This is an embarrassing but not shocking indictment of legacy news media in the U.S.

Well, at least the BBC is covering this.

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.

Elise Stefanik keeps reminding us that MAGA’s political class is not composed of deluded true believers but instead is run by dead-souled monsters who would kill you for a quarter. Stefanik knows she’s conning the American people. In fact, she’s proud of it.

The tweet is fake. But it sure does capture the vindictiveness of Trump.

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Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ to kids in NYC

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

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On this day in 1965, the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) launched its anti-Vietnam War march on Washington, D.C.

Over 15,000 students participated in the protest, making it the largest antiwar demonstration to date.

April 15: the day we fund killing people in our name.

Path to legal residency in the US. Simple as 1, 2, 3.

Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

All they will find is sand www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It would take a miracle for Trump to honor a treaty or a contract. As a real estate "mogul" he treated contracts as optional. If illegality could be personified it would take the shape of Trump.

The Pope claps back very papally…

The only kind of deals Trump knows anything about are prostitution and real estate...

I am looking forward to similar scenes here in 2026 and 2028.

“10 Minutes of Terror”: Lebanon Death Toll Tops 300 from Israel's “Black Wednesday” Attack As the United States and Iran prepare to hold talks in Pakistan aimed at ending the war, Israel is continuing to bomb Lebanon, where the death toll from Wednesday's massive wave of attacks has topped 300. “It was 10 minutes of terror, a day that the Leb...

“It was 10 minutes of terror, a day that the Lebanese are calling Black Wednesday,” says Beirut-based journalist Rania Abouzeid. “It was hard to tell what was blowing up where, because those hundred or so attacks were all happening simultaneously.”

Let's not forget that Rufo's pernicious influence is also evident in the Florida-led push to replace independent accreditation with state control through the CPHE. And that the UNC System Office is fully complicit in this project.

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Trump’s always been an embarrassment. Utterly classless!

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Fort De Soto filming proposal sparks environmental concerns A proposed TV shoot with livestock could disrupt nesting birds and fragile habitats.

Do not shoot this show on a sensitive Florida beach. "Plans call for the filming to be on fragile dunes and beaches, and involves beach driving, cattle, pigs and horses. Species impacted include plovers, oystercatchers, gopher tortoises, sea turtles, and dune plants."

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It's clear that diplomacy was not going to be supported. 2 days? That is just plain incompetence...no one, not Iran or anyone, is going to put up with that nonsense.

Exactly.

Maybe if he presents it as Obama's deal and not Trump's...

An Arch Too Far: Trump's Vanity Monument and the Dishonoring of Arlington National Cemetery How the President's Arch Turns Hallowed Ground Into a Backdrop

"There are places in America where the ground itself speaks, where silence is not emptiness but weight, accumulated grief pressed into every white stone marker. Arlington National Cemetery is such a place. And now, the Trump administration proposes to desecrate it." open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

And here in the FLX we seem to disregard what is needed to preserve this resource. Instead we keep massive landfills open.

Mark my words.

In about a week, Americas are going to wake up in the morning and feel what this chart actually means.

Such reassuring words. Trump's economic plan is to create chaos and thus plunder.

The Hungarian election is about Russian oligarchy and its support of the international far right. That’s why Vance is there. He is a node in that network.

Putin's Puppet Project in Peril - emptywheel JD Vance took time out of Trump's Crusades against Iran to tamper in Hungary's election not just because Viktor Orbán is the ideological figurehead of the far right, but because Hungary serves as a ke...

“This is a trans-national effort, funded by Russian oil, to replace Western liberalism with a pro-Russian ideology... Orbán is not just the puppet that gives this packaged ideology a European face... he oversees the money laundering vehicles to fund the larger network”
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