The proposed 2% "Zucman Tax" on wealth in France is garnering huge crowds and overwhelming support. It's reveals the political durability of proposals to tax the rich, as Harold Meyerson writes. prospect.org/economy/2025...

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"...the airport’s redevelopment pivot will culminate this month with the first phase opening of a gleaming, light-filled new Terminal 1 that will eventually house 30 gates and eight airlines." www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/09/21/s...

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I was tuning into CBS for the Chargers Broncos game and apparently regular CBS has been showing the CHARLIE KIRK memorial all day long.

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Epic

“People who listed Microsoft and other tech companies on their résumés were applying to become baristas.” www.wsj.com/tech/seattle...

Classic Trump. Pay the tribute and all is good.

Much of the violent, racist rhetoric from the man arrested for allegedly threatening the life of Zohran Mamdani is almost indistinguishable from what top GOP politicians were saying in the days after Mamdani won the primary. (Also similar to what Girdusky said to me on CNN!)

WGA WRITERS protest abc & disney : “Writers against fascism — this isn’t just about Kimmel, it’s about our ability to say what we want and not be punished by the state… a chilling effect… you don’t capitulate to bullies…” (from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social )

Two British Members of Parliament attempted to visit the occupied West Bank including Ease Jerusalem last week via the crossing from Jordan into Palestine and were denied entry by the State of Israel. One of them, who is Jewish, wrote an op-ed in the Guardian condemning this.

The anti-vaxxer CDC shooter’s father - ridiculous. www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/08/17/i...

Absolutely moronic for the Democrats to vote for this.

“.. A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” she said. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The opposition party must say what it would do if they are handed with power. It's fine and dandy to call for civil society to act. But what would the Democrats do to corporations like Disney that are bending the knee to the President?

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

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The clarity is good for all the hacks who want to deny the obvious.

And...this guy wasn't canned.

35%. Amazing.

Let's go.

We probably need a lot more federalism.

We are as long as you sit on your fucking hands, Chuck.

Even though he absolutely hates this, Barack Obama might have to take on the Leader of the Opposition role for the next 14 to 16 months until one of the branches of Congress has been flipped.

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

Here's a little distraction for you, born of a conversation with my kid this morning: I figured out the geographical boundaries of the In-N-Out universe. www.pbump.net/o/lets-get-y...

The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr putting pressure on ABC affiliates to suspend Jimmy Kimmel over his comments on Charlie Kirk is beyond McCarthyism. Trump officials are repeatedly abusing their power to silence ideas they don’t like, deciding who can speak, write, and even joke.

This.

From me: It was 20 years ago that Citigroup described America as a plutonomy, an economy by and for the rich. We now have stats to show this has gotten worse: the top 10% are doing 50% of the retail sales, and this masks the pain from below. prospect.org/economy/2025...

When America eventually gets out of this, it needs to make business leaders fear to break the law. At minimum Teddy Roosevelt levels, possibly more. Many are apparently operating under the belief that lawbreaking and rights violations are all upside for them, no need to worry about consequences.

It would be nice if the opposition party seemed to give a shit.

⭕️ Internet and telephone services are facing severe outages after Israeli attacks on main network lines in northern Gaza, according to the Palestinian Telecommunications Regulatory Commission. At least 80 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza so far today...

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." First Amendment.

This is the top headline on CNN. A good warning sign that your country may be becoming a dictatorship is when your plain-jane straight news networks start saying “Our country is becoming a dictatorship”

This is so messed up.

Karen Bass is a horrendous mayor.

If there are actually Trump's approvals in Nov 2026, the Senate will flip. The opposition to Trump has to do everything possible to get his approvals down and keep them down.

“.. parents told the regulator they were unable to reopen the doors of their Tesla to retrieve a child .. “.. ‘Entrapment in a vehicle is particularly concerning in emergency situations, such as when children are entrapped in a hot vehicle,’ NHTSA said.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This. If you don't lay down markers, you don't deserve people's votes

Yup. The entire reason why the Resistance worked during 1.0 is because the media and corporate establishment stood their ground. We're not even in October of the first year of the new administration and they have all bent the knee. The opposition party is rudderless, confused and unable to unite.

When Karl Rove thinks you've gone too far, we're in a crazy place.

Normally I pooh pooh these types of things but I *really* think people need to attend this and make a show of force, something like the protests on Jan 20, 2017. The powers that be need to know that the majority are vehemently against the fascist stuff that the establishment has bent the knee for.

"A private airplane whose nose gear collapsed on a runway at San Diego International Airport caused delays and diverted flights for travelers on Wednesday night, according to officials." It's always the small planes. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/09/17/a...

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

Senator Marshall is an MD.

Just saw a clip of a congressman calling Charlie Kirk the 13th disciple.