Funny How They Always Bet Right Corruption is now business as usual

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This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.

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What to know about tariff refund site that launches Monday This is the 1st phase in the administration complying with court orders that could see billions of dollars in paid tariffs refunded.

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HOW BLACK WOMEN HAVE BEEN ESSENTIAL TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY (AND WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THEM)

To survive right-wing authoritarianism, Americans would be wise to learn from Black women who have always had to strategize, organize, & instigate from the margins.

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This obscenity has women furious — and they're naming and shaming If you’ve noticed an uptick in female rage online over the last week, we have our reasons.Women have been reeling over the Eric Swalwell scandal, which saw our former collective Dem Crush fall from gr...

This obscenity has women furious — and they're naming and shaming

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Oil company founded by DOE chief Wright paid no US taxes last year Liberty Energy made $193 million last year and received more than $10 million back in tax benefits, according to a nonprofit analysis released on Tax Day.

"The company founded and formerly run by Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright recorded $193 million of income last year but paid no 2025 federal corporate income taxes, according to its regulatory filings, and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS..."

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On just one night this week, Russia sent nearly 700 drones & dozens of missiles at Ukrainian civilians. In the 5th year of the war, aerial attacks on Ukrainian civilians have become even more intense & more frequent. Please join me in this campaign for air defense equipment. You can help save lives.

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.

Gold speckled flatworm: #AGoodPlace

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How much of Project 2025 has Trump enacted? White House budget director Russ Vought has been key to implementing the Trump agenda. But before joining the administration, he was a central figure in drafting Project 2025, the controversial policy...

How much of Project 2025 has Trump enacted?

- 53 percent of Project 2025's domestic agenda as of February this year. That's 283 of the 532 recommended actions
- WH budget director Russ Vought (a central figure in drafting P2025) has been key to implementing the agenda

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Such a weird brag. Humans who run races don't run to beat machines. Cars go faster than us, as do horses, for that matter. A robot beating a human record doesn't change that record. As a feat of engineering it's impressive until I ask what the applications are, because I can't think of benign ones.

GrrlScientist (@grrlscientist) OMG!! the rage! the tantrums! the envy! hide the ketchup! President Volodymyr Zelensky has been formally nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. #NobelPeacePrize #VolodymyrZelenskyy

💥Zelensky nominated for Nobel Peace Prize!
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#MedicareForAllNOW

🔥😬 “because they’re crooks. And everybody knows it.”

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Supreme Court 'private tensions' growing during 'politically explosive' session: report The Supreme Court's internal disagreements have spilled out into a public display, according to a report profiling the ongoing tensions. The Supreme Court has experienced significant internal friction in recent weeks, marked by heated disputes between liberal and conservative justices. Justice Sonia...

The Supreme Court's internal disagreements have spilled out into a public display, according to a report profiling the ongoing tensions.

On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a “freak-out.”

Oof, what a lede.

Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion “This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

Really important story from @wired.com: The Christian Nationalists who want to destroy the American secular state are now making their presence felt

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“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”
— Pope Leo XIV

TPUSA's Erika Kirk just got brutally trolled by the LEGO folks. 😂🤣👇

RFK Jr. Says Every Person Who Lost Health Insurance Is Illegal The health secretary apparently has no remorse about anyone who’s lost their insurance in the last year thanks to Trump’s cuts.

RFK Jr. Says Every Person Who Lost Health Insurance Is Illegal newrepublic.com/post/209235/... via @newrepublic.com

BREAKING: Melania's friend just exposed EVERYTHING YouTube video by Keith Edwards

Mar-a-Lago one year. Miami detention center the next. Amanda Ungaro went from New Year’s with the Trumps to being deported by ICE at her ex’s request. She’s hitting CNN tomorrow. Melania should probably be watching. 😬

For background watch this!⬇️

#USDemocracy
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Neguse: "Despite all of that, Speaker Johnson made the decision to gavel the House & send everyone home. Now we're back 2 weeks later & what has the majority decided is the most pressing issue to debate? Apparently it's a resolution commemorating a bill that the GOP passed last year. It's absurd."

Congress Turns Up Pressure on DHS Over Palantir’s Role in Immigration Crackdown Democrats are demanding answers about Palantir and other surveillance firms powering Trump’s hardline immigration enforcement agenda.

Democrats are demanding answers about Palantir and other surveillance firms powering Trump’s hardline immigration enforcement agenda. www.wired.com/story/congre...

Burcum: Senate betrays the Boundary Waters by blowing up mining protections "This reckless measure, which should be called the Chilean Billionaires’ Relief Act, was approved in a 50-49 vote and now heads to the president’s desk for his signature," columnist Jill Burcum writes...

Happy to have traveled extensively in the Boundary Waters before this happened
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It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.

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U.S. Sends Thousands More Troops to Mideast. But we won, right? politicalwire.com/2026/04/15/u...

A Mississippi hospital may shut down by June 15... and this is what healthcare collapse actually looks like in real time.

Source: Mississippi Free Press, Andrew Cass, April 13, 2026

#HealthcareNotTrumpsWar

Politicus Unum 🇺🇸 on Instagram: "The MAGA administration has reached a new point of controversy following the President’s decision to share an AI-generated image portraying himself as Jesus. The post ... politicusunum on April 14, 2026: "The MAGA administration has reached a new point of controversy following the President’s decision to share an AI-generated image portraying himself as Jesus. The post...

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