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Four Big Tech Companies Avoid $51 Billion in Taxes in Wake of One Big Beautiful Bill Act Four of the corporations whose CEOs flanked President Trump at his 2025 inauguration ceremony have now disclosed that they collectively received $51 billion in federal tax breaks in 2025, much of that...

Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla collectively received $51 billion in tax breaks, thanks to the Trump and GOP corporate tax cuts signed into law last year.

Together they effectively paid a federal tax rate of 4.9%, according to @itep.org.

itep.org/trump-meta-t...

18.02.2026 14:02 👍 335 🔁 195 💬 7 📌 25

Amazon just saved nearly $8B on its 2025 tax bill — despite profits hitting $90B — thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill.

Remember: Amazon spent $75M producing and marketing the Melania movie, while Jeff Bezos gave $1M to Trump's inaugural fund.

Quite a return on investment, huh?

18.02.2026 22:15 👍 3010 🔁 1246 💬 80 📌 60

I saw that ICE is pretending to be Jehovah’s Witnesses in MN now. The JW’s I have known as co-workers and friends have been some of the gentlest kindest humans I have ever known. Cheeses me off.

19.02.2026 11:49 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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R.I.P Linda Davis 🙏🏾

18.02.2026 19:35 👍 93 🔁 49 💬 2 📌 1
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Democratic-led cities move to block ICE, setting up clash with Trump In New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere, elected Democrats are taking steps to try to limit immigration crackdowns like the one winding down in Minneapolis.

Elected Democrats in major U.S. cities have banded together to try to block the Trump administration from aggressive immigration operations such as the one now winding down in Minneapolis.

18.02.2026 15:30 👍 74 🔁 26 💬 6 📌 2
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Tom Morello has something to tell you:

19.02.2026 02:24 👍 394 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 2
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Harrisonburg Mennonites stage anti-ICE protest at Target store A group organized by Mennonite Action gathered for a hymn sing inside the Harrisonburg Target store on Saturday.

Yep, the Mennonites are rising up. They took over the Target for an anti-ICE hymn sing to shame Target for their cooperation. augustafreepress.com/news/harriso...

15.02.2026 01:28 👍 241 🔁 72 💬 1 📌 7
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Incredible sidewalk stencil art hopscotch by voteruthless outside of ARBEITER BREWING CO! Go get your stomps on and support an amazing local brewery! Minneapolis

16.02.2026 00:35 👍 538 🔁 208 💬 14 📌 12
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More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.

Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.

Beautiful and devastating all at once.

19.02.2026 17:00 👍 17765 🔁 6753 💬 513 📌 532
Posters of Pam Bondi
Saying Epstein Queen, Pedo protector

Posters of Pam Bondi Saying Epstein Queen, Pedo protector

18.02.2026 17:52 👍 264 🔁 100 💬 8 📌 7

The Trump Administration:

Should we

a) Release the Epstein Files

or

b) Bomb Iran and engage in a destructive war as a distraction?

Bomb Iran.

19.02.2026 03:24 👍 1021 🔁 264 💬 70 📌 15
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This banner of Donald Trump on the DOJ headquarters building is giving 1930s Germany vibes.

19.02.2026 18:30 👍 673 🔁 230 💬 111 📌 53
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Trump: "I want to let you know that United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace." (Congress has not appropriated this money!)

19.02.2026 18:45 👍 3132 🔁 872 💬 716 📌 507
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The Epstein class — aka the billionaires — are running this country.

19.02.2026 20:01 👍 46 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 1
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DOJ Removed Record of Multiple FBI Interviews with Underage Trump Accuser, Epstein Data Shows The FBI spoke at least four times with a woman who credibly accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor, Epstein files show. That document is no longer accessible on the DOJ website.

‪Roger Sollenberger‬: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was underage not once — but at least FOUR times. But the document that shows those additional interviews appears to have been deleted from the DOJ website.

19.02.2026 00:22 👍 465 🔁 291 💬 25 📌 14
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Rep Ted Lieu claims what 99.9999% of the world already thinks — the unredacted Epstein files contain allegations of Trump raping children. 😳👇

18.02.2026 18:01 👍 1422 🔁 463 💬 38 📌 28
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Hey, USA, this is how you do it.
Former President Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection in South Korea

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

19.02.2026 07:25 👍 199 🔁 78 💬 13 📌 6
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(1/3) It’s embarrassing to be American right now.

19.02.2026 17:58 👍 29 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 3
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Live Updates: U.K. Police Arrest Former Prince Andrew Over Epstein Ties

Tick, Tock, Trump...

U.K. Police Arrest Former Prince Andrew Over Epstein Ties

19.02.2026 12:26 👍 727 🔁 184 💬 59 📌 15
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How the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract is funneling tens of billions into a "ghost network" of detention camps that can materialize anywhere in America overnight.

How the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps.

SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract to funnel tens of billions to ICE for a nationwide "ghost network” of concentration camps—just got a lot bigger. | Migrant Insider migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...

09.02.2026 15:07 👍 20 🔁 19 💬 4 📌 4

I can’t imagine the pain of having your loved one abducted by ICE in Minnesota during a news cycle celebrating ICE leaving Minnesota.

16.02.2026 23:18 👍 266 🔁 85 💬 2 📌 1

“Lorth Sim, a Cambodian national, died in ICE custody on Monday, the seventh since the start of the year and nearly the 40th since Trump took office. ICE has not updated its website to reflect this latest detainee death as of the time of this writing.”

18.02.2026 01:25 👍 491 🔁 292 💬 10 📌 19
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Wait, what!?

Ghislaine Maxwell is being waited on ‘hand and foot’ in a ‘luxury’ prison: a top official said he was ‘sick of having to be Maxwell’s bitch.’

Trump made sure the woman who helped traffic girls for billionaires gets spa treatment in exchange for her silence.
#StopJohnsonsEpsteinCoveup

12.11.2025 23:40 👍 2055 🔁 1054 💬 130 📌 64
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How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

She lives with her grandmother in Colombia and travels frequently to the U.S. to visit her mother. Her visa made them targets for ICE.

A trip to Disneyland ended with a 9-year-old, who had broken no laws, detained at Dilley, Texas.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

19.02.2026 15:33 👍 5897 🔁 3524 💬 360 📌 278
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Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.

The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.

12.02.2026 16:30 👍 1263 🔁 771 💬 40 📌 145
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JUST IN: Juan Nicolás is at a hospital in Mexico getting all the care that ICE, with all its bloated budget, denied the bronchitic two-month-old here at home.

Via @pabloreports.bsky.social

18.02.2026 23:43 👍 425 🔁 155 💬 0 📌 8
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BREAKING @climaterevolutionnj : “Hundreds showed up to New Brunswick City Council tonight to stop the 27,000 sq. ft. data center proposed under the Jersey-Sandford Redevel @rutgers.sea @nj.burn@fwwnewjersey @njpirgstudents
@njejalliance &others who made tonight
possible. Video shot by: @mariovizion”

19.02.2026 12:39 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3
MAJESTIC REALTY CO. STATEMENT RE: BUILDING IN HUTCHINS, TEXAS
 
“While we were contacted about the potential sale of our building in Hutchins, Texas, Majestic Realty Co. has not and will not enter into any agreement for the purchase or lease of any building to the Department of Homeland Security for use as a detention facility. We’re grateful for the long-term relationship we have with Mayor Mario Vasquez and the City of Hutchins and look forward to continuing our work to find a buyer or lease tenant that will help drive economic growth.”

MAJESTIC REALTY CO. STATEMENT RE: BUILDING IN HUTCHINS, TEXAS “While we were contacted about the potential sale of our building in Hutchins, Texas, Majestic Realty Co. has not and will not enter into any agreement for the purchase or lease of any building to the Department of Homeland Security for use as a detention facility. We’re grateful for the long-term relationship we have with Mayor Mario Vasquez and the City of Hutchins and look forward to continuing our work to find a buyer or lease tenant that will help drive economic growth.”

BREAKING: Majestic Realty, who owns one of the warehouses ICE was planning to purchase to create a detention camp, announced today that it would not sell to the agency. More at DMagazine.com shortly.

16.02.2026 17:34 👍 1440 🔁 386 💬 22 📌 59
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As ICE Buys Up Warehouses, Even Some Trump Voters Say No

As ICE Buys Up Warehouses, Even Some Trump Voters Say No
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

19.02.2026 08:44 👍 45 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 2
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Georgia residents are fearing a literal sh*t storm if ICE expands near their town.

18.02.2026 23:31 👍 85 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 7