If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than:
Tesla
Southwest
Disney
Live Nation
HP
United
PayPal
CVS Health
Palantir
Citigroup
PG&E
3M
That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax.
It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.
Jim Holland (American, b.1955)
"Hold That Thought," 2015
Oil on canvas
Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany were facing federal charges for lying on the search warrant application for the police raid that killed Breonna Taylor in her home. The Trump DOJ is now dropping the charges.
This is exactly why I support @workingfamilies.org candidates. Bc it’s not enough to return to an unjust, pre-Trump status quo.
We need a better future! Where justice is visible in our health care, our housing, and beyond.
When people have the basics secured, stress goes down, small businesses grow, families stay together, and democracy actually works because people aren’t trapped in survival mode. When the foundation is strong, people can breathe again.
The American people deserve leaders who are as brave as they are.
Who will wake up every morning ready to fight like hell.
This year, we can flip Congress against Trump and against this rigged status quo, but we can’t do it by electing more of the same.
Leaving aside the issue that people buying insurance would buy it from insurance companies. This sounds like an effort to let people bypass the ACA. Healthy people could buy cheaper insurance that doesn't cover pre-existing conditions, sending the ACA into a premium death spiral.
Hey @andybeshearky.bsky.social … pls run for Mitch’s Senate seat :) I know POTUS looks appealing, but I’m begging 🙏
I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.
But we do need your time. ⏰
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There’s something frighteningly real about reading a professional article on the collapse of your own country’s democracy.
This is getting lost — but in the wake of Dr Oz touting the “breakthrough” in reducing prior auth, he released a demo that would *increase its use* in traditional Medicare.
www.cms.gov/newsroom/pre...
"They need to know that they're not alone." Diego Luna calls on us to speak up and speak out against the Trump administration's harmful immigration policies.
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
In the midst of personal devastation, Eman made the difficult choice to seek help in Louisville -- even though she couldn't bring all her children with her. Read and listen here: www.lpm.org/news/2025-06...
As a grad student at the College of Charleston, Lauren Davila found an ad for the auction of 600 enslaved people — the largest known slave auction in the U.S.
The discovery prompted a small group to spearhead the creation of a historical marker in downtown Charleston.
(Published Oct. 2024)
For more, here's our 2023 story revealing Davila's discovery and unearthing the identity of the family responsible for the sale:
A local health outreach program in Teton County, Wyoming is canceling its free drop-in sessions following DOGE’s cuts to HHS, leaving many older Wyoming residents without assistance navigating complex healthcare systems.
A rhetorical question for so many reasons, to be clear
Really begs the question… what IS considered an “acceptable” way to speak up for Palestinian human rights?
Trump Announces Seal Team 6 Killed U.S. Protester In Daring Overnight Raid
April 14, 2025 VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL Josh Gruenbaum Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service General Services Administration Sean R. Keveney Acting General Counsel U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Thomas E. Wheeler Acting General Counsel U.S. Department of Education Dear Messrs. Gruenbaum, Keveney, and Wheeler: We represent Harvard University. We are writing in response to your letter dated April 11, 2025, addressed to Dr. Alan Garber, Harvard’s President, and Penny Pritzker, Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. Harvard is committed to fighting antisemitism and other forms of bigotry in its community. Antisemitism and discrimination of any kind not only are abhorrent and antithetical to Harvard’s values but also threaten its academic mission. To that end, Harvard has made, and will continue to make, lasting and robust structural, policy, and programmatic changes to ensure that the university is a welcoming and supportive learning environment for all students and continues to abide in all respects with federal law across its academic programs and operations, while fostering open inquiry in a pluralistic community free from intimidation and open to challenging orthodoxies, whatever their source. Over the past 15 months, Harvard has undertaken substantial policy and programmatic measures. It has made changes to its campus use policies; adopted new accountability procedures; imposed meaningful discipline for those who violate university policies; enhanced programs designed to address bias and promote ideological diversity and civil discourse; hired staff to support these programs and support students; changed partnerships; dedicated resources to combat hate and bias; and enhanced safety and security measures. As a result, Harvard is in a very different place today from where it was a year ago. These efforts, and additional measures the university will be taking against antisemitism, not only are the right thing to do but also are critical to strength…
recognized by the Supreme Court. The government’s terms also circumvent Harvard’s statutory rights by requiring unsupported and disruptive remedies for alleged harms that the government has not proven through mandatory processes established by Congress and required by law. No less objectionable is the condition, first made explicit in the letter of March 31, 2025, that Harvard accede to these terms or risk the loss of billions of dollars in federal funding critical to vital research and innovation that has saved and improved lives and allowed Harvard to play a central role in making our country’s scientific, medical, and other research communities the standard-bearers for the world. These demands extend not only to Harvard but to separately incorporated and independently operated medical and research hospitals engaging in life-saving work on behalf of their patients. The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms as an agreement in principle. Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to do, to improve the experience of every member of its community. But Harvard is not prepared to agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration. William A. Burck Robert K. Hur Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP 1300 I Street NW Suite 900 Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005 King & Spalding LLP 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006
BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.
THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/
Bernie standing next to AOC holding a rally attendee’s baby with people taking pictures, laughing and smiling.
Timeline cleanse 🌞
The headlines of a super functional society
We will never “comply” our way out of fascism. There is one way out: resistance.
The thing about being the largest prison nation in the world, unlike Hitler in 1933, POTUS doesn’t need to build any new camps… just reopen existing ones.
The downstream medical costs of these firings will far outweigh the “savings” from unpaid salaries.
Withdrawing from the WHO, dismantling USAID, gagging the CDC… Trump & Elon are just BEGGING for another pandemic.
