Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history. Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes. But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year. Trickle down hoax.

Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates. Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them. The system is rigged.

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

Who wants to settle for “MAGA” when we could actually “make America greater than ever before”? Not by going backward—but by moving forward with strength, integrity, and a future big enough for all of us.

Build child care centers. Build health centers. Build community centers. Not data centers. And not ICE detention centers.

This is brilliant. Pass it on.

The Epstein money trail leads straight to 45*! 45* sent FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE (4725) wire transfers to Jeffrey Epstein. They totaled over $1.1 billion. 😱

From: www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/lega...

Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich. Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else. Trickle-up economics.

"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..." kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...

The first crack in the wall: An ICE agent just quit.

After everything we’ve learned about this morally bankrupt administration, it is unconscionable that anyone tied to it is still allowed to decide whether children are taken from their families and transported elsewhere.

Facebook launched 22 years ago this week. In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% — its lowest on record. Meanwhile, Meta is pumping at least $65 million into super PACs to stifle regulation of AI and tech. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax, it's corrosive to democracy.

When Bezos was blackmailed w sexually explicit pics he responded: “The Post is a critical institution w a critical mission. My stewardship of The Post and my support of its mission, which will remain unswerving, is something I will be most proud of when I’m 90” What changed?

This made me weepy

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

Kudos to Mayor Mamdani. This is what economic justice looks like. And it's a reminder of how we can fight corporate greed at the state and local level. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/mamdani-ice-delivery-workers-settlement-backpay-uber-gig-workers-million/

Ah you amazing #MinnesotaStrong 💙👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Holy Cow! This San Francisco anti-ICE protest is huge! Solidarity with Minnesota. 🤍

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

Soft power is real power. Musicians, athletes, artists, and celebrities can bring American citizens together. Justice bends towards the people when we stand together.

Arresting journalists. Raiding election offices. Invading American cities. Committing violence against our own people. The worst of what we feared is here. It’s time for any of my colleagues sitting on the sidelines to do something and stand up.

"I don't know that I've seen before the president of the United States attempt to build a white supremacist army within the government....that is new, and I don't know what else to call it." Ta-Nehisi Coates joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:

Soft power is real power! 💪 Kudos to every athlete, celebrity & musician speaking out! More of this👇🔥🔥🔥

Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers. Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024. And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary. The system is rigged.

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

New group of unidentified armed men showing up in several unmarked muscle cars at our neighborhood DC police station this weekend. Was striking to see how he looked at me as if I was “the enemy” and “a threat” while he unloaded what appeared to be actual weapons from his trunk.

When you're a paramilitary force, they let you do it

The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.

Brrr. Looks cold! ❄️☃️ Chicago today: Solidarity rally for Minneapolis & Alex Pretti. ✊🏼🙌🏻

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

DC Protests Tonight

A statement from the parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti:

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But this was okay…

Literally

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said. "Two of them are high-schoolers. "One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Enforcing the law is one thing. Terrorizing a population, using children as pawns, is another. My heart aches for Liam Ramos and his family. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

“Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world,” Martin Luther King Jr. once said. “This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response.” May we reply by doing the most good we can for all the people we can.

Gov. Spanberger signed an executive order ending state police cooperation with ICE immediately after being sworn in. Electing Democratic Governors matters.

Never forget that Elon is the immigrant taking billions from Americans.

The mass violence, terror and trauma being inflicted by ICE in Minneapolis could be in DC. Are DC communities prepared to respond? Can businesses organize now to deny service everywhere? @admobid.bsky.social @freedcproject.bsky.social @brianneknadeau.bsky.social @maustermuhle.bsky.social

SOLIDARITY: Brass Solidarity is a community band that has been meeting weekly to spread music since 2021. They typically play Mondays at 5:30 p.m. at George Floyd Square, but on Jan. 12 they performed at the memorial where Renee Good was killed by ICE goon Jonathan Ross.