Estimates from the Tax Policy Center indicate that roughly the top 20% of American households—representing tens of millions of taxpayers earning above approximately $217,000—received the vast majority (about 60% to 80%) of the total individual and corporate tax savings.
He should tell that to the wife of the man deported to Guatemala who had an active asylum case. She left to be with her husband after his deportation last April. They were found bound and dead in a field in Guatemala. They have small children. www.kcur.org/news/2026-07...
Missouri couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple's 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother's body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Here's another example of the noxious trend we identify below: Stephen Miller claiming "all asylum claims" are "fake." What he really means is no asylum seeker is *worth caring about.* It's the same trick Musk uses with "zero" died from USAID cuts. (h/t @lastpositivist.bsky.social @mattortega.com)
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.The pattern is unmistakable: *Nobody died from USAID cuts. *Nobody killed by ICE is innocent. *No Muslim in the UK can escape the charge of being a rapist or a murderer. *No Somali in Minnesota is there legitimately by definition. And so on: newrepublic.com/article/2135...
Remember back in 2020 when we found out about Trump's secret bank account in China, and that China's biggest state-controlled bank had rented out three floors in Trump Tower? I sure do. Interesting timing given his lies about China interfering in the 2020 election. www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/u...
Trump Records Shed New Light on Chinese Business Pursuits (Gift Article)
As he raises questions about his opponent’s standing with China, President Trump’s taxes reveal details about his own activities there, including a previously unknown bank account.
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apnews.com/article/ice-...: Detainees at ICE facility in Texas report frequent beatings and other human rights abuses
Report: Detainees at ICE facility in Texas report frequent beatings and other human rights abuses
A new report from human rights advocates says 90% of detainees interviewed at a sprawling ICE facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten.
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Just imagine if Obama said ANY of this? youtube.com/shorts/cVdTX...
Question. How is this man getting away with this?
YouTube video by Radio Allen
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Midday Palate Cleanser mockpaperscissors.com/2026/07/06/m...
Midday Palate Cleanser
Hey kids! This is an excellent strategy to get the puppy or kitty of your dreams: bring home a rat or perhaps a snake, and parents will say YES to Rover and Muffin before you know it! (Hat tip: Sci…
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Let us not end on this downer note. Let us end on this video I took from the Merry Go Round, left over from the World Fair, back when we could still do shit as a country If you squint, you can almost see the celebration that should have been
Please Forgive For Intruding Upon Your Weekend... mockpaperscissors.com/2026/06/27/p...
Please Forgive For Intruding Upon Your Weekend…
…especially on Pride Weekend (when everyone is getting their rainbow-on), but we would be remiss if we did not alert you that our pal Burr Deming at the essential blog Red-State-Blues is taki…
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The “vandals” are in the White House! www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Trump drives across Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to inspect blue coating he's adding
President Donald Trump on Thursday went on an unannounced trip to the Lincoln Memorial to see the Reflecting Pool after he had it coated in a color he calls “American flag blue.”
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I give you the current President of the US, the most stupid and embarassing to ever hold the office.
Not really feeling the new Air Force One bribe from Qatar.
Trump Blames ‘Vandalism’ for Reflecting Pool Do-Over https://politicalwire.com/2026/06/21/trump-blames-vandalism-for-reflecting-pool-do-over/
Oh. So Tulsi Gabbard wrote a report showing that voting machine vulnerabilities didn’t flip any votes. And now she’s not the DNI anymore. Hmm. www.reuters.com/world/white-...
EXCLUSIVE: White House delays release of US voting machine study as midterms near
The report does not say the vulnerabilities have led to votes flipping.
reuters.com
A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.
Here's the thread of starter packs and feeds: bsky.app/profile/alex...
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 8mo agoBehold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
The only type of journalism that exists? Ok, let me help you out: @meidastouch.com, @atrupar.com, @maryltrump.bsky.social, @wajali.bsky.social, @robertscotthorton.bsky.social and many more, see a.o. www.trustworthymedia.org/list-of-inde...
List of Independent Media – Trustworthy Media
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Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: New from Haberman and Swan: Secret memos show that the Trump White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit a constitutional right — suspending habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants to accelerate mass deportation efforts.
And the worst part about this is that USA Today had the most balanced reporting on Biden's & Trump's age out of all the other mainstream media before the election.
Because a 78 year old man who acts like a 78 year old man is so much worse than an 80 year old man who acts like a two year old. Did I get it right?
