Posts by Lisa
Interesting bit from a speech Cory Booker gave yesterday at the Michigan Democratic Women's Caucus in Detroit: (Full speech here: www.c-span.org/program/camp...)
Undocumented immigrants contribute $97 billion yearly in federal, state, and local taxes. They paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022.
Bessent is galactically stupid.
www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/b...
Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they say is erratic behavior and excessive drinking—and it could cost him his job, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports.
Our tax dollars hard at work killing people and building death camps.
“For context, 2025 was the deadliest year for ICE detention in more than two decades, with 32 deaths. We are four months into 2026 and already halfway there.”
Lebanon: A Nation Uprooted by War www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/w... Israel’s new Gaza. Truly horrific our tax dollars are paying for another methodical destruction of a country and people by Israel.
Two immigration judges who ruled against Trump administration in the deportation of pro-Palestinian university students have been fired by the Trump Dept of Justice.
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Israel destroyed all of the town of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon within a month.
Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...
For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view.
Workers I spoke to are pissed.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported that at least 2,020 people have been killed and 6,436 others wounded since Lebanon was drawn into the US-Israel war on Iran on March 2.
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Trump Friend Asked ICE to Detain the Mother of His Child www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u... Probably a good time to read about Ungaro.
Lebanon: A Nation Uprooted by War www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/w... Our tax dollars going to destroy another middle eastern country.
How Trump Purged Immigration Judges to Speed Up Deportations www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic.
Boy, did they screw up.
Elon Musk is now worth over $800 billion.
Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.