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Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes.
That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services.
This is why people are mad as hell.

BobDylan, I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine,London 17.10.1987 YouTube video by Woolhall Films of Bob Dylan & Van Morrison

A little music in honor of Pope Leo being an Augustinian

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Congress Must Address SNAP Cost Shift Before Even More Low-Income Families Lose Food Assistance Congress should delay H.R. 1’s unprecedented cost shift to state budgets, which is already hurting struggling families and driving far deeper SNAP cuts than anticipated as states scramble to respond t...

H.R. 1’s unprecedented cost shift to states is already driving far deeper SNAP cuts than anticipated as states scramble to reduce costs. Congress must delay this unfunded mandate for all states before even more struggling families lose food assistance.

Oh God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son”
Abe says, “Man, you must be puttin’ me on”
God say, “No.” Abe say, “What?”
God say, “You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin’ you better run”
Well Abe says, “Where do you want this killin’ done?”
God says, “Out on Highway 61”

An absolutely predictable outcome of HR1 with Medicaid work requirements and reporting on deck for the end of the year.

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Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

God bless you @colsonwhitehead.com

"Do you realize how much water and power it’d take to replicate the average writer’s narcissism, self-loathing and despair? It’d drain the Indian Ocean. You could light up Times Square for a year. We can’t afford it."

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

Great essay from Colson Whitehead.
Don’t Use A.I. to Do This www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Viktor Orbán created the global blueprint for authoritarian populism and became a MAGA hero. Today, Hungarian voters sent him packing after 16 years in power.

There is nothing inevitable about these guys. Organize. Vote. Fight back. It works.

SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Republican Megabill Is Implemented SNAP participation nationwide fell by 2.5 million people (6 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and December of that year, the latest month of data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The #BigUglyBill’s devastating cuts to nutrition programs are going into effect - and millions of kids and working families are going hungry because of it. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

“We want to live in a free, European Democracy. After 16 years of sorrow, corruption and Russian influence. We have had enough”

The organisers & singers at the massive Budapest concert told me why Orban has to go.

The four humans who have traveled the furthest from Earth. (Via NASA.)

Last year, Dr. Ezequiel Véliz was named 2025 Resident of the Year at UT Health, Rio Grande Valley.

Last week, ICE detained him in McAllen, Texas—ripping him away from his family, his life, and his patients.

If only there was a website with all the info parents need to find child care in New York City, including a map with every licensed provider in each neighborhood…

Oh wait! Now there is: nyc.gov/childcare

Ben Wikler had a long-term, successful plan to flip the court, but what really set the fire under WI Dem activists was the court nearly throwing out enough ballots to steal the state from Biden. One GOP swing vote prevented that.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

It was not that long ago when conservatives had a chokehold on every branch of Wisconsin government, piles of Koch and Uline money, and seemed unstoppable. People worked FUCKING HARD to change that shit and now look at em. Change is always possible and never ever easy.

@bbkogan.bsky.social is as good as it gets on understanding the federal budget and the impact of the regime’s proposed cuts.

I think every Republican candidate should make this their core message for November. 🙏

I’m laughing

It was great

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

Selfie underneath Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways Sold Out! sign

Henry- check out my hat. Wonderful show- intimate and lovely.

What a lovely evening.

It is, after all, her house. You’re just there to see to her needs.

Perfect sign

Heather Cox Richardson and her friend standing behind a sign that reads”See You In The Hague.”

Besties since the 1960s. Did not expect to be protesting our government together sixty years later. #NoKings

Maggie Rogers, Joan Baez, and Tom Morello performing “The Times They Are A-Changin'”

SPRINGSTEEN IN MINNEAPOLIS: “This is still America… and this reactionary nightmare and invasion of American cities will not stand.” 🇺🇸

(From ablackpolitical)