I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

This is the reason the stock market is completely disconnected from the real economy.

FRANKLIN, TN — Pastor Kevin Riggs: “I used to be in the inner circle of the evangelical church in Franklin… the only thing worse than authoritarianism/dictatorship is theocracy. We must push back against Christian Nationalism, rebuild and defend the wall separating church & state.”

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

I'm reminded of the old joke that a Protestant looks around and thinks there have been some weird cults popping up lately; a Catholic looks around and sees 500 years of cults; a Jew looks around and sees 2000 years of cults; and for an Atheist, it's just cults as far as the eyes can see.

"All we say to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.'"

These words — spoken by MLK Jr. shortly before he was killed on this day in 1968 — ring just as true now.

Let's honor his legacy by continuing the fight for social and economic justice.

Blasphemy from a president who has built his authoritarian political movement on the heresy of christian nationalism, as reflected in his post.

America's new "Golden Age"...

January 6 protesters seek millions in court for ‘physical and emotional injuries’ | CNN Politics Several people who were at the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021, insurrection are suing the police agencies that worked to defend the building that day, asking a federal court to award them milli...

Only in America: can the losers of a coup sue police for not letting them kill politicians.

This is what trump does with everything he says he’s done. He takes what other presidents did, destroys it & when he puts it back he says it was all his idea. He’s done this his entire life. The republicans think their voters are so gullible that they’ll believe it when they tell them the same lie.

Wow, this is frightening: 95,000 scientists and researchers, gone. Brilliant minds no longer working to protect, help, and save people and the planet.

Don't take this sitting down.

“It is a biblical foundation”…🙄

NOBODY should agree to sitting next to him for this bullshit.

It should come as a surprise to no one who pays attention, but here they are just laying it out. “Economy” only means the stock market and corporate profits…the things that make *them* money. It does not mean wages, jobs, or *our* ability to buy things like food, shelter, or goods.

Trump Calls for Allied Warships to Secure Strait of Hormuz President Donald J. Trump said Saturday that allied nations could deploy warships alongside the United States to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, signaling a potential multinational naval effort to r...

Almost like it was a mistake to alienate all of our allies with idiotic trade wars, and then launch an actual hot war where we needed their help gcaptain.com/trump-calls-...

If anyone wasn't of the belief that he's trying to create a state-run media, the fact that he shared this should take care of any hesitation on that front.

Going Deeper: When Armageddon Enters the Chain of Command The Rise of Christian Nationalists

There are few things more dangerous than a political movement convinced that God needs help finishing His work. But that is exactly the territory we are entering now. Going Deeper:
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.

Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."

That’s our congress…confused and concerned.

I would like an explanation as to why Americans keep believing Republicans ~ and republicans fuck them over every time ~ every single time

Exactly.

So…you’re gonna hit a boys school?

rapid onset dark ages

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.

For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Bill Clinton

Aaron Rupar @atrupar X.com Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was" LIVE GREENSBORO, NC cc # 45 our Children. 5:45 PT LIVE BREAKING NEWS TRUMP SPEAKS IN NORTH CAROLINA 'UNABOMBER' TED KACZYNSKI, 81, FOUND DEAD IN PRISON. GO TO NEWS 5:49 PM • 6/10/23 • 14M Views

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor."

Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

Almost 250 years after we broke with George III, the question must now be faced: Are we a monarchy or a nation of laws? robertreich.substack.com/p/fascist-dictator-or-16...

I guess child labor would help make America great again?

This Week in Politics | Explainer YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

@hcrichardson.bsky.social should be posting these on bsky.

That's ok I'm happy to help

youtu.be/zp6q6sT0HQQ?...