Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like. [Via @itep.org]

@allenmichie.bsky.social on new jazz vocal albums: April Varner, a rising star in this new generation of female jazz singers, pays homage to Ella Fitzgerald; John Pizzarellii’s recording is an early entry in the long list of tributes for #tonybennett’s 100th birthday. artsfuse.org/326720/jazz-...

Happy Easter from your President of the United States.

500 more White House ballrooms. 4 years of a fully funded National Institutes of Health. 2 million Kash Patel trips to Milan by private jet. 16.2 years of IRS funding, at pre-Trump levels. 40 percent of Greenland, if it were for sale. 2,666 Melania sequels. 16.9 TSA budgets. 2 Warner Bros.

How is it that Terry Gross is able to tell absolutely EVERY guest, “Welcome back to Fresh Air”? At some point, don’t the laws of physics have to kick in?

What's the difference between Iran and Vietnam? Trump had a plan to get out of Vietnam.

1. CONSUMERS paid most of Trump's tariffs, which the Supreme Court ruled were illegal. But CORPORATIONS will receive the refunds. Will they pass that cash back to consumers? Or pocket the money? We asked them. 🧵 popular.info/p/consumers-...

The circle of life, Donald Trump style: —attack Iran, spiking global oil prices —> —Iran gets support from Russia to target American forces —> —US unsanctions Russian oil to cut oil prices —> —Russia uses oil revenues to support Iran in targeting US forces. #genius (From a friend)

Just a little reminder as you read the headlines about Trump honoring the “brave American patriots” etc. he is sending off to possibly get killed.

@allenmichie.bsky.social enthuses that the Django Festival Allstars's album "Evolution" is a major statement from master musicians building on a strong tradition and taking it forward into our own generation with passion and elegance. artsfuse.org/324849/album...

Note the date. Were they lying then, or lying now?

Just remember what this is all for…. Distracting from the Epstein files

Seems to be the pattern…

Name them shame them

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

While there have always been dubious pardons for political cronies, “unprecedented” doesn’t begin to describe how Donald Trump has corrupted the power of presidential forgiveness.

$00.00. -- The amount Trump paid in income tax in 15 of the last 20 years, according to leaked IRS documents $10,000,000,000. -- amount for which Trump is suing the IRS for leaking the above

AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."

What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.

If I have this right, conservatives believe everyone should own a gun, there should be no licensing or other requirements for gun ownership, everyone should carry their guns everywhere to make everyone safer, *and* law enforcement officers are free to murder you for possessing a gun in public.

Enjoy your Thursday, courtesy of AI.

I think often of the time a bunch of murder victims’ families showed Trump treasured photos of their loved ones and he signed them

From our moral guardian of the Clinton years: "Hope Santa (swim trunks donned), reindeer and sleigh successfully made it southward. Yuletide hugs, Ken." -- Ken Starr, in 2016 email to Epstein

This man is our current ambassador to Turkey.

These are the kind of things that make the trumps relatable to the working class

If the Biden administration had sent federal agents to do a law enforcement operation 10X milder in a white suburban neighborhood in order to apprehend a serial pedophile and violent domestic abuser who happened to be a white Christian pastor, the MAGA crew would have reduced the country to rubble.

Trump pardons British billionaire Joe Lewis reut.rs/3XpEOGL

"It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it. And pays total respect to the building, which I'm the biggest fan of. It's my favorite. It's my favorite place. I love it." -- Trump, in July, on his new ballroom

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Remember when Qatar gave Trump a plane? He just gave them an American security guarantee.

"Either we surrender to the demonic forces abolishing and demolishing our country, or we defeat them." -- Trump, Nov. 5, 2024 "Violence and murder are the tragic consequences of demonizing those with whom you disagree." --Trump, last Wednesday

Since returning to office, Trump has: -Stripped 1 million federal workers of collective bargaining rights -Reversed Biden's minimum wage hike for federal contractors -Gutted OSHA and frozen enforcement of a regulation protecting miners from lung disease "Pro-worker" president.

tidal.com/playlist/b4a... Tonight was the last show before summer break, so it was all summer themed, from rock and roll to blues to surfing to hitching a ride to rockaway beach we took the airwaves by land, air and sea #MusicSky

It’s worth reading the letter. We should ashamed. Forget the tariffs themselves. The errors in grammar and spelling. The insane capitalization of random words. The petulant dauphin-like tone. The factual mistakes. The layout. Utterly humiliating for our country. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"If you don't like something, you should at least attempt to understand it so that you can hate it with style, creativity, flair, and intelligence." -David Bowie

RIP to a great man and a great journalist. He was the best boss I ever had by a mile. I’d bet that he was the best boss any of us had ever had, www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/m...

According to @allenmichie.bsky.social, on two recent releases trumpeter Paolo Fresu shows us exactly what he has learned from Miles Davis, and how that has expanded rather than limited his music. artsfuse.org/311049/jazz-...

@allenmichie.bsky.social on "The Jazz Omnibus": Everyone who loves jazz, or makes a living somewhere in its world, owes a debt to many of the hard-working and under-paid writers of the Jazz Journalists Association (JJA). artsfuse.org/307909/book-...