Greedbane
@greedbane.bsky.social
Exposing corporate GREED, and advocating for workers rights.
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Greedbane
@greedbane.bsky.social
· May 18
My dad tried to kill my mom with an axe when I was four.
I grew up delivering papers at 4:30am in an Iowa winter—because we had no power, no money, and adults were stealing my pay.
At eleven, I woke up choking on my own vomit. No one was there.🧵🔗⬇️
I grew up delivering papers at 4:30am in an Iowa winter—because we had no power, no money, and adults were stealing my pay.
At eleven, I woke up choking on my own vomit. No one was there.🧵🔗⬇️
Black Friday “record”: $11.8B spent online.
Under the hood:
– Prices: +7% vs last year
– Orders: -1%
– Fewer items in each cart
We’re not buying more. We’re paying more.🧵⬇️
Under the hood:
– Prices: +7% vs last year
– Orders: -1%
– Fewer items in each cart
We’re not buying more. We’re paying more.🧵⬇️
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Black Friday “record”: $11.8B spent online.
Under the hood:
– Prices: +7% vs last year
– Orders: -1%
– Fewer items in each cart
We’re not buying more. We’re paying more.🧵⬇️
Under the hood:
– Prices: +7% vs last year
– Orders: -1%
– Fewer items in each cart
We’re not buying more. We’re paying more.🧵⬇️
Reposted by Greedbane
Hospitals aren’t collapsing by accident. They’re being engineered to fail.
Private equity buys the building. Mega-systems strip the services. Washington pulls the funding. Consultants rubber-stamp the shutdowns.
By the time your ER goes dark, the choice was already made in a boardroom.🔗⬇️
Private equity buys the building. Mega-systems strip the services. Washington pulls the funding. Consultants rubber-stamp the shutdowns.
By the time your ER goes dark, the choice was already made in a boardroom.🔗⬇️
November 30, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Hospitals aren’t collapsing by accident. They’re being engineered to fail.
Private equity buys the building. Mega-systems strip the services. Washington pulls the funding. Consultants rubber-stamp the shutdowns.
By the time your ER goes dark, the choice was already made in a boardroom.🔗⬇️
Private equity buys the building. Mega-systems strip the services. Washington pulls the funding. Consultants rubber-stamp the shutdowns.
By the time your ER goes dark, the choice was already made in a boardroom.🔗⬇️
A new federal bill would raise minimum wage to $17… by 2030.
Twenty-two million workers waiting five more years for scraps.
Meanwhile wage theft, misclassification, and executive excess rage on.
If justice is on delay, it’s not justice. www.epi.org/publication/...
Twenty-two million workers waiting five more years for scraps.
Meanwhile wage theft, misclassification, and executive excess rage on.
If justice is on delay, it’s not justice. www.epi.org/publication/...
The impact of the Raise the Wage Act of 2025
EPI’s analysis shows that raising the federal minimum wage to $17 by 2030 would impact 22,247,000 workers across the country, or 15% of the U.S. workforce. The increases would provide an additional $7...
www.epi.org
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
A new federal bill would raise minimum wage to $17… by 2030.
Twenty-two million workers waiting five more years for scraps.
Meanwhile wage theft, misclassification, and executive excess rage on.
If justice is on delay, it’s not justice. www.epi.org/publication/...
Twenty-two million workers waiting five more years for scraps.
Meanwhile wage theft, misclassification, and executive excess rage on.
If justice is on delay, it’s not justice. www.epi.org/publication/...
Millions now work multiple jobs just to stay afloat.
Work until your arms fall off — you’re still broke.
That’s not a lifestyle choice. It’s economic coercion.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Work until your arms fall off — you’re still broke.
That’s not a lifestyle choice. It’s economic coercion.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
More Americans take on a second job or side hustle. They come at a cost.
A growing number of Americans have taken second jobs and side hustles, spurred partly by years of rapidly rising prices as well as a strong labor market.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Millions now work multiple jobs just to stay afloat.
Work until your arms fall off — you’re still broke.
That’s not a lifestyle choice. It’s economic coercion.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Work until your arms fall off — you’re still broke.
That’s not a lifestyle choice. It’s economic coercion.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Millions now work multiple jobs just to stay afloat.
Work until your arms fall off — you’re still broke.
That’s not a lifestyle choice. It’s economic coercion.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Work until your arms fall off — you’re still broke.
That’s not a lifestyle choice. It’s economic coercion.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
More Americans take on a second job or side hustle. They come at a cost.
A growing number of Americans have taken second jobs and side hustles, spurred partly by years of rapidly rising prices as well as a strong labor market.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Millions now work multiple jobs just to stay afloat.
Work until your arms fall off — you’re still broke.
That’s not a lifestyle choice. It’s economic coercion.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Work until your arms fall off — you’re still broke.
That’s not a lifestyle choice. It’s economic coercion.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Real earnings stalled across every age and income bracket.
Executive pay? Still blasting into the stratosphere.
This gap isn’t an error — it’s the business model.
www.reuters.com/business/wor...
Executive pay? Still blasting into the stratosphere.
This gap isn’t an error — it’s the business model.
www.reuters.com/business/wor...
US real earnings stalled across age, income groups in past year, study shows
Inflation-adjusted earnings stalled across age and income groups over the past year, while the sometimes rapid wage gains of the COVID-19 era have left workers as a whole little better off five years ...
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Real earnings stalled across every age and income bracket.
Executive pay? Still blasting into the stratosphere.
This gap isn’t an error — it’s the business model.
www.reuters.com/business/wor...
Executive pay? Still blasting into the stratosphere.
This gap isn’t an error — it’s the business model.
www.reuters.com/business/wor...
Counties are disappearing. Not metaphorically — literally.
Hospitals gone. Maternity wards gone. Ambulances an hour away.
Entire regions are now healthcare deserts because an executive decided a community wasn’t “profitable.”
This isn’t mismanagement. It’s the business model.🧵⬇️
Hospitals gone. Maternity wards gone. Ambulances an hour away.
Entire regions are now healthcare deserts because an executive decided a community wasn’t “profitable.”
This isn’t mismanagement. It’s the business model.🧵⬇️
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Counties are disappearing. Not metaphorically — literally.
Hospitals gone. Maternity wards gone. Ambulances an hour away.
Entire regions are now healthcare deserts because an executive decided a community wasn’t “profitable.”
This isn’t mismanagement. It’s the business model.🧵⬇️
Hospitals gone. Maternity wards gone. Ambulances an hour away.
Entire regions are now healthcare deserts because an executive decided a community wasn’t “profitable.”
This isn’t mismanagement. It’s the business model.🧵⬇️
Median platform-gig pay: $5.12/hour.
Meanwhile, tech platforms boast record profits and promise “flexibility.”
This isn’t flexibility—it’s exploitation disguised as innovation.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
Meanwhile, tech platforms boast record profits and promise “flexibility.”
This isn’t flexibility—it’s exploitation disguised as innovation.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
The Platform Economy Runs on Inequality – and Sidesteps Labor Rights
By classifying workers as contractors, platform companies avoid paying core employment obligations while retaining tight control over how the work is done.
www.hrw.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Median platform-gig pay: $5.12/hour.
Meanwhile, tech platforms boast record profits and promise “flexibility.”
This isn’t flexibility—it’s exploitation disguised as innovation.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
Meanwhile, tech platforms boast record profits and promise “flexibility.”
This isn’t flexibility—it’s exploitation disguised as innovation.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
CISA—the agency that protected the 2020 and 2024 elections—has been gutted.
Election-security operations suspended.
The 24/7 threat-alerting hub shut down.
States now say they’re getting “radio silence.”🧵🔗⬇️
Election-security operations suspended.
The 24/7 threat-alerting hub shut down.
States now say they’re getting “radio silence.”🧵🔗⬇️
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
CISA—the agency that protected the 2020 and 2024 elections—has been gutted.
Election-security operations suspended.
The 24/7 threat-alerting hub shut down.
States now say they’re getting “radio silence.”🧵🔗⬇️
Election-security operations suspended.
The 24/7 threat-alerting hub shut down.
States now say they’re getting “radio silence.”🧵🔗⬇️
Reposted by Greedbane
$698 billion.
That’s what the top 10 U.S. billionaires pocketed this year alone.
Meanwhile, workers are told to “be grateful” for a 2% raise that doesn’t even keep up with rent.
Call it what it is:
There’s no meritocracy when the game is stacked this hard.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That’s what the top 10 U.S. billionaires pocketed this year alone.
Meanwhile, workers are told to “be grateful” for a 2% raise that doesn’t even keep up with rent.
Call it what it is:
There’s no meritocracy when the game is stacked this hard.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
$698 billion.
That’s what the top 10 U.S. billionaires pocketed this year alone.
Meanwhile, workers are told to “be grateful” for a 2% raise that doesn’t even keep up with rent.
Call it what it is:
There’s no meritocracy when the game is stacked this hard.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That’s what the top 10 U.S. billionaires pocketed this year alone.
Meanwhile, workers are told to “be grateful” for a 2% raise that doesn’t even keep up with rent.
Call it what it is:
There’s no meritocracy when the game is stacked this hard.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump just floated the death penalty for sitting lawmakers over a PSA about refusing illegal orders.
This isn’t politics anymore.
It’s authoritarian escalation, step by step.
Full breakdown in the new piece:
open.substack.com/pub/greedban...
This isn’t politics anymore.
It’s authoritarian escalation, step by step.
Full breakdown in the new piece:
open.substack.com/pub/greedban...
A Sitting President Just Floated Death for U.S. Senators
There Is No American Precedent for This
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Trump just floated the death penalty for sitting lawmakers over a PSA about refusing illegal orders.
This isn’t politics anymore.
It’s authoritarian escalation, step by step.
Full breakdown in the new piece:
open.substack.com/pub/greedban...
This isn’t politics anymore.
It’s authoritarian escalation, step by step.
Full breakdown in the new piece:
open.substack.com/pub/greedban...
Food prices didn’t rise — they were raised.
On purpose.
By design.
For profit.
If this pisses you off, good.
Read the new Greedbane investigation:
THE CORPORATE HUNGER GAMES
How the grocery industry engineered hunger.
greedbane.substack.com/p/greedbane-...
On purpose.
By design.
For profit.
If this pisses you off, good.
Read the new Greedbane investigation:
THE CORPORATE HUNGER GAMES
How the grocery industry engineered hunger.
greedbane.substack.com/p/greedbane-...
GREEDBANE #16
THE CORPORATE HUNGER GAMES
They aren’t raising prices — they’re engineering hunger.
greedbane.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Food prices didn’t rise — they were raised.
On purpose.
By design.
For profit.
If this pisses you off, good.
Read the new Greedbane investigation:
THE CORPORATE HUNGER GAMES
How the grocery industry engineered hunger.
greedbane.substack.com/p/greedbane-...
On purpose.
By design.
For profit.
If this pisses you off, good.
Read the new Greedbane investigation:
THE CORPORATE HUNGER GAMES
How the grocery industry engineered hunger.
greedbane.substack.com/p/greedbane-...
The Machines That Count Your Vote Are Controlled by Corporations
Three companies—Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Dominion Voting Systems, and Hart InterCivic—control around 90 % of U.S. election equipment.
Three companies—Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Dominion Voting Systems, and Hart InterCivic—control around 90 % of U.S. election equipment.
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The Machines That Count Your Vote Are Controlled by Corporations
Three companies—Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Dominion Voting Systems, and Hart InterCivic—control around 90 % of U.S. election equipment.
Three companies—Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Dominion Voting Systems, and Hart InterCivic—control around 90 % of U.S. election equipment.
Who Owns the Machines That Count Your Vote?
A Trump ally just bought Dominion Voting Systems — yes, the same company at the center of 2020’s election conspiracy circus — and renamed it Liberty Vote.🧵⬇️
A Trump ally just bought Dominion Voting Systems — yes, the same company at the center of 2020’s election conspiracy circus — and renamed it Liberty Vote.🧵⬇️
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Who Owns the Machines That Count Your Vote?
A Trump ally just bought Dominion Voting Systems — yes, the same company at the center of 2020’s election conspiracy circus — and renamed it Liberty Vote.🧵⬇️
A Trump ally just bought Dominion Voting Systems — yes, the same company at the center of 2020’s election conspiracy circus — and renamed it Liberty Vote.🧵⬇️
They didn’t appeal to raise wages. They appealed to stop dinner.
This country has turned weaponized bureaucracy into a moral compass.
Every court filing says the quiet part louder: starvation is a policy choice.
apnews.com/article/snap...
This country has turned weaponized bureaucracy into a moral compass.
Every court filing says the quiet part louder: starvation is a policy choice.
apnews.com/article/snap...
Trump administration renews Supreme Court appeal to keep full SNAP payments frozen
The Trump administration is again asking the Supreme Court to keep full food aid payments on hold. The request Monday is the latest in a legal fight over how the SNAP program that helps 42 million Ame...
apnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
They didn’t appeal to raise wages. They appealed to stop dinner.
This country has turned weaponized bureaucracy into a moral compass.
Every court filing says the quiet part louder: starvation is a policy choice.
apnews.com/article/snap...
This country has turned weaponized bureaucracy into a moral compass.
Every court filing says the quiet part louder: starvation is a policy choice.
apnews.com/article/snap...
Here’s what Congress really prioritized in the shutdown bill:
Congress starved workers, called it negotiation, and slipped in $30 million for their own protection.
Not for food.
Not for healthcare.
For body armor.
See it for yourself:
www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...
Congress starved workers, called it negotiation, and slipped in $30 million for their own protection.
Not for food.
Not for healthcare.
For body armor.
See it for yourself:
www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...
www.congress.gov
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Here’s what Congress really prioritized in the shutdown bill:
Congress starved workers, called it negotiation, and slipped in $30 million for their own protection.
Not for food.
Not for healthcare.
For body armor.
See it for yourself:
www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...
Congress starved workers, called it negotiation, and slipped in $30 million for their own protection.
Not for food.
Not for healthcare.
For body armor.
See it for yourself:
www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...
$18.2 trillion in debt.
That’s where American households sit as of Q1 2025 — a record high.
And what’s the big solution?
A 50-year mortgage.
Not affordable housing.
Not wage increases.
Not debt relief.
Just a longer leash.
Stretch the payments across five decades.
That’s where American households sit as of Q1 2025 — a record high.
And what’s the big solution?
A 50-year mortgage.
Not affordable housing.
Not wage increases.
Not debt relief.
Just a longer leash.
Stretch the payments across five decades.
November 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
$18.2 trillion in debt.
That’s where American households sit as of Q1 2025 — a record high.
And what’s the big solution?
A 50-year mortgage.
Not affordable housing.
Not wage increases.
Not debt relief.
Just a longer leash.
Stretch the payments across five decades.
That’s where American households sit as of Q1 2025 — a record high.
And what’s the big solution?
A 50-year mortgage.
Not affordable housing.
Not wage increases.
Not debt relief.
Just a longer leash.
Stretch the payments across five decades.
$17.1 million:
The median take‑home for a CEO in the S&P 500 in 2024.
Meanwhile, the median worker saw a single‑digit raise.
If inequality isn’t built into the system, why is the gap getting bigger?
corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/06/08/c...
The median take‑home for a CEO in the S&P 500 in 2024.
Meanwhile, the median worker saw a single‑digit raise.
If inequality isn’t built into the system, why is the gap getting bigger?
corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/06/08/c...
CEO Pay Study
The corner offices of corporate America are home to some of the most influential executives in business today, notably chief executive officers (CEOs). ...
corpgov.law.harvard.edu
November 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
$17.1 million:
The median take‑home for a CEO in the S&P 500 in 2024.
Meanwhile, the median worker saw a single‑digit raise.
If inequality isn’t built into the system, why is the gap getting bigger?
corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/06/08/c...
The median take‑home for a CEO in the S&P 500 in 2024.
Meanwhile, the median worker saw a single‑digit raise.
If inequality isn’t built into the system, why is the gap getting bigger?
corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/06/08/c...
No money for food.
But there’s always money for:
– Fossil fuel bailouts
– Private prison contracts
– A Space Force PR campaign
If you’re starving in America, it’s not because we’re broke.
It’s because cruelty is the point.
But there’s always money for:
– Fossil fuel bailouts
– Private prison contracts
– A Space Force PR campaign
If you’re starving in America, it’s not because we’re broke.
It’s because cruelty is the point.
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
No money for food.
But there’s always money for:
– Fossil fuel bailouts
– Private prison contracts
– A Space Force PR campaign
If you’re starving in America, it’s not because we’re broke.
It’s because cruelty is the point.
But there’s always money for:
– Fossil fuel bailouts
– Private prison contracts
– A Space Force PR campaign
If you’re starving in America, it’s not because we’re broke.
It’s because cruelty is the point.
42 million Americans rely on SNAP.
Trump’s team is fighting in court to stop those benefits—not for lack of money,
but because feeding poor people is a political inconvenience.
They’ll bankrupt the treasury for war and tax cuts—but when it comes to dinner?
They bring lawyers.
Trump’s team is fighting in court to stop those benefits—not for lack of money,
but because feeding poor people is a political inconvenience.
They’ll bankrupt the treasury for war and tax cuts—but when it comes to dinner?
They bring lawyers.
November 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
42 million Americans rely on SNAP.
Trump’s team is fighting in court to stop those benefits—not for lack of money,
but because feeding poor people is a political inconvenience.
They’ll bankrupt the treasury for war and tax cuts—but when it comes to dinner?
They bring lawyers.
Trump’s team is fighting in court to stop those benefits—not for lack of money,
but because feeding poor people is a political inconvenience.
They’ll bankrupt the treasury for war and tax cuts—but when it comes to dinner?
They bring lawyers.
Zohran Mamdani didn’t buy the election — he built it.
Taxi drivers. Nurses. Bodega owners. Union halls. No billionaires. No developers. Just people.
When workers run for office, developers lose control.
Read the full story: greedbane.substack.com/p/what-mamda...
Taxi drivers. Nurses. Bodega owners. Union halls. No billionaires. No developers. Just people.
When workers run for office, developers lose control.
Read the full story: greedbane.substack.com/p/what-mamda...
What Mamdani Means
The Day Workers Took Back City Politics
greedbane.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Zohran Mamdani didn’t buy the election — he built it.
Taxi drivers. Nurses. Bodega owners. Union halls. No billionaires. No developers. Just people.
When workers run for office, developers lose control.
Read the full story: greedbane.substack.com/p/what-mamda...
Taxi drivers. Nurses. Bodega owners. Union halls. No billionaires. No developers. Just people.
When workers run for office, developers lose control.
Read the full story: greedbane.substack.com/p/what-mamda...