Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:
Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%
Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%
This is what a rigged system looks like.
baked
She's certainly not good at anything else
i’m such a stupid fucking mark for trying to “work” and “follow the law”
A panel from Defenders that shows Hulk walking away with Dr. Strange and Valkyrie. He says “COME, FRIENDS--LET US GO AWAY FROM THIS DUMB PLACE.”
What a week.
I like the first one also 🌟🌟🌟
This essay is busting so many of the rape myths around the Epstein files discourse. Things like, "Is child sexual abuse worse because the victims are younger?" and "But is fondling THAT bad?"
All sexual abuse is traumatic. All of it is wrong. All of it should be disqualifying from political power.
And reminder if Birthright goes .. they WILL go for Tribal Sovereignty
A headline saying “JK Rowling is very unseat after David Tennant called transphobes ‘little whining fuckers’” over photos of JK Rowling and David Tennant.
In David’s defense, the only reason he said that transphobes like JK Rowling are little whinging fuckers is because they are, in fact, little whinging fuckers.
She looks more like Colonel Sanders than a turkey
SOCIETY: no more AI pls & thx
CORPORATIONS: we are pleased to announce KETCHUP 2.0 which is exactly like the regular ketchup you already know and love but it's powered by AI somehow which makes it better and it costs $79 per bottle
When someone says they don’t get political it usually means they want to continue to exist within the convenient fiction that our lives aren’t deeply interconnected.
A manateam of manytees (three chonky little manatees floating in a tank)
In Portuguese a manatee is called peixe-boi (or “bull fish”) and in Dutch zeekoe (or “sea cow”). In English a group of manatees is called an aggregate of manatees, though I think a better term would be either a “manateam” or “manytees” (in the same way a group of dugongs should be called a “dugang”)
A meme image of Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, wincing away from the head of an alien xenomorph from Alien 3. The text on the alien says 'click here to use our new AI features!' And the text on Ripley's face says 'Me'.
Every. Goddamn. Company.
The golden age of corruption.
nymag.com/intelligence...
I really can't put this more clearly.
If you watch the new Harry Potter series, you are directly funding the genocide of trans people, because that's what Rowling gleefully spends HP revenue on.
There's no "death of the author" here, no "there's lots of awful creators." You are funding genocide.
Earlier today, I heard a podcast about the Julius Caesar assassination in which I learned that he was the first Roman to mint coins with his portrait. For 300 years, no coin depicted a living person, just gods and historic figures.
The coin was issued in 44 BC, the same year the Senate got stabby.
Lying about what a gold star family says to you is next level psycho
if not war then why war shaped
Definitely read it whether you already have (prep for the sequel) or haven't (be prepared to want to read everything else he has written!)
This is not only great in and of itself, but as it's the day before my birthday everyone can get me one of the special editions that I'm sure will be coming 😍
That would be punishment for his shipmates/fellow soldiers. Because you know he's not going to have anyone's back but his own.
I got this cover! I've been loving all the movie poster mashups in this series.
Pulling this shit while the president extracts billions for his family and is currently demanding taxpayers give him $10 billion is pretty goddamned rich.
One wants to stay apprised of current events but one can only sob and cry just so much
Me: why am I so sad?
Also me: *read a book earlier that so reminded me of tragedies in my own life that I cried*
