Happy Tax Day folks. As I pointed out here, the technical arguments about having free tax filing is over. Direct File proved it. What we are seeing now is just rent-seekers bribing policymakers to be allowed to keep extracting money from you. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

Sen. Mike Crapo blocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren's last-ditch attempt to preserve the IRS's free Direct File program. In the last election cycle, Crapo was the top GOP congressional recipient of campaign contributions from the corporate PAC of TurboTax's parent company.

Uninsured rate for children, by state. Texas accounts for a quarter of all children without health insurance in America.

Conservative Christianity isn’t Christianity. It’s narcissism and money worshipping based on the prosperity gospel.

3 white men in their 20s attempted to lynch 3 Black men for....fishing last Friday. The only reason it's an attempted murder charge is one of the Black men was armed and a better shot. It's not about the year someone was born, it's about the racism www.wcia.com/news/edgar-c...

If he really believes his jokes weren’t weaponized, he failed. But I don’t think he truly believes that. I think he’s trying to cover his ass because of the well deserved backlash. He thought he understood something that he didn’t and then doubled down like an egomaniac.

Don’t tell RFK, Jr.

NEW: Teenage boys are pulling classmates' photos off Insta and running them through cheap nudify apps and the fallout has now hit nearly 90 schools across 28 countries with 600+ known victims since 2023, per a WIRED/Indicator analysis. UNICEF estimates 1.2M children were targeted last year alone.

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

This should happen to Fox News and corporate media in general. Consolidated corporate media is the propaganda arm of corporate America. if we want a functioning democracy, corporate censorship of viewpoints must end. Right wing libertarian economics is their default setting.

Pretty sure the Pope was referring to those who start wars and live by the sword and seek to kill, which Hegseth brags about doing. People like Johnson respect their own religion less than many atheists do.

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

As the present Fascist International teeters and wobbles and starts breaking apart I'm very curious to find out how many more core components of the American conservative project are plain-old foreign-influence operations

Hunter is not completely right, but he's not completely wrong either! This is a longer essay, but having spent my entire career at WaPo as an opinion editor and then a columnist -- I have quick thoughts! 1/n

🧵 Israel has allowed Russian bulk carrier ABINSK to enter Port of Haifa carrying > 43,700 tons of wheat that Ukrainian sources say was stolen from temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories. The development was reported by Kateryna Yaresko of the SeaKrime project at the Myrotvorets Center.

This person seems to think Germany has statues venerating Hitler like we do of Lee.

econ 101 guy: capitalism isn't perfect but it's the only system that ever worked! without incentive there's no innovation! capitalists: we're deliberately ending human civilization to protect the fossil fuel industry. we also hope to ban the research and development of competing energy technologies

Here's Trump on Jan 13, 2021, after he'd been impeached, but before the Senate had voted on whether to convict and bar him from office for life. "There's never a justification for violence ... Those who engaged in attacks last week will be brought to justice."

The LAPD is working with ICE & lying about it. After ICE throws our neighbors into cages in the B18 concentration camp in the Metro Detention Center, LAPD brutalizes protestors at the gate, but bc they’re just “guarding” the camp, they don’t report it Excellent reporting by @ericanders.bsky.social

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

Today's newsletter is about why mainstream media has been trying to help JD Vance frame himself as "skeptical" of or "opposed to" the war in Iran. Hint: 2028 www.readtpa.com/p/the-foremo...

I don't think that people are mean enough to ICE cops, actually. Some of you have them as family members. What are you doing to shame them?

I’m very tempted to respond with “no shit” to every mundane thought the LinkedIn “thought leaders” pass off as invaluable wisdom. Corporate schlock. These people have no shame. I refuse to participate in that soulless self-promotion.

Years ago, a writer friend was passing through on tour. I didn't know him that well, but I liked what I knew of him - and when he suggested that I join him (and the other writer touring with them) to hang and sign stock, I said "Sure, let's do it." So the three of us spent a day doing that. (1)

This story is horrific. Worth noting that Target is not the only retailer using AI for theft prevention. It’s an entire industry. And if you’re looking for alternatives that are safer to shop at in this regard, you’re very likely out of luck. Small, non-corporate businesses probably your best bet.

They are soulless psychopaths. They think everything is a cynical game.

The centrist dude bros have Guy Fieri’s back.

“.. Inflation was coming down in the United States — and then Trump’s tariffs happened.” @heathmayo.bsky.social

I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 😍

NEW: We’re demanding policy changes after Maryland police secretly relied on a faulty facial recognition match and wrongly jailed an Oklahoma mother for 6 months for a crime she didn’t commit in a state she had never been to. This should never happen to anyone else. Ms. Williams deserves justice.

We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart | France | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Why aren't students protesting?

Corporate media is all in on fascism. Corporations prefer it to sensible regulations and taxes.

What this Republican talking point really means is government by the people makes it difficult for soulless ghouls like Rick Scott to cheat and grift the people.

It's a bad sign that Spanberger, elected on a wave of opposition to Trump and his swollen militarized secret police force, is insisting that Virginia sheriffs and jails continue to imprison people past their release date in order to hand them over to ICE. This grants ICE power it should not have.

The country's descent into fascism cannot be understood without interrogating U.S. policing. But folks across the political spectrum are allergic to this so here we are.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.” www.wired.com/story/openai...

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet, but a right-wing admin also clashed with religious workers and authorities in the 1980s. This was under Reagan, when the latter was propping up authoritarian governments from which refugees were trying to escape. digitalcommons.nyls.edu/journal_of_h...

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

That Euro center right party is further left than US Dems.

Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

"Students should be free to make up their own mind, but in order to be free to do so, they must be exposed to different ideas. We can't just expose them to conservative ideology approved by the board of regents or the governor of Texas." — Martin Peterson, Texas A&M AAUP

Texas A&M has suffered a great loss: the resignation of Dr. Martin Peterson. First Plato, now Dr. Peterson! Out the Door at TAMU....

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

This just proves how materialistic evangelical Christianity is.