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.
Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"
BALINT: Are you trying to get revenge on states that did not vote for your boss?
VOUGHT: What's interesting about your question is Joe Biden--
BALINT: Oh, for goodness' sake!
The billionaires invested in fossil fuels won’t allow it
You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar
Sorry... you are telling me that during the run-up to the 2020 presidential election the Trump FBI hid the fact that it was actively investigating sitting president Trump for Child Rape?
Because that would appear to be what happened, and it appears also that the death of Epstein ended that probe...
A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history. www.wired.com/story/border...
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
NEW: UBS just told investors in a key fund that they can’t get their money out for three years.
UBS message: “sorry, we don’t have your money.”
Bear Sterns did this with two of their funds, in June 2007, months before the global financial collapse.
NEW: Last October, Border Patrol agents gassed Chicagoans after agents caused a major car crash on the southeast side.
I analyzed body cam videos that show agents Benito Nunez, Oscar Guillen, and Carlos Chavira ignored orders to end the pursuit—moments before they blew a tire and crashed.
3/ You can bet we'll add this to 5th edition of Presumption of Regularity study.
Which tracks 90+ cases in which either court determined the Trump administration submitted false information or the administration admitted it.
This one of the most significant.
www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...
Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court.
DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses!
DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations."
DOJ blames ICE (page 2)
Trump voted in this election — casting a ballot BY MAIL while he and his administration are trying to eliminate mail ballots.
His candidate lost the race to represent Mar-a-lago.
The $580 million short oil bet was the smaller of the two insider trades. The larger one, placed at the exact same time (6:49-6:50am), was between $1.4-$1.9 billion to go long S&P 500 e-Mini futures.
Over $2 billion in Trump traitor trades, all wildly profitable 15 minutes later after Trump's post.
We did this with tariffs. Now we’re doing this with war. And some insiders are making a fortune off the chaos.
Potentially unsalvageable country.
Elite
Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."
the country is at war and the president is leaving DC this afternoon for a weekend at his private club in Florida that he'll spend with his paying customers
it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"
[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]
Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.
MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
2026, in brief
Howard Lutnick misled the American people about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein because he didn't want to admit he continued interacting with Epstein even AFTER Epstein was convicted of soliciting a minor.
It's a disgrace. Lutnick needs to resign as Secretary of Commerce.
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.
I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does.
Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.
We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.
This is something significantly bigger and scarier.
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday complied with a court order to publicly reveal the search warrant affidavit that initiated the FBI’s raid on an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, last month. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
