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.
A friend of my made an interesting point: Those who acknowledge their hateful past are likely to be remorseful and earnestly trying to be better people. Those who evade those past connections may have a far more sinister motivations. I’ll take an openly reformed former white supremacist over this.
NYT on Feb. 13, 2026: The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises. Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response. “I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.
NYT on March 16, 2026: On Monday, Mr. Trump claimed that “numerous countries have told me they’re on the way,” noting that President Emmanuel Macron of France would most likely help in the Strait of Hormuz and was an eight out of 10. “Not perfect, but it’s France,” he said. Others are not demonstrating sufficient enthusiasm for his demands, he said.
Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid
Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:
A lot of people are dying because of a man with the IQ of a ceiling fan. #UnseriousPeople
NEW: Georgia removed nearly 471,000 voters from its rolls last summer — roughly 6% of all the state’s registered voters.
Now voting rights groups are suing, arguing the state is illegally hiding records about how the purge was carried out.
How do you actually say something worse than “let them eat cake.” This is days after Boebert took a photo in a closed hearing and sent it to a Russian-backed conservative podcaster. #UnseriousPeople are running the country.
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The war on women is very real. Phyllis Schlafly would be proud.
It’s why they put the uniform on.
With the new Save America act, a lot of voters are soon to get a nasty wake-up call and it may be too late. I can’t wait for the media headlines: “record low turnout for women voters” like it isn’t systematic voter suppression.
How can they exploit it? Republicans aren’t concerned with reputational damage anymore. They just tell their base that it’s another leftist hoax. They’ve granted themselves immunity to this kind of thing.
Let me make sure I’ve got this straight. Openly discussing active military operational details on an unsecured public app with randos: A-okay. Obscuring an already obscure unofficial litmus test of possible upcoming plans in DC: top priority.
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Trump issued an EO aimed at increasing production of glyphosate, a chemical in weedkiller that has been linked to cancer.
He’s also directed the rollback of environmental protections over our air, water, and how much pollution corporations can produce.
“Make America Healthy Again.”
I feel like a deep dive into the numbers misses the point anyway. We haven’t cured everything yet, but we can continually treat conditions to minimize them. Isn’t that what a healthy society should be doing?
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
Hmmmm… interesting… I wonder what Vice President James Bowman thinks about this.
The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration.
Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
Hold on… a man who proudly exclaimed that he groped underaged girls’ privates, who is mentioned more than 40,000 times in the Epstein files, who was found culpable of rape in civil court… is concerned about children watching dancing?
The road to fascism is always paved with the decisions of powerful cowards who didn’t put a stop to it. #Kimmel #FreeSpeech
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Had to double check if this was real.
It is.
While Howard Lutnick tells America that people are intentionally staying unemployed to hurt Trump, Trump has ensured that Lutnick’s family becomes even wealthier:
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To be fair, Republicans have been good at this for a while. Iran-Contra should have seen many officials behind bars. No one served any time despite the admission of illegal actions and the destruction of evidence. Trump is a monster standing on the shoulders of previous ghouls.
Remember when Marty went 30 years into the future and Biff was a tyrannical dictator who turned the world into a capitalist dystopia?
They were only off by 10 years.
Isn’t this the expected default position of the modern papacy? Not that he had to adhere to that, but any other position would be quite medieval.
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Pretending that they need her testimony and that it’s the only way of providing names on a list when you possess said list. That anyone is buying this kangaroo legal proceeding is a testament to the state of education in the US. #EpsteinFiles #PayAttention
Everyday that POTUS doesn’t release the Epstein files, the files are undoubtedly being doctored behind closed doors. Make no mistake. They are scrambling to turn this into a tool that will vindicate an obvious pedophile and vilify his enemies. #EpsteinFiles #PayAttention
In thinking about the Trump administration’s war on immigrants, it’s a subtle yet important point that they feel there is no overlap between undocumented persons and skilled labor. A lot of industry professionals are already finding out they can’t just replace these workers.
