So you and I and everyone else are in effect now refunding American corporations for import tariffs, although we paid for most of them in the form of higher prices — which they won’t now lower because they have monopoly power to keep prices high.
The Art of the Deal.
Senator Jon Ossoff neatly breaks down political corruption in America — and how Trump’s “Mar-a-Lago mafia” has exploited it.
Every single Democrat should be saying this.
SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”
Billions in foreign real estate deals while serving as head of state.
Billions in crypto deals while gutting regulation of the industry.
Suing his own government and negotiating a settlement funded by the taxpayers.
We're so numb to Trump grifting off the presidency that hardly anyone notices.
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
Reagan Ds took over the FDR D Party thanks to greed.
Bust up big corporations and tackle Wall Street’s greed.
Get big money out of politics.
Strengthen unions and boost wages.
Pass Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare, and so much more...
This is the agenda Democrats need to fight for.
It's not enough to simply be anti-Trump.
As Trump's war on Iran continues, reminder that his own son-in-law Jared Kushner — who is leading negotiations with Iran — stands to profit from lucrative contracts with its regional rivals.
War gives dictators like Trump (and his family) more power and more wealth.
Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!
Apparently Alex Karp, CEO of EvilCorp, has posted an absolutely rambling, self-serving manifesto that, among other things, calls for mandatory military service and describes “software” as analogous to a marine’s gun.
That’s because they are war profiteers. That’s what SV is.
This Lego video for drunk FBI Director Kash Patel is fantastic.
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An oil refinery is burning in Russia after a strike by Ukrainian drones.
Imagine if your elected representative regularly said he hated you and thinks you should be thrown out of the United States. The ugliness, the bigotry of anti-Islamic rhetoric as Republicans shifting "back to an old standby." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
Cory Mills, who served in the Army from 1999 to 2003, spent a few months of that time in Iraq. Adam Ehrhardt, a medic who once served directly under Mills, told Mother Jones:
“I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.”
Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote.
Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California.
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"Partially" doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Petro dollars are the sole reason the US currency became the dominant currency in the world.
Next time someone asks me what it's like to report on the far-right, I'll point them to @michaelehayden.bsky.social's new book. He captures the mental/emotional labor involved w/ reporting on people who want us dead, while providing riveting accounts about
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This is how Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos avoids paying a personal income tax
- For the last 20 years he's had the same salary, $82,000
Read and share before it's paywalled: "Gerontocracy in America," June 2026, short form, on @Harpers cover May 2026 harpers.org/archive/2026...
i love that everyone's reaction to this is just "so what?"
BREAKING: New data shows ZERO oil tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz today, signaling what appears to be a complete shutdown of the Strait for the first time in history.
The Strait normally carries about 20% of the world’s oil supply.
"'After daddy died I struggled to be a grown-up,' confided Kennedy, who was fourteen when his famous father, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated." It has been a very long, very unsuccessful struggle.
🚨 Trump claims a U.S. Navy destroyer intercepted an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman—and says U.S. forces “blew a hole in the engine room” after the crew refused orders—adding the vessel is now in U.S. custody.
If true, that’s a direct military strike despite a supposed ceasefire.
BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org is demanding a CFTC investigation into anonymous traders who netted millions on suspiciously timed bets on US military actions—Iran ceasefire, Venezuela invasion & more
Alleged insider trading on war plans IS a national security threat
CFTC must act now - TN
To sum up, Bearstar Strategies, which has owned the seat of power in California for nearly two decades, thought Swalwell was an empty suit they could control but they couldn't control his pants, so they found another suit. (Who isn't exactly full either)
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An image of NGC 4565, the Needle Galaxy, that is located in the Coma Berenices constellation 30 to 50 million light years away and is an edge on spiral galaxy with a dark dust lane cutting across the middle of the Galaxy which blocks and redness the light from the interior. If one were able to travel at the speed of light, it would take 30 to 50 million years to reach the Needle Galaxy. And it took 30 to 50 million light years for the light we are seeing in the image to reach my camera sensor. 🤯 mind blown
Finally had clear skies last night and was able to process one of the images that I was able to capture. 🔭 #astrophotography
My God, is this the future we're leaving our children and grandchildren?
Every time a Democrat mentions how to talk to "ordinary people" they mean "how I was told to talk by a handful of weirdo consultants in DC with gross fixations on throwing certain groups under the bus and who would not last a day in an ordinary job interacting with ordinary people."
The delays in the Senate come as Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is ramping up resources in Florida and Washington DC to develop the weaponization conspiracy case. The career prosecutor who was running the weaponization probe was sent back to her post this week in Miami, and former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova is set to start Monday as the new lead prosecutor on Russia collusion matters. DiGenova, a longtime vocal Trump supporter who also did legal work for the president, is a veteran and accomplished federal prosecutor who has worked as a U.S. Attorney in the nation's capital as well as an independent and special counsel in politically sensitive cases.
Propagandist John Solomon reports that Joe DiGenova will be added to DOJ's investigative team undermining RU investigation.
Propagandist John Solomon doesn't mention that he was implicated in funneling Russian disinformation with Joe DiGenova.
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If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?
