Excellent article - balanced, thoughtful, informative - by University of Washington professor Robert Crawford. It takes a deep look at the recent attacks on academic freedom across American universities. robert917.substack.com/p/on-the-dis...
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 — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.
The system is rigged.
Curious that nearly 1 in 5 members of the Reform Party -- founded essentially as an anti-EU party -- support rejoining the EU. And 53 percent of all voters do, with Labour and Lib Dems in the 80s. Allons-y! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It's reverse Robin Hood.
Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5%
This is what a rigged system looks like.
[Via @itep.org]
With so much strange-ness coming from Trump, yet another loss.
The 🏳🌈will continue to fly over the Stonewall National Monument!
Somehow I keep thinking of the time Pres. Obama wore a brown suit and the Fox-type media and several Republicans in Congress were apoplectic about the disrespect and lack of seriousness it supposedly showed.
Well put.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Hillary Clinton was right about everything.
Kamala Harris was right about everything.
Both would’ve been incredible Presidents and I remain proud AF to have cast my vote for them.
The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
That is how we will pay for it.
Pendulum could just be starting to swing.
Horrified Lion says he fully understands the symbolic value of pressing for Amendment 25. Symbols can be very powerful.
youtu.be/UqEI3NZmjJ4?...
Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich.
Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else.
The state of Trump's union. [@itep.org]
Trump accepted $37 million worth of donated foreign steel for his White House ballroom from a corporation based in Luxembourg.
Just days later, the Trump administration made major cuts to tariffs on steel imports that could significantly benefit that corporation.
"America First."
A chart from Our World In Data, showing the shift away from coal power in the UK - nearly 70% of electricity production in the late 1980s, to less than 0.1% in 2025.
There's a lot being shared right now about China's incredible shift towards renewable energy - and rightly so.
But this, from the UK, is equally astonishing & encouraging.
It's not just that change can happen. It's that it *is* happening.
(Via climateactapp.substack.com/p/your-daily...)
Today seems like a good day to debunk the 12 biggest myths about taxing the rich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnoLAMHwf2I
In its new Democracy Index 2025, the Economist Intelligence Unit says that global democracy has stopped worsening after eight consecutive years of decline. The report highlights the United States as a negative case.
www.democracywithoutborders.org/42392/democr...
Remember when Trump fawned over his wealthy donors, calling them “rich as hell” while promising to give them tax cuts?
That's one campaign promise he didn't break.
But everyone else didn't get so lucky. [@itep.org]
Reminder this guy is still doing the worst possible stuff to our most vulnerable
The richest 0.1 percent of the global population are hiding nearly $3 trillion in offshore accounts to evade taxes — more than the wealth held by the entire bottom half of humanity.
It would take about $93 billion per year to eradicate extreme hunger by 2030.
Taxing the rich is a global necessity.
“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
Back home in Brisbane now. Amazing to have been to No Kings III in Seattle. Sheepish about the carbon it took to fly there, but such a powerful event. Inspiring democratic push-back to increasingly authoritarian national leadership. #nokings @seattleindivisible.bsky.social @indivisible.org
It seems about right. 😂
✊ No workers. No food.
In Colorado, 3800 marginalized workers are taking on the world’s biggest meat company #JBS.
Fighting for safety, dignity & fair pay.
“This strike is a matter of life and death.”
When workers organise, power shifts.
📖 grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-up...
-Trump & Kushner have billions in business with the Saudis
-Eric & Don Jr. are backing a drone-manufacturing DoD contractor
-Hegseth's broker tried to invest millions in defense stocks prior to US strikes
Trump's inner circle profits from war while everyone else pays the price.
These billionaires pay their workers so little that many of their workers need public assistance.
Meanwhile, their companies just got another round of tax cuts from a bill that gutted the public assistance their workers have to rely on to get by.
Trickle-down economics is a sham.
14th Amendment (1868):
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Seems pretty clear to me.
Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result. 1/2
Politico: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf.