Billie Holiday singing "Strange Fruit" in 1947. The song became one of her biggest hits. Photo credit: Library of Congress.
#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1939: Billie Holiday first records “Strange Fruit” for the independent label Commodore Records. The song, which protests the lynching of Black Americans, became her biggest-selling record and a definitive anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. /1
Drunks
Sycophants
Incompetents
Miscreants
Thieves
No, this is no way to run a country.
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV
I can't get out of my mind something a cab driver said to me in Belfast last week:
"There's something about America I can't understand. It's a country with so much potential and so many good people in it. How could such a terrible man get elected twice to run it?'
So many women were coming out of getting their pictures taken with Kamala Harris tonight wiping tears from their eyes. The white men who run journalism and report on elections simply do not understand what Kamala Harris means to millions of women.
Beshear: He said, “I thought that I was being depicted as a doctor.” If I was ever in an operating room and somebody walked in in Jesus robes with orbs in his hand, I would have thought that it did not go well for me that day.
Religious Posturing
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Why do we have lawmakers in Congress who are willing to hold fellow members of Congress accountable for sexual assault but not a President?
#Splashdown! Welcome Home #Artemis! Congratulations to the crew and everyone at NASA. You’ve given us so much to be happy about over the past 10 days! 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🚀
Amazon reportedly failed to create any new jobs at its HQ2 in Virginia last year, despite millions of state tax incentives.
The company has cut 30,000 jobs since last October — while saving $4 billion in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill.
Trickle-down economics is a hoax.
Every pastor who supports this president should have to read this from the pulpit to their congregation. This is the man Paula White compared to Jesus and said he’s the greatest champion of the Christin faith we’ve ever had in the White House. So read his words aloud.
Every pastor who supports this president should have to read this from the pulpit to their congregation. This is the man Paula White compared to Jesus and said he’s the greatest champion of the Christin faith we’ve ever had in the White House. So read his words aloud.
One of the most blatant forms of Christian hypocrisy in our time is Christians holding all ordinary people accountable to the most rigid moral standards while simultaneously holding themselves and the president accountable to no standards at all.
This is the truest truth of all the truths (and there aren't many).
The best explanation why millions of Americans worship and support a convicted felon and sexual predator...
“In a sane world, Americans wouldn’t have elevated an arrogantly ill-informed and reckless man to make the gravest possible decisions for our nation. Nor would the U.S. Senate…confirm men and women deeply ill-equipped to perform their duties.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/how-much-d...
Well, well…
If the 14th amendment was not meant for modern immigrants, then the 2nd amendment was not meant for modern arms.
#truth
Cosplaying working class Rafael Cruz went to Princeton and Harvard. When he flees his constituents without power, he stays at the Ritz-Carlton.
His wife, Heidi, is Managing Director at the fancy investment firm Goldman Sachs.
They are not men & women with callouses on their hands. They are elites.
On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate the resilience of transgender Americans. We affirm, today and every day, that trans rights are human rights and that all our neighbors deserve to live safely and authentically.
Sen. Lindsey Graham is spotted in Disney World.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trumps-rat
I nominate this cartoon by Steve Cousineau for a Pulitzer!
It’s disgusting to think the signature from Epstein’s birthday card would be on our currency.
True.
“That just doesn’t make sense to me — when the richest people have the smallest effective tax rate, that does not seem like a very fair system.” #LiftTheCap
Tax the rich. 💰💰💰💰
Imagine voting rights being as important as gun rights.
The only change you'll get from withholding your vote is fascism.
