Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Sounds like she’s bringing up an incel.

‘Flagrantly Unconstitutional’: Letitia James Slams DOJ’s Political Prosecution, Asks Judge to Toss Charges Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss the felony charges against her, arguing that President Donald Trump and his political appointees at the Department of Justice (DOJ) are selectively and vindictively prosecuting her.

Thank you, Mark and team. - Tempe AZ supporter of Democracy Docket

Rock star move!

Not in my name. I do not consent to creating a war with Venezuela

bsky.app/profile/iwil...

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

We the people are allowing this to happen in plain sight. Not in my name, not with my $.

As third in line, you’d think he was kept informed of everything. Yet his standard response is “I know nothing, will have to look into it.” Basically how you’d treat a stooge.

All of the above!

The @WNBA.com had a record year:

🎫 Record ticket sales

📺 Record TV contract

⛹️‍♀️ Record franchise valuations

The players deserve their fair share of the value they created. I stand with the WNBPA.

#PayThemWhatYouOweThem

YouTube video by Democracy Docket Why Smart People Keep Getting Trump's DOJ Scandal Wrong

We have reached the stage where legacy media simply ignores Trump's targeting of political opponents for prosecution. Meanwhile, commentators and pundits find ways to dismiss it or - in some cases - normalize it.

I will never accept it and neither should you. Watch and share. youtu.be/yZR90S5DUKE

These Data centers use an extraordinary amount of water. Can any one in AZ say where it will come from. Another example of environmental degradation.

They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

This is missing the point. The military is apparently being paid regardless of normal process and who authorizes it and whether that’s being withheld due to the government shutdown. Trump has managed to get them paid through private donations. They’re now paid off book. Beholden only to Trump.

I have one slight disagreement with this post.

There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy.

And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.

This is over the top sadism. And sadism never exists in isolation – it's always accompanied by sociopathy-psychopathy (ASPD).

Thank you AG Kris Mayes.

Raskin with Jeffries: "It's an alarming situation where now we have many of these January 6 defendants who have been picked up on other defenses. The Department of Justice is not zealously prosecuting them for other crimes they have committed ... it's a very dangerous situation."

And now he wants no photos to be released of his shameful act.

And she doesn’t have computer access, pass codes, etc. Johnson just wants to protect the power of pedophiles. Release the Epstein Files.

Bless his heart, the Speaker must not know how things work around here.

Because she hasn’t been sworn in, she legally CAN’T be doing constituent advocacy with agencies like the VA, the IRS, or the Social Security Administration.

She’s got a lot to do here, you’re the one holding it up.

North Carolina Elections Chief Demands Voters’ Full Social Security Numbers From DMV Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina’s top elections official is pressing the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles for unprecedented access to voters’ full Social Security numbers — a move that could erode voter privacy protections and lay the groundwork for mass voter purges

California sues Trump administration over 'Solar for All' program cancellation The $7-billion grant program was designed to help low-income households install solar panels on their homes.

California is suing the Trump administration over canceled solar grants for low-income households, saying the funding terminations were illegal: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @hayleysmith.bsky.social

One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

The Liberty statement does not say whether the company plans to re-write code developed by these foreign workers—which would potentially involve rewriting hundreds of thousands of lines of code—or whether the company will move foreign developers to the US or replace them with American programmers.

Doesn’t really matter their ages. One doesn’t usually outgrow hatred, unless there is a Eureka moment