A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.

CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance. Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna. See how this works?

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It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Also, the rich paid their fair share. The highest marginal income tax rate in the U.S was 91%.

"I have BILLIONS of dollars. How can you give me more money to incentivize me to be decent?"

In 1949, Superman told schoolchildren “our country is made up of Americans of MANY different races, religions and national origins. So… “…if YOU hear anybody talk against anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin — don’t wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN.”

Love this.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

with alt text for accessibility: Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion. The cost to end homelessness in the U.S. is also only $10 billion a year with a housing-first approach. Billionaires are directly stealing from all of us.

Yes, it is insane.

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This is a winning messsge in rural America. Ground beef is $9/lb at Walmart… Thanks, Trump.

Meiselas: First off—people who are alpha don’t go around calling themselves alpha. Look, where I grew up, my dad would say: Being a man means standing by your word. Being a man means you push back against the bully, and you uplift people. You don’t punch down at marginalized communities.

I’m out Paramount+ F*ck you.

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Writers Guild Demands Investigation Into Stephen Colbert ‘Late Show’ Cancellation, Has ‘Significant Concerns’ About Bribery at Paramount Yes!! Fight back ‼️ variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Sort of curious to know why EVERY Republican in the House thought it necessary to block the release of files that their Attorney General assured them do not even exist.

BARRASSO: We have over 5 million people sitting at home who are able to work who are on Medicaid and choose not to work WELKER: 92 percent of people who are on Medicaid are either working or would qualify for an exemption

The problem? I know an RN. She graduated from college in 1980. Her classes were $30/credit hour and she paid for her Associate’s degree with her part-time job. She now wonders why kids are so lazy and can’t pay for their own education and why they would ever need help with student loans.

The both-sides coverage of the Epstein files is dangerous and should not be sanitized. I started Democracy Docket for times like these when you need accurate news, information and analysis about what’s happening to democracy without any compromises. Support its work today: hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

We hear that immigrants are "freeloaders," yet they're being arrested at their workplaces and LA's economy is floundering without them. Hello?

Associate Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will end up being one of the heroes of this era if ever there are historians in the future who write about the fall of the United States She will almost never be in the majority on a major ruling, but she will have been the conscience of America

When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.

A corrupt system is when you need 60 Senate votes to protect voting rights, universal healthcare, reproductive rights, climate justice, lgbtq rights, immigration justice, and a living wage—but only 51 votes to strip them all away. #BigScamBill 1/3

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Where the hell do we live?! Americans in wheelchairs are being ARRESTED at the Capitol—for daring to demand healthcare and fight for Medicaid. This is what a dying democracy looks like: cruelty for the poor, handcuffs for the disabled. Shame on every damn one of them. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

In the time you spend watching this video, Jeff Bezos will earn more than what the majority of full-time American workers earn in a year. Say it with me: Tax the rich.

If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money. They must hammer economic populism — and have a laser focus on the cost of living crisis in America. There’s no way the party can speak for or represent the working class in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.

Democrats, learn from Zohran and AOC on how to win over the masses. Look at the messaging. Look at the issues. Look at how they communicate.

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.

If Trump sells off federal land, it’s not just a deal — it’s a death sentence for public power. You’d better believe billionaires won’t turn Yellowstone into a picnic spot. It’s extraction... eviction...and erasure disguised as “freedom.” And once it’s gone? It’s gone forever.

The Social Security trust fund could be depleted by 2033, according to a new report from its trustees. There's a simple way to fix this: scrap the cap on the Social Security payroll tax. https://youtu.be/GfZuB7XSFys?si=p8Zw3o6MIfQi9xoo

REPUBLICANS: "We need to privatize government agencies like NASA so they will run better!"

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

The brutal handcuffing of Senator Padilla is an affront to democracy. I’m joining House Democrats to march to Senator Thune’s office and to demand that he protect his Colleagues from this out-of-control authoritarian onslaught.

America has never been broke. It’s just violently anti-poor. Troops in LA cost $134M — the price of 44 million school lunches. But sure, let’s keep pretending the issue is lazy parents and not a government that eats kids for breakfast.

Just learned, a few days late, that comic-book legend Peter David died on May 24. He was dear to my family, so I want to honor him by telling a story about him that still makes me smile 30+ years later. 🧵

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Autism is not a disease, therefore, cannot cause an epidemic. Autism Spectrum Disorder is an inherited neuro developmental disorder. It is more commonly diagnosed bc it’s better recognized. RFK Jr never misses an opportunity to demonstrate his profound ignorance. Leave it to the professionals.

Social Security numbers are issued to undocumented immigrants so they can work legally and pay taxes roughly $26 billion

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

I don’t want to hear excuses that Dems voting against our right to vote, our healthcare, OUR LIVES, are worried about being in a 2026 swing district, yada yada bullshit. You’re either with the American people (veterans, disabled, women, minorities, LGBTQ+), or you’re with Trump/fascism.