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The 15 biggest winners of Trump’s tax scam—including Amazon, Walmart, and Meta—raked in a collective $97.5 billion in tax breaks over four years. They then funneled $839 billion into stock buybacks and dividends to enrich themselves. Corporate tax cuts don’t trickle down!

submitted 135 days ago • 14 comments

Walmart profits jumped to $15 billion in 2023. Did it substantially increase wages or lower prices? No. It spent $9B on dividends and buybacks — with most of the benefits going to the children of Walmart's founder, who together own 46% of the company's stock. Textbook greed. Robert Reich

submitted 295 days ago • 2 comments

Walmart hiked prices on its Great Value food brands. The result? Its net income spiked 93% to $10.5 billion towards the end of 2023. Walmart rewarded shareholders with $5.9 billion in buybacks and dividends. When I say price gouging is driving inflation, this is what I mean.

submitted 439 days ago • 18 comments

this is a stupid man saying stupid things

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

five objectively evil entities suing for their right to harm people

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

understand that ICE is the enemy of all of us, not just undocumented immigrants. understand that and stand against them.

submitted 107 days ago • 10 comments

The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.

submitted 112 days ago • 485 comments

The outgoing administration has released Leonard Peltier from prison. Numerous activists and tribal officials have requested the release of Peltier, whom they believe to be innocent of killing two FBI agents in 1975. via @mprnews.org

submitted 136 days ago • 88 comments

🚨BREAKING🚨 Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.

submitted 136 days ago • 79 comments

we could use some ethics laws instead of ethics rules...

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

The plan is for a cohort of unpaid, unofficial volunteers to live within federal agencies for six months, working 80 hours per week on undefined tasks, conspire with one another on Signal, and get nearly everyone around them fired. It doesn’t sound fully baked to me. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...

submitted 144 days ago • 350 comments

i don't 10-20% want to die

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

400,000 more people rode the NYC subways in a single day and it was barely noticeable. the equivalent population of Tampa piled into transit and it was a blip. almost like transit is a more efficient mode of conveyance than automobiles

submitted 146 days ago • 58 comments

states' rights when it suits me

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

just confirming the criminal justice system is there only for the sake of oppressing the poors. go about your business. nothing to see here.

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

Our annual list of books that helped us imagine a world without mass incarceration—featuring works by @mfkantor.bsky.social, @andrewkrinks.bsky.social, @lauramctighe.bsky.social, @waazn1.bsky.social, @jesspish.bsky.social, @michellesphelps.bsky.social, @premaldharia.bsky.social, and many others.

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

4th Circuit Strips Immunity From Cops Who Engaged In An Insane Amount Of Unconstitutional Fuckery https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/17/4th-circuit-strips-immunity-from-cops-who-engaged-in-an-insane-amount-of-unconstitutional-fuckery/

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

right on

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

Lt. Caleb Stewart, head of Louisville Metro Police Department’s Downtown Area Patrol

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

Can’t get past the NYPD and Eric Adams putting on a ridiculous show of force to transport Luigi Mangione and make the ruling class feel better. And across town they’re using force to attack a strike and make the ruling class feel better. Rarely is the purpose of cops so obvious.

submitted 168 days ago • 32 comments

The message being sent here is that if you commit a crime that targets the powerful—even a person in charge of the most depraved and grotesque profiteering on suffering and death—then the entire apparatus of government violence will be brought down upon you.

submitted 168 days ago • 4 comments

The daughters of Malcolm X sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD over the civil rights leader’s assassination

submitted 202 days ago • 0 comments

just thinkin' bout Sinanju, no reason

submitted 176 days ago • 2 comments

fingers crossed

submitted 176 days ago • 0 comments

news.yahoo.com/news/29-hous... the following representatives have apparently been bought by the tax preparation lobby - Adrian Smith (R-NE) and Chuck Edwards (R-NC), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Carol Miller (R-WV), Mark Alford (R-MO), Rick Allen (R-GA), Don Bacon (R-NE)

submitted 176 days ago • 1 comment

School vouchers are a re-segregation tax, in which everyone is forced to pay the most racist white people so they can avoid sending their kids to schools with minorities. The only plus side is that the schools suck and don't help their kids get into better colleges. 🙏

submitted 178 days ago • 60 comments

Insurance isn’t healthcare.

submitted 182 days ago • 6 comments

Took me a bit but I've found the framing to put into words a way to express to the people fretting about the death of the UHC CEO why we just aren't heeding their admonishment: The social contract stipulates that all life is sacred, and Brian Thompson violated it. But it's more than that.

submitted 183 days ago • 79 comments

It was a terrible realization that most universities are hedge funds run by boards of a few dozen wealthy people all too willing to conduct fascistic crackdowns on the students the institution is theoretically built to serve.

submitted 183 days ago • 4 comments

My fellow Americans, meet your nominee to be our next U.S. Secretary of the Interior.

submitted 183 days ago • 50 comments

"If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail"

submitted 183 days ago • 0 comments