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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.
it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit
The number of angry messages I got from insecure men on my article demanding men be accountable for rape culture & 'Rape Academy' reminds me to share my article repeatedly.
Men: Stop being insecure. Stop being pathetic. Start holding rapists accountable.
qasimrashid.substack.com/p/men-we-nee...
"Those gosh-darn leopards haven't finished off my face yet. And, you know, that makes me sad. Come back, you wonderfully voracious leopards! Come back to Mama!"
Bust up big corporations and tackle Wall Street’s greed.
Get big money out of politics.
Strengthen unions and boost wages.
Pass Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare, and so much more...
This is the agenda Democrats need to fight for.
It's not enough to simply be anti-Trump.
Eight *kids* and I had to ask my wife about it when it scrolled by on local news. We're a nation with massive brain-poisoning.
💯 🎯
(the midterms can't come soon enough)
The National Science Foundation which funds a quarter of all basic scientific research in the country is being dismantled.
The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Dockworkers on the West Coast broke every productivity record — and are now being replaced by AI anyway.
This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about eliminating workers.
youtu.be/35CDCU5chKE?...
Donald, after being told Air Force personnel were missing in Iran, had a freakout that got him excluded from an important briefing. He was't worried about the missing pilots. No, he only cared that a failed operation would hurt HIS POLL NUMBERS, as it had Jimmy Carter's. What a self-absorbed prick.
This is insane. And disgusting.
"This is what Trump does. He lights our national house on fire. He lets it burn for 15 minutes before he shows up with a fire hose. And then he demands a prize for putting out the blaze while the rest of us stand here in the smoldering ruins," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
Japanese anti-war group starts new campaign at Shinjuku Station, Tokyo.
”We want world peace! Fuck Trump!"
A photo of blossoming pink flower buds and a headline that reads “ECONOMIC POLICY - On Tax Day, Mamdani Taxed the Rich - The mayor, his supporters, and public opinion convinced their previously reluctant governor to agree to a tax on the second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc.) homes of their city's nonresident rich.”
A photo of a child reaching for blossoming pink flower buds and a headline that reads “Mayor Mamdani Unveils 7 New NYC Early Ed Centers”
A photo of of blossoming pink flower buds and a headline that reads “New York City to open municipal grocery store in 2027 - The store will be one of five city-owned food stores Mayor Zohran Mamdani has promised to debut before his term ends.”
Blossoming pink flower buds near a trash container and a headline that reads “Mamdani To Fully Fund Trash Containerization - The new mayor is restarting the Trash Revolution”
Change is in the air, New York. Here are a few things blooming.
David Ellison will host an exclusive dinner “honoring” Trump next week.
It comes as he’s waiting for regulatory approval of Paramount’s proposal to buy Warner Bros., which would create a massive pro-Trump media monopoly.
What is he going to promise Trump at this dinner?
Hello???
RFK Jr snaps at Madeleine Dean: "You do not DARE talk to me about what you just said about measles. You do not have the courage to allow me to reply."
RFK Jr. has always been more comfortable dishonestly cheating on women—and driving them to suicide—than honestly talking with them.
Think of how many games where the verb is violence. How many games (including the ones nominated for tonight’s BAFTA awards) where you shoot, fight, kill.
But when games want to explore the topic of violence in a meaningful way, that’s the issue?
Dr. Jesus Trump, claiming he “makes people better”, wants $200 billion to continue his forever war in Iran — taking away healthcare from 300,000 Americans.
#HealthcareNotTrumpsWar
Almost a year ago I wrote a proposal to several democratic congressmen as well as Hakeem Jeffries’ chief of staff for democrats to adopt the “criminal organization” framing for Trump and his corrupt and lawless administration.
1/2
It has the benefit of being clear, concise, brutal
But also, it is simply and obviously, true.
Now that it’s been shown to work, I’m hoping they adopt it in earnest.
2/2
The Trump administration pledged to root out “rampant” fraud in federal benefit programs like SNAP and welfare.
But the DOJ has shut down more than 900 cases of federal program or procurement fraud in the first six months of this administration.
Platner's continued use of the r-word shows that the left have their own ableism problems to grapple with, not just Republicans.
This pattern holds a crucial lesson for America’s current moment. As democratic norms erode and elections become increasingly tilted, anti-corruption movements offer what partisan politics cannot: the moral authority to unite society against a rigged system. When traditional opposition fails, these movements succeed because they transcend party lines, mobilizing citizens around a cause larger than any candidate: the fundamental fairness of the system itself. Research shows that in polarized societies, the most effective opposition doesn’t fight on the traditional left-right battlefield where positions are entrenched. Instead, it creates an entirely new axis of conflict.1 Framing the stakes as clean versus corrupt shifts debate from rigid ideological divisions to a universally resonant moral question: are you on the side of the people or a corrupt elite?
Truth is, Orbán is just the latest in long list of authoritarians to be defeated by anti-corruption politics.
A Democratic landslide is possible if they can credibly take up the anti-corruption mantle. But that can’t happen if voters see them as corrupt and beholden to wealthy donors.
Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.
Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.
Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.
Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
