The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for its tracking of hate groups, said that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the nonprofit regarding their use of informants.
Virginia! Today is the last day to vote in the redistricting referendum.
Make sure to vote YES.
You can find your polling location at IWillVote.com/VA.
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.
(Published 2021)
Several people with signs like this at the Boston Marathon today
Governor Tim Walz — "We are sick of this. A weak, reckless, Idiotic president just threw us into a war nobody asked for. No threat existed. No objectives were set. No exit plan exists. This is pure fascism." #cdnpoli
May Day is next week and there are many ways you can join the massive day of economic disruption, from refusing to shop, to walking out of work, to attending a demonstration: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i...
This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.
AGs need to channel Greg Abbott during the Obama years: “I wake up, I sue the federal government and then I go home”.
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.
Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.
Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.
Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.
Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.
This is the reason the stock market is completely disconnected from the real economy.
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Child: I know your name. Mamdani.
Obama: What’s his first name?
Child: Mayor.
How the shadow docket came to be
The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Pretty frustrating that the New York Times is crediting AP with uncovering the existence of Aadam’s archive when I reported on it 15 months prior. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...
I think most people would prefer this. #Science
Why?
One of the things I love most about NYC, and something I cherish, is walking, biking and taking the subway. It’s actually superior to being in a car whenever you have the choice.
"There's only one majority in this country and that's the working class." —Zohran Mamdani
In a major state antitrust investigation, California's Attorney General has unsealed hundreds of records revealing that Amazon illegally pressures its marketplace sellers to engage in price-fixing.
While Trump's DOJ lets corporate lawbreakers off the hook, states are still holding them accountable.
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
Teen births crashing is good!!!
“Fifty percent of local election officials are either somewhat or very worried about political leaders interfering with their work.”
As Trump tries to gain control of our elections, local officials are sounding the alarm over concerns of being targeted by politicians: https://politi.co/4ctCIwS
Since Trump has trouble distinguishing what someone in the medical profession looks like, here is a picture of a lifesaving professional.
Recovery crew opening the hatch and welcoming the Artemis II crew home after a nearly 700,000-mile journey.
Video: Reid Wiseman
“.. Inflation was coming down in the United States — and then Trump’s tariffs happened.”
@heathmayo.bsky.social
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
