Department of Class Solidarity
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The Department of Class Solidarity arms organizers, activists, and everyday people with the tools to expose the billionaires ransacking our democracy. Welcome to the war room of the working class.
How the wealthy gaslight their way into influencing public policy
The conditions that created the revolution in 1789 are not too dissimilar to the conditions the US working class face today. Forever wars in far off lands that drive up the cost of living at home. Obscene concentration of wealth and power into the hands of an elite few.
Many historians consider the French Revolution more significant than our own. Serfs, lawyers, bakers, and merchants united to overthrow a feudal system that had lasted three centuries, and in the course of it planted the seeds of human rights that last to this day.
Today, the French are celebrating Bastille Day, which commemorates the event that marks the beginning of the French Revolution: the storming of the Bastille. In a time of immense inequality and elite capture, the French Revolution holds many important lessons for the US today.
ICE agents pulled the trigger, but it took an entire apparatus to commit this murder. Here are the companies that make up ICE's deadly Deportation Industrial Complex, and the billionaires that profit from it.
Prediction markets are to casino what vaping is to cigarettes, plus a lot of insider trading
Peter Thiel’s Dialog may be the worst club on Earth. You weren't invited, but here's who was:
Despite going so far as to submit a Supreme Court brief in favor of arresting and ticketing anyone sleeping outside, there is little to suggest Cicero or Lonsdale have any interest in actually ending homelessness, advocating against proven solutions, like the Housing First model.
The Cicero Institute's most aggressive policy push however has been criminalizing homelessness and enacting harsher punishments on unhoused people, serving as an architect behind Texas’ 2021 camping ban (HB 1925) as well as similar homelessness crackdowns across the country.
While he and Bari Weiss’ pseudo-college brainchild was shockingly a bit of a flop, Lonsdale also created the Cicero Institute, a conservative think tank that works to legislatively implement far-right policies.
The community of Austin, Texas has long been fighting to keep Austin weird. More recently however, that fight has included standing up to a tech billionaire being a sadistic freak about homeless people—meet Joe Lonsdale
The US war on Iran did have winners, it just wasn’t the US or Iran
We looked into SpaceX's impending IPO, and what we found was a billionaire-led scheme prop up Elon Musk’s failing company by fleecing the pensions and retirement accounts of working class people
Charles Oakley is banned from MSG...but they'll let this guy in?
Elon Musk is working with Wall Street to rob your retirement from right under your nose. That's why we put these up in New York during our big protest on Friday. Because if you're going to act like a criminal, you should be treated like one. 📍Midtown, near NASDAQ HQ, NY
The bread and butter of SpaceX is predictably, space, with Starlink pretty much holding down the fort. But even cash cow satellites can't offset a company guided in large part by illusions of grandeur. Another hiccup—among top earning services, SpaceX is its own biggest customer
It's not unusual for tech companies to go in the red with big investments like data centers. The issue is that while taking up over 60% of SpaceX capital expenditures, Grok is losing the AI arms race. xAI has failed to secure critical major contracts or even keep up with rivals
SpaceX has logged a net loss of $9.2 billion since 2025, down $4.9 billion in Q1 of 2026 alone. This is largely due its acquisition of xAI, Musk’s fail son passion project he bailed out through a web of fiat transactions currently burning through billions a month on data centers
Elon Musk is on track to become a trillionaire, and your retirement fund is footing the bill. Ahead of SpaceX's IPO, Wall St tossed guardrails created to protect investors in order to fast track the company into index funds—and your 401k. The problem? SpaceX is losing billions
As we face down an oligarchy and government descending into fascism, it is more important than ever to remember that not too long ago, millions stared down the full might of the United States government, and the government blinked. Because the power lies with the people.
For three years, up to 26 million people across all fifty states participated in a spontaneous, autonomous movement that confronted institutional racism and police violence. While it was not able to fully accomplish all its aims, it gave the working class a glimpse of our power.
On this day, the Minneapolis Police Department murdered George Floyd. It was supposed to be just another cop killing another Black man. Instead, it launched the largest sustained working class protest in US history.
BEZOS: “You want to say any corporate CEO...could find 3 percent in the federal budget on a Tuesday afternoon. This is, there is so much waste in government spending.” FACT: Did Bezos just forget what happened with Elon Musk and DOGE?
BEZOS: "We have way too much corporate welfare, way too much corporate subsidies. There's way too much influence in politics from business." FACT: True, and Bezos should know - he's benefiting from it.
BEZOS: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving." FACT: Ask small businesses and Amazon warehouse workers and drivers about the 'good' the company provides.
BEZOS: “You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you." FACT: Only because his effective tax rate is less than 1%.