Elon Musk and Peter Thiel routinely kick their critics off the X platform. Which is an excellent reason not to use it. Ever.

A good summary of Peter Thiel's fascist manifesto

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.

Senator Jon Ossoff neatly breaks down political corruption in America — and how Trump’s “Mar-a-Lago mafia” has exploited it.

Every single Democrat should be saying this.

This actually illustrates a very important point about tariffs: that the cost imposed on consumers comes from the reduction in supply and increase in price, and only indirectly from the tariff fee itself. Regardless of "who pays", it is effectively a transfer of wealth from consumers to producers.

Trump administration begins refunding more than $166bn in tariffs Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs

So you and I and everyone else are in effect now refunding American corporations for import tariffs, although we paid for most of them in the form of higher prices — which they won’t now lower because they have monopoly power to keep prices high.

The Art of the Deal.

Opinion | I Missed the Part About the Divine Right of Presidents

When the church abandons its rightful role as the conscience of the state and instead seeks to curry favor with the state, there is a real-world consequence. If you take an already grandiose man and fill him with a sense of divine purpose, you can uncage a tyrant. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...

Perhaps the only positive about Heritage and people like Vought and Hegseth rising to prominence is that we can finally be disabused of the notion that these people and their policies are worthy of anything but ridicule

Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United.

Harlan Crow's political contributions then went up 862%.

Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit.

But go on about how "progressivism" is a problem...

"Batra was moved through various holding cells for 24 hours without food or water... she remains there without access to the consistent medical care she needs following surgeries she had in December. Within days of being in the facility, she caught a respiratory illness"

The bottom 95% of taxpayers will see tax INCREASES on average this year, driven primarily by expanded tariffs and expiration of health insurance credits.

Meanwhile, the richest 1% alone will receive $117 billion in tax CUTS in 2026.

Never forget who Trump governs for.

Trump says he’s willing to ‘risk’ giving up rights as he pushes to extend a surveillance law.

Trump says he’s willing to ‘risk’ giving up rights as he pushes to extend a surveillance law.

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The question that I get asked most often these days is: Even if the ceasefire in Iran holds, has the war already imposed large irreversible costs on Americans?

So I made a video about these issues. The stakes may be much larger than you think: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTuS...

Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.

Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.

This is what corporate greed looks like.

We are not opening the Straits, we are closing it - most notably to Chinese trade with Iran. It remains unclear how China will respond. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

It's reverse Robin Hood.

There is no justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth at the very top. It’s distorting our politics, rigging our markets and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.

Inflation was coming down in the United States—and then Trump’s tariffs happened.

The Trump administration is very soft on white-collar crime—the softest, in fact.

Trump is touting the no tax on tips provision in his budget bill.

But many tipped workers won't benefit because their earnings are so low. And the provision expires in 2028.

The estate tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich? Those were made permanent.

Funny how that works.

He’s flailing. He doesn’t have a strategy. Blockading the Straits of Hormuz is exactly the opposite of what we want, both in principle and practice.

I’m sorry, but the fact that 39% of us approve of this is enough to be a national death sentence.

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]

Post from The Bulwark - YouTube A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GETTING RICH off the Trump presidency. Donald Trump himself tops the list, of course, but it also includes his kids and in-laws; other gr...

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Sarah Rogers Leads Trump’s Plan to Fund Far-Right Groups in Europe As Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Sarah B. Rogers is advancing a Trump-backed plan to fund MAGA-aligned groups in Europe, framing it as a defense of “free speech” against the EU’s Digi...

Sarah Rogers is advancing a Trump-backed plan to fund MAGA-aligned groups in Europe while amplifying Christian nationalist & anti-LGBTQ+ narratives. Her ties include Turning Point, ADF, and Germany’s AfD, mirroring Project 2025 and raising concerns that U.S. diplomacy is boosting Europe’s far right.

They don’t understand that even if this self-induced crisis is over, we will only move on to the next one. The stock market may indeed rally, but the situation is profoundly unhealthy.

Amazon reportedly failed to create any new jobs at its HQ2 in Virginia last year, despite millions of state tax incentives.

The company has cut 30,000 jobs since last October — while saving $4 billion in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill.

Trickle-down economics is a hoax.

Voting rights groups file fifth lawsuit against Trump’s sweeping anti-voting order Voting rights groups are asking courts to completely nullify Trump’s executive order unconstitutional and unenforceable.

NEW: A group of voting rights organizations has filed the fifth lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order seeking to control mail-in voting procedures. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is what a message of a sick leader sounds like, whose sanity is by now completely gone, delivered this morning in a country that for some reason has not found a way of restraining a madman from badly harming this country and the rest of the world. #deranged #evil