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Just filled up a 2nd tank of gas on the loaner I'm driving because my new EV is late. The cost so far is 22% of the total cost of electricity for my old EV over 3 years and 17,500 miles.... I can't wait till the new one gets here!

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

You know I never expected that when Gwen Stefani wrote Just a Girl that she was actually telling everybody what she wanted to be treated like. I guess she can have all of that now that she's a MAGAt....

Most California voters support the state’s newly proposed billionaire tax, according to new polling. Meanwhile, rich Californians are plotting a $500M slush fund to influence the state's politics. So they can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...

AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people—keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government. 

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

History teaches us that the greatest harms often begin with the quiet acceptance of the unacceptable. I have seen where that road leads, and I will not walk it again without resistance.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

In his concurring opinion to the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, Justice Clarence Thomas urged the Court to reconsider additional precedents protecting privacy rights, including same sex marriage. Now, a coalition of conservative groups has launched a campaign to overturn Obergefell.

The Right Is Coming For Same-Sex Marriage With An Insidious New Campaign

The anti-LGBTQ “Greater Than” campaign is leveraging children to attack the rights of same-sex married couples

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The American people won’t stand for Donald Trump’s corrupt attacks on voters and our elections - just as they rejected his ICE raids terrorizing our communities and special interest deals that raise prices for families while cutting taxes for billionaires.

🚨BREAKING: Puerto Rico has been part of the United States since 1898, and people still act confused that Puerto Ricans are American. States that joined after Puerto Rico: • Oklahoma — 1907 • New Mexico — 1912 • Arizona — 1912 • Alaska — 1959 • Hawaii — 1959 Yet somehow this is still news to folks.

As corporations shell out big bucks for Super Bowl commercials, remember that many have said they were forced to raise prices due to inflation. Also remember that profit margins in nearly every sector in the S&P 500 are running near or above 10-year highs. Hello???