risa dickens

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

World’s largest sovereign wealth fund made $247 billion in 2025, driven by tech and banking rally Norway's $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund holds stakes in many of the world's biggest companies, including Apple, Nvidia and JPMorgan Chase.

Imagine if every Canadian had $500K of common wealth invested in the upside of global economic prosperity, like every Norwegian enjoys.

We are a nation of vast resources.

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Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal opinion article titled “A Guaranteed Income Won’t Stop People From Wanting to Work,” by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. A subheading says evidence from programs around the world suggests basic income does not make recipients lazier. Below the headline is a photo of several women sitting outdoors at a table working.

"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs."

Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented constitutional crisis in American history, & then…two words:

MAGA Comes for Jerome Powell The Trump administration is so over this whole “Fed independence” thing.

NEW: "Let’s call this “investigation” what it is: a targeted attack meant to smear Powell’s name, and force him to resign prior to the end of his term."

Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

one of the smarter things that Miller has done is understand that personnel is policy, and by taking the federal law enforcement apparatus away from legitimate police work to odious but legal work you are attriting the people that non-fascists want in those places when the illegal orders come

🚨"We've got a Honduran here"

A SWARM of Border Patrol agents violently invaded a Minneapolis gas station—crushing car windows, tackling and brutalizing drivers, and taking several. We've confirmed at least one of them was U.S. CITIZEN Lalo Rios Meza.

Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

NYT: Trump's appointees to the court of appeals vote for the Trump admin 92% of the time (113 for 12 against)-a much more lopsided split than judges appointed by other Republican Presidents (68% for 32% against) or Democratic Presidents (27% for 73% against).

(& he's doing wildly illegal things)

Only a few hours after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Minneapolis resident and mother Renee Good on January 7, federal immigration enforcement agents descended onto Roosevelt High School property during school dismissal as students were exiting the building. MFE members say that ICE agents tackled and detained a school staff member and union member who was working at the time. The MFE member was since released, according to a union spokesperson. The agents also deployed a chemical irritant against students and staff on school grounds, MFE says. A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.

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10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them. And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deporta

These 10 companies stand to rake in $1 billion by 2027 by helping ICE track down and round up immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

Career criminal, illegal alien in ICE custody passes away at local hospital ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments.

Whenever Kristi Noem's DHS kills somebody they have detained or hold in custody, their victim is instantly attacked as a criminal. Know who else did this? Study the way the Nazis announced deaths in concentration camps in the period up to 1938. This is morally depraved conduct, as Pope Leo says

More neo-Nazi content by DHS.

I said white supremacist talking points would go mainstream by 2025, and I hoped I was wrong.

Here we are.

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

Screenshot of a post by Acyn on X summarizing comments by Representative Dan Goldman. The post states that Goldman criticized the justification for pursuing Nicolás Maduro on drug trafficking charges, calling it bogus and noting that the Honduran president was recently pardoned for similar offenses. Below the text is a television news still from MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki. Dan Goldman appears on screen in a studio or remote setup, wearing a dark jacket and light shirt, speaking directly to the camera. A nighttime city skyline with illuminated buildings is visible behind him. On-screen graphics include a red “Breaking News” banner reading “Maduro arrives in NY to face drugs and weapons charges,” along with Goldman’s name, title, and MSNBC branding.

The White House would like us to forget this, but we will not.

At midnight, 20 million Americans will see their healthcare costs skyrocket because Republicans refused to extend tax credits that help working people afford care.

Trump promised he’d lower prices on day 1, but this & his tariff tax have done the opposite.

A terrible way to start 2026.

For now, the most important thing you can do is submit a public comment about the harm these proposed rules would cause. Your comments may not ultimately sway this transphobic regime, but they will be very important for future lawsuits. 👇

Pretending people are MS13/TDA, shipping them to a gulag without any process, and it’s all part of a cover up of actual MS13 gang members. My god.

A different guy in the radiation wait room told me that when we worship thats for us, for our mental health or sense of self or whatever. But it’s not for God. Only what we do for others is for God.

republicans are doing the most backroom deal, dead of night, reckless rush job imaginable on this bill. The absolute maniacal desire they have to rip away health care and take food away from kids in order to give their ultra wealthy buddies a fat pay day.

Let me put this another way.

Poilievre spent 8.8M$ of our money in his “role as opposition leader”.

We paid him $8.8M to oppose Ukraine, dental care, childcare, pharmacare…

We paid him $8.8M to oppose ourselves.

WTF are we doing?!
#cdnpoli

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

"Tonight we ask all who believe in democracy the best of our American experience, to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring." - Bruce Springsteen 👏

Thursdays at 7pm, Americans Are Taking To The Streets to Fight Fascism The Simple Weekly Ritual Anyone Can Do—And It Works

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The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration, for now, to strip protections from nearly 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants who were shielded from deportation under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program.

DOGE Loses Battle to Take Over USIP—and Its $500 Million Headquarters A federal judge called DOGE’s actions at the United States Institute of Peace ‘unlawful.’

NEWS: The courts have decided against DOGE and the US government in their legal battle to take full control of the United States Institute of Peace, including a headquarters building with an estimated value of $500 million. www.wired.com/story/usip-d...