A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job.
One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution.
Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?
If this man had murdered eight strangers the story would lead every news outlet. But because they are his children, it's "family violence," "domestic violence" -- undeserving of the same attention. Even though this violence is much more common
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks.
The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.
It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
Every member of Congress should be asked the following:
If Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales should be forced out of office because of credible allegations of sexual misconduct, shouldn't Congress also remove Donald Trump as he has already been found liable by a jury for sexual assault?
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
As do I
“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.”
“If they can automatically enroll men into the draft at 18, they can automatically register Americans to vote at 18.
Ask yourself why they won’t”
Josh H.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office
Are any members of Congress currently on their way back to DC?
Just because a President announces he’s agreed to a two week ceasefire moments before he threatened to commit war crimes, does not mean he is suddenly fit to serve. #25thAmendment
I also feel like the Dems could be IN WASHINGON, publicly demanding the Cabinet invoke the 25th. Get out there, make a fuss, stir shit up, call for an impeachment vote while you're at it. Johnson be damned. Not just posting about how they are kinda upset.
I guess vacations matter more?
The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office.
The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
A coalition of 22 states say the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has admitted to sharing with ICE “a large and complex” set of data on Medicaid recipients, ignoring a court order. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/06/r...
An online portal allowed grifters to reroute checks and pocket nearly $300,000 in illegal loans, including one from the Manhattan Council member’s pension fund.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/30/g...
The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Pete Hegseth’s broker reportedly tried to make a multimillion-dollar investment in a fund of weapons stocks just weeks before Trump launched his war on Iran.
Remember when even the appearance of corruption was enough to trigger a resignation?
We must not become numb to this.
I want a city wide Spring cleaning day/ weekend. Get the entire city out to pick up garbage and hose down pavements etc.
New Yorkers, join us in the first ever Mayor’s Municipal Madness: a competition of city fixes where everyone wins.
Pick your fix and vote here:
nyc.gov/madness
“Every $1,300 New York City invested in building bike lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to one additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.”
That’s a better return on investment than some direct health treatments…”
BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com.
Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers.
www.ajc.com/politics/202...
“When the very rich so controlled the means of communication that it would be almost impossible for ordinary people to make informed decisions and so democracy would then be broken…”
- attributed to Albert Einstein
We have been here before, and we know what to do. RESIST!
The President is doing this without authorization from Congress and without the support of the American people.
Congress must reassert its role — countless American lives are at stake.
www.cnn.com/world/live-n...
The New York Post is printing misinformation to stir up a frenzy about Mayor Mamdani's move to stop issuing *criminal* summonses to cyclists for the same infractions that earn drivers a regular moving violation.
@realgershkuntzman.bsky.social breaks it down: youtube.com/shorts/rkCn6...
There should be a law: when an elected official announces a change of party, there should immediately be a new election. And while I'm at it, we should have a mechanism to remove via a no confidence vote any elected official in whom the electorate has lost faith.
$200 billion a year would enable a universal basic income of about $500/mo. That would essentially abolish severe poverty in America. Poverty would drop by about a third, and because the downstream costs of poverty are about $3 TRILLION a year, that would be a return on investment of $800B a year.
SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.
