Someone had fun with this headline.

Yeah, it was staged.

And DoorDash grandma isn’t saving extra money from no tax on tips, because it’s going straight into her gas tank.

54% of consumers now say their financial situation is worse than it was a year ago due to higher prices, the highest level in history.

Exactly 💯

Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us

"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.

Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

[Via @itep.org]

Repost from Mayra

There were more protesters outside the Turning Point rally in Athens GA than event attendees.

Look at Maria Bartiromo’s face.

More than half a million ballots seized by top GOP candidate in California governor’s race Bianco's unusual probe drew a sharp rebuke from California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, who said it 'sets a dangerous precedent and will only sow distrust in our elections.'

“The Sheriff’s assertion that his deputies know how to count is admirable. The fact remains that he and his deputies are not elections officials.”

Bianco’s ballot seizure is “the sort of thing that should not happen in a healthy democracy...”

www.latimes.com/california/s...

It’s all just political theater by the Trump administration.

Sibling order may affect sexuality and identity : Short Wave Today, guest host Selena Simmons-Duffin is exploring a detail very personal to her: How the number of older brothers a person has can influence their sexuality.Scientific research on sexuality has a dark history, with long-lasting harmful effects on queer communities. Much of the early research has also been debunked over time. But not this "fraternal birth order effect." The fact that a person's likelihood of being gay increases with each older brother has been found all over the world – from Turkey to North America, Brazil, the Netherlands and beyond. Today, Selena gets into all the details: What this effect is, how it's been studied and what it can (and can't) explain about sexuality.Interested in the science of our closest relatives? Check out more stories in NPR's series on the Science of Siblings.Email us at shortwave@npr.org — we'd love to hear from you.Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.

Guest host Selena Simmons-Duffin is exploring a detail very personal to her: How the number of older brothers a person has can influence their sexuality. Scientific research on sexuality has a dark history, with long-lasting harmful effects on queer communities.

Lawmakers and faith leaders demand Southfield building owners cancel lease used by ICE Elected officials who represent Southfield on the state and federal level joined faith leaders and community members to demand that REDICO, the building management of One Towne Square in Southfield, w...

"Protesters march towards the One Towne Square building in Southfield, Michigan to demand that REDICO, the building’s management, cancel its lease with ICE..."

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/lawm...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

PAPER PLANET: “While Trump gutted food stamps for the poor and disabled, Hegseth ran up the largest single-month bill in history… $93.4 Billion in September… $6.9 million on lobster tails… they told you there’s no money for health care, there’s plenty.”

What a coincidence

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

$1 billion per day on a war in the Middle East that no one wants, while millions of people at home struggle.

"That's just how it is."

crooksandliars.com The Most Popular MAGA Influencer Is An AI Model For Foot Fetishists | Crooks and Liars

The Most Popular MAGA Influencer Is An AI Model For Foot Fetishists #CrooksAndLiars

The genius businessman strikes again

Another word you might use for it is "looting".

"This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

Iran names Khamenei’s son as his successor. Trump being publicly against this was probably the clincher.

EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year Don't forget us on International Women's Day, writes Leqaa Kordia.

“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year”

Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.

Live updates: Iran says oil storage facility in Tehran is hit in latest airstrikes Another major explosion rocked Tehran late Saturday as pillars of flame rose above an oil storage facility in Tehran, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised “many surprises” for the next phase of the week-old conflict.

BREAKING: Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran's late supreme leader, has been named his successor, Iranian state TV says.

Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the leader of Iran, in Tehran in 2019. A headline reads: "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Son Is Iran’s New Supreme Leader." Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto, via Associated Press

Breaking News: Mojtaba Khamenei was named Iran’s new supreme leader, succeeding his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed by U.S.-Israeli strikes. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

ICYMI: @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn have repeatedly claimed Elon’s Teslas-only tunnel in NASHVILLE would be built at “ZERO cost to taxpayers” — but they’re already committing MILLIONS yearly to Jack Johnson’s “subterranean authority” to help Boring sidestep local pushback 🤔

Weird they dragged in Hillary Clinton when there's another First Lady right there in the White House who actually knew Jeffrey Epstein.

Judge Says U.S. Is Intentionally Violating the Law on Immigration

“On the merits, its detentions are illegal,” the judge wrote.

“[The government] knows this.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...

[LIVESTREAM] People's State of the Union · MoveOn At the State of the Union (SOTU), Republicans in Congress are once again bending the knee to Trump and hanging their constituents out to dry. Nobody should participate in Trump’s vanity project, and t...

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Poll: Most say the state of the union is not strong and the U.S. is worse off Ahead of the State of the Union address on Tuesday, evidence continues to mount that President Trump is facing political headwinds.

Ahead of the State of the Union address on Tuesday, evidence continues to mount that President Trump is facing political headwinds. n.pr/4s3mGQj