it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

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the human experience is to fall asleep, live somewhere you haven't been in twenty years, chat with long-dead family, get chased by animals, ride a plane, ride a miles-long escalator, ride a tiny horse, and when you wake up they say all that stuff is fake but paying taxes is real

and now, your moment of zen. 🎥 (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYhEwUvv67q/)

The Trump Slush Fund is even worse than expected: he and Todd Blanche know that this whole lawsuit was illegal, so they withdrew the case & the judge can’t rule on its legality! Mind-boggling corruption. Trump and Blanche must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

“Will break rules to defeat Nazis” is a non-extremist position and “will not defeat Nazis if the rules say you can’t” is an extremist position. Everyone please learn the difference between “extreme” and “extremist” because it will be on the final exam.

If there are no mechanisms left for stopping this robbery of the government by its president, then we have ceased to be anything but a subsidiary of the Trump Corporation.

Good job America. You all need to give up part of your paychecks to reward a bunch of losers who failed to overthrow the government on behalf of a pedophile. Definitely one for the history books, but not of any history that will ever be taught in the southern states.

When a regime clearly holds the rule of law in contempt, and views itself as completely above the law, it and its agents don’t have any moral argument for the protections of the rule of law.

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It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

I'm begging for one article--just one--that is "Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These urban voters in Harlem say `We told you he'd screw everything up, why didn't you listen to us?'" Just one. Just one "diner" interview in a place w a density above 1 per 1000 sq mi and < 95% white.

I really cannot understand why so many people to the left of center are so weak like this.

This is literally the plot of one of the stories in I, Robot

In college I was once threatened with legal action for torrenting a movie; it scared the shit out of me because I knew the stories about getting bankrupted by the MPAA. And now a bunch of billion-dollar companies have torrented at least one of my books and it's just part of their business.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Phoenix Sgt. Dusten Mullen told a Chandler police officer that his goal was to get kids in jail if they wanted to break the law. “My plan is legitimately to just let them all assault me and you guys arrest them all…so my goal would be to get all these kids in jail if they want to break the law.”

Major breaking news tonight. NYU Langone has received a federal criminal subpoena over its provision of trans youth care. The subpoena originates from a grand jury empaneled in the Northern District of Texas. It's a massive escalation in attacks on trans poviders. Read our breaking story:

New York streets belong to New Yorkers, and Soccer Streets are for the kids. We’re turning the block outside your school into a car-free playground and World Cup celebration. Now until June 26, you’ll find Soccer Streets in front of 50 public schools across all five boroughs. Let’s play!

This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.

every warning light on his dashboard is blazing

Then he bragged about bypassing the normal process because he knew “a guy who’s unbelievable at doing swimming pools.” This is a historic national monument, not Mar-a-Lago’s lazy river. 2/4

Science Saru's The Ghost in the Shell anime will debut on July 7, and has revealed more staff, character designs, and a new promo video.

Something to think about when people say that transit has to pay for itself and bike infrastructure is not a good investment because "cyclists don't pay taxes" or something.

Look, if they suspend the federal gas tax you'll get a very momentary break on gas prices that still won't bring them down to pre-war levels AND the Highway Trust Fund will run out of money faster than it was already going to. Seems like a bad idea, but what do we know?

The President of the United States is a criminal. He SHOULD have been convicted for the crimes he led on January 6th, 2021. He WAS convicted of 34 felonies for corruption and harassment. Yet somehow, instead of facing the consequences he deserves, he’s running the government like a mob operation.

This is pure insanity

The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room is now open trumpsonian.us/rr

The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.

No masks. No state or local coordination with ICE. No searches without a warrant. We can applaud these necessary steps to make it as difficult as possible for ICE to operate here. What we’re doing in NYS should be a template for the nation as we fight to abolish this rogue agency once & for all.

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The Red States just declared war on us.

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

The Republicans declared war on America. This is a second civil war and a new Confederacy of red states.

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

"And today, the Supreme Court supermajority they spent decades building is fulfilling its purpose, while the administration advocates a white supremacism more shameless than anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes." 🔥

The Republican Party is the Confederacy reborn. They have declared war on all decent people in America. This is a starting shot in a civil war. Their goal is ending civil rights for everyone.

The “MAHA” party just ensured a new generation of kids gets addicted to nicotine.

"The right never lost their faith that if they were patient and determined enough, the 1960s could be undone — and maybe some of the 1860s too. They knew that even after a statue of a slaveholding traitor is torn down, defeat is not permanent. In fact, that statue may *literally* be raised back up."

Musk’s primary historical marker is as the man who used his purchase of the presidency to condemn up to 15 million non-white people to death. Until that’s his undeniable legacy, we cannot even begin to get unfucked. stopthetrillionaires.com

The confederacy is back and it declared war on America with the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. If the Trump regime is not removed from power, Democratic controlled states have no recourse left but secession or civil war.

Secret Service shot a kid today

If I want advice about the best way to strip the dick off of a dead raccoon I’ll consult RFKJr and his pack of psycho woo merchants, otherwise they can fuck right off about how I say healthy.

Trump, surrounded by kids, is struggling to stay awake as RFK Jr drones on and on

HAPPENING NOW: “WHOSE STATE? OUR STATE! @GovBillLee sold out Tennessee… this is about to be a very long week for their asses….” Protestors greet Republicans like @SenBrentTaylor here to strip representation from majority Black MEMPHIS to protect a corrupt president

It's incredible that this man's vocabulary consists of somewhere between 6 to 8 of the same fucking sentences vomited out to every situation and our braindead neighbors said hell yeah let's do that again.

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