Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.
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Former small business owner, explorer, author, and father of 5 rescue fur babies. Small voice I have, helping to remove the Orange stain from everyone's lives. PNW 🌲 🚫 No crypto 🚫 NO MAGA 🚫
Like my taxes paying for school levies and free lunch for kids when I've never had kids? I'd rather be giving free bananas than $1.5 billion slush fund for cop beating shitters in the Capital.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
John Cornyn said he has to take Todd Blanche's word on the slush fund being dead. Nothing mentioned about the IRS immunity. Q to Todd Blanche: "Have you released all the Epstein files?" "Yes" We already know he's lying.
"send messages in the middle of the night, text staff deeply personal and seemingly romantic thoughts, intrude on personal occasions without invitation, pay for personal vacations, and spend thousands of dollars on gifts for staffers."
Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 2d ago
There's a chunk of right-wing media desperate for a "quieter" immigration strategy (see the disappearance of "mass deportation" language on Fox www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...) but also a bunch of extremely loud voices demanding deranged maximalist policies.
Fox stars dropped “mass deportation” language months ago
President Donald Trump’s Fox News propagandists walked away from describing his immigration policy as “mass deportations” weeks or months before a top White House aide reportedly urged House Republica...
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Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat triggered MAGA was Markwayne Mullin saying we should fix agricultural visas. The real transgression was Mullin admitting immigrants can help the economy, and that reform can *actually achieve this.* MAGA wants migration to be seen as fundamentally unmanagable. newrepublic.com/article/2138...
The pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC has spent a jaw-dropping $30M+ in tomorrow's Democratic primaries in Michigan and Missouri. But if you saw their attack ads, you'd never know it was them. Watch.
Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026
Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou
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Noel knows ..."Reality eludes him when it comes to how stuck we are as nation right now - and the old man is incapable of saving the vessel without sacrificing much of the crew, having very nearly run out of dry gunpowder...after being so loose and uneven in the firing of their cannons early on."
Noel Casler Comedy@noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 3d ago“The general laws of maritime customs always stated that the crew must obey the ship captain’s orders during a voyage, but in the instance of a shipwreck the captain no longer had absolute authority if he is deemed unfit for duty.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...
Blanche should be blocked for IRS/slush fund AND - targeting Comey, James, Hearn, Powell, Walz, Frey, MOCs - Epstein - payouts to Flynn, Page, Babbitt, Vaughn - rejecting ethics advice to recuse from Trump cases - “war” on judiciary - “cleaning house” of DOJ personnel who worked on Trump cases
People are now getting stuck in traffic trying to evacuate.
dead domain 🐐🏳️⚧️@domaindead.bsky.social · 4d agoThe city of Spokane is on fire.
However horrible you think the Tate brothers are, I promise, it's worse than that. It's insane that Dems aren't making a bigger deal of the GOP embracing these grotesque monsters.
The Tate Brothers' Should Be The Trumps' Second Epstein Scandal
The truth is much worse than most people realize, and they knew a lot of it.
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This is an incredible artifact of the decline of the president of the United States. Faced with OBJECTIVE REALITY—that even a large box of wine had to acknowledge—his delusions will not be denied. This is a deadly combination of malignant narcissism & frontotemporal dementia.
Jim Stewartson, Antifascist@jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat’s more dangerous than a cornered malignant narcissist? Three of Them. I wrote about why Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Elon Musk might end up taking each other down. The question is whether they willl succeed in taking the rest of us with them. www.mind-war.com/p/dead-enders
The Northwest is on fire. Unheard of Red flag warnings from the Natl weather service. FEMA being denied by this admin. The West Coast is on it's own. However if this was Texas or Florida they'd have all the resources brought in and made as a priority. But let's talk about the reflecting pool
Imagine the conservative media diarrhea storm if any Democrat said this about a red state
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
Ecuadorian prosecutor Alexandra Bravo was killed June 14. Bravo had been investigating U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats in which 36 passengers survived, many of them recounting alleged torture by American gunmen in U.S. military uniforms aboard a U.S.-flagged patrol ship.
“Zero Accountability”: Ecuadorian Prosecutor Assassinated While Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes
U.S. boat strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have killed at least 221 people since September, while the Trump administration has provided no evidence linking the vessels or their passeng...
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I'm fatigued by all the Ai slop in posts. I find it lazy, cheap, a distraction. Then I see a video of 47 tipping Lindsay Grahams casket, Lindsey stands up , starts shooting lasers and yelling "Ladybug!" at people and I laugh. 🤷
Watch it till the end. This is moral clarity -- TMZ understands the moment, and what that Rand Paul kangaroo court was, better than any coverage I've seen so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zaO...
This Is Personal
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Not the obituary I was expecting. Met him once, super nice gentleman. EV was best friends with him.
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🔵Blue Dot Buckeye🔵#Blues 🦋💙🌊🗽🌪️@buckivotesblue.bsky.social · last wk.In 1993, Mitch McConnell voted NO on the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Now, he’s been hospitalized since June 14, out of work for 5 weeks, and collected $17,000 in full pay without even applying for #FMLA. Would your job let you do that? He didn't protect your job. Why protect his? #Blues
“It was violent. There’s blood all over the house. It’s insane,” the homeowner, who is a U.S. citizen, told me. “It’s complete lawlessness. How does the government have impunity to jump into my home without a warrant?” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-w...
Trump Is Walloping Construction Businesses. The Industry Stays Quiet.
Raids on work sites. Roofers under siege. But builders keep mum.
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On Monday, Israeli bulldozers demolished Palestinian homes and commercial buildings in the town of Anza, south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.💔😢🤬🇮🇱♾️
Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.
Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · last wk.A lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.
Michele Fiore raised more than $70,000 for a memorial statue honoring Las Vegas police officer Alyn Beck, who was killed in the line of duty. She used the funds for cosmetic surgery, rent, and her daughter’s wedding. A jury convicted her in two hours. Trump pardoned her before she was sentenced.
The legacy media sat there while Trump lied about the past elections and "joked" about running again in 2028. They did not boo. They did not walk out. They just sat there and ate their dinner. The journalists in that room will be remembered as the journalists in that room.