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.
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Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
WAPO: “.. Trump has directed contractors to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad, frustrated with its appearance and questioning whether the slope of the White House lawn needs to be changed ..” @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Public march counters pro-deportation event in central Indiana. About 1,000 Hoosiers supportive of immigrants marched through Fishers on Saturday.
Public march counters pro-deportation event in central Indiana • Indiana Capital Chronicle
About 1,000 Hoosiers supportive of immigrants marched through Fishers on Saturday — a counter protest to a pro-deportation event planned for the city with remarks from two statewide elected officials.
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Hundreds marching in Fishers against Greg Bovino’s hate-fueled rally prove that cruelty won't define Indiana. Standing up against mass deportation isn't just about protecting our neighbors—it’s defending basic human dignity. Hoosiers reject hatred. Solidarity is our strength!
🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ Hundreds of protesters marched through #Fishers, #Indiana in opposition to #GregBovino ’s “ #MassDeportationRally,” with demonstrators condemning the event and calling for immigrant rights and due process‼️
House Dems Want To End Citizens United So We Never Get Musked Again www.wonkette.com/p/house-dems...
House Dems Want To End Citizens United So We Never Get Musked Again
'Corporations are not people and money is not speech,' said Pramila Jayapal.
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This war is now a Teams meeting.
A study in human depravity of the kind Trump's secret police carry out every day. bsky.app/profile/minn...
Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 2d agoOn Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.
The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect the only true minority - the individual. It limits the governments power to harm the individual. The whole constitution is designed to limit the governments power.
Next up: CENTCOM to establish JWICS podcast, will "be really unconventional" and a "must listen" says J-3 staffer who organized it
Ian TB@iantb.bsky.social · 2d agoWell, crowdsourcing a war plan is certainly a first: www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
A president threatening senators who’ve stopped being afraid, a senator who won’t speak for his own daughter, and a health agency raising drug costs in an election year — this is what a party looks like when it’s spent everything it had on loyalty and has nothing left to offer anyone else.
“Bowe suffered injuries to her face, head, right knee, right arm and right hand. An MRI identified a kneecap fracture and torn meniscus…” www.newsweek.com/nurse-allege...
US nurse alleges ICE agents broke her kneecap in $500,000 legal claim
Norma Bowe, a nurse and professor, has filed a $500,000 claim against the government, saying ICE agents threw her to the ground.
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James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."
This is insane. If Joe Biden had done this, Republicans would have a complete meltdown for 4 years.
Doctor here-Story time: I received a call today from a sick friend in another state, & I recognized it as a neurological emergency sent him to ER. Likely diagnosis: Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis, which can cause blindness. 1 of the authors of original 1990 diagnostic criteria: Anthony Fauci MD🙌🏻🫡
RFK Jr and wife had a soiree at their Hollywood mansion during COVID and required proof of COVID vaccination with RSVP. Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow
Max Miller released audio recordings of conversations he has with his ex wife. In one of them, she accuses him of clandestinely recording their conversations. “I have never recorded our conversations” he says, while recording their conversation. This is domestic violence. Ask me how I know.
Party over Family. This "man" is No father. If anyone was to so much as touch my daughters they had better hope the police get there first. Ohio you can do so much better.
open.substack.com/pub/kaitjust... I think this is really important. Tip of the iceberg kind of stuff.
Why Is Howard Lutnick’s Family Taking Bets on Hurricanes His Own Department Predicts?
Congress stopped Cantor’s first market for betting on the future. It never followed what Cantor and Jeffrey Epstein funded next, or how the surviving exchange could be tied to the Commerce Secretary.
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