Look at this chart.
Tax cuts for the rich are a policy choice. Cutting the social safety net in exchange for them is a policy choice.
States like New York have an opportunity to help undo this trickle down nonsense by raising taxes on the rich (who will still be rich).
I hope Gov. Hochul does.
NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.
I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.
“Court orders probe of DOGE’s secret voter data deal after ‘alarming’ revelations [involving the SSA]” 4/14/26 via @democracydocket.com
Translation: If JD Vance (Peter Thiel) & MAGA are in control after 2028 they will try to *force* our children to serve in the military to implement their Manifest Destiny BS: “We should…seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force...” x.com/palantirtech...
Todd Blanche is up to his ears in this scandal.
He was the one who did the original deal with Epstein and gave cover to the rest of the pedophiles.
He was the one who met with Maxwell and her transferred to club fed.
He'll be shredding every bit of evidence.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The image is split into two sections. The left side features a quote on funding priorities by Sudip S. Parikh, AAAS CEO, with a small photo of the person below. The U.S. Capitol building is in the background. The right side shows a bar chart titled "Federal R&D FY26 + FY27 Appropriations in Billions." It compares requested and enacted funding amounts for NIH, NSF, DOE, and NASA in 2026 and 2027. Bars are color-coded to distinguish between 2026 requests, 2027 requests, and 2026 enacted law.
The U.S. administration released the FY 2027 Budget Request this morning, proposing deep cuts to science funding once again. While there are similarities in the proposed cuts between FY26 and FY27, the final FY26 appropriations show the impact of advocacy in action.
The grift that keeps grifting!
New Drone Maker Partly Owned by Trump Sons Hopes to Win Pentagon Contracts | Military.com share.google/vakVi9AohDEv...
The defense department spends 93 billion excess dollars on crab legs, lobster tails, and steak while American families struggle to put food on the table. That's not making America great. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Exactly.
Oh and this rebuttal to the SOTU - long live the Frogs! 🐸
#StateOfTheSwamp
The hour b4 Peoples State of the Union
2026 WINTER OLYMPICS: What Does The World Think About The United States?
youtu.be/cXahSuteA8c
Worst of the worst? Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025 had no criminal charges, documents reveal | Trump administration | The Guardian share.google/den27S6lSsPv...
Good job, New Mexico! 😎✨
If you are told you can't vote at the polls, your LEGAL response must be: 👇
“Please give me a provisional ballot, with a receipt, as required by law.”
🗳️ Share widely! 🗳️
🎯🎯
I hear the nagging question that careens inside your head, the one you ask yourself a few hundred times a day: “Is it me, or has a huge portion of this country lost its mind?”
It isn’t you...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/hey-dont-l...
Utah GOP push to repeal anti-gerrymander law falters amid fraud allegations tied to firm backed by Trump Jr. | www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Heads I win, tails you lose. "Utah voter roll review finds no evidence of noncitizens casting a ballot, Lt. Gov. says. A review of 2.1 million voter registrations turned up few anomalies, but Utah’s House speaker says ID law is needed so citizens trust elections." www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.
Howard Lutnick continues to hide from the media since the last Epstein release.
❤️
bsky.app/profile/cram...
New reality
Crucial from @brianbeutler.bsky.social: Anyone selling warehouses to ICE for camps should prepare for video leaking of "people inside being tortured." They'll have to answer for atrocities "in their communities."
On the pod we went big on Trump's new vulnerabilities:
newrepublic.com/article/2061...
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