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.
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"This wasn’t about free speech.
It never was.
It was about power — and keeping it at any cost.
It’s also about whether democracies can still regulate power — or whether the richest men on earth get to rewrite reality in real time."
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
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DAY 19 APRIL 2026
These Horrendous Times
Tonight..
A message about sexual abuse and sexual abusers
No. . WOMEN DON'T PROVOKE YOU
Women will understand this video, but will men ?
She tempted me
I couldn't resist
NO MORE ABUSE
Young women clapped back
WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
On this day in 1905, a Jewish man was born in Poland. He was interned in Drancy and on the 18 Sep 1942was deported to Auschwitz where he perished. His wife and daughter were deported three days later. His name was Jacques Rosenthal
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On this day in 1945, a German Jewish woman, who had fled with her husband and child to the Netherlands, perished in Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her husband perished the same day in Nordhausen concentration camp. Their child survived. Her name was Anna Sperber-Chlebowski
Frightening thread
I learn something new with everyone of his threads
Congresswoman Summer Lee grills RFK, Jr. on black maternal health.
This health crisis in the U.S. is a persistent emergency where Black women are 2.5 to 3.5 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women, with rates up to 49.5 deaths per 100,000 live births.
Why does learning drop when tech enters the classroom? Because computers train kids to skim. Dr. Horvath warns that we are currently redefining education to fit our tools rather than designing tools to fit how our children actually learn.
AI Data Centers should be required by law to provide their own electricity. Solar panels? Wind mills? Water is another serious concern. Local rate payers should not be held responsible for for-profit AI corporation's expenses.
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These agents "don't know how to operate in these situations,” said former DOJ attorney Christy Lopez.
Their behavior “is on par with the worst protest policing and just law enforcement that I've seen from any department, even in their worst days."
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The AI bubble is showing signs of bursting.
We shouldn’t give up our land, power, or water for a bursting bubble.
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Psychedelic Furs. The Ghost in You
Depeche Mode. Enjoy the silence
Disturbed with Ann Wilson. Don't Tell Me
Bad Wolves. Zombie cover
5FDP. A Little Bit Off
Yonaka. Give Me My Halo
Dido. Thank you
(Too many to name)
Name a song you never get tired of.
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Name a song you never get tired of.
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Why are we aiming for the homogenisation of creativity? Especially in universities. Using an LLM for any aspect of my research takes the creativity out of it (yes it's possible to be creative and objective at the same time) and would be hugely disrespectful to my participants. And unethical.
When students do it it's infuriating. But when colleagues do it it's baffling. Why are people so insecure in their own abilities that they feel they have to use a piece of technology that can only ever produce something mediocre, and often produces things that are wrong?
We got the video of the parachuter at Virginia Tech. They have rescued him at this point and he’s down off the scoreboard. Working to get more info.
Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️
🧵 Many of us know of Jim Crow Laws(JCL). For the uninformed, it was a caste system that relegated Black people to second class citizens that lasted 100 years. What many people were(cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
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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."
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