if Ds control congress, they could pass a bill to send people checks, funded by taxing billionaires. let trump veto it if he wants.
include a provision in the bill that trump's name can't be on the checks.
The Reagan counterrevolution only deepened America's problems. It turned the country against government and against taxation. Remember, after eight Republican years in the 1950s, with George Humphrey as Secretary of the Treasury, the highest marginal tax rate was 91 percent. Contrast that with the situation last year when the rich acted as if raising it from 28 to 32 percent were the end of Western Civilization. So overwhelming is that opposition, that politicians who privately see no other alternative to raising taxes, remain silent, because to favor tax hikes publicly would be political suicide.
the past is another country
One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.
The graves of multiple children have been defaced.
One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.
The new requirement for placebo-controlled trials proved to be a roadblock for vaccine approvals when Pfizer and BioNTech ended a trial of their updated COVID vaccine in healthy adults aged 50–64 due to low enrollment. www.pharmexec.com/view/pfizer-...
Recently revealed memos showed that the CDC also ignored hundreds of studies on the safety and effectiveness of the COVID vaccine when it restricted its use back in May 2025. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
Would it be possible for the next Democratic president to offer amnesty to any deported immigrant who had no criminal charges and offer them green cards if they want to come back? Those who have American citizen spouses and children or who served in the U.S Military could be first in line.
Letting them have the advanced Nvidia AI chips isn't enough? Does Witkoff need another cash injection?
Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.
Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.
There’s no abuse of the courts. There’s no misrepresentation to a tribunal. No harm to a client.
There’s no duty to prop up the Supreme Court’s majesty!
So long as reporting is done ethically and within the bounds of journalistic standards, that’s the end of it.
I’m sorry, but this is plainly unhinged. First, @adamliptak.bsky.social’s work is obviously not legal in nature. Second, worshipping the Court like it isn’t a government institution— a legitimate subject of news coverage— is beyond absurd. Third, the chilling effect on the 1A would be devastating.
Drone as Freedom Restrictor.
The clarity Europe got from the Greenland thing seems pretty enviable
This is a very easy thing for the Democrats to run on: stripping the Trump propaganda from every inch of DC in the name of (r)eplubican ideology. I would also prohibit the Arc de Trump.
Somewhere out there, in a law firm office far, far away, an associate on the defense team for John Brennan just started updating the exhibit list for his draft selective or vindictive prosecution motion
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
ICE has been purchasing people’s addresses, car registrations, and ethnicity details from data broker Thomson Reuters. Internal whistleblowers say company databases were used to track license plates and more in Minnesota this January. www.404media.co/how-thomson-...
Essentially, a Trump-engineered windfall profit for the companies.
5. This case arises from the President's March 26, 2026, Executive Order, Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors. 6. The Contractors Order equates most mentions of "race or ethnicity" to "racially discriminatory DEI activities." In doing so, it attempts to use intimidation to coerce much of the country to abandon efforts to promote inclusion and belonging, to forgo attempts to achieve more diverse communities and workplaces, and to ignore that this country's history requires many paths to reach equality. The Order is an unlawful attempt by the Administration to erase the realities of race, ethnicity, and a history of discrimination in this country, and to dismantle the architecture of equality. 7. The Administration views discussion of race and ethnicity as unlawful, and the very concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion as discriminatory. But that is flat wrong. The Contractors Order sanctions legal, and laudable, expression on race or ethnicity, and in doing so, violates the free speech, free association, and due process rights of Plaintiffs and their members.
BREAKING: A broad-based challenge was filed today in federal court in Maryland to the March "anti-DEI" federal contractors executive order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
There's actually a fun story behind this: the guy who was NYC superintendent of school buildings from 1891 to 1923 was an architect who believed in holistic learning, and wanted to inspire kids to rise out of poverty by giving them a sense of the possibility of granduer through construction.
Good news happening behind all the bad news.
Excellent piece by @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social
1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care.
The judge also blocked "any similar policy."
Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws.
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Confirmed that she is dropping out.
The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.
Get excited.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...
NEW: Stories about pardons are often told as stories about presidential power — who had access, who persuaded a president to intervene. But what drew reporter Jeremy Kohler to this story was the people on the other side of that act of grace.
The money very well may end up in a different foundation set up to fund the library. But even if so, we have no idea whether Trump controls that entity or what the money will really go to.
The whole presidential library fundraising racket has to be reformed.
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
Taiwan is facing fears of a plastic bag shortage amid a significant price hike for plastic goods, driven primarily by surging oil prices and disruptions in the global petrochemical supply chain owing to the prolonged conflict in the Middle East. www.straitstimes.com/asia/plastic...
