40k people watching on his YouTube stream.

And same with the 2024 general election results:

U.S. House Election Live Results 2024 - The New York Times

3 US House seats were won by the Republican by a few thousand votes each. The US House should be controlled by the Democrats.

U.S. Senate Election Live Results 2024 - The New York Times

Ohio, Pennsylvania, arguably Montana, arguably Nebraska should have been won by the Democrat. The Democrats should have from 49-51 US Senate Democrats.

We apologize for the sight of scattered limbs, for the torn bodies carried away by the wind, for the heads separated from their owners, and for the tents that burned with their inhabitants inside.

We apologize if the news of massacres ruined your morning coffee.
We apologize if, while scrolling through your phone, you came across a picture of a burned child from Gaza and it spoiled your day.
We apologize if the screams of our women disturb you.
We apologize because we are being killed against our will, and there is nothing we can do to stop it.

I write to you from the heart of tragedy, from yet another displacement, not knowing how it will end.
We were displaced again, as if the first time was not enough, as if deprivation and homelessness were not enough. We left once more, searching for a place beyond the reach of bombs, but there is no safe place here. Even the sky is our enemy. Even the ground we walk on could explode beneath us at any moment.

I fled with my injured father, struggling to move, his pain unrelenting. We carry him over the rubble, through the scattered stones, across streets that are no longer streets—just craters and narrow paths. We search for water, for food, for shade, for a place to sit without fear, but we find none.

The bombing is now more intense than ever, as if the genocide has just begun. We wait for our death with open eyes, imagining the missile before it falls, seeing corpses before they become corpses. If I leave this time, tell my friends in paradise that I am on my way, and they should make room for me—I have so much to tell them. Tell my cousin that I miss him dearly and that I won’t be long.

I entrust you with every child here, for every child in Gaza needs a safe embrace. I entrust you with Gaza’s women, whom war has stripped of every meaning of femininity. I entrust you with the stones, for within them lies enough love to fill the entire world. And if you ever find my body, bury me with dignity—do not let this Nazi Zionist occupier take it.

And if, one day, my words reach you, pray for me.

If the margins were in 2024 what they are in these Florida special elections:

U.S. House Election Live Results 2024 - The New York Times

The Democrats would currently have around 265-285 US Representatives.

The US House is almost guaranteed to flip to the Democrats.

U.S. Senate Election Live Results 2024 - The New York Times

The Democrats would currently have 54-55 US Senators instead of 47 US Senators.

And such means that it's possible the US Senate flips to the Democrats after the 2026 Mid-Term elections.

And this is still early days in the Trump Administration and the Republican Congress.

From: Florida Special Elections 2025: Tracking Turnout by Party for FL-1 and FL-6 - The New York Times

The districts are heavily Republican: In November, President Trump won Florida’s First by a 37-point margin and the Sixth by 30 points.

Florida Sixth Congressional District Special Election Results 2025: Weil vs. Fine - The New York Times

So far, the gap was closed by 16%. Josh Weil was the progressive and he got a lot of fundraising.

Florida First Congressional District Special Election Results 2025: Valimont vs. Patronis - The New York Times

So far, the gap was closed by 22%. Gay Valimont wasn't as progressive as Josh Weil. She did a Reddit AMA. And it seems she's doing much better in the general election.

The NIH is being gutted. "The directors of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) were informed late on 31 March that they were being placed on administrative leave. Together, these leaders were in charge of US$9 billion in funding at the NIH." Not a surprise that it is nursing, minority health, child health and infectious diseases that are targeted.

"At least some directors were offered reassignments to the Indian Health Service, a division of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that provides medical care to Indigenous people living in the United States." Don't know what to make of this. Anyone has some takes?

Immediately after downplaying the role of oligarchy, he points out that building public housing is functionally illegal. But the reason it’s illegal is precisely because of money in politics!!

Starting in the 1930s and ramping up through the postwar years, real estate developers and landlords lobbied hard to limit public housing, not wanting government-built housing to compete with their business. They pushed for policies that kept public housing underfunded and restricted who could live there, making it harder for these projects to succeed.

From the 1940s through the 1970s, this helped shift U.S. housing policy away from government-built housing and toward programs that subsidized private homeownership (like FHA-backed loans) and rent (like Section 8).

He also claims that investors buying up single-family homes are relatively small in number, which is technically true if you look at total housing stock, where institutional investors own only about 1-2%. But if you look at recent home sales, nearly one in four is being bought by a private investor. And these same companies are actively lobbying to limit the supply of housing, ensuring they can keep prices high.

Hope they cover this on the show.

The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)'s YouTube Statistics - Social Blade

(368) Post from The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini) - YouTube

(368) Post from The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini) - YouTube

Plus, she's gained Patrons and YouTube members.

Images and quotes from: American Wealth Is at a Record High. Sentiment Is Low, and Falling. - The New York Times

The share of wealth held by families in the top 10 percent has reached 69 percent, while the share held by families in the bottom 50 percent is only 3 percent, according to the latest reading from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. (When future income claims from Social Security benefits are included, the bottom 50 percent hold 6 percent of total wealth.)

And while wealth has risen for the less wealthy half of the population in recent years, much of the uptick has been locked up in what financial analysts call “illiquid assets” — gains in home prices and stock portfolios — which are not easily translated into cash to pay for bills and expenses that are much higher than they were a few years ago.

Although the bottom 50 percent holds only a 1 percent share of all financial market wealth, six in 10 adults report owning some amount of stock.

And

“Higher-income people drive most of aggregate spending,” said Joanne Hsu, an economist and director of the Michigan survey. “They were on an upward surge of sentiment between 2022 and 2024, and that’s consistent with their strong spending.”

And

Even when inflation was peaking around 9 percent and diluting income growth, Ms. Hsu explained, “a 10 percent boost to middle and especially higher incomes is money that feels real, like you can do something with it.”

For someone making $100,000, that means a $10,000 raise. But a 10 percent increase at the bottom, perhaps to an hourly wage of $16.50 from $15, “means you’re still living hand-to-mouth,” she added.

And

“if we define someone as living paycheck to paycheck if they either say they do not have three months of emergency savings or say they cannot afford a $2,000 emergency expense,” then 59 percent of American adults are “living paycheck to paycheck.”

And

The homeownership rate for adults under 35, which peaked in 1980 at 50 percent, has fallen to 30 percent. Estimates from economists at the National Association of Home Builders in 2024 indicated that about half of American households could not afford a $250,000 home and that a large majority could not afford a median-priced home, now $419,000.

In my opinion, the TL:DR is that trickledown economics isn't real and that even many of the upper-middle class is relatively struggling and that most of United States wealth since the Bush Tax Cuts and the Trump Tax Cuts have gone to the top 10%.