Republican leadership intended to vote to gut the Endangered Species Act today⦠and then didn't have the support needed, so they pulled the bill.
Happy Earth Day! π
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Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.
Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible β and itβs all perfectly legal for them.
The system is rigged.
Alice Perry in B&W head and shoulders photo #WomenInSTEM #WomenInEngineering
Alice Perry 1st woman in #Ireland to graduate w' engineering degree. Only woman to have been Irish County Surveyor (Engineer), but not allowed to do job permanently. Factory inspector, later published poet. Uni of Galway named building for her. d #OTD 21 Apr 1969 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_P...
April 20 - The Bravest of Conductors
On this day in Labor History the year was 1853. That was the day that Harriet Tubman led her first trip on the underground railroad, the clandestine network that helped enslaved people escape slavery and move north to freedom. One of the most remembered βcondu
Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying βI support the onionβs hostile media takeover.β
Itβs finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.
John Roberts' wife is not the only Supreme Court spouse to shake down people with business before the court to give bribes. Ginni Thomas has a "consulting firm" (AKA a PO Box for checks) to funnel money to Clarence. #Corruption
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 β with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
β¦ummm they still do! I work near some fields and you KNOW when they fertilize! Smells like caca de vaca!
Pete Hegseth, when he was an Army National Guard major, was one of 12 Guard members removed from duty at President Joe Biden's inauguration in January 2021 following vetting by the FBI and military officials.
Those were all the credentials he needed for Trump to appoint him Defense Secretary.
Two slice Donny! π
Clears it up a lot.
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Sarah Bagley.
#ResistanceRoots
Sarah Bagley was born on this day in 1806 in Candia, N.H. She was a labor leader and social reformer who spearheaded the first major union for working women in the U.S. She is best known for her activism on behalf of female mill workers in Lowell, Mass. /1
Why are we allowing the shittiest group of people ruin everything for the rest of us?
#trumpforprison
Photo of Lucy Parsons, social activist.
"Oh, when will ignorance be dethroned, and reason and justice reign supreme?"
-Lucy Parsons, letter to the editor, The Socialist, 12/7/1878
it's sad its still a valid question after nearly 150 years... and the answer is... only when people lose enough comfort to change things:
It looks like the world is being wise about the world cup. I am an American, it is NOT SAFE for anyone here. They give idiots a gun, authority, and no training.
If I murder someone, I go to jail or worse. If ICE murders someone for no reason, they get praise from the president.
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.
We need Lina Khan back
Very cute dog! Where did you get all the barrister book cases?!
It's simple:
1. Wake up the electorate that doesn't vote in primaries.
2. Wake up the β
of our electorate that fails to vote in generals.
3. Inform the ignorant.
"A republic if you can keep it"
It's up to US, to use it or lose it.
The fight is not against MAGA trash, it is against the 1% who have manipulated the rules and the media. Focusing on hating poor dumb white people is what stops us from uniting against corrupt politicians and the masters they serve.
I guess theyβre in the FO phase.
Rich farm owners courted the Republicans, even as the GOP said they would deport their workforce. Now this. Itβs their own fault. No sympathy.
Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.
Just curious as to why you call the black men by their first names and everyone else by their last names. Whatβs up with that?
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"Peopleβs persistence drops... theyβre also not willing to try without AI.β
futurism.com/artificial-i...