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The super wealthy want you to be mad about foreign aid because they don't want anyone to focus on the HUGE amount of money we spend on THEM. Trump's 2017 law spends more on tax breaks for just 4 companies (AT&T, Facebook, Verizon and Walmart) than the entire USAid budget.
βThe future of Syria is entirely unclear, Applebaum writes, but there is no doubt that βthe end of the Assad regime creates something new, and not only in Syria. There is nothing worse than hopelessness, nothing more soul-destroying than pessimism, grief, and despair. The fall of a Russian- and Iranian-backed regime offers, suddenly, the possibility of change. The future might be different. And that possibility will inspire hope all around the world.β -Heather Cox Richardson
Tesla and SpaceX have reportedly received $15.4 BILLION in taxpayer funding. Before Musk cuts one dollar from Social Security (funded by the recipient), he should return the money heβs taken and refuse any additional funds (a screaming conflict of interest).
βA viral Bluesky thread introduced tens of thousands around the world to a first glimpse of a forthcoming biography of Elon Musk. Here in a single essay is some of what the world just learned.β 1. Elon Musk may be an unelected plutocrat, but in six weeks heβll become co-President of the United States. Unfortunately, many people around the world are only just now beginning to research who Musk really isβnot the mythos he spent decades carefully weaving about himself like a cloak, but the hard realities that define the actual man. Most of what people think they know about Elon Musk is manifestly false. This essay, written by an Elon Musk biographer and based on OSINT research, reveals the truthβor at least a significant part of it. Rest assured that none of what remains is any better. As you will soon see, the parallels between the lives of Trump and Musk are jarring. https://open.substack.com/pub/sethabramson/p/the-truth-about-musk-from-his-biographer?r=9r5ij&utm_medium=ios