politics

As of right now the Democratic candidate is outperforming the Republican governor.

And if you want google William Forbes the Republican plant Ricketts put on the Dem ticket

“When you’re negotiating with Iran, Mr. President, to what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal?” a reporter asked Trump before he left for China on Tuesday, alluding to the skyrocketing inflation caused by the fallout from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon.

“Not even a little bit,” Trump said, shockingly out of touch even for him.

A new super PAC with ties to Republicans is intervening in Democratic primaries, in one instance helping a sex therapist in Texas accused of antisemitism.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46757009

In a declaration filed in federal court, Leo Garcia Venegas said he was parking in front of his house in Silverhill, Alabama, on the morning of May 2 when an unmarked SUV blocked him in. Venegas claimed that before he could hand his Alabama-issued REAL ID to the two federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers who approached him, they pulled him out of the truck he was driving and handcuffed him.

What makes the incident extraordinary is that Venegas is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit challenging DHS' immigration enforcement policies, and it was the third time he's been handcuffed and detained by ICE agents. Venegas was detained twice in 2025 during raids on private construction sites where he was working, even though he had a REAL ID identifying him as a U.S. citizen.

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/65495484

U.S. wealth inequality is the highest it has been in nearly four decades, according to federal data, as the economy under the Trump administration appears to increasingly favor the rich.

As of late 2025, the top 1 percent of households held 31.7 percent of wealth, the highest share on record since the Federal Reserve began tracking the figure in 1989.

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/45552750

Donald Trump posted multiple times implying that Black people are a public menace.

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Trump’s onslaught began by claiming that Obama had attempted a coup and boosting a call to “arrest Obama the traitor.” He then posted months-old coverage of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s claims that the Obama administration had pushed the “lie” that Russian President Vladimir Putin preferred Trump over Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election, which was something Putin has openly admitted.

As Trump continued to post, his allegations got increasingly outlandish. The president shared posts claiming that Obama made $120 million from Obamacare and accusing Obama of “the most heinous crimes committed in American history,” including wiretapping Trump Tower. Other posts mentioned figures such as Senator Mark Kelly, Clinton, and Jack Smith, but Obama’s name appeared over and over again.

*Edit: a timeline of the postings

But averages don’t tell the full story: Middle-income and lower-income Americans’ wages stopped outpacing inflation last year, according to Bank of America.

As if the first go around wasn't telling enough. But, hey, at least the plutocracy has another tax cut that they bought and paid for.

archive article https://archive.is/w2WJB

Absolutely brilliant.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/60048271

In total, 17 US executives will join Trump on the trip, a White House official with knowledge of the plans told the BBC

• Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX
• Tim Cook of Apple
• Larry Fink of BlackRock
• Dina Powell McCormick, president and vice chair of Meta
• Kelly Ortberg, president and chief executive of Boeing
• Ryan McInerney, chief executive of Visa
• Stephen Schwarzman, chief executive of Blackstone
• Brian Sikes, chief executive and chairman of Cargill
• Jane Fraser, chief executive of Citi
• Jim Anderson, chief executive of Coherent
• Henry Lawrence Culp, chief executive of GE Aerospace
• David Solomon, chief executive of Goldman Sachs
• Jacob Thaysen, chief executive of Illumina
• Michael Miebach, president of Mastercard
• Nvidia boss Jensen Huang
• Sanjay Mehrotra, the CEO of Micron Technology
• Chuck Robbins, chief executive and chairman of Cisco

The position puts her at odds with some on the left, such as Rep. Ro Khanna, another potential 2028 contender, who said he wants to find “common ground” with people like Greene.

In a conversation Friday at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics moderated by David Axelrod, the onetime political strategist to President Barack Obama, a student asked Ocasio-Cortez whether she stood by past remarks that there were “legitimate white supremacist sympathizers at the core of the House of Representatives caucus” and, if so, why she worked with some of them.

Ocasio-Cortez did stand by them and said she wasn’t scared of reaching across the aisle, holding up her work with Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn. But she set a clear boundary.

“I personally do not trust someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene, a proven bigot and antisemite, on the issue of what is good for Gazans and Israelis,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I don’t think it benefits our movement in that instance to align the left with white nationalists. I don’t think it serves us.”