June 24, 2025 by V Leigh

The billionaire tax cheat in the Oval Office just eliminated the office that goes after other billionaire tax cheats. Same old story. The get richer. And the little guy gets screwed.

The billionaire tax cheat in the Oval Office just eliminated the office that goes after other billionaire tax cheats.

Same old story.

The get richer. And the little guy gets screwed. pic.twitter.com/MKeCYdXPtz
— Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) June 17, 2025

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— MC Squared (@mcsquared34) June 17, 2025

Capitalism is where you’re rewarded for being a self-centered psychopath.
— Hairy Evolutionary (@RossCol89474735) June 15, 2025

#ClassConsciousness pic.twitter.com/bQgtL9af8Z
— Solidarity (@1WhiteRabbitt) June 8, 2025

America has the money to pay Black people reparations. We see time and time again when they waste their money on militarization https://t.co/QV7BJtY9W0
— Dr. Allison Wiltz (@queenie4rmnola) June 10, 2025

A civilized country would not allow 68,000 of its citizens die each year due to lack of healthcare, while insurance companies make money hand over fist.

Other countries have universal healthcare, the U.S. should as well.

Is that the type of “civilization” you speak of? https://t.co/5z8t0GQbXX
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) June 8, 2025

A reminder that Flint still doesn’t have clean drinking water, nor have they gotten any justice. I sat down with Flint residents who want Congress to do more. There was a $600 million settlement, but after years, those funds have still not been distributed. Shameful. pic.twitter.com/TJ1BfOFG1i
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) June 6, 2025

May 25, 2025 by V Leigh

The bottom 60% of U.S. households don’t make enough money to afford a “minimal quality of life,” according to a new analysis.

The bottom 60% of U.S. households don’t make enough money to afford a “minimal quality of life,” according to a new analysis. https://t.co/Kc8peRJPUi
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) May 14, 2025

A new report finds at least 742 rural hospitals are at risk of closing due to low reimbursement rates from Medicare and Medicaid, leaving communities like Trinity, Texas, without nearby emergency care and forcing patients to travel farther in life-or-death situations. pic.twitter.com/U4gz8SWOHp
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) May 19, 2025

March 18, 2025 by V Leigh

Because it needs to be said, Musk and fascist republicans are deliberately crashing the economy so people lose their businesses, homes and land in order for billionaires to buy out all land and property that would’ve never been sold to them otherwise. They want to own everything.

Because it needs to be said, Musk and fascist republicans are deliberately crashing the economy so people lose their businesses, homes and land in order for billionaires to buy out all land and property that would’ve never been sold to them otherwise. They want to own everything.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) March 11, 2025

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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.

Why do we always hear “we can’t afford to pay our workers more” but never “we can’t afford to pay our CEO more”?
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 8, 2025

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When Elon Musk says we need to cut “entitlements,” he’s talking about the Social Security and Medicare that YOU paid into.

At the exact same time, Trump and Republicans are pushing to spend TRILLIONS on tax cuts for the rich.

They’re stealing from you to give to billionaires.
— Americans For Tax Fairness (@4TaxFairness) March 11, 2025

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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 12, 2025

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December 19, 2024 by V Leigh

THE ONLY MINORITY DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY ARE THE BILLIONAIRES.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on…

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) December 15, 2024

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Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2024: $447 billion

Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18 billion
2024: $249 billion

Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2012: $44 billion
2024: $224 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25 an hour
2024: $7.25 an hour

5 words: Tax billionaires out of existence
— Warren Gunnels (@GunnelsWarren) December 12, 2024

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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:

Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000…
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) December 11, 2024

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THE ONLY MINORITY DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY ARE THE BILLIONAIRES. pic.twitter.com/f7unuW3ZEk
— Sabby Sabs (@SabbySabs2) December 12, 2024

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Denied: ProPublica Exposes UnitedHealth Profiteering Off Limiting Care for Children with Autism https://t.co/kayNP6zYnN
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) December 16, 2024

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December 11, 2024 by V Leigh

Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto REAVEALED

I got the Luigi Mangione manifesto — the real one, not the fake one circulating online.

Here it is:https://t.co/bnlcbLxIuL
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 10, 2024

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Luigi Mangione’s alleged manifesto published by @kenklippenstein:

“To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some… pic.twitter.com/EJqh8DdT4g
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) December 10, 2024

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Luigi Mangione on his way to his extradition hearing shouts: “This is completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people” pic.twitter.com/GXSEGBuGpn
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 10, 2024

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Hitting the last three words in the headline https://t.co/X8Uvk58FkM pic.twitter.com/pHIqxtuzPC
— Tom Badgerlock (@NBABabySecret) December 10, 2024

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Collins: People are reaching out to you and offering to help pay for his legal bills

Mangione’s Attorney: That’s correct.

Collins: Would you accept those offers?

Mangione’s Attorney: I probably wouldn’t

Collins: Why do you think they’re offering?

Mangione’s Attorney: The… pic.twitter.com/EVbBT29WGx
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 11, 2024

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Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto REAVEALED https://t.co/BXOUi9AOIR via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) December 11, 2024

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Luigi Mangione’s manifesto refers to Michael Moore’s Sicko documentary on the for-profit US healthcare system. In one part of it Moore takes abandoned 9/11 first responders to Cuba to get healthcare there, to show just how sick and depraved the US is by comparison: pic.twitter.com/IfdYswtlyH
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) December 10, 2024

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March 28, 2024 by V Leigh

Bosses won’t voluntarily share the wealth that their employees create. This is why we have to fight.

🚨 Workers at Mercedes-Benz’s largest U.S. plant have filed multiple federal charges with the National Labor Relations Board in response to the company’s aggressive and illegal union-busting.https://t.co/gFFhwrx0k9
— UAW (@UAW) March 26, 2024

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Over a century later, an immigrant garment worker in LA who I interviewed for my book told me about how her bosses lock the doors of the factory where she and her coworkers are paid by the piece. https://t.co/P5vvzRIF0M
— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) March 25, 2024

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Over the past 70 years, corporations have gone from paying a tax rate of over 50% to under 20%. Taxing the rich means forcing these companies to pay their share.https://t.co/8YGEm3ssEr pic.twitter.com/2yryQOe6i9
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) March 25, 2024

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Amazon and Space X are fighting in court to have the NLRB declared unconstitutional.

This means the two richest men on earth want to dismantle the agency that holds them accountable for union busting.

Nothing terrifies them more than worker power.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 24, 2024

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Bosses won’t voluntarily share the wealth that their employees create. This is why we have to fight. pic.twitter.com/fkPuoCI01m
— Chris Brooks (@chactivist) March 22, 2024

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August 12, 2023 by V Leigh

Having a job is often not enough in a system that requires homelessness and poverty to function.

Welcome to the USA where disabled patients are wheeled out to the street corner and discarded like trash. pic.twitter.com/ZXErfE5zvk
— 🥀_ Imposter 🥀 (@Imposter_Edits) August 5, 2023

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Having a job is often not enough in a system that requires homelessness and poverty to function. pic.twitter.com/QHh8ReW043
— Ahmed Ali (@DrAhmednurAli) July 25, 2023

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Houston Food Not Bombs (which has been around since 1994) has now been ticketed at least 30 times for sharing free food with unhoused neighbors.

Each ticket is $2000!

It specifically says “feed homeless” on the citation. pic.twitter.com/Ih46KEnb5h
— Claire Zagorski, MSc, LP (@clairezagorski) July 23, 2023

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Today marks an unfortunate anniversary. The last time the federal minimum wage was raised was July 24, 2009.

This is the longest time that the federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in U.S. history.

At $7.25/hour, the federal rate is also the minimum wage in 20 states.
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) July 24, 2023

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actors are on strike, writers are on strike, teamsters are on strike, hotel employees are on strike, grad students are on strike, health care workers are on strike… can we realize there are deep systemic issues in this country yet
— wells santo (searching for alternatives) (@WellsLucasSanto) July 13, 2023

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Every time I see that minimum wage figure, I’m reminded of my first job. I made $7.25 in California … in 1999. I’m aware we made more than other states, but it isn’t lost on me that that figure is still around 20 years later. https://t.co/XkGiLjIRfe
— Jo Von M. McCalester, PhD (@DrMcCalester) July 11, 2023

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“While it will be up to members to decide on the contract, at least one lesson should be clear: Strikes, or the real threat of strikes, work.”https://t.co/aaQr40Zsn1
— UAW (@UAW) July 27, 2023

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Boomers are going to move into assisted living retirement communities owned by private equity, and all this wealth will be completely stripped out of the population. pic.twitter.com/NwcU1ACuvz
— My weight class is Karen (@InsightTweeting) July 13, 2023

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“Every time I walk through that door, I don’t know if I’m going to come out in a body bag.” – testimony from worker at Ultium Cells, one the many EV battery companies receiving billions of $$$ in taxpayer handouts while employing workers in dangerous conditions at poverty wages. https://t.co/sgoXfm2XhA
— Chris Brooks (@chactivist) July 31, 2023

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The average student debt payment is $400+ and you cannot file for bankruptcy if you default. https://t.co/2S5dV60diS
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) July 30, 2023

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February 24, 2023 by V Leigh

Multi-billion dollar corporations will claim they don’t have the money to pay workers better, then spend millions so that they don’t have to pay workers better.

BREAKING: The Labor Dept has released some horrifying findings in its child labor investigation in meatpacking plants.

They say Packers Sanitation employed *at least 102 kids* as young as 13 across 8 states. Minors cleaned ‘back saws, brisket saws and head splitters.’
— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson) February 17, 2023

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You’re not only closer to homelessness than being a billionaire. You’re closer to homelessness than to buying any home in many major cities. You’re closer to homelessness than being able to ever actually retire. When you see it that way, the crisis is impossible to ignore.
— Dana White (@ItsDanaWhite) January 26, 2023

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Multi-billion dollar corporations will claim they don’t have the money to pay workers better, then spend millions so that they don’t have to pay workers better. pic.twitter.com/kcPyaHJ8oF
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) January 26, 2023

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November 29, 2021 by V Leigh

‘No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.’ — @AOC

.@AliVelshi: Taxing ultra-wealthy Americans differently than the rest of us is not a controversial idea. https://t.co/IGzJ80BaVg
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 26, 2021

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If we’re serious about taking on the military industrial complex & cutting the Pentagon budget, we have to expose the military contractors who profit from endless war.

Share this clip from our film “Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers” and help expose the for-profit war machine! pic.twitter.com/3iLBV5P9MO
— Robert Greenwald (@robertgreenwald) August 14, 2021

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20 years after taking out student loans, the typical white borrower owes about 5% of their debt. The typical Black borrower owes about 95%. Because of the wealth gap & systemic discrimination, Black students go into more debt & have a harder time paying it. #CancelStudentDebt
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) November 3, 2021

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No one should have to ration life-saving medication due to price, and yet 1/4 diabetic Americans aren’t taking insulin as prescribed because of its skyrocketing cost. Today, on #WorldDiabetesDay, I’m wearing earrings made from old insulin vials to keep the pressure on Big Pharma. pic.twitter.com/BSAMmtt9pM
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) November 14, 2021

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‘No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.’ — @AOC pulled no punches when discussing income inequality, capitalism, and the ultra wealthy’s grip on power in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/74LMHVM6O4
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 16, 2021

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How Manchin and Sinema’s status as Senate holdouts is proving lucrative

“The Democratic senators have received a flood of money from conservative donors, leading some to raise concerns of corruption”https://t.co/phePsgUB1i
— Coal Miner’s Granddaughter (@TerenehIdia) November 28, 2021

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October 4, 2021 by V Leigh

#PandoraPapers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful

“There is one rule for the rich, and one rule for ordinary people, we’ve got a situation where the richest people on earth are paying lower taxes than a nurse or cleaner”

Max Lawson, from Oxfam International, reacts to findings of the Pandora Papershttps://t.co/H0yx1kRRiW
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) October 4, 2021

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The #PandoraPapers unmask the covert owners of offshore companies, incognito bank accounts, private jets, yachts, mansions and famous artwork — providing more information than what’s usually available to law enforcement and cash-strapped governments. https://t.co/JxKKwYqrtt pic.twitter.com/zJmtqhUYe5
— ICIJ (@ICIJorg) October 3, 2021

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World leaders, celebrities and billionaires are among those who’ve used offshore accounts to hide assets, a report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reveals. The “Pandora Papers” analyzes nearly 12 million leaked files. https://t.co/yyA3iIP2LT
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 3, 2021

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Pandora Papers: Document dump allegedly links world leaders to secret wealth https://t.co/1vnuJUaY2c pic.twitter.com/QH0ry4FZ55
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 4, 2021

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Massive data leak, the Pandora Papers, exposes how world leaders and the super-rich are secretly buying up luxury property to hide their wealthhttps://t.co/DGNOuSbLkb
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) October 3, 2021

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You guys it’s definitely just a coincidence that Facebook Instagram and WhatsApp goes down the day of a 60mins expose and the Pandora Papers drop.
— Camilla Blackett (@camillard) October 4, 2021

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The offshore secrets of more than 35 current and former presidents revealed in a massive leak. This is one of the most exhausting, complex and potentially explosive investigations I’ve ever worked on. https://t.co/abUFJB2o5P
— Paul Lewis (@PaulLewis) October 3, 2021

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While Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp aren’t competing for your attention, read our thread 🧵 on everything you need to know about the Pandora Papers 👇 https://t.co/SRvbVnfEWy
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) October 4, 2021

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#PandoraPapers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful https://t.co/r28CVIgkJ2
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income inequality

The billionaire tax cheat in the Oval Office just eliminated the office that goes after other billionaire tax cheats. Same old story. The get richer. And the little guy gets screwed.

The bottom 60% of U.S. households don’t make enough money to afford a “minimal quality of life,” according to a new analysis.

Because it needs to be said, Musk and fascist republicans are deliberately crashing the economy so people lose their businesses, homes and land in order for billionaires to buy out all land and property that would’ve never been sold to them otherwise. They want to own everything.

THE ONLY MINORITY DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY ARE THE BILLIONAIRES.

Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto REAVEALED

Bosses won’t voluntarily share the wealth that their employees create. This is why we have to fight.

Having a job is often not enough in a system that requires homelessness and poverty to function.

Multi-billion dollar corporations will claim they don’t have the money to pay workers better, then spend millions so that they don’t have to pay workers better.

‘No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.’ — @AOC

#PandoraPapers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful