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ProgressivePower<p>This is oligarchy. (Our continued disdain applies to every profiteer elitist “liberal” who refuses to leave X or sell their Tesla) <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
OccuWorld<p>Michael Parenti - Free Market Mythology</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONiAfIC90uc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=ONiAfIC90u</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p><p>“The most ruthless selfish opportunistic greedy calculating plunderers applying the most heartless measures in cold blooded pursuit of corporate interest and wealth accumulation will produce the best results for all of us…<br>through something called the invisible hand”</p><p><a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Market" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Market</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Sociopathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sociopathy</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Abuse</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/InvisibleHand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InvisibleHand</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/UnderminingMorality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnderminingMorality</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/IncreasedRisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IncreasedRisk</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/EconomicViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicViolence</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Corporatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corporatism</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutocracy</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Running roughshod over the law. Massive corruption and open conflicts of interest. A war on science, education, and truth. A compliant Congress. An enabling Supreme Court. A morally bankrupt leader. The stoking of hate. It’s a list of outrages that we must keep firmly in the category of unacceptable—if we have any hope of preserving our democracy."</p><p>~ Elliot Kirschner</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/its-unbelievable" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">elliotkirschner.substack.com/p</span><span class="invisible">/its-unbelievable</span></a></p>
Martin Holland<p></p><blockquote>Welcome to the American <a href="https://federation.network/tags/oligarchy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a>. America always had rich people, and they always influenced <a href="https://federation.network/tags/government" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#government</a>. But never before have the rich amassed money and power on anything like this scale, and <a href="https://federation.network/tags/Trump" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> helped them get there. After Trump’s 2017 tax cut, the combined wealth of America’s billionaires doubled to $6 trillion, according to a July 2024 report by Americans for Tax Fairness. Going back to the start of the twenty-first century, American billionaire wealth increased ninefold. There aren’t enough <a href="https://federation.network/tags/billionaires" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a><span> in America to fill Carnegie Hall, but they own 3.8 percent of the nation’s wealth.<br><br>During that same quarter-century, the bottom half of the income distribution increased its collective wealth not ninefold but twofold (thanks largely to Covid stimulus checks). We’re talking about half the country—about 66 million families—owning not 3.8 percent of America’s wealth but 2.5 percent. By some measures, wealth concentration in America today is greater than in fourteenth-century Europe, even though America is democratic and fourteenth-century Europe was, you know, feudal.</span></blockquote><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/196176/trump-billionaires-america-wealth-inequality" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/article/196176/trump-billionaires-america-wealth-inequality</a> <a href="https://federation.network/tags/USA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://federation.network/tags/DonaldTrump" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://federation.network/tags/Wealth" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wealth</a> <a href="https://federation.network/tags/Inequality" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Inequality</a><p></p>
ProgressivePower<p>The analogies of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽<p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TechnoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zuckerberg</span></a></p>
OccuWorld<p>I’m A Doctor. The Things I’m Now Being Trained To Do In Trump’s America Are Terrifying.</p><p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor-trump-patient-privacy-ice_n_687e3e9de4b06691ec25114c" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">huffpost.com/entry/doctor-trum</span><span class="invisible">p-patient-privacy-ice_n_687e3e9de4b06691ec25114c</span></a></p><p>“It was then I realized that I was being prepared to be a doctor in an emerging police state.”</p><p><a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Doctor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Doctor</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Training" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Training</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Workforce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Workforce</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Management" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Management</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Depression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Depression</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Control</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a></p>
United States News Beep<p>Is America an Oligarchy, As Bernie Sanders Says?</p><p>Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin has recently been fretting about the increasing use of the term “oligarchy” by her…<br><a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/NewsBeep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewsBeep</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/UnitedStatesOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesOfAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/BernieSanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BernieSanders</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/Billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/donaldtrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>donaldtrump</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/elonmusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elonmusk</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/UnitedStatesofAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesofAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/Wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wealth</span></a><br><a href="https://www.newsbeep.com/us/36515/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">newsbeep.com/us/36515/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> is the first company to establish an extensive network of communication satellites in low-Earth orbit, a region of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> that is closer to the planet than areas where such satellites historically reside. The proximity of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/satellites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>satellites</span></a> that now make up the company’s constellation allows <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starlink</span></a> to offer space-based <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/wireless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wireless</span></a> connectivity that is faster than any previously available.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/influence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>influence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Underscoring the point himself during his recent dispute with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> threatened to decommission a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> spacecraft the US now relies upon to transport <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/astronauts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronauts</span></a> &amp; critical cargo.</p><p>His threat, later retracted, unnerved attorneys at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a>, who felt forced to explore whether Musk’s warning could be considered a notice of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/contract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contract</span></a> termination, according to two people familiar with the matter.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starlink</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/influence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>influence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“There are things that we can do, &amp; have done” to prevent it, she added, without providing further detail.</p><p>Reuters couldn’t determine if the shutdown affecting Kherson was among the steps she was referring to…</p><p>Following the start of the Kherson shutdown, word of an outage emerged in some media reports. At the time, it wasn’t clear to those who lost connectivity whether a technical problem, sabotage or some other factor was responsible.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starlink</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/influence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>influence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>In his 2023 biography of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>, author Walter Isaacson reported that the tycoon had ordered <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starlink</span></a> to disable coverage in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Crimea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crimea</span></a>, which <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> had annexed from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> after a 2014 invasion that the international community condemned as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illegal</span></a>. Musk, Isaacson wrote, believed a planned Ukrainian attack on Russian vessels in the Crimean port of Sevastopol could prompt <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> retaliation.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/influence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>influence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> Department of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Defense</span></a> declined to comment. Reuters couldn’t determine whether <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteHouse</span></a> or <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pentagon</span></a> officials after the shutdown had any exchanges with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> over the outage.</p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Kherson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kherson</span></a> episode is distinct from an earlier report of an incident that purportedly occurred that same September, involving <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Crimea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crimea</span></a> just to the south, &amp; raised concerns about Musk’s ability to influence the conflict in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/influence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>influence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The parliamentarian is a businesswoman &amp; fmr board member at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a>, the social media site that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> acquired in 2022 &amp; rebranded as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/X" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>X</span></a>.</p><p>“Its control,” Lane Fox said of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starlink</span></a>, “rests solely with Musk, allowing his whims to dictate access to vital infrastructure.”</p><p>Musk’s political <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/influence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>influence</span></a>, &amp; his massive business with the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> federal govt, are now being put to the test. Since leaving his role advising <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, Musk has publicly feuded with the president….</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>But <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>’s order, which hasn’t previously been reported, is the first known instance of the billionaire actively [&amp; personally] shutting off <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starlink</span></a> coverage over a battlefield during the conflict. The decision shocked some Starlink employees &amp; effectively reshaped the front line of the fighting, enabling <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> to take “the outcome of a war into his own hands,” another one of the three people said.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>As a result,…troops failed to surround a Russian position in the town of Beryslav, east of Kherson, the administrative center of the region of the same name. “The encirclement stalled entirely,” said the military official in an interview. “It failed.”</p><p>Ultimately, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>’s counteroffensive succeeded in reclaiming Beryslav, the city of Kherson &amp; some additional territory <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> had occupied.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Upon <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>’s order, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> troops suddenly faced a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/communications" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communications</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/blackout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blackout</span></a>, acc/to a Ukrainian military official, an advisor to the armed forces, &amp; 2 others who experienced <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starlink</span></a> failure near the front lines. Soldiers panicked, drones surveilling <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> forces went dark, &amp; long-range artillery units, reliant on Starlink to aim their fire, struggled to hit targets.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“We have to do this,” Michael Nicolls, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starlink</span></a> engineer, told colleagues upon receiving the order from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>, one of these people said. Staffers complied, the 3 people told Reuters, deactivating at least a hundred Starlink terminals, their hexagon-shaped cells going dark on an internal map of the company’s coverage. The move also affected other areas seized by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a>, including some of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Donetsk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Donetsk</span></a> province further east.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>We all suspected it, now it’s confirmed.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> ordered shutdown of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starlink</span></a> satellite service as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> retook territory from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a></p><p>A previously unreported order by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> to cut satellite <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/communications" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communications</span></a> over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order &amp; its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/investigations/mus</span><span class="invisible">k-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/</span></a></p>
aburtch<p>We are going to have to start talking about the “prison-industrial complex. Because the same way that war and military spending fuel profits for a lucrativly rich segment of the economy, mass incarceration does as well. </p><p>It’s a grift. A huge amount of money is now going to building and operating prisons, all run by privately owned companies, who I guarantee are all heavy Trump donors. </p><p><a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/PrisonIndustrialComplex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrisonIndustrialComplex</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/@continuation/114913002647789690" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mas.to/@continuation/114913002</span><span class="invisible">647789690</span></a></p>