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“If I am understanding the numbers correctly, the latest version of their tax scam, the top 0.1 percent stand to gain $255,000 on average in 2027 alone,” McGovern said. “That is $700 a day every day.” https://trib.al/gzYgDSJ

submitted 30 days ago • 15 comments

A U.S. household now needs to earn $114,000 annually to afford a median-priced home. That's up 70.1% from $67,000 just six years ago, per Realtor com

submitted 36 days ago • 34 comments

"If I just trace it, they will be none the wiser and the money is mine!" All of us, age 9

submitted 50 days ago • 8 comments

"How the U.S. Government Used Your Taxes Last Year" #priorities 😦 #taxdayreceipt #eggsprice Source: ips-dc.org/2025-tax-day...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

So we had an earthquake today, and something amazing happened…

submitted 68 days ago • 748 comments

"A Wall Street Journal analysis of daily financial statements issued by the Treasury Department found government spending since the [Trump] inauguration is $154 billion more than in the same period in 2024 during the administration of former President Joe Biden."

submitted 71 days ago • 52 comments

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

submitted 72 days ago • 623 comments

Yes, businesses absolutely need to show the tariff at the checkout screen. Don't hide it into the cost of the product.

submitted 76 days ago • 163 comments

It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory. Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.

submitted 80 days ago • 4721 comments

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

submitted 88 days ago • 1135 comments

What's the human toll of America's for-profit insurance industry? Our latest digs into the grim numbers of an industry rooted in greed, where people "literally can't afford to breathe" and roughly a third of the health care dollar is spent propping up a "bloated, Byzantine insurance industry.”

submitted 187 days ago • 29 comments

Nuts!!

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If implemented, Trump’s plan to impose 25 percent tariffs on all goods from Mexico and Canada would result in an estimated loss of $250.6 billion in annual U.S. gross domestic product and approximately 1.97 million jobs. newrepublic.com/post/188950/...

submitted 200 days ago • 14 comments

An important and revealing graphic from @nytimes.com

submitted 200 days ago • 1 comment

Dealing with health insurance in literally any capacity is a galling, debasing humiliation for every American, an insulting slog of unwinnable absurdity that should cause anyone unironically calling this the “greatest country in the world” to spontaneously combust.

submitted 271 days ago • 10 comments

France on Friday showed off to the world the gleaming restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral, just over a week before the 850-year-old mediaeval edifice reopens following painstaking restoration after a devastating 2019 fire ➡️ https://u.afp.com/59E5

submitted 204 days ago • 2 comments

In 2022, Mexico supplied 51% of the fresh fruit imported to the United States

submitted 206 days ago • 28 comments

Trump’s mass deportation plan will cost $88 billion a year, the American Immigration Council estimates -- nearly twice the budget of the National Institutes of Health and four times NASA’s budget. ⁦‪German Lopez www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/b...

submitted 206 days ago • 14 comments

Bird flu, a virus that can also affect humans, has been discovered in a batch of raw milk sold in California store refrigerators, state regulators said Sunday. It comes just a few days after a child tested positive for bird flu for the first time in U.S. history.

submitted 208 days ago • 153 comments

Yar, the sea, she was angry that day

submitted 259 days ago • 17 comments

Interesting: An mRNA Vaccine to Prevent & Treat C. difficile [mouse study] www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re... “Our approach was to create a multivalent mRNA vaccine that would attack multiple aspects of C. diff’s complex lifestyle simultaneously... Study: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 209 days ago • 18 comments

Piers Morgan: “50 years ago, before Roe came in, it wasn't a federal law. So why are you so exercised about it?" BTC: "Prior to Black people having the right to vote, they weren't allowed to vote. I'd be worked up if that was rolled back, too.“

submitted 211 days ago • 1207 comments

Trumps cabinet: five people involved with Project 2025, three people accused of sexual assault, two Fox News hosts, a WWE star, and a daytime TV doctor.

submitted 212 days ago • 11 comments

IF ONLY WE HAD THE DATA ON VACCINE EFFICACY Measles, diphtheria, mumps, rubella, smallpox & polio—all dramatically reduced or eliminated thanks to vaccines. Millions of children’s lives saved. Anti-vaxxer RFK Jr as HHS Secretary will spike the numbers—blood will be on the Senate’s hands. Speak up.

submitted 212 days ago • 41 comments

I’m determined to get through the next four years with my sanity and humor intact.

submitted 213 days ago • 144 comments

A mummified ice age cub discovered in Siberia is exceptionally preserved, providing the first view of what sabre-toothed cats looked like and clues about their hunting style.

submitted 215 days ago • 10 comments

In a landmark discovery, Scientists have found a completely preserved 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost. Whiskers, claws, fur, and paws. The whole thing.

submitted 216 days ago • 77 comments

A Tulsa Race Massacre victim was recently identified as a World War I veteran. The city has now paid tribute to him

submitted 216 days ago • 25 comments

Germany to enforce new ban on large knives to protect Christmas markets from repeat of August's Islamist attack that killed 3, wounded 8. www.dw.com/en/germany-t...

submitted 216 days ago • 8 comments

To recap: Defense nominee accused of sexual assault; AG nominee investigated for sex trafficking; Intel nominee is a Putin sympathiser; Health nominee is an anti vaccine crackpot who beheaded a whale with a chainsaw and had part of his brain eaten by a worm.

submitted 218 days ago • 18 comments

There’s essentially nothing easier to prove with data than vaccine effectiveness

submitted 218 days ago • 3 comments

AG: a man investigated for sex trafficking. Director of National Intelligence: a pro-Putin promoter of disinformation. HHS: an anti-science fraudster and conspiracy theorist. Secretary of Defense: a talk show host. Thank you, Trump voters. You’ve voted for all of this.

submitted 219 days ago • 57 comments