@cstross @ardenthistorian.bsky.social I recommend reading "The #TESCREAL Bundle" to see the connections of these people and their fascist eugenic "scifi" ideologies: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636
One author is on Mastodon: @timnitGebru (while @xriskology doesn't seem to be active anymore).
#MatthewDesmond (Princeton University) in the #DailyShow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoLN0YoErK0
You get the impression that #poverty is made and continued by design in the #USA. And there is almost no incentive for the #billionaires to end poverty at all, although they could very easily by just stopping #taxfraud or collecting the taxes that are already due today. 
#Money flows to the super #rich (which pay less #taxes!) instead to the people in need.
The #AmericanDream is an illusion.
What a shit country. What a shit system.
As Greg Sargent reports, a poll just done by Trump's top pollster Tony Fabrizio "shows that majorities oppose cutting taxes on corporations. It finds that 63 percent say their top priority for tax policy is helping 'working-class families,' versus one percent—no, really, one percent—who say it’s helping corporations and the wealthiest Americans."
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites
/28
https://newrepublic.com/article/191841/trump-approval-rating-pollster-bad-news-warning
"The idea that Trump means higher prices and a slower economy is starting to take hold in the electorate. It is turning people against him, and the markets are getting spooked."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites
/27
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-mad-king-had-a-bad-week-the-economy
"People are starting to realize that there is no truth here beyond the desire for personal wealth and power."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites
/26
https://bsky.app/profile/timothysnyder.bsky.social/post/3lirihxoyyc24
Dan Pfeiffer on how a bunch of new polling shows Americans souring on the Musk-Trump agenda, inflation and economic stagnation, and Trump allowing the world's richest man to run roughshod over things like food safety and cancer research.
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites
/25
https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/new-polls-trumps-honeymoon-is-over
"Even more helpful was Musk’s photo-op this week. Americans just love oligarchs chopping up workers with chainsaws. A real winner at the polls, I hear."
~ David Pepper
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites
/24
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/opportunity-americans-recoil-at-trumpmusk
"Some farmers from conservative-leaning districts said they have received no reply. Others said they were told that their representatives supported the administration’s decision — and some representatives appeared to suggest that Trump’s funding freeze was not affecting farmers at all."
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites #farmers #agriculture #USDA
/23
"Farmers seeking money owed to them by the Agriculture Department say they have been rebuffed by some GOP lawmakers.
The Post spoke with farmers and farm organizations in 10 states who had contacted their congressional delegations about the USDA funding freeze."
~ Daniel Wu, Gaya Gupta
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites #farmers #agriculture #USDA
/22
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/farmers-congress-usda-funding-freeze/
"Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA:
- Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies
- Air traffic control support staff
- Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes
- Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly"
~ Andrew Perez quoted by Greg Dworkin
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites #FAA #AirSafety
/21
"He went on to talk about the deficit and why he sees the reduction in spending as necessary.
The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,' 'tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'"
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites #Oregon
/17
"The rowdy town hall was one of the first examples in Georgia of Trump-driven backlash trickling down to the grassroots. So many people showed up that some were turned away by local authorities. Others filed into overflow rooms to watch the back-and-forth."
A big bone of contention for these voters is the firing of hundreds of workers at the nearby CDC in Atlanta.
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites #Georgia
/15
"U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell [Georgia] late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office."
~ Greg Bluestein
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites #Georgia
/14
John Parkinson, Benjamin Siegel, and Jay O'Brien report on town halls across the country, most in strongly Republican districts, in which Republican legislators trying to sell the Musk-Trump DOGE federal cuts are being met with uproar from Republican-voting constituents.
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites
/13
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-hammered-home-doge-ukraine/story?id=119050651
As Hannah Knowles reports,
"Town halls from Wisconsin to Oregon grew testy this week as concerned voters showed up to vent."
Rowdy crowds at town halls in heavily Republican, Trump-voting districts are expressing outrage at what Musk and DOGE are doing in laying off hordes of federal workers.
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites
/12
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/21/doge-georgia-town-hall-gop/
"The honeymoon is over; some of his backers are waking up next to the man they voted for and wondering if they’ve made a terrible mistake. With every policy he implements and offhand remark he makes, Trump is falsifying the imaginary versions of himself that inspired many of his supporters.
~ Yair Rosenberg
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites #TrumpVoters #karma
/10
"Anxiety mounts among Social Security recipients as DOGE troops settle In. Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans."
~ Eli Hager
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites #SocialSecurity #elderly
/9
https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-social-security-elon-musk-trump-closures-benefits
"DOGE’s USDS purge included the guy who keeps veterans’ data safe online. The cybersecurity lead for VA.gov was fired last week. He tells WIRED that the Veterans Affairs digital hub will be more vulnerable without someone in his role."
~ Lily Hay Newman
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites #veterans
/8
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-usds-purge-veterans-affairs-site-cybersecurity/
"U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany and Derrick Van Orden, state Reps. Rob Sommerfeld (R-Bloomer), Treig Pronschinske (R-Mondovi) and Clint Moses (R-Mondovi) and state Sens. Jesse James (R-Thorp) and Rob Stafsholt (R-New Richmond) were all invited but did not attend or send a staff member."
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites #farmers #agriculture #USAID #USDA
/7
"Madison-area U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Black Earth), state Sen. Jeff Smith (D-Eau Claire) and state Reps. Jodi Emerson (D-Eau Claire) and Christian Phelps (D-Eau Claire) were in attendance."
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites #farmers #agriculture #USAID #USDA
/6
