no amount of extra disposable income can bridge the gap left from gutted or simply non-existent public services. these tax breaks are individual "solutions" (that don't work) to collective problems
Stop leaning into cutting taxes. It's the wrong approach. You won't help anyone too poor to pay taxes and will only add to your opponents ability to demonize everyone who isn't a taxpayer. You will weaken every program. Instead, do universal basic income and higher taxes on the rich.
"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time
This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”
if you believed this you should be fired on the spot because you are one of the dumbest people alive
"Like all propaganda, the Cass Review is not intended to stand up to scrutiny. It is intended to make a bang, a media blitz across the country saying trans healthcare is bad, which can then be used by the government to justify further restricting access to gender-affirming care."
“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year”
Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.
They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175
Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
They'll just get them online, their parents medicine cabinet, or friends. They aren't going to stop access, only safe access to hormones. Trans people have been getting access to hormones via nonmedical pathways for over half a century.
It's stiff competition, but Nellie Bowles may actually be the most evil, vapid person to work at her wife's stupid website:
We started with restrain ICE. Then reform ICE, then landed squarely on abolish ICE.
But I’ve moved on to prosecute ICE y’all. Every last one even if it takes 20 years of trials.
I know a bunch of groypers run the administration’s Twitter accounts but just in terms of basic facts: 1) Iran or Iranians didn’t carry out Oct 7, & 2) no babies had their heads cut off on Oct 7. Just total atrocity propaganda that was long ago debunked but still pushed by Trump
Iran regime change advocates got what they spent decades pushing for—the US to launch a big war to collapse Iran’s government—and they’re still not happy.
Because what they pushed for years was a fantasy of a smooth, easy regime change war that gets everyone to tell them they were right all along.
The entire power elite of the USA owns this savagery forever, including the theoretical opposition party, unless you beat the drums of IMPEACHMENT for Trump immediately and don’t stop until he’s gone. He’s given you 700,000 reasons now and it’s one of the only tools you have. USE IT.
I don't ever want to hear that it's wrong to call them Nazis again.
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.
A key parenting distinction: teaching kids that hitting (or hurting, lying, etc.) is wrong ... vs. teaching them WHY it's wrong. The latter is about reasons and values; the former is just about behavior, and the default reason to avoid a prohibited behavior is self-interest.
Funny how many of us saw what would happen if she didn't distance herself from Biden, particularly on the Gaza genocide, didn't pivot left on immigration, didn't support trans kids, didn't stand up to billionaires, but instead campaigned with war criminals...
Congress failed to pass the War Powers Resolution, leaving the door open for a prolonged war with Iran.
Now Washington is already floating billions more in military spending.
Democratic leadership needs to decide: are you funding this war, or will you oppose it at every turn?
BREAKING: @aoc.bsky.social just came out swinging in the House E&C hearing against dangerous & misguided "age verification" legislation (aka online ID checks) that would force everyone to upload government ID or get a face scan before accessing content or posting online.
Video incoming. This is big
Trump violated our Constitution by waging war without Congressional authorization.
Senate Rs had the chance to defend our Constitution. They failed.
They failed to defend our Constitution.
They failed to rein in Trump’s poorly planned and illegally-launched war.
They failed the American people.
It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.
If Mar Kwayne is now the figurehead, does Lewandowsky still keep his position as the official DHS side piece?
Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.
I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it
