The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

New tariff just dropped. Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June. (Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).

Republicans have had it in for Memphis for awhile now. Bad days ahead if Sexton is collaborating with Stephen Miller to make TN a test ground for anti-immigrant legislation

NEW: We break down how to prepare yourself for the day ICE shows up in your area. @lhn.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social, and @mattburgess1.bsky.social report. No paywall. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

If the United States Constitution doesn’t protect you from a federal agent shooting you in the face for the “crime” of turning your car around, it doesn’t exist. ICE has become a paramilitary force with zero oversight and a Secretary in Kristi Noem who encourages the chaos. ENOUGH.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Five years ago.

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

Yes, gifts are more expensive. Yes, it’s inflation. Yes, it’s Trump’s tariffs. Believe your eyes and your wallets

This entire weekend

Stop voting for people who refuse to pass any gun safety legislation

The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter. nbcnews.to/4pRUOh8

The total cost in salaries, benefits for up to 1,000 Tennessee National Guard personnel in Memphis could reach $26M annually, according to a federal memo filed in court, reports @awadwhani.bsky.gmail.

Grateful that Lee Harris, the county mayor, brought this lawsuit questioning the state constitutionality of calling up the National Guard. Millions spent to have them stand around at tourist spots and not where crime occurs

For those keeping track at home, this make 18 politicians convicted of corruption charges now pardoned by President Trump.

Citizens get arrested when they are targeting people based on skin color and accents

"For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There's no way we can meet that gap. There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this."

The East Wing Obscenity This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is insane. Pure megalomania

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

In Mississippi, thousands of people are taking to the streets to protest the Trump administration today in Corinth, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Hernando, Jackson, Oxford, Starkville and Tupelo. Here's what you need to know about today's rallies. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippia...

🎯 SEN. YARBRO: “Historically bad decision by Gov. Bill Lee to voluntarily sign up for whatever in the hell this is.”

So disappointing

👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

And after 40 minutes of cringe-Thunderous applause from the generals! Just kidding. Total silence. 👀 🦗 🦗

Today @annamerlan.bsky.social and I have a piece about Trump's autism announcement, along with its weird connections to wellness people who are obsessed with folate deficiencies (and selling supplements for this supposed problem, naturally): www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct—testing how far the agency can go to limit speech without ever quite formally censoring it—is flatly unconstitutional. That won't make it stop. www.wired.com/story/brenda...

Late night hosts criticizing the president isn’t new. Having a thin-skinned dictator wannabe who can’t take it is.

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

Phil Williams sharing some data…

OPINION: "Many Americans still picture the antebellum South through the lens of popular culture—a romanticized vision shaped by novels & films like 'Gone with the Wind,' with its iconic Tara plantation. This 'Tara effect' continues to influence how plantations are remembered," Betsy Pudliner writes.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

B of A: Data-center electricity demand is contributing to the jump in your electric bill — a 5.8% increase in electricity prices year-on-year, more than double the overall CPI increase of 2.7%. @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

Who could have foreseen that pursuing a lawless terror campaign against the majority of farm laborers would raise the cost of the vital goods they produce for the country

The most important thing to know about Trump’s manufactured crisis in DC is that his administration is still covering up what’s in the Epstein files.

The lawlessness of ICE is making us all unsafe

Kennedy claims that the money will be spent on “better technologies”. mRNA vaccines are estimated have prevented 18.5 million hospitalizations and 3.2 million deaths from COVID19 in the U.S., and saved the country $1.15 trillion. abc7.com/amp/post/rfk...

Pandemic preparedness in the US has been leveled a crippling blow with the cancellation of multiple #BARDA contracts to help develop mRNA vaccines. No other vaccine platform produces vaccine so quickly; without mRNA, Americans will have a long wait for pandemic vax. www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

A massive regressive national sales tax imposed upon every American by a president with no constitutional authority to impose a national sales tax. The reason why the founders gave this power to Congress is because this would never pass any Congress- even this one.

Of course they did.👇