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.
There should be a law passed, and enforced, that we will no longer have for profit prisons of any kind! Ever again! Incentivized incarceration should be a crime against humanity and should be retroactively enforced! They know what they are doing is wrong!
Will voters EVER understand the big lie about "scary democratic (small D) socialist policies?!" Bernie has told us for decades, and Mamdani is showing us now. We can instantly fund a WAR but have TO DEBATE for decades about healthcare for all - GEEZUS!
They've LIED TO US FOR PROFIT for decades.
FOX: “Home foreclosures jumped 26% in the first three months of this year.”
Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.
Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience
The American gestapo abducted an 85 year-old widow.
Was she one of the worst of the worst? No, her step-son, a retired Alabama state trooper, got ICE to put her in a detention center to deport her because he wanted all of his father's inheritance.
Sounds like the son is the worst of the worst.
While death and destruction rained down on Iran during the war’s first month, the world’s 100 biggest oil and gas companies brought in an extra $30 million per HOUR in windfall profits.
Yes, $30 million per HOUR.
All because of the deadly and reckless decision making of one man.
We should be learning from other countries...
DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states.
DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand.
My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases.
DOJ is now 0-5.
My firm is 5-0.
Lesson: When we fight we win.
It's reverse Robin Hood.
Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.
This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.
Never doubt your power to change the system.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.
Point of order: all that matters is turning out the vote. Hungary just proved this.
Political actions that matter: doing whatever we can to motivate people to vote.
—We will get distracted, so repeatedly bringing our focus back to this objective, is key.
Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Every once in a while, I like to watch this video clip of Joe Biden comforting a grieving Parkland family to remind myself what compassionate leadership looks like.
This is the stuff I truly miss.
Seems bad that our *partner* in this war has what basically amounts to a ceasefire veto where they can drop bombs (we gave them) on civilians, shattering any deal to end a conflict we all know they want to keep going.
From a post:
“Told my wife to have dinner ready by 6 or I'll obliterate her entire civilization.
So anyway, she now charges me a fee to use the bathroom that used to be free, and I didn't get any dinner, but I'm pretty sure I won that exchange.”
REMINDER: ICE Executed Renee Good 3 Months Ago. She Was Killed by the Kind of State Violence Our Founding Fathers Warned Against | Once a state teaches its agents that force is the solution, force becomes their habit. That’s how police states are formed out of democracies. #AbolishICE
Another question for any thinkers out there; Why are “we the people” paying $60bn to $100bn+ every year to have a congress who is on vacation 90% of the time, and refuses to do anything “FOR“ we the people??!?!? 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
What a f*cking waste of lives and money. 😠
Daractenus @Daractenus With five days left until election day, the US vice president has arrived in Budapest to campaign for the pro-Russian kleptocrat that has essentially turned his country into an appendage of Russia and robbed it to such a degree that it is now the EU's poorest and most corrupt.
Why is the Thiel puppet meddling in the election of another country 😏
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
Citizens United has facilitated the early stages of foriegn control over the sovereignty of the USA. Just as China was 'opened up' and dominated by Western colonial nations using military force, the USA will be carved up by foreign autocracies through coercion and bribes.
We need to wake up.
A drunk former fox news host refused to promote two Black and two female officers because a convicted felon and 5x draft dodger does not want to stand next to a Black woman at military events.
Think about that for a second.
