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.
Dave Matthews Band: “Stop the Genocide. Stop Killing Children”
A headline reads: "Times Exclusive: The Inside Story of 5 Days That Remade the Supreme Court. Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine 'shadow docket' rulings on presidential power."
Confidential memos by Supreme Court justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how they decided to bypass time-tested procedures and create the modern “shadow docket,” a rushed and secretive new way of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
“In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, … he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.”
Reminds me of how in 2005 Congress passed legislation making it illegal for an HOA or condo to forbid residents from flying an American flag, specifically because of Clarence Thomas’s father-in-law’s HOA
True! Fun fact: They did this because someone leaked Robert Bork’s rental history during his confirmation battle.
A photo of a print NYT headline saying the strait is open next to an IPhone NYT headline saying it’s closed
Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz
Tokens. Get. Spent.
In 2023, Yoav Gallant called Palestinians "human animals." This belief is held implicitly or explicitly by much of American society. And American institutions engage with Palestinians on that basis, like our mere presence is an affront to decency.
1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.
The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.
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Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3
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The U.S. is now on a very dangerous collision course with China over its maritime blockade of Iran.
This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist
The EPA announced plans to weaken existing federal requirements over how power companies store and use the toxic waste produced by burning coal.
The proposal would make it easier to reuse coal ash for things like cement manufacturing and the production of drywall. https://wapo.st/4cnMLDq
Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?
Notice how the most celebrated and successful space mission in *decades* was run by at least 50% “DEI hires”—not all white men? And not even all Americans. Maybe diversity *is* strength . . .
Conversely, men could get lonelier.
Grow the fuck up, please.
It should be illegal to win a men's national championship if you refuse to sponsor a women's team in the same sport
Looking at you Denver and Michigan
NEW: The Trump administration is deploying its counterterrorism machine against far-left groups like antifa.
Current & former U.S. officials worry the strategy could target political opponents and distract from more pressing terrorism threats.
Free link: nyti.ms/422iIfH
It doesn't matter what Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene or Candace Owens has to say as long as Republican members of Congress are fully behind Trump on Iran.
NGL they picked a great time to be as far from Earth as humanly possible
Democrats struggle to be ineffectual about both ICE excessive force murders and ICE depraved indifference murders
Elon Musk is now worth over $800 billion.
Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
This is what happens when 77 million people take leave of their senses and put a manifestly unqualified, unfit, mentally ill narcissistic man-child in charge of the country and the world's most powerful. military. This is what happens when the media 'bothsides' election coverage.
You could write a book about the way NYT massacres the English language every time it talks about Israel. Indeed, in 1946, George Orwell did. It's "Politics and the English Language."
We'll allow betting on whether children will starve to death in a an open air prison...
But betting on a single American soldiers fate?!
MONSTROUS!
Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime
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