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The 2024 Per Capita Violent Crime Rate in West Palm Beach, FL (the closest city to Mar-a-Lago with pop. >100k) was 0.67%.

The same year in D.C. it was 0.23%.
Tim Burchett represents Knoxville, TN. In 2024 the per capita violent crime rate in Knoxville was 0.80%. The same year in D.C. it was 0.23%.
Tim Burchett says he lives in his office in DC because he's scared of crime in the city
Per capita total crime rates for Washington D.C. for the past 20 years:
Per capita property crime stats in DC for the past 20 years:
Per capita violent crime rates in DC for the last 20 years:
Musk's net worth is now $405.6B and he's on track to become the world's first trillionaire by 2027

If you made $100,000 every day it would take:

~11,000 years to get to Musk's current net worth

~27,000 years to reach $1T
At $7.25/hr min wage, working 40 hr wks, 52 wks/yr, with $0 bills & paying $0 taxes

It would take:
~3 wks to make $1k
~7 yrs to make $100k
~66 yrs to make $1M
~6,600 yrs to make $100M
~66,000 yrs to make $1B
~6,600,000 yrs to make $100B

~22,700,000 yrs to make $342B - Elon Musk's net worth
16 years ago today Congress raised the minimum wage to $7.25. And as corporate profits have skyrocketed, executive pay has exploded, & the cost of living has soared—the min wage is still $7.25.

Here are 6 truths everyone should know about our corrupt wage system.
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The Criminal Poverty Wage—16 Years On
The $7.25 federal poverty wage is literally killing Americans, and it must change
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At $7.25/hr min wage, working 40 hr wks, 52 wks/yr, with $0 bills & paying $0 taxes

It would take:
~3 wks to make $1k
~7 yrs to make $100k
~66 yrs to make $1M
~6,600 yrs to make $100M
~66,000 yrs to make $1B
~6,600,000 yrs to make $100B

~22,700,000 yrs to make $342B - Elon Musk's net worth
It’s been 16 years since Congress raised the minimum wage. Meanwhile, folks are out here trying to survive on $7.25 an hour. In this economy?!

I’m standing with my Labor Caucus colleagues to #RaiseTheWage, because $7.25 ain’t cutting it.
At $7.25/hr min wage, working 40 hr wks, 52 wks/yr, with $0 bills & paying $0 taxes

It would take:
~3 wks to make $1k
~7 yrs to make $100k
~66 yrs to make $1M
~6,600 yrs to make $100M
~66,000 yrs to make $1B
~6,600,000 yrs to make $100B

~22,700,000 yrs to make $342B - Elon Musk's net worth
As of today the federal minimum wage has now been $7.25 for 16 years.
At $7.25/hr min wage, working 40 hr wks, 52 wks/yr, with $0 bills & paying $0 taxes

It would take:
~3 wks to make $1k
~7 yrs to make $100k
~66 yrs to make $1M
~6,600 yrs to make $100M
~66,000 yrs to make $1B
~6,600,000 yrs to make $100B

~22,700,000 yrs to make $342B - Elon Musk's net worth
Today marks 16 years since the federal minimum wage was last raised.

Guess how much the wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?
At $7.25/hr min wage, working 40 hr wks, 52 wks/yr, with $0 bills & paying $0 taxes

It would take:
~3 wks to make $1k
~7 yrs to make $100k
~66 yrs to make $1M
~6,600 yrs to make $100M
~66,000 yrs to make $1B
~6,600,000 yrs to make $100B

~22,700,000 yrs to make $342B - Elon Musk's net worth
Using time to understand the scale of billions vs millions:

1 thousand seconds is ~17 minutes

1 million seconds is ~12 days

100 million seconds is ~3 years

1 billion seconds is ~32 years

100 billions seconds is ~3,200 years

342 billion seconds (Elon Musk's net worth) is ~11,000 years
If every state with a Republican governor gerrymanders their state to remove all Dem districts - they could gain 54 seats in the house.

If every state with a Democratic governor does the same to the Rep districts - they could gain 81 seats in the house.

The new total would be 242 D - 193 R
Exactly as I predicted, many Repub congresspeople are BEGGING BLUE STATES to not gerrymander them into oblivion

See what happens when you use LEVERAGE instead of the same old stuff that got us here?

My message to them: keep begging

Your felon started this, WE WILL FINISH IT
If every state with a Republican governor gerrymanders their state to remove all Dem districts - they could gain 54 seats in the house.

If every state with a Democratic governor does the same to the Rep districts - they could gain 81 seats in the house.

The new total would be 242 D - 193 R
Beto O’Rourke says let’s ‘fight fire with fire!’

Beto says blue states should do all they can to gerrymander more seats since Republicans are doing it ruthlessly in red states!!
If every state with a Republican governor gerrymanders their state to remove all Dem districts - they could gain 54 seats in the house.

If every state with a Democratic governor does the same to the Rep districts - they could gain 81 seats in the house.

The new total would be 242 D - 193 R
I’m not a Newsom fan at all, but I gotta give him props for understanding the current situation and throwing away unilateral disarmament.

If they’re gonna further gerrymander Texas mid-cycle, let’s gerrymander the fuck out of every blue state. You don’t beat fascism with niceties.
If every state with a Republican governor gerrymanders their state to remove all Dem districts - they could gain 54 seats in the house.

If every state with a Democratic governor does the same to the Rep districts - they could gain 81 seats in the house.

The new total would be 242 D - 193 R
@jamestalarico.bsky.social on a California gerrymander to counteract Texas' gerrymander: "You can't lay down. We've seen that appeasement doesn't work, especially when you're facing fascism."
In the 2024 Election, there were ~157M votes cast (70% turnout rate)

Trump received 77,303,568 votes (35% of reg voters)
Harris received 75,019,230 votes (34% of reg voters)
3rd parties received 2,878,359 votes (1% of reg voters)

~67M registered voters did not cast a ballot (30% of reg voters)
In the 2024 Election, WY had ~28k registered voters who did not cast a vote (9% of reg voters)
In the 2024 Election, WI had ~1.1M registered voters who did not cast a vote (24% of reg voters)
In the 2024 Election, WV had ~448k registered voters who did not cast a vote (37% of reg voters)
In the 2024 Election, WA had ~1.1M registered voters who did not cast a vote (22% of reg voters)
In the 2024 Election, VA had ~1.9M registered voters who did not cast a vote (30% of reg voters)
In the 2024 Election, VT had ~156k registered voters who did not cast a vote (30% of reg voters)
In the 2024 Election, UT had ~306k registered voters who did not cast a vote (17% of reg voters)
In the 2024 Election, TX had ~7.2M registered voters who did not cast a vote (39% of reg voters)

Non-voters were the largest voting bloc in TX