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Wall Street bonuses hit record high of $47.5B in 2024, state comptroller says Wall Street accounted for 19% of the state’s tax collections in fiscal year 2023-24.

💰 “Last year was a good year for New York's financial industry as Wall Street bonuses reached a record $47.5 billion in 2024…” #SecondGildedAge

I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.

This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.

The House just voted that “each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act.” A day is not a day. Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, and Franz Kafka must all be chuckling — or weeping.

More of this!

What we saw last night was nothing but lies beyond count. The twisting of good projects overseas into dark evil and almost 5 minutes of lies about Social Security recipients. It’s all twisting reality so fools are eager to tear down the very system protecting them. They’re coming for ALL of it.

“The people are seeing, the world's been stolen. What about the future, what about the generations of people to come, what about the things that we destroy in the name of profits, what about ensuring today, that there is a future for the world to come. Manufactured misery that people feel today - it's deliberately so. We have information by the terabyte yet we have people who are miseducated, misinformed, not knowing the truth. They go about life every day so concerned with gathering up a few dollars, seeing nothing around them, not caring about anything whatsoever. All they wanna do, is work for 40 years, for their little job, 40 hours a week, and retire on 40% of what they were earning, and they think this is living. They've never lived a day of their lives, never knowing there's enough in the world, if people would stop stealing from each other, and thinking they could horde something, and hold all that you acquire on this planet. When you leave here, who did you help, what difference did you make in the world? Did you better your world by your life and your presence and your existence here? If you haven't, what kind of a person were you? What kind of a citizen were you? There is no thing such as a flag, or a symbol or a nation"

YouTube video by The Daily Show Jon Stewart on Trump’s Heel Turn on Zelenskyy In Favor of Putin’s New World Order | The Daily Show

Jon Stewart on Trump’s Heel Turn on Zelenskyy In Favor of Putin’s New World Order

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'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the influential hate group that's expanding in Tennessee They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.

MUST WATCH: 'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the influential hate group that's expanding in Tennessee www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species

“Clearcutting these beautiful places will increase fire risk, drive species to extinction, pollute our rivers and streams, and destroy world-class recreation sites.” Trump’s timber order is based on nothing but lies, greed, hatred, and monumental ignorance.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So to be clear - in Tennessee unidentified white men in hoodies can grab any immigrant that "looks" undocumented, and if officials even as much as vote to protect them it's a felony.

This is where we are now.

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Steve Harvey is aghast

What Trump's New Cabinet and Administration Picks Have in Common See the links between more than 60 figures the president-elect wants for cabinet and other senior positions: billionaires, lobbyists, Fox personalities and more.

Who makes up Trump's senior staff picks?

At least 5 billionaires, 8 major Trump donors, 9 lobbyists and 11 people he saw on Fox News.

-Inflation’s global, we outperformed🌍 -Border crossings down 75% -Trump will make things worse -Nobody defunded the police -CRT & DEI are good actually -A solution in search of a problem Decades in government and who have you actually helped, Marsha?

-Inflation’s global, we outperformed🌍
-Border crossings down 75%
-Trump will make things worse
-Nobody defunded the police
-CRT & DEI are good actually
-A solution in search of a problem

Decades in government and who have you actually helped, Marsha?

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...

NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found.

www.propublica.org/article/segr...