Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. (Published 2021)

Since Disney & fascists are trending, this is from the 1943 Writers Congress, led by Hollywood Writers Mobilization (for the war). Walt Disney was there, & every leftist who was anyone in H'wd. 🗃️ Disney briefly joined in - but so many of the rest got called by HUAC & blacklisted *b/c of this*.

One might argue this is at least as important as Jimmy Kimmel's indefinite suspension--and it's not new, just getting worse.

🚨Governor Newsom said, no more masks. “What are you afraid of?” California legislators have written a bill, it has been passed, and signed. 👏🏻More👏🏻Of👏🏻This!

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Jon Stewart’s speech at the Kennedy Center was a stark warning. The fragility of leaders and inability to take being laughed at, criticized, held accountable, is dangerous and history shows that leaders who fear dissent will move to suppress it. #USDemocracy #Pinks youtube.com/shorts/qmSdg...

I shouldn't have laughed so hard at this. 😂

My little mouser outside sometimes brings me little gifts, too.

ARE WE GREAT YET?

It's past time we keep trying to make them care about doing the right thing in any situation. MAGA doesn't care that half their members are child molesters, or accept bribes or are Russian assets. They are all criminals. Every one of them have committed criminal acts to get where they are.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

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Chicago: ICE agents with suspicious looks and tattoos stoped a truck with three Latino construction workers inside. The 3 men were asked for their papers and taken into custody just because of their ethnicity. Racial profiling is now a norm in America.

www.instagram.com/reel/DOylr-M... Gee, it's almost like we still need research done to move innovation along.

Would someone just give his Geodon & send him to bed already.

Allowing 5 companies to completely control all media in America lies squarely at Reagan's crusty feet.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

every rural county should be considered up for grabs in the midterms a must read from @ilenapeng.bsky.social (with a gift link!) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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I'm going to start saying "Magda Goebbels made a great strudel" when someone wants me to excuse someone's hateful behavior. 🤷‍♀️

Wow! Someone finally managed to capture a photo of the grim reaper following F47 & some of the royal family around. 😬😂

I believe the Pentagon & Drunkpants Pete are going to find out that Private Pringles & Lieutenant Ham sandwich are NOT interested in actually serving in the US armed forces. Could they even pass the psych evaluation?

The pettiest man alive wouldn't know good political satire if it slapped him across his flabby face.

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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

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It's more like how I feel waking up daily waiting to see what fresh hell we are mired in today & who TF is showing up to run our government.

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Silly medieval peasants. 😂 #caturday

A billionaire or the Trump administration stole it from us. 🤷‍♀️

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Book yoga! I practice daily. 📚☕ #booksky

Contender for the most dramatic cat alive. 🤭 #caturday

Cats wearing hats. 😊 #caturday

Kimmel's career will be fine, but what was done because Trump is the pettiest man alive is unmistakably fascism, so I wish people would quit saying we are "close" to becoming an authoritarian country. We are there.

Kimmel's career will be fine, but what was done because Trump is the pettiest man alive is unmistakably fascism, so I wish people would quit saying we are "close" to becoming an authoritarian country. We are there.

Look! Just look at this adorable snake! It's little knitted pippi longstocking braids. So cute! 😊😃

the horse truly deserves a knighthood:

That was quick. Standing up to bullies works. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Dutch late night TV has its take

After an investigation demanded by Trump, the US Attorney appointed by Trump has determined there is insufficient evidence to charge NY AG Letitia James with a crime. But Trump wants revenge. So he is firing his US Attorney to replace him with someone who will charge James.

It really is always amazing to me that Trump and Republicans have it down to a science dangling a steady diet of culture war nonsense like Cracker Barrel, Bud Light & jeans ads to keep their supporters from noticing that everything they do is to enrich themselves & billionaires.