Elon Musk says he'll save humanity by colonizing Mars. If he means it, he should go first. He runs three companies, grabs subsidies, cheats workers, then sues anyone in his way. Full commentary: jimhightower.substack.com/p/why-trust-...

An obscure trillion-dollar tech boss called you foolish for questioning his AI takeover. He admits it's about profits, not people. Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg: same tune. Full commentary: jimhightower.substack.com/p/ai-billion... #AI #Billionaires

The FCC just approved a plan for 50,000 orbiting space mirrors to light up the night sky, no public input required. Brendan Carr's own words: "harms are unlikely to occur." Would you want night turned into day over your house? @aas.org jimhightower.substack.com/p/ignorance-...

John Deere billed a Montana rancher $4,000 for a $600 repair — because he wasn't "authorized" to fix his own tractor. Farmers organized, sued, and won this month. @repairorg.bsky.social jimhightower.substack.com/p/corporate-... #RightToRepair #JohnDeere

What gives me hope? Hope! If I got my news from the nightly broadcasts and big web media, I'd be depressed too. But travel anywhere in this country and you'll find people who are tenacious, thoughtful, creative, & fun. That's what a movement actually is. jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig...

Billionaires stop paying Social Security tax after their first $185K. Everything above that is free money to them. 95% of us pay on every dollar we earn all year. Fair? Read the full piece: jimhightower.substack.com/p/lets-incre... @socialsecurityworks.org #SocialSecurity #TaxTheRich

Musk owns 40% of SpaceX stock but controls 80% of shareholder votes. He rigged it so he's unfireable — unless he fires himself. Read the full commentary: jimhightower.substack.com/p/beware-of-... #ElonMusk #Plutocracy

Chuck Schumer wrote a strongly worded letter. That'll show 'em. Most politicians run to HOLD office. I ran to USE it. There's a difference, and it's the whole ballgame. What do you want from the people you elect: speeches, or action? Full video: jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig...

Corporations have legal rights to life, liberty, happiness. Trees don't. Quebec just passed a Declaration of the Rights of Trees, part of a growing Rights of Nature movement. If paper corporations get rights, why not forests? jimhightower.substack.com/p/shouldnt-n... #ClimateJustice

Musk's AI data center: 57 unpermitted gas turbines, toxic pollution, Black neighborhoods. Families sued. Trump's DOJ jumped in to protect Musk instead. That's the system working exactly as designed. jimhightower.substack.com/p/of-course-... #ElonMusk #CleanAirAct

The National Restaurant Association charges workers $15 for mandatory "safety training," then uses that money to lobby to keep the tipped wage at $2.13/hour. Frozen since 1991. Sound like a scam? It is. jimhightower.substack.com/p/how-inequa...

Six unelected judges, 38% approval, and all of them insisting they're not partisan. Gorsuch says integrity's "in his bones." Barrett denies being a "partisan hack." Roberts claims judges aren't politicians — the same Roberts who helped install Bush in 2000. The People are supreme, not the court.

Spoke at the @texasdemocrats.bsky.social convention last night. My message: the six Bs (bosses, bankers, billionaires, big shots, bastards, bullshitters) have been running roughshod over us. We're not fire hydrants, and we're gonna show them that come November.

Ran into at old friend at the @texasdemocrats.bsky.social convention tonight. Forever in solidarity with Dolores Huerta. ✊

Pete Seeger went to the old Chautauquas for the music and the girls. He stuck around for the speeches. That's the whole trick: invite people to something fun, then you can talk to them. jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig... #JimHightower #PeteSeeger #Populism

Americans use 10X more poison per acre on lawns than farmers use on crops. Your "well-manicured" yard might be an ecological disaster. jimhightower.substack.com/p/is-your-lu... @rewildorg.bsky.social

When the pesticide lobby came after me, I fought back. My lead witness? @willienelsonmusic.bsky.social. My second? Barbara Jordan. But the story of the organizing behind it is what made this moment a success. jimhightower.substack.com/p/my-lead-of...

Data centers get right to the heart of what I’ve always said about politics: it’s not left vs right, it’s top vs. bottom. And @claytontuckertx.com is leading the charge here in Texas. #ai #aidatacenters #datacenter #texas #agriculture

I sat down for a couple beers with @coryhaala.bsky.social, author of WHEN DEMOCRATS WON THE HEARTLAND. Cory has brilliantly documented how, as the Dems moved towards corporate cash in the '80s, maverick politicians throughout the Midwest & Plains states practiced good ol’ fashioned populism—and won.

Grab a drink — Tuesday is Happy Hour with a historian. @coryhaala.bsky.social spent a decade on When Democrats Won the Heartland & his conclusion is simple: Democrats won the heartland by going harder at corporations. I was there. He's right. 5/26 at 6pm CT. Paid subscribers get to ask questions!

Throwback: DeMarco and I living her inspiration of putting the party back in politics in the 1980s.

Moderate Democrats don't exist. 70% want to tax the rich and crack down on corporations. Radical to consultants. Normal to everyone else. Find your local party meeting and show up. jimhightower.substack.com/p/forget-bei... #JimHightower #Democrats

1985: I told UAW auto workers the farm crisis cost them their jobs too. Farmers couldn't buy equipment. Factories laid off workers. One depression, many faces. Forty years later, still accurate. jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig... #JimHightower #WorkingClass

Stephen Miller wants a 30-foot steel wall on thousand-foot cliffs in Big Bend. The people who live there — ranchers, sheriffs, Native Americans, environmentalists — formed a coalition and are fighting back. jimhightower.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...

I called this in 1988: Trump bought a $37 million yacht with his tax cuts. He could have housed a thousand homeless people with that money instead. 38 years later — is anything different? Full video: jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig... #TaxTheRich #Inequality #TrickleDown

A farmer flying Hightower from one campaign stop to another once landed on a county road to grab a six-pack. His advice about the high wire? "Never look at the high wire. You just land." From our subscribers-only Happy Hour: jimhightower.substack.com #JimHightower #TexasPolitics #Populism

Molly Ivins on the Scholz Garten restroom graffiti — and what someone wrote about UT Regent Frank Erwin. From a C-SPAN storytelling evening Hightower hosted over beers. Full video: jhttps://jimhightower.substack.com/p/blast-from-the-past-hightower-molly #JimHightower #MollyIvins #TexasPolitics

One of the luckiest breaks in my life is that I got to work with and learn from #JesseJackson. The Reverend didn't just talk — he rallied a multiracial populist movement and actually led. #RestInPeace

Wall Street owns 70% of nursing homes. They cut staff to maximize profit. Congress allows it because granny doesn't make donations like Daddy Lobby does. Should profiteering in end-of-life care be legal? Full commentary: jimhightower.substack.com/p/why-do-we-... #NursingHomes #ElderCare

Pentagon contractors banned soldiers from repairing their own weapons. @warren.senate.gov tried to fix it—Mike Rogers and Adam Smith, funded by contractors, killed it. How many other laws benefit corporate donors? jimhightower.substack.com/p/why-is-the... #RightToRepair #Pentagon #Military