Twenty years ago, the notion that people could elect a Black man named Barack Obama President of the United States and a Muslim named Zohran Mamdani Mayor of New York City would’ve seemed completely outlandish
Voters can sometimes surprise us in beautiful ways. Remember that during the midterms
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OH MY GOD!!!! THIS IS SO AWESOME!
Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan's possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.
Next time some officious doofus explains to me that “the law” is not “political,” I am going to drive to their house and strap them into the eye speculum from ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and force them to look at this sentence for 48 straight hours www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
That is how we will pay for it.
ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel giants funded an illegal black ops outfit that spied on and attacked climate scientists for years, now one of their operatives has been apprehended and is being extradited back to New York. The fossil fuels industry, however, remains untouchable.
Magyar's no mercy approach needs to be used in the US
Trump will pardon everyone for everything he can-including himself
But pardons don't cover state crimes. And despite the SCOTUS immunity decision, there are still ways to prosecute him
We cannot repeat the failures of the Biden administration
Post from Dale Partridge claiming nobody wants to live in diverse neighborhoods
I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries.
Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.
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.
Democrats, let’s appreciate the good news.
👏🏽 WI Supreme Court: not even close. 60.1% vs 39.8%, +193K votes 💥
👏🏽 Winning where we’re “not supposed to”. A Dem just took the mayor’s race in GOP-leaning Waukesha
👏🏽 Over-performing in deep red territory: Harris ran 25 points ahead of baseline in GA
Like fuhrer, like son
JD Vance has no convictions. He goes where the money is. #TotalTrash
Read this.
Here’s another thing: people say trumps words are “just words.” But his clear public panic visa vis constant truth social posts, made it clear the the regime he was panicking and they could wait him out.
Had he STFU, we very well maybe in a different spot.
AMERICA MUST INVADE THE VATICAN AND TAKE CONTROL OF ITS STRATEGIC PRAYER RESERVES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
“In all officially sanctioned matches played from today forward, the pawn immediately in front of a player’s king will be replaced with a sick little hot rod that can move any number of squares horizontally, vertically, or in a circle like it’s doing donuts,” said Arkady Dvorkovich
It forced Iran to the negotiating table so Trump could give them everything thy want
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Hegseth announces automatic registration for US military draft to begin in December. Any immigrant who doesn't register within 30 days of turning 18 can be criminally charged.
All this does is show MAGA hypocrisy. Somehow auto voter registration isn’t possible—but auto draft registration is. smh
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NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
More than 40 years ago, I worked at SI (as a freelance proofreader). That said, this picture is straight out of #IfTheyGunnedMeDown
Trump has not “given” the USPS special control over mail ballots because that is not a thing that is his to give.
PLEASE STOP PRETENDING THAT THE CARNIVAL BARKER HAS MAGIC POWERS JUST BECAUSE HE SAYS HE HAS MAGIC POWERS.
Social movement scholar here again. So, why protest?
Nihilists were out yesterday arguing that "protests don't do anything."
A short 🧵:
“I’m a cop, don’t ask me about the law” is quite a line 😳😳😳
LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)
A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...
And yet she’s still covering up the most incriminating parts (most likely) of the Epstein files. We weren’t allowed to talk about it when the Dow was at 50,000. Is now a good time?
