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The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes per year — enough to end homelessness, hunger, and pay for universal childcare. 👆🏻 This is the crime wave we should be talking more about.

submitted 38 days ago • 447 comments

Latest statistics on the Israeli attacks of the past 2 days in Gaza: ⭕️183 children killed. ⭕️94 women killed. ⭕️436 people total confirmed killed. ⭕️678 people wounded. The Health Ministry in Gaza released the graphic below:

submitted 65 days ago • 9 comments

Every single Democratic Senator voted for Marco Rubio as Sec of State!

submitted 75 days ago • 593 comments

between DOGE’s evisceration of the VA and other federal agencies as well as the rabid attack on DEI, the Trump Administration will have hurt our veterans more than any previous president

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Whoever supports this is a murderous ghoul

submitted 83 days ago • 198 comments

Egg production is only down about 4% from last year, but prices have more than doubled. While the industry blames bird flu, critics are accusing the largest egg companies of price gauging. They point to the fact that corporate profits have soared in recent months.

submitted 84 days ago • 27 comments

Insane how quickly the racist regression is happening in this country. Decades of progress being undone in weeks, without even any laws having to be passed. Just sheer intimidation from Trump and the right, and sheer cowardice from the corporations.

submitted 101 days ago • 308 comments

CFPB returns billions to taxpayers every year which is why Musk wants taxpayers to accept this smaller amount instead (also the funding comes from the Fed but whatever)

submitted 102 days ago • 8 comments

🚨 Israel is carrying out mass expulsions of Palestinians from their homes in the illegally occupied West Bank.

submitted 104 days ago • 6 comments

A Palestinian hostage from Gaza, before and after detention in one of Israel’s brutal torture camps:

submitted 104 days ago • 10 comments

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

submitted 104 days ago • 850 comments

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

submitted 111 days ago • 755 comments

The DCA crash is news because it was anomalous -- the system did not work as planned. Sadly, the reason we won't ever see traffic crashes covered in the same way is it is the system working exactly as designed. Maybe the biggest Q is why such a system is socially acceptable.

submitted 113 days ago • 2 comments

A new OECD report confirms that US road safety is an abject failure. Americans are far more likely to die in a crash than those living in other rich countries. US per capita crash death rates are at least 3x higher than Ireland, Norway, UK, Germany, or Japan. www.itf-oecd.org/road-safety-...

submitted 121 days ago • 22 comments

Congratulations, Democrats. The TikTok ban was initiated by Trump, passed through the House and Senate along bipartisan lines, yet because President Biden signed the bill into law, Democrats allowed Trump to be the hero on this, politically. Absolute malpractice by leadership.

submitted 124 days ago • 103 comments

“The $TRUMP memecoin — a financial asset that didn't exist on Friday afternoon — now accounts for about 89% of Donald Trump's net worth.” Trump just became one of the top 25 richest people on earth. Through this. Insane, open & now normalized corruption.

submitted 124 days ago • 311 comments

submitted 138 days ago • 806 comments

Last year a private equity firm bought up 29 nursing homes in Iowa for $85 million. The firm has been fined 17x more than one facility's previous owner — including for one instance where a resident choked to death. Private equity has no place in our health care system.

submitted 140 days ago • 20 comments

70% of the world’s population has universal healthcare, but not the US We are the only highly developed nation without it Our healthcare is twice as expensive as the average wealthy nation US ranks last among industrial nations for deaths that could be prevented with timely access to healthcare

submitted 141 days ago • 1234 comments

Imagine the equivalent: imagine vehicle lanes casually swerving across two parallel railroads that are nearly constantly in use. Civil engineering is an unserious profession.

submitted 165 days ago • 5 comments

Sorry to the traffic engineers who are active on here and are not completely morally bankrupt, but come on. You would never have 2 parallel lanes of cars just cross each other on a highway, but you do that to us on bikes?

submitted 172 days ago • 19 comments

Milwaukee, 1940s & today While many of the labeled buildings in the old photo remain today, the Irish immigrant neighborhood in the foreground known as “Tory Hill” was eliminated and the residents displaced for the construction of the highway interchange. Sources: MPL & me

submitted 164 days ago • 8 comments

Blast Return Motion + Spinner + Counter Solid 🥵

submitted 179 days ago • 3 comments

100%, there's a strong, almost-overwhelming desire from liberals to understand, engage, and empathize with conservatives in a way there almost never is vice-versa. Nobody in MAGAland 2020 was like "wow we really need to listen to Biden's arguments and learn how he connected with voters"

submitted 181 days ago • 30 comments

🚨 Breaking: International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant

submitted 183 days ago • 21 comments

Teachers in the U.S. will spend an estimated $3.35 billion of their own money on classroom supplies in the 2024-25 school year. The average teacher will spend $883.60.

submitted 186 days ago • 18 comments

In US cities, ~2/3 of crash deaths occur on streets owned by the state – not local gov. Outdated, deadly state roads are preventing cities from building the safe, comfortable, and transit-friendly streets that residents want. My deep dive, in @vox.com 🧵 www.vox.com/future-perfe...

submitted 191 days ago • 20 comments

THREAD: I’m going to share this thread here to clearly state my perspective on electric vehicles, car dependency and better cities, for all those who frequently ask me about it, including media, elected leaders and many others. Here goes. Please share it frequently if you think it will help. 🧵#EVS

submitted 193 days ago • 107 comments

What an unbelievable night for Wisconsin's basketball program in beating No. 9 Arizona 103-88. John Tonje goes off for 41 points. Badgers score their most points against a ranked team in program history. Still early, but this team is a hell of a lot better than people thought.

submitted 188 days ago • 4 comments

A typical North American city’s bike infrastructure:

submitted 191 days ago • 25 comments

Look how few cars there are driving on this road We should definitely draw broad conclusions about how much people like cars from this one photo of a partially completed road network.

submitted 189 days ago • 5 comments