CEO pay rose 20 times faster than worker pay in 2025, per Oxfam. Overall, global worker pay declined 12% between 2019 and 2025 — while CEO pay rose 54% during the same time. Trickle-down economics was always a sham. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

very funny that this guy is literally like “tax the rich? that is the n word to me, personally” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...

Dear Uber Drivers: I shouldn’t have to tell you guys this, but asking girls out on dates while in possession of their home addresses and also their lives as you drive 70mph through highway traffic is not an appropriate thing to do. Sincerely, Women

Humpback Whale 'saves' biologist from shark - BBC News 2018

Dear @nytimes.com…enough with the soft headlines. Do better!

Buttiigieg: "Look, when you are this deep into your second year, if your reflex is to still be trying to blame the previous administration, it really shows that you are out of ideas, out of solutions, and unwilling to take ownership of your own choices."

The $ was routed through a DC non-profit setup my Trump associates. The donations are tax deductible meaning tax payers cover some of the cost. The non-profit gets a % kickback for hiding the identity of the donors. The $ isn't accounted for at the moment. So yes Trump pocketed the $.

Sad thing is, I expect most Americans to not know about this.

😂 trump’s dumber than the fools who got him elected.

A sea of people in red spread out, raising signs and chanting through the streets of downtown Grand Rapids on Tuesday to demand justice and honor victims as they marked Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Day. From Erick Diaz Veliz

It’s the way to go. Invest in solar energy.

Tennessee and countless other states have been speaking out against what is basically a Jim Crow session

Looks like foreigners don't want to risk being imprisoned by ICE just for a chance to see a soccer game.

HAPPENING NOW… marching on the Capitol…. #NewJimCrow @GovBillLee

National Parks exist because people fought to stop logging, mining, and development. These places were protected on purpose.

Political Cartoon of the Day by Jeff Danziger.

Bezos “obeyed in advance” so hard that it’s gonna be hilarious when he pretends he never supported any of this.

Texas voters just sent the book banners packing. Not in California. Not in New York. In Texas. Across the state, voters went to the polls and threw out right-wing school board members who built their local political brands on book bans, anti-LGBTQ policies and Christian nationalist culture-war panic

Congratulations to the Chicago Tribune on its Pulitzer Prize win for local reporting. The country was able to see the impacts of the Trump Administration's chaos and violence during Operation Midway Blitz thanks to the hard work of local journalists.

Mockler on Iran: We are watching the same people who defended these first two failed wars go on television and defend another failed war. I don't trust the same people who got us into the prior wars, amassed trillions of dollars in debt, and are not putting America first on the global stage.

Lambert: The Strait of Hormuz is going to be open and we’re going to control it. Mockler: In two weeks? Lambert: It doesn’t matter if it’s two weeks or two months. Mockler: It does actually matter because economists are saying if it's closed for a few more months, we're going into a recession

Refutations to Anti-Vaccine Memes Originally this cartoon was about Covid vaccination, but it's just as relevant to measles, pertussis, and all the other vaccine-preventable diseases.

The fire fatality rate for occupants of the hideous Cybertruck is 13 times higher than was that of the infamous Ford Pinto. You might want to share this data with any owners of these rolling death traps you might encounter in your daily roaming about.

Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.

Thank you, Julie K. Brown for always speaking truth to power. Congratulations on your Pulitzer Prize. The entire world applauds your courage.

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

I’m totally disappointed in the Iranian hackers for not digging up the hidden files of the Epstein files 😬.

Chris Smalls, the labor organizer and activist known for his role in leading Amazon worker organization, was allegedly tackled outside of the #MetGala by security.

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There’s literally always a tweet.

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The fact that we have fucking military bases named after traitors, that has to be uniquely American.

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

For the first time in 80 years, the federal debt-to-GDP ratio is over 100%. In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo.

Rick Wilson thinks the new maps will backfire. The new maps in Florida and Texas dilute the GOP vote and turns solid red districts to lean red (in a normal year). Since it’s going to be a wave year, all the new R+8 districts should flip. youtu.be/c_WGI6GFZbg?...

Do Texans know about Paxton's views about child abusers? “Initially charged with Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child, Attorney General Ken Paxton offered a plea deal to Hoffman lowering a felony and life in prison to ... misdemeanors and 30 days in county jail. " www.yahoo.com/news/article...

RESULT out of Texas. The Lake Travis school district in the Austin area become a focal point for book bans (see this story from 2024: www.kut.org/education/20...) Two conservatives school board members who were integral to that push just lost their reelection bids tonight, and are ousted.

A Florida Republican Sheriff, Grady Judd, announced the arrest of 266 defendants in a sex trafficking scheme & minced no words. He identified influencer Craig Long, who he said moved in high circles including with the president, holding up a picture of Long with Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03q...

I'm sure Mar-A-Lago is a Clearinghouse for trafficked girls

This is a worthwhile read. The Dead Economy Theory open.substack.com/pub/owenmcgr...

From The Beyond Brief newsletter: "Tesla quietly admitted millions of FSD owners need a new computer AND new cameras. Owners who paid $10K-$15K on the promise of forever upgrades are about to discover the answer is also 'buy a new car.' Class action lawyers are sharpening pencils."

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In short, to make them all slaves.

SEN. OLIVER: “@GovBillLee called a special session next week to cheat. Let’s be real clear. Republicans in Tennessee are doing the bidding of that man in the White House because he wants to hold on to power. MEMPHIS is 1 of the Blackest cities… they’re about to take their seat.”

Meteorologists warn of a 62% chance El Niño develops between June and August 2026. A one-in-four probability exists for a "very strong" event, potentially triggering extreme heat and rainfall. Forecasters monitor tropical Pacific as ocean temperatures threaten to rise 2°C above average.

Here’s @GovBillLee’s official proclamation to call for a special session to steal the last Blue seat from majority Black Memphis “Accurately reflecting the will of the voters”? “Reflective representation”? The gaslighting is wild. Were you laughing as you wrote this, Guv?

Hollywood has lost the plot