In a nutshell. 😊

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:

Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...

This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.

State AGs must step in and block it.

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.

“Somebody shorted the oil markets today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great. And if you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that’s happened at least 3x… a pattern.”

The most corrupt regime ever.

How the Internet Fringe Infiltrated Republican Politics Inside the battle for the post-MAGA G.O.P.

During a recent focus group of 20 Gen Z Republicans conducted by a conservative think tank, a subset of participants were asked to share their thoughts on Hitler. Only one responded with outright criticism.

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

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Straight up milking the market

#MedicareForAllNOW

Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

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The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks.

The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.

It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

Why do we have lawmakers in Congress who are willing to hold fellow members of Congress accountable for sexual assault but not a President?

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn b

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.

ZOHRAN: “I ran on taxing the rich — Today, we’re taxing the rich… the first ever pied-a-terre tax for second homes worth $5 Million+… $500 MILLION from the richest of the rich to fund child care, etc…💰”

Promises kept.

It's reverse Robin Hood.

Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

Sanders: The people have got to determine the future of what happens in our country and in the entire planet, not a handful of extraordinarily wealthy, arrogant, anti-democratic multibillionaires. That’s what they want. They have their goals. They are not our goals.

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.

Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.

Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.

Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

Everything is staged. Including his assignation attempt.

And then he doubled down and said he thought it depicted him as a doctor!!! 🤣🤣

Hungary Votes Out Orbán: A Landslide for Democracy, a Disaster for Putin, Trump, Netanyahu, and the Global Far Right Viktor Orbán has been defeated by Péter Magyar. After sixteen years of brazen corruption and a steady dismantling of democratic institutions, packing courts, strangling independent media, and running ...

Congratulations Hungary! 🇭🇺

The Putin-Netanyahu-Trump favourite Viktor Orbán (far-right) has been defeated in a record breaking electoral landslide by Péter Magyar (centre-right). Orbán waited until the middle of the night to quietly concede.

www.yacnews.com/hungary-vote...

Weird war, where the winner gets skyrocketing gas prices, inflation and market crashes while the loser gets control over 20% of global oil flow.

Cumulative area burnt by wildfire curves for the US showing 2026 starting off massively worse than any prior year

This seems suboptimal

"A well-articulated argument against a new data center in Ohio"

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Melania Trump X Not an Epstein victim V Co-conspirator

Thanks for clearing that up.

Fun fact: Michelle Obama and Jill Biden never had to hold a press conference to deny being part of a sex trafficking ring

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