I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.
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We should be learning from other countries...
(around photos of Jeff Bezos and an Amazon employee) Jeff Bezos made $90 billion in profit... because of their hard work. Amazon's profits went UP 45%, but its taxes went DOWN 87%. Thanks to Trump's "Big Ugly Bill," Amazon paid just $1.2 billion in taxes (down from $9 billion last year). Hardworking Americans are struggling, while Republicans hand massive tax breaks to the Epstein class.
Tax the rich.
It's reverse Robin Hood.
Here we fixed this for you, @wsj.com
We see you trying to help JD pretend he doesn’t have to wear this war when he runs for president. Nope.
Fascinating, Zelensky coming out publicly more and more and saying that Trump is working with/for Putin. The Ukrainians seem to have determined that telling the truth is preferable to lying to please Trump.
Mitch McConnell could have prevented Trump from becoming president a second time. He chose not to. Party over country. I wish there was a hell that he could burn in.
This is the same man who has been begging to be given the Nobel Peace Prize.
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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.
We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.
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Marco Rubio declared that under the Constitution being born in the USA does not make you a citizen unless your parents are citizens.
Marco Rubio's parents were Cuban immigrants who were NOT citizens at the time of his birth.
Do you think Marco will now self-deport?
Rather than opening more oil refineries, how about we get more EVs, more charging stations, more renewables, maybe even a super fast train or two.
Let’s stop planning a future that includes fossil fuels.
RFK Jr. did not come up with idea that diet is important to health. This has been promoted for decades, including, famously, by Michelle Obama.
In fact, he doesn’t even believe it himself.
If he did he’d be busy making sure kids in the U.S. had enough to eat, instead of cutting food benefits.
Congress has poured billions of dollars into ICE, transforming it into the country’s largest law enforcement agency. Is the country any safer as a result? Brennan Center Senior Fellow @margyoh.bsky.social explains what you need to know:
Anyone else notice this? Mainstream journalists have forgotten their duty to speak truth to power. It is why it is one of the rights written into the Constitution. Political cartoonists are the real and true heroes of the moment.
Gotta love San Francisco folks showing up in Ocean Beach for No Kings!
Awesome!
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
–Justice Louis Brandeis
Our most fearless journalists these days are our cartoonists.
Today's GOP
We gave Amazon a $17.5 BILLION tax break last year.
Meta got $13.7 BILLION.
Citigroup didn't pay a penny—we gave them a tax REFUND.
Those tax breaks didn't do anything to create jobs, let alone save them.
We have got to stop with the corporate tax giveaways.
Solar panels aren’t being held up in the Strait of Hormuz.
A point worth making
What happened to "America First"?
It's estimated that US oil companies could gain a windfall of $60B this year if crude prices maintain the levels they have hit since the start of Trump's war on Iran.
Remember that Big Oil spent spent nearly $100M to get Trump elected in 2024.
That investment is paying off quite well for them.
i am just sobbing for Dolores Huerta. there are so many stories like this from women in the civil rights movement, from AIM, from the Black Panthers, and now from UFW, and it is so brave of her to come forward and share something so painful.
Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"
