Virginia strips tax breaks for organizations connected to the Confederacy The United Daughters of the Confederacy – responsible for proliferation of Confederate statues across the US – will now have to pay property taxes

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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”

If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.

A journalist filmed an ICE protest at a Minnesota church. Then federal agents showed up at her door After Georgia Fort and Don Lemon reported from a church whose pastor reportedly works for ICE, agents arrested Fort in front of her children

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Trump is putting your wallet on the frontlines with his war of choice.

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.

OK, now do bribes.

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

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What on Earth is Melania Trump thinking? | Arwa Mahdawi The first lady has put the Barbra Streisand effect in overdrive with a PR nightmare of her own making

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Dolly Parton Is the Most Popular Person in America, New Poll Finds A new University of Massachusetts Lowell poll finds Dolly Parton is the most beloved public figure in America, with net

Is it any wonder?

I have always been a huge fan of Dolly Parton. We're the same age, same height, share the same values, but she can sing better. And she has more Grammys. I've always wanted to meet her!

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25th him tomorrow. Anyway. Still. Because he remains dangerously insane and incapable of anything besides self-gratification

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Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide Medical examiners have ruled that the death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar, five days after Border Patrol left him at a Buffalo, New York, doughnut shop, was a homicide.

Update: Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee, came to America seeking safety. Border Patrol left him alone in the cold outside a closed coffee shop. He was found dead five days later. His death has been ruled a homicide.

Trump’s Immigration Policy Sidelines Foreign Doctors Amid Shortage

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Bari Weiss wants to put living breathing Dunning-Kruger Experiment and fop Stephen A. Smith on the CBS morning show, per Lachlan Cartwright's Breaker

OH PLEASE DO THIS! OH PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!

These need to be handed out at every No Kings rally on March 28. Millions of them.

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.

FCC chair threatens to throttle news broadcasts over ‘hoaxes’ about Iran war Brendan Carr posts that he may cancel spectrum permits of ‘mainstream news’ outlets for ‘misleading’ coverage

The Nazi shutdown newspapers and radio stations they did noy like. Trump is still following the Nazi playbook.

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A Reddit user traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and lobbying records across 45 states to figure out who's behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it. Surprise, it's Meta (Facebook)

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Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction – #30 in American Federation of Government Employees Local 2305 v. United States Department of Veterans Affairs (D.R.I., 1:25-cv-00583) – CourtListener.com Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction

A win! A federal judge in Rhode Island has directed the government to reinstate a union contract covering more than 300,000 Veterans Affairs employees after the Trump administration attempted to end the agreement in August.

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