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.
@patsand.bsky.social
I’m old enough to remember when lying about adultery was worthy of impeachment. Feels quaint at this point.
Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
BREAKING: Sen. Dick Durbin accuses Todd Blanche of lying under oath. He says Blanche told him in his office — with witnesses — that the slush fund was a mistake. In his confirmation hearing, Blanche denied that remark.
They need to hammer down relentlessly on this. They can't become overconfident, like they did with Hillary in 2016.
A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks
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
Throught data, defence and AI, Palantir is worth €278bn. They owe the EU €12m in taxes, but member states keep indulge the multi-national's monopoly of public procurement contracts. That seems to be changing.
Palantir’s EU tax tricks exposed as unions demand tougher rules on public contracts
Throught data, defence and AI, Palantir is worth €278bn. They owe the EU €12m in taxes, but member states keep indulge the multi-national's monopoly of public procurement contracts. That seems to be changing.
euobserver.com
The allocated funding seeks to accelerate Israel's control of historical landmarks across the occupied West Bank.
Israel approves $37m to seize more than 70 occupied West Bank sites
The allocated funding seeks to accelerate Israel's control of historical landmarks across the occupied West Bank.
aljazeera.com
Capital One: Trump Organization accounts were closed after money laundering review
Capital One: Trump Organization accounts were closed after money laundering review
“The closures were the result of months of analysis and a careful review by Capital One’s [anti-money laundering] team in accordance with bank policies and regulatory guidance.”
myfox8.com
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, was arrested in New Jersey in June, and died after a ‘medical emergency’, agency said
Immigrant being held at Delaney Hall dies, marking 22nd death in ICE custody
theguardian.com
The wellness world’s favorite buzzword has gone federal. For those of us with real inflammatory disorders, the misinformation isn’t just annoying—it’s harmful.
The great inflammation panic
The wellness world's favorite buzzword has gone federal. For those of us with real inflammatory disorders, the misinformation isn't just annoying—it's harmful.
motherjones.com
States do not have time before November’s midterm elections to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating overhauls of their mail-in-voting systems, two dozen Democratic state officials told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. By @fischler.bsky.social
Democratic state officials urge US Supreme Court to affirm pause on Trump vote-by-mail order | Colorado Newsline
States do not have time to comply with Trump’s mail ballot executive order, Democratic state officials told the Supreme Court.
coloradonewsline.com
“In some ways, I don’t think it can be worse.” Featured story: The collapse of a nonprofit designed to help young sex trafficking victims makes a disturbing illustration of the failures of Texas' faltering foster care system. www.texasobserver.org/the-fall-of-...
The Fall of Hope Rising: Can Faith-Based Nonprofits Fix Texas Foster Care?
The demise of a Brenham organization intended to help young victims of trafficking is a cautionary tale about the state's overreliance on religious groups to help foster kids.
texasobserver.org
American Healthcare Systems is the company that owns Vista Medical Center East. Court records, tax bills, and hospital inspections indicate that AHS has been sinking hospitals into financial chaos, leaving millions in unpaid bills—while its mansion-collecting CEO gallivants on a private jet.
Lake & McHenry County Scanner@lakemchenryscanner.bsky.social · 2d agoOver 30 employees were laid off after a staffing agency ended its contracts with Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan after the hospital failed to pay the company for its services. www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/08/03/o...
Schools in the University of Alabama System have removed LGBTQ+ inclusive language in their non-discrimination policies. via @alabamareflector.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/univ...
University of Alabama schools remove LGBTQ+ language from nondiscrimination policies
Schools in the University of Alabama System have removed LGBTQ+ inclusive language in their non-discrimination policies.The University of Alabama, the University of Alabama Birmingham and the…
newsfromthestates.com
This country is an embarrassment to the world. Going nowhere but backwards.
Research suggests loneliness and depression can reinforce each other, while social isolation has a more limited effect.
Loneliness may damage health in ways isolation does not – new study
Research suggests loneliness and depression can reinforce each other, while social isolation has a more limited effect.
theconversation.com
COMMENTARY: We must not stick our heads in the sand and continue with a Dickensian free enterprise system; the uninsured sick be damned. Elected officials clearly do not want to talk about the elephant in the room — health insurance coverage trends, writes Jack Bernard.
Medicare for All and West Virginia
westvirginiawatch.com
One of the clearest descriptions of climate dynamics for laypeople that you’ll ever hear: “It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse.”
This isn't the new normal. It's just the beginning
This summer’s disasters appear to have boosted climate multilateralism, at least within Europe, and underscored the need to tackle fossil fuels. But we may not be waiting long for the scientists' “wor...
nationalobserver.com
ICE agents harassing a child and her family in Bushwick. Macing a woman in Inwood. Threatening a witness in a Lower Manhattan ER. These are just 3 examples of ICE agents targeting New Yorkers the past days, in what advocates are calling an uptick in ICE activity the past week.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...
propublica.org
"People thought the establishment and institutions were going to be the answer to Trumpism," says Amy Walter. "For many voters in Michigan, what they're saying is we don't need to play it safe anymore because playing it safe is really what got us Donald Trump back." https://to.pbs.org/4wKiZSA
Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Democratic primary voters not playing it safe
NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including the Michigan Senate primary and the message Democrats are...
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President Donald Trump's emergency appeal aimed at limiting the use of mail ballots is poised to test a controversial, 20-year-old Supreme Court principle that was intended to avoid chaos before elections. https://cnn.it/45GMgkQ
UEFA has threatened legal action against FIFA President Gianni Infantino, Jared Kushner's brother and other individuals involved in the controversial plan to privatize a share of the World Cup’s commercial operations.
UEFA threatens Infantino, Joshua Kushner with legal action
The FIFA chief’s plan to privatize part of the World Cup’s commercial operations sparked a major backlash in Brussels.
politico.eu
We’re about to find out how powerful progressives really are
We’re about to find out how powerful progressives really are
A strong performance across the Senate race and two House primaries would bolster the left’s argument that its message has potency in a key battleground.
dlvr.it
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
‘It’s not about the Qur’an, it’s about the money’: how boys of five are forced to beg on Senegal’s streets
‘It’s not about the Qur’an, it’s about the money’: how boys of five are forced to beg on Senegal’s streets
An old west African practice of sending children away to study is being used as a cover for trafficking, say human rights groups
theguardian.com