Our Tax System Should Make You Furious www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...
And how the richest work the system to the backbreaking detriment of us the 98 percent, but especially the hourly wage-earning class.
Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection
MAGAs in 2016 already knew tath Trump had committed adultery with Stormy Daniels when Melania had just had his son.
Dems had already been holding Dem elected officials accountable for sex crimes or allegations. Today's Repubs are predators from local govs to DC offices.
I figured living next to an ai data center would be harmful, but I didn’t expect it to be a literal Analog Horror Noise Generator
Newsweek magazine two weeks ago: "Trump’s approval among GOP respondents fell to 79 percent, down from 85 percent in February, while support among 18- to 24-year-olds dipped to 25 percent from 38 percent."
⚡️News from occupied Ukraine: Amid intensifying Ukraine's strikes on occupied territories, Special Operations Forces released a video detailing operations; Fifteen children and teenagers have been rescued from Russian occupation over the past week; and more.
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N.B.: I am beyond sick of even the progressive newspapers plastering the execrable visage on every article remotely related to him--so much so that I'm canceling my Independent subscription and sticking to EuroNews and one of the international newswires.
How many times can we “obliterate “ Iran’s nuclear capabilities? How many years will Iran be “weeks away” from attacking the U.S.? How many wars can Netanyahu get us into? How many centuries will countries continue fighting religious wars? How many trillions must be spent to feed the military industrial complex? How many innocent men, women and children must be killed and displaced from their homes? END THIS WAR NOW
WHY ARE WE IN IRAN?
Ha! Take your untrained ICE goons, who've had zero legal training and know nothing about what they cannot do to people, and stick them up your sick derriere, Mike Johnson.
Rubio is a compulsive liar just like his dictator boss Trump.
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UN warns of widening crisis as Israeli attacks displace 750,000 in Lebanon
UN warns of widening crisis as Israeli attacks displace 750,000 in Lebanon https://aje.news/594bax
♦️ The Trump administration befuddles the oil market.
♦️ A special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene heads to a run-off.
♦️ Microsoft backs Anthropic’s lawsuit.
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Nothing turns the public against the incumbent party like a tanked economy and a disastrous war. The Iranians believe they’ll achieve favorable terms once the U.S. economy begins to crater and the public turns against Trump. trib.al/JJ2fRtk
The number of LNG tanker deliveries of gas that could be avoided in 2030, either due to clean technologies replacing the gas or by additional North Sea supplies replacing the imports. See below for methodology. Sources: Carbon Brief analysis of data from the North Sea Transition Authority and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
NEW – Analysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by more than North Sea drilling | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
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Russian oil made its way to China, India and other countries despite the U.S. imposing sanctions on certain vessels.
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Pedro Sánchez presented HODIO, a system to analyse how hate speech is spread on social networks and to evaluate the impact of algorithms on digital polarisation.
“One of the archbishops in Armenia had started a movement to [reactivate] ... the [Nagorno-Karabakh] conflict”, warned Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan.
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Trump’s war over? Not for the thousands in Beirut left homeless by bombs
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Senator Graig Meyer to resign North Carolina Senate seat. Here’s why and what comes next. ncnewsline.com/2026/03/09/s...
