The Forest Service’s proposed closure of research facilities in Hawaiʻi, including the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry and a biocontrol lab, threatens years of research on biocontrol agents and disease-resistant ʻōhiʻa strains, impacting efforts to protect Hawaiʻi’s forests and watersheds.
Look at this chart.
Tax cuts for the rich are a policy choice. Cutting the social safety net in exchange for them is a policy choice.
States like New York have an opportunity to help undo this trickle down nonsense by raising taxes on the rich (who will still be rich).
I hope Gov. Hochul does.
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?
What would be commonsense is abolishing ICE completely.
Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."
😕🇺🇸
“National security is not a blank check to proceed with otherwise unlawful activity”
Quote of the year?
I'm sad and want everybody else to be sad too
- first guy to make cauliflower rice
#haiku
wisteria
should be the name
of a color
The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
That is how we will pay for it.
"Voting doesn't do anything."
If that were true, they wouldn't try so hard to make everyone stop.
#Republicans #maga #americanpolitics
"Orbán’s Hungary has been the model for the global fascist assault on democracy. Maybe it can also serve as a model for its defeat."
Important piece from Jason Stanley for Zeteo on the big story of the day:
I am an Spasce Ca'at
Tonight in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square, a sea of young Hungarians—who’ve only ever known Orbán’s corrupt, suffocating regime—are packed together, singing, chanting, and daring to dream of freedom again.
Their hope is raw, their courage is real. The heart of Europe is beating in Budapest tonight. 🇭🇺❤️🇪🇺
This is so well done. 👌
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽
I can’t believe that we’re on the brink of nuking Iran because a smart Black man in a tan suit once made fun of a reality tv host.
The richest 0.1 percent of the global population are hiding nearly $3 trillion in offshore accounts to evade taxes — more than the wealth held by the entire bottom half of humanity.
It would take about $93 billion per year to eradicate extreme hunger by 2030.
Taxing the rich is a global necessity.
It’s worth saying, in the wake of Trump’s bizarre and vicious Easter morning tweet, that the Republican Party could have him out of office by the end of the day. This is on his cabinet and every Republican member of Congress.
A picture of a cat. It says, “4 years ago lived in a bush and hunted my own meals. Now I have 2 passive incomes, my own house, & a personal chef. Follow me for more financial advice.”
🚨 Christina Koch has officially become the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth
A lot of you have never been snatched out of your car and thrown to the pavement by law enforcement and it shows.
Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses.
It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them.
Yes. This exists. 😹
I have stolen
12T of KitKats
that were
in transit
and which
you were probably
hoping to buy
in Poland
forgive me
the world is stressful
and I needed
a break
Virginia lawmakers just advanced 25 critical gun safety laws to the finish line, including a ban on assault weapons, penalties for leaving unsecured guns around children, & an expansion of the state’s red flag law.
Next step: Governor @abigailspanberger.com's signature 👏👏
MASSIVE WIN: no one wants to live in the united states anymore
SCHIFF: I don't want to hold up the rest of what DHS does, so I've fully supported vote after vote to fund TSA
KERNEN: That's a carve out. It's not a clean bill, which has been business as usual
SCHIFF: Well, business as usual right now is people getting killed in the streets. So I'm not for that
The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…
