ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

Wow! America's graduating seniors really fucking hate AI: defector.com/wow-americas...

Genuinely wonder what would happen if, say, 50 million Americans refused to pay their taxes because they’re being spent unconstitutionally

Rand Paul is a fcking nepo baby bitch. "Wahhh...we didn't do it...you did it!! Your fault!" thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Spare me the pollyanish bullshit.

Kars4Kids ads make it sound like your car donations helped children in need. A California judge just BANNED the ads across the state because that’s a lie. Donations actually fund Orthodox Jewish indoctrination programs and matchmaking services. open.substack.com/pub/friendly...

olivia reingold’s obsession with zohran and rama is reaching restraining order levels

a trump administration official could stand in front of a burning building full of people and do nothing and the NYT would still call it “ethical issues”

I feel confident that this man has no idea what the women in his house do.

New — I spoke to parents whose kids are former patients of NYU Langone's trans youth health care program about the Texas criminal subpoena for their private health records. "I was furious. I was in disbelief. I was scared for my child's well-being." Read my full report:

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"As part of the settlement, Texas Children’s has also agreed to fire, permanently and irrevocably terminate all existing privileges, and never again hire or credential five woke doctors who performed harmful medical interventions on Texans"

The Know Nothings are back

Thank you Representative Tlaib for reintroducing your historic resolution to recognize the ongoing Nakba against Palestinians, now entering its 78th year. The Nakba is not just a historical event, but an ongoing horror for Palestinians—and the U.S. has been complicit for decades.

Today is Nakba Day. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine began 78 years ago today and it has never stopped.

The nakba never ended.

🧵Every month of May since 1948, Palestinians, wherever they are gathered in the homeland or the diaspora, commemorate the anniversary of the disaster that befell them as a people: www.palquest.org/en/highlight...

Primary all of them.

People who oppose expanding scotus have to be run out of the Democratic Party

Fuck you Clarence. www.beliefnet.com/columnists/n...

As I noted last Monday, Justice Alito is the only justice who regularly imposes deadlines on his administrative stays—which he only does when he doesn’t like the applicants, and which *always* causes this kind of unnecessary drama as we approach his (totally arbitrary) cut-offs:

Alito: mailing abortion medication violates The Fugitive Womb Act bsky.app/profile/stev...

NEW — The Handbasket presents FASCIST VACATION by Chrisitian Dawson www.thehandbasket.co/p/sean-duffy...

how it started / how it’s going

"We asked Spencer if he has ever lived in the trailer, and he said no, adding, 'I have never told anyone I lived there.' However, in the campaign ad, he says squarely, "This is where I live" as he stood in front of the trailer." TMZ doing politics is good actually

Kinda weird no one's calling this World War Trump. He's just exploding shit all throughout the world with no care for second order effects. It really is just him vs. everybody, and you'll only be spared if you seed intimidating shirtless AI pictures of your own country's dictator onto TruthSocial.

Sure, but staying on X is a choice. Many left to escape the toxicity. No single platform, Bluesky or X, is the answer for politics, nor should it be viewed as such.

you can't restore a thing that never existed

IT'S RACISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“…the forces that stand today against …political representation for Black people won’t stop there…They seek a one party political system ruled by authoritarians. The political oppression of Black people is not the end. It is the conduit.”

Yesterday's 6–3 Supreme Court order ushering in a racist Alabama gerrymander broke two promises that Alito made *12 days earlier* in Callais and shamelessly broke the court's own (bogus) rule against late intervention in an ongoing election. slate.com/news-and-pol...

"they're here to kill us all" - strong words from the country's most brain dead senator, a highly-coveted and hotly-contested title

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The headline says "ex-synagogue", but it was actually the site for a future MOSQUE. I hate the MSM.

the supreme court is both rooted in so much history and so fucking deranged that it feels like a real blind spot for me as someone with a firm grasp on currents events, and a lot of the time when i see a SCOTUS headline my brain shuts off because it’s something too awful/hard to process

I’ve reached out to NY AG James’ office and Mayor Mamdani’s office to find out how they plan on responding to this gross overreach.

Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work

And encourage more gas use which would drive prices up and FFS.

i am fine spending my tax dollars on schools and roads and medicine and the like. i would prefer not to spend my tax dollars on a new stadium while my teacher friends go on furlough. Oregon is in financial crisis. $200 million for a nicer stadium is idiotic.

My latest—A Long Island school district agreed to settle a lawsuit w/ a Muslim former student for $100k. They added 25k to avoid what she really wanted: public acknowledgement that her pro-Palestine art they painted over wasn’t actually antisemitic hate speech. Exclusive report from The Handbasket:

very funny when a pundit wants you on their show and then drops you when they realize you won’t be as easy a target as they thought

My big news: I've left The Athletic because they wanted me to stop covering the Twins. I refused to give up my dream, so I'm betting on myself and returning to my independent roots. I need your support to make it work. Join me and let's do this together: www.aarongleeman.com/welcome-to-t...

Those 🐖s rescued dogs, but let a black man drown. I hate this country. atlantablackstar.com/2026/05/10/a...