Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.
Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.
This is what corporate greed looks like.
this being the thing that crosses the line for many rightwingers is so illustrative of how they don’t really care about anything real that actually matters. their problems are all entirely fictional
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.
Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan
I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.
Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.
ht @astrokatie.com
Despite the U.S. under Trump’s abandonment of Ukraine, they have persevered. Slava Ukraini!
Link: xcancel.com/aidan_stretc...
Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"
Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
Do I work for NASA? Am I an astronaut‽‽‽
#Artemis #Artemisii #nasa #ToTheMoon
www.wired.com/story/artemi...
Oh, well, in that case
Tourist: Do you know how to get to the White House?
Me: Which one?
I really don't know, but if you insist, I'll give you directions.
Wouldn't be Spring in DC without a tourist asking me for directions and getting the wrong ones. Just because I live here doesn't mean I know where you're going. Good luck with whatever you end up!
The allegory is so loud it's giving me a headache.
SCOOP: The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, U.S. officials said, as thousands of American soldiers and Marines arrive in the Middle East for what could become a dangerous new phase of the war should President Trump escalate.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Remarkable: The public has rejected *all* the major pillars of America First Trumpism. Majorities oppose:
*deportations
*tariffs
*war with Iran
*threats to Canada and Greenland
...while NATO, vaccines, and foreign aid remain broadly popular.
Some thoughts on that:
newrepublic.com/article/2080...
A tumbler of whiskey.
Given that I spent half my 20s in Iraq, it's fitting that my first day of Basic Training 23 years ago was also the first day of the Iraq War. A drink to...all of it. (Blanton's Gold)
#OIF #GWOT #Iraq #Army
Batshit crazy gonna batshit crazy.
This man did far more fighting for the US than anyone in the cabinet or the White House. And he died one day after being taken to an American concentration camp. One day.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
It's absolutely fascinating watching Jaime Ding play Jeopardy! I'm legitimately in awe. #Jeopardy!
#OTD 2070 years ago, 44 Senators stabbed a dictator to death.
#BewareTheIdesOfMarch
Tracy Morgan freaks me out a little because I can't tell if he's a real human or AI in The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins.
Rep. Patronis claims Trump's strikes on Iran are part of "an effort of global peace taking place under his leadership"
Measles was wiped out in the U.S. 25 years ago and now we’re already past 1,000 cases in February because vaccination rates dropped below the safety line. This is what happens when public health gets gutted and people stop trusting basic science.
If the @washingtonpost.com had employees, their fact checkers would be stroking out right now.
#SOTU #SOTU26 #StateoftheUnion
Hey why did the costco ceo actually reply to my email
Guy who never served in the military says, "... something easily won." Clearly he's never heard of Iraq or Afghanistan.
In 10 years, the spiritual sequel to War Dogs will be released about a nuclear disaster...
After reading the Five Guys subreddit, so glad the app and site crashed on me and I couldn't order.
