Cheapskate, miser, worthy of a boycott as massive as his wealth: Howard Schultz, the former C.E.O. of Starbucks, who spent the past 44 years of his life in the Seattle area. His relocation comes amid an effort to raise taxes on wealthy individuals in Washington State.
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
Text from a friend:
I must have missed all the Law and Order SVU episodes where they didn't interview the victims and just asked the criminals what happened.
@brontyman.bsky.social
Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism —could use a better acronym, SNCFA? They’ll make recordings available, too www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
I feel like getting the phrase “George W. Trump” trending on social media is all it would take to deter him from going to war with Iran
Important context to the Supreme Court ruling is that Tennessee only has one gender clinic for kids and it performs 5 top surgeries per year.
This entire "debate" is about a phenomenon — large numbers of kids being rushed into hormones and surgeries — that doesn't exist.
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Why is this story not in an American paper
Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is
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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence
This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one
"This is the big, irreversible truth about Donald Trump's second presidency. No one can safely count on any of the promises, agreements, arrangements, or understandings that life runs on." - @tomscocca.bsky.social www.indignity.net/tax-penalty/
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Take 5 minutes and make 5calls against the Voter Suppression Act called Save.
Save the date:
Saturday, April 5, 2025 1pm
RALLY at Bryant Park for
Hands Off! New York City Fights Back
· Volunteer organized
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For the NYC mayoral race, rank 5 candidates AND NOT Andrew Cuomo. www.instagram.com/reel/DHEeW-B...
Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.
Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”
The unwritten story is about the detention center itself.
I don’t think I’m going to be sleeping very well for *checks notes* the rest of this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...
As expected, public approval of congestion pricing in New York is following the same trajectory it followed in London, Stockholm and everywhere else it was tried. One would hope we could learn a lesson from such things!
They used “free speech” to hide their intentions to destroy speech.
They used “DEI” to claim they were being discriminated against in order to discriminate against Black people.
They used “groomers” to claim trans people were targeting children so they could target trans people *and* children.
