CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Jimmy Kimmel’s YouTube numbers may have spiked because nearly one-third of ABC stations, those owned by Nexstar and Sinclair, refused to air his return.

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

As governor, I have made it a priority to not only protect but also promote the fundamental right of women to choose if and when and how they will have children. Every woman should be informed, empowered, and supported when she makes that decision.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Odd, how we can’t afford to give Americans healthcare, but we can afford to drop $200,000,000,000 on Argentina with a moment’s notice.

Notice how for white people the onus is ALWAYS on the oppressed. Not even a NOTION that someone like Ezra Klein needs to not be an insufferable POS cowtailing like a coward to racists and bigots. NOPE. Just “good luck getting human rights if you’re not nice to Nazi sympathizers.” STFU

BREAKING A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial. Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

As I was saying…

Pence: "State ownership of business is very common in China & Russia. Taking a percentage of sales of Nvidia, taking a percentage of stock of Intel is inconsistent w/ free market principles, and I think it's taken our country to a very perilous place and I think we need to resist that very strongly"

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Release the Epstein files!!!

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

BREAKING: A court ruled that ICE can no longer detain immigrants in abusive conditions at 26 Federal Plaza while our case continues. This ruling requires ICE to provide people detained at the facility access to hygiene products, sleeping mats, and free, confidential calls to their lawyers.

Here’s an idea: If a company compensates its CEO or officers more than $500K per year, it and its subsidiaries should be ineligible to receive any subsidies, tax breaks, or other government incentives.

KAINE: Were you instructed by the secretary of HHS to not speak to senators? MONAREZ: I was instructed to not speak directly to senators KAINE: So Senate-confirmed CDC director instructed not to speak to senators

What a weird coincidence that ICE should happen to abduct someone who was suing them.

Trans rights are human rights.

This is how you do it.

UPDATE: I look forward to any election that presents the opportunity for Andrew Cuomo to lose twice.

Oh, my.

This Sunday, we’re hosting a back to school drive in Evanston with 500 free backpacks, all-day free haircuts, and free food by two of the best restaurants in Evanston! Drop by the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center this Sunday afternoon to start the school year with everything you need!

The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with “Prager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university. One of their “kids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”

www.motherjones.com #MotherJones current issue:

Yup.

Most developed countries had Covid vaccine mandates, stay at home orders & masks. Yet America acts like they were the only one. Like Fauci controlled the whole thing. Someone opened fire on the CDC because the vaccine made them sick. The rage & violence is uniquely American

anti- 🧊 *concert* in Los Angeles

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.

The Confederates always used "state's rights" when it was convenient and the feds to control the states when it wasn't. We are still fighting the confederates...they weren't punished well enough and they never went away.

This is one of my favorite Internet Things ever. I split it into two images so I could include the complete alt text.

So, I’m sure this is fine… 😐

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister. “I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"

Florida, unlike the federal government, can be sued for civil rights violations and punished with monetary damages.

Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.

REPORTER: When can we expect the first deportees to be sent to Rwanda? HOMAN: We're working on it

I feel like the plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon is like Ford's plan to dig a tunnel under the length of an active highway ... someone's going to get rich pretending these things will actually work.

it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

Berman: Was the President right about the polling? Enten: No. If we are comparing him to other presidents at this point in their presidencies, he is the second lowest on record compared only to himself.

The US military is making bank getting soldiers addicted to gambling. www.wired.com/story/us-mil...

What's happening at Tesla is a smaller version of what Trump is doing to America — fleecing it while running it into the ground. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-is-musk-getting-a-29-billion

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics.  Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages. Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare... This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

The confederates are so funny. The rest of us are out here being normal, and they’re like “remember that time we came in second place in a war?”

Dear Humans, Lo; everywhere you look, people are pushing back. From highway overpasses to the courtroom, we will not give in without a fight.

Hochul: "This is a war. We are at war. And that's why the gloves are off and I say, bring it on."

In case you’re wondering how the Joann closure is going for small businesses, I just heard my local fabric shop owner say she broke a one-day sales record on a Tuesday. Keep choosing small, friends 🙌