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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

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Whenever law enforcement agents are given a quota of a specific number of people to arrest or detain, especially with the WH policy director screaming at their superiors to hit those target numbers, bad things are going to happen. Quotas always result in civil rights violations.

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I think it’s notable that ICE isn’t conducting raids in red states, but is instead targeting deep blue states with big migrant communities that will fight back. They want violence to justify more violence. This is fascism 101. We should laugh at them and treat them like the cowards they are.

submitted 9 days ago • 255 comments

Tyranny requires constant effort. Oppression is the mask of fear. Authority is brittle. And most importantly: you are never truly alone when standing up to authoritarianism. You have friends everywhere.

submitted 9 days ago • 147 comments

Yes! Exactly this! Push back! Stand up and speak out for a change! Being Mr/Ms Nice Guy/Gal isn’t working with all the corruption!

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Last Friday, Trump's EPA shut down a Biden-era website mapping locations of dangerous chemical plants. The chemical industry, which gave over $1M to Trump's inauguration, heavily lobbied the Trump administration to scrap the website. See how this works?

submitted 56 days ago • 78 comments

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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Proud rebel here!

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This is my America.

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In the dead of night, the Senate advanced Trump’s budget. A great night for billionaires — a bad night for everyone else.

submitted 74 days ago • 176 comments

I got my signs ready! It’s going to be rainy but I won’t get wet! I’m going to feel the power of the rain! Hands off our democracy! Dump Trump!

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Today. Find the location nearest you and join everyone.

submitted 74 days ago • 346 comments

We were cleaning Chinas clock economically. Many predicted they would surpass us by now, and they haven’t. But this tariff stuff will close the gap. Idiots

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Authoritarian Predictions :: 1. Pardons to License Lawbreaking 2. Directing Investigations Against Critics and Rivals 3. Regulatory Retaliation 4. Federal Law Enforcement Overreach 5. Domestic Deployment of the Military 6. The Autocrat Won’t Leave www.authoritarianplaybook2025.org/what-we-can-...

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They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.

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I did not anticipate that so many leaders across industries and professions would allow fear to silence them. Even worse than their silence in the face of Trump’s actions against our democracy is their silent complicity as they watch their peers be targeted, humiliated and punished.

submitted 94 days ago • 252 comments

The #ElectoralCollege is #DEI for #RedStates

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🎀🎀I think of my Grandpa Tex, it breaks my heart youtube.com/shorts/7797z...

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I’m not the least bit naïve, but I never thought I would see this happening to my country in my lifetime…

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A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

submitted 98 days ago • 1276 comments

Check this out — American stocks were on par with global stocks up until late January — and have now dropped terribly since then Gosh I wonder what happened in late January?

submitted 98 days ago • 449 comments

Missouri does NOT have a capital gains tax. But the federal tax code does. So what the GOP's bill would do, is allow wealthy people to get reimbursed w/ YOUR state tax dollars for what THEY paid to Feds. It's a shell game where the rich win, you lose, and Washington DC gets paid.

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May I suggest that the Democratic Party look to Matt Drudge for messaging advice.

submitted 100 days ago • 643 comments

Tanking a 10+ year gaining economy in only 6 weeks has to be a record for any President

submitted 105 days ago • 766 comments

“The military is apolitical and should remain apolitical. Our service members serve regardless of the president’s political party. Their obligation is to the Constitution and their country. Their service should not be in jeopardy because of a political agenda.” www.military.com/daily-news/o...

submitted 105 days ago • 278 comments

Since Congress’s allotted funds have already been improperly unallocated, U.S. citizens are questioning whether they are legally required to continue paying federal taxes.

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If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

submitted 107 days ago • 3898 comments

The pro Putin Presidency. www.cbsnews.com/news/pete-he...

submitted 107 days ago • 44 comments

It’s just keeps getting better & better! Now many around the world will die of tuberculosis! I detest republicans! They enabled all of what is happening!

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

submitted 107 days ago • 3423 comments

Kids are dying of measles. Egg prices are skyrocketing. Bird flu is out of control. Planes are falling out of the sky. Inflation is rising. Tariffs are coming. Consumer confidence is collapsing. A recession is now likely. The stock market is dropping. Donald Trump is golfing.

submitted 108 days ago • 244 comments

Mass firings, shutting down critical services, blowing up our alliances, crashing the markets, encouraging inflation... These aren't the actions of a political party aspiring to get reelected. These are the actions of an authoritarian regime that does not intend to honor elections ever again.

submitted 107 days ago • 430 comments

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

submitted 108 days ago • 713 comments

Sadly, it’s time to revive this 2017 TIME cover.

submitted 108 days ago • 716 comments

He didn't wear a suit, but he received a pardon and was treated better than Zelenskyy was.

submitted 107 days ago • 1015 comments

I’m going to be angry for a very long time about how this time in history made it feel like being a good person was somehow political

submitted 108 days ago • 55 comments

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