Empire Is Here’ | w/ Prof. Richard Wolff
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
41.4% of Mexican Households Supplement Income with Government Programs Up from 25% in 2020, according to Mexico's statistics institute, which also found half of all homes now get some income beyond wages. mexicosolidarity.com/households-…
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41.4% of Mexican Households Supplement Income with Government Programs
Up from 25% in 2020, according to Mexico's statistics institute, which also found half of all homes now get some income beyond wages.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#WolffBites: To a UN General Assembly - an institution founded in reaction against the violent horrors of World War 2, - Trump threatened to "annihilate" a fellow UN member nation of 92 million people. No excuse, not even senility.
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mexico Sees the US as a ‘Greater Threat’ Than China or Russia, New Survey Confirms A Focaldata–Rockefeller poll finds 58% of Mexicans see the US as a major threat, more than double the figure for China and well above Russia. mexicosolidarity.com/mexico-us-g…
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Mexico Sees the US as a ‘Greater Threat’ Than China or Russia, New Survey Confirms
A Focaldata–Rockefeller poll finds 58% of Mexicans see the US as a major threat, more than double the figure for China and well above Russia.
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I Want to Work With President Sheinbaum,” Mamdani Says; He Praises Her Policies At the Urban 20 forum, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani called Mexico City an international 'inspiration' for how it confronts the cost-of-living and care crisis. mexicosolidarity.com/mamdani-wor…
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“I Want to Work With President Sheinbaum,” Mamdani Says; He Praises Her Policies
At the Urban 20 forum, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani called Mexico City an international 'inspiration' for how it confronts the cost-of-living and care crisis.
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
China Accuses the US of Dividing Mexico over Trade Dispute China's embassy described the US comments as an expression of “supremacy and hegemony” and asserted that they sought to discredit the economic cooperation between Mexico and China. mexicosolidarity.com/china-us-di…
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China Accuses the US of Dividing Mexico over Trade Dispute
China's embassy described the US comments as an expression of “supremacy and hegemony” and asserted that they sought to discredit the economic cooperation between Mexico and China.
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“I’d Like a Report on What the U.S. Does Against Drugs,” Sheinbaum Says The president turned the tables on Washington's drug scorecard, pointing to U.S. consumption, the opioid crisis, money laundering, and the guns flowing south into Mexico. mexicosolidarity.com/us-drug-rep…
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“I’d Like a Report on What the U.S. Does Against Drugs,” Sheinbaum Says
The president turned the tables on Washington's drug scorecard, pointing to U.S. consumption, the opioid crisis, money laundering, and the guns flowing south into Mexico.
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sheinbaum and Trump Talk. A Deal Appears Imminent Politico and Bloomberg report a Wednesday call a U.S. official called “constructive,” days before the September 28 and 29 USMCA review, as Trump pushes to close a deal before the U.S. midterms. mexicosolidarity.com/sheinbaum-t…
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Sheinbaum and Trump Talk. A Deal Appears Imminent
Politico and Bloomberg report a Wednesday call a U.S. official called “constructive,” days before the September 28 and 29 USMCA review, as Trump pushes to close a deal before the U.S. midterms.
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The President, at the Parade: Mexico Does Not Bow Down, Does Not Kneel, and Is Not for Sale On Independence Day, Sheinbaum cast Mexico as a nation “born from the rebellion of a people who refused to accept injustice as their destiny.” mexicosolidarity.com/parade-mexi…
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The President, at the Parade: Mexico Does Not Bow Down, Does Not Kneel, and Is Not for Sale
On Independence Day, Sheinbaum cast Mexico as a nation “born from the rebellion of a people who refused to accept injustice as their destiny.”
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#WolffBites: Billionaires with sudden moral qualms about AI may just be disguising efforts to secure their monopoly positions.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#WolffBites: Trump made more personal stockmarket trades than total trades made by all members of both US Senate and House. Profiteering from inside knowledge? www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#WolffBites: AI, like all technical changes before it, can either serve people or else competing profiteers. If the latter, it often disrupts and deprives millions and turns competition into war. Trump and his big AI funders push for AI profits. We better push back. www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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Axios AM - 1 big thing: It's not too late
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#WolffBites: Victim and Victimizer on 9/11. The US in 2001 and the US in Chile in 1973. Legacies of colonialism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Ch...
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1973 Chilean coup d'état - Wikipedia
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#WolffBites: EU and US leaders complain bitterly about Chinese economic competition. Why not do what competitive losers usually do: adopt and adapt China's better "model." www.brookings.edu/articles/eur...
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Europe’s China Shock 2.0: Where does it go from here? | Brookings
Brookings experts help make sense of the current moment and potential future trajectory of EU-China trade relations.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#WolffBites: Trump's colonialism aims to take Greenland from Europe. Europe insists on keeping its colony. Economic decline drives both toward war. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Trump faces new Greenland setback after latest threats to take control of island
The EU has increased its focus on Greenland since Trump began insisting that the United States should take control of the island for security reasons
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Julio Izquierdo @mustanghead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I like this better #Trump #EpsteinClass
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sheinbaum Responds to Trump: “Mexico Is Not and Will Not Be a Colony” After Trump shared a map draping Mexico, Canada, and Greenland in U.S. flag colors, Sheinbaum invoked the “month of the homeland” to reaffirm national sovereignty. mexicosolidarity.com/sheinbaum-m…
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Sheinbaum Responds to Trump: “Mexico Is Not and Will Not Be a Colony”
After Trump shared a map draping Mexico, Canada, and Greenland in U.S. flag colors, Sheinbaum invoked the “month of the homeland” to reaffirm national sovereignty.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#WolffBites: This Labor Day again, megadonors are buying elections. They fund those politicians who (1) help megadonors get their $ billions, and (2) try to keep labor from changing this undemocratic pay-to-play system. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...?
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Meet the Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2 Billion Into the Midterms
The leaderboard of the top 20 donors is dominated by the tech industry and ultrawealthy Republicans.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#WolffBites: Pres says economy "great." But delinquency rate among sub-prime auto loans is now over 5%. After rising the last 4 years it is now higher than at any time during the last 20 years.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#WolffBites: Trump takes Venezuelan oil to refill US oil reserves lost when US war on Iran failed. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Venezuelan Oil Will Be Used to Refill US Reserve, Trump Says
The US plans to use its newfound assertion of control over billions of barrels of Venezuelan crude oil to refill the nation’s depleted emergency reserve, President Donald Trump said Sunday.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wolff Responds: "The Surprising Costs of the War Against Iran" dated September 2, 2026 democracyatwork.substack.com/p/wolff-resp...
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Wolff Responds: "The Surprising Costs of the War Against Iran" dated September 2, 2026
In this week's Wolff Responds: Professor Wolff discusses how the United States' national debt and the uneven tax policy is widening the wealth gap.d@w's Substack is a reader-supported publication.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#WolffBites: Corporate profits decline from 10% to 8% from 1947 to 1980. Then they rise to over 18% in 2026. Trump especially was very good for profits.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#WolffBites: In China, crooked billionaires lose billions and do jail time. Key details on how China works from US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=62sO...
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China JAILS Corrupt Billionaire FOR LIFE
YouTube video by Due Dissidence
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Former Mexican president Peña Nieto was filmed wearing a kippah at a Jewish wedding in Italy, seated beside Avishai Neriah, the Israeli businessman an outlet accused of channeling $25M to him for Mexican government contracts, including Pegasus. mexicosolidarity.com/pena-nieto-…
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Peña Nieto Filmed Next to Controversial Israeli Contractor
Former Mexican president Peña Nieto was filmed wearing a kippah at a Jewish wedding in Italy, seated beside Avishai Neriah, the Israeli businessman an outlet accused of channeling $25M to him for Mexican government contracts, including Pegasus.
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Julio Izquierdo @mustanghead.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What happens if the Clarity Act passes? #ClarityAct #DigitalAssets #Crypto #Bitcoin
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What Happens If the CLARITY Act Passes?
YouTube video by Binance
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Julio Izquierdo @mustanghead.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"The Heist of the Century" by Monero Chelo #Trump #Venezuela #USA #EpsteinClass #OilTheft
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#WolffBites: New UK prime minister changes position, wants no cap on huge donations. Making it easier for millionaires and billionaires to buy that gov't too. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
US Hands Over 10 Individuals Sought by Mexico for Various Serious Crimes and Organized Crime American authorities recently handed over to Mexico 10 fugitives wanted in several states. mexicosolidarity.com/us-hands-ov…
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US Hands Over 10 Individuals Sought by Mexico for Various Serious Crimes and Organized Crime
American authorities recently handed over to Mexico 10 fugitives wanted in several states.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#WolffBites: Trump's tariffs on Canadian lumber will raise toilet paper prices in the US. How Trump boosts inflation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#WolffBites: We Rule the World" is the mindset of the hi-tech billionaires and their wannabees training at Stanford. No wonder they group around Trump. finance.yahoo.com/small-busine...
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Phoebe Gates took a secret Stanford class on how to ‘rule the world’—and reportedly recruited employees for her startup accused of wire fraud
An off-the-record university course helped Gates recruit for Phia, and former students claim the class taught a ruthless hunger for profit.
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Well-funded conservatives are gaming social platforms against Mexico’s government, Sheinbaum warns, pointing to Latin America’s elections and pushing rules on algorithmic manipulation. mexicosolidarity.com/sheinbaum-a…
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Sheinbaum Accuses AI and ‘Bots’ of Creating False Trends Against Her Administration
Well-funded conservatives are gaming social platforms against Mexico’s government, Sheinbaum warns, pointing to Latin America’s elections and pushing rules on algorithmic manipulation.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#WolffBites: No, Mr. Bessent, US will not grow out of its $40 trillion debt problem. From 2016-2016, US GDP grew from $ 19 to 32 Trillion while total US debt rose from $20 to 40 Trillion. Do the math. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXMm...
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Washington Today (8-20-26): Treasury Sec. Bessent says U.S. can 'grow' its way out of $40T debt
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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Julio Izquierdo @mustanghead.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Media outlets often claim Americans are wealthier than Europeans, but it’s not true. Average wealth looks high, but is skewed by extreme inequality. US median wealth is quite low. #USA #GiniCoefficient #Inequality
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Americans are NOT wealthy: The truth about the US economy - Geopolitical Economy Report
Americans are not wealthier than Europeans. It's a myth. Average wealth looks high, but is skewed by extreme inequality. US median wealth is low. This is the data.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#WolffBites: The Trump gov't's record-breaking corruption is another sign and symptom of the US empire's decline as are losing the Iran war and losing against Chinese economic competition. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump has amassed staggering wealth in ‘most openly corrupt’ presidency
Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to ‘unprecedented’ level
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
#WolffBites: US working class's DECLINING share of national income follows the decline since 2000 of the US empire. Those at the top gathered around the Trump regime offloading the costs of the empire's decline onto the working class below them.
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