Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program. (Published Dec. 2024)

This headline from the NY Times is exactly the kind of "both sides" bullshit that Big Journalism continues to do -- ALWAYS to the benefit of Trump and his party. The headline implies that Democrats also tried to take over the 250th anniversary events for their own partisan purposes. They did not.

I spoke with Margoth last week. Instead of her 14-year-old son Dilan spending summer break with his classmates, she tells me he has been crying most days in detention. Margoth and Dilan have now spent 20 days ICE custody. This Tempe family should come home today.

My alma mater and I didn't know this

Republicans could net about 10 additional U.S. House seats in the November elections if redrawn voting districts perform as they were intended. https://to.pbs.org/49AzVkW

Yep.

This is messed up! The White House rolled out an extraterrestrial-themed “aliens” webpage not about UFOs, but as a tool targeting immigrants. If you haven’t seen it. It’s just a WTF moment. Link: www.whitehouse.gov/aliens/

This page is VERY interesting: #Wikipedia editors (almost all unpaid) showing solidarity with paid Wikimedia Foundation workers who are trying to unionize. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... @stephenharrison.com

Effing yikes!

The sloppers are so mad in the Facebook comments for this one. (Also: eatf.art/ai )

This Mom of two kids under 50, I'm telling all y'all this is importante

Epidemiologists Confirm First Airborne Transmission Of Mar-A-Lago Face

Rep. John Larson’s grit, determination, and ferocity were the only things standing between Trump’s onslaught and a total interruption of Social Security benefits for nearly 71 million Americans. That’s what makes Larson the most effective defender of Social Security in Congress today.

Way to go, Memphis! Hundreds of protesters descended on the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville yesterday to push back against Republican efforts to gerrymander Memphis out of its own congressional district.

Damn!

“It is such a clunky thing. It is so far removed from what I think the typical educational experience at ASU is. Who decided this would represent us?” www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

We just keep going backwards

A win! Thank you for always making your voices heard. The House passed a DHS funding bill by voice vote this afternoon, ending a 75-day shutdown the longest agency shutdown in U.S. history. The GOP caved. The bill funds DHS but includes no money for ICE or Customs and Border Protection.

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, who refused to hand over a database containing home addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license numbers for millions of Arizona voters.

Universal school vouchers have been a bad deal for education in Arizona. They drain resources from public schools and leave working families and kids with disabilities behind. That’s why I’m fighting to repeal Republicans’ new national school voucher program.

MAGA accounts are pushing Trump’s White House ballroom as the solution to last night’s shooting. A ballroom isn’t the problem here. Will every school get a ballroom to protect our students?

As the White House correspondents gather to party with Trump tonight, we remember how some pointed ribbing from an elegant and popular black president at a previous WHCA dinner 14 years ago ended up giving us this monster.

I didn't know about these kidnappings and it breaks my heart 💔

The Pentagon fired the watchdog for Stars and Stripes. Ombudsman Jacqueline Smith whose entire job was protecting the editorial independence of the military’s own newspaper was let go with no explanation and told the decision was “not grievable.”

In his second administration, some of the president's family members are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of interest. https://to.pbs.org/4tTfPdh

Earlier this week, eight children were killed in Speaker Johnson’s hometown in a horrific act of gun violence. We reached out to him asking if we could discuss bipartisan action to protect women and kids across the country from domestic violence. He declined.

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

Love wins.

And how many mass shootings since then? We live in a country where citizens honestly don't know the number.

Today, VoteVets is launching a third TV ad in its multi-million dollar campaign to help elect Josh Turek to the U.S. Senate in Iowa. Josh is the only candidate for Senate in Iowa who isn’t a millionaire and he’s not taking a dime of corporate PAC money.

Democrat Analilia Mejia won a New Jersey special election for the U.S. House on Thursday, defeating Republican Joe Hathaway on a message of standing up to President Donald Trump. https://to.pbs.org/4cDPn0m

Good news, everyone!

That's some bullsh*t

I'm helping to lead a group of Senate Democrats who are planning to force a vote - every single week the Senate is in session - to end the war in Iran. We have that right under the Senate rules, and we are going to keep putting Republicans on record supporting this insane war.

Only 👏 use 👏 “BREAKING” 👏 if 👏 you’re 👏 a 👏 reporter 👏 actually 👏 breaking 👏 the 👏 news 👏 yourself.

Our private Social Security data includes SSNs, addresses, places of birth, citizenship status, mothers’ maiden names, spouse and children’s information, and more. We demand to know what DOGE did with our data when they copied 500 MILLION Americans’ information to a private server.

The remaining Democrats in the California gubernatorial race need to get together and do something I’ve hardly seen any Democrat *actually* do in the Trump era, for all their lip service to it: put country above self. At least two should drop out to avoid a Governor Hilton.

ICE puts ppl in a facility 😡for up to 72 hours with no beds 🥵Women on their period have no period products 😷medical attention denied @repgregstanton.bsky.social @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social @repyassansari.bsky.social are fighting loudly for decency. NO new money for ICE! None!! Stop cruelty

BOOM! South Australia's power prices have plummeted as they near 100% renewables, proving to the world that relying on wind and solar with battery back-up is possible, more reliable and costs people less. THIS is how we avoid the next oil crisis. #EnergyRevolution

Great idea for Arizona too. I have seen some parking lot solar, but we have such an unrealized opportunity here to leverage what we have in abundance, the Sun. @tempegov.bsky.social @mitziepstein.bsky.social

Each spring, migratory birds travel thousands of miles—only to face deadly threats in our cities. Over 1B die in the U.S. yearly from window collisions. Dim lights at night. Treat glass by day. These simple steps save lives. Learn more: www.stopbirdcollisions.org/solutions/

You know who else got beaten with a hammer and almost died? Paul Pelosi. And the perpetrator was a deranged trump supporter — not an immigrant.

One step forward, ten steps back

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If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

Stop, take a breath and don't immediately share something if you are unsure that it is real. Bad actors often count on the fact that people let their emotions and existing viewpoints guide their reactions to content. https://to.pbs.org/47FCvVP

F*ckers

Republicans literally shouted, “No!” to Democrats’ amendment for transparency to taxpayers about charter, private, and ESA vouchers. Why No? They refused to answer. I infer that Republicans get big campaign 💵💵💲 from the For-Profit private education industry. Result: Private ed wasting your tax $$

The president is a rapist pedophile