BREAKING: Senate rejects the War Powers Resolution that would have blocked Trump from continuing to attack Iran 48-52.
04.03.2026 22:34 — 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 2BREAKING: Senate rejects the War Powers Resolution that would have blocked Trump from continuing to attack Iran 48-52.
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The Indiana House and Senate have both passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements for businesses to document the employment of child workers.
If this bill becomes law it would enable employers to hide child labor violations, according to @epi.org.
A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more.
The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.
One expert estimates that the U.S. “easily” spent more than $10 billion on air-defense systems in the first 48 hours of this war with Iran.
That cost is largely because of THAAD missile interceptors costing over $12 million each, and Patriot missiles costing over $3 million.
Bernie Sanders’ billionaire tax would soak about 900 people to fund $3,000 checks for the middle class
Okay. Great
04.03.2026 17:42 — 👍 1081 🔁 140 💬 50 📌 58
“The tax hike proposals, which have not been previously reported, are in line with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push to raise rates on people who earn more than $1 million a year as he pushes to close a $5.3 billion city budget gap.”
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The Democratic budgets proposed in the New York State Senate and Assembly are going to include higher income taxes for New York millionaires.
This has state Democratic leadership siding with Zohran’s plan to tax the rich — against the wishes of Governor Kathy Hochul.
The Pentagon is about to ask Congress for an estimated $50 billion in extra funds for the war on Iran.
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A record number of workers are raiding their 401(k)s, according to the Wall Street Journal.
04.03.2026 14:33 — 👍 185 🔁 49 💬 6 📌 6
BREAKING: James Talarico wins the Democratic Senate primary in Texas.
Talarico ran on fighting corruption in DC, and winning back power for working people.
In an era of vast inequality Talarico told voters that “billionaires are waging class warfare against the rest of us.”
The single largest known donation to AIPAC comes from the billionaire owner of OnlyFans.
Information leaked to @levernews.com shows Leonid Radvinsky and his wife giving $11 million dollars to the pro-Israel PAC.
www.levernews.com/inside-the-i...
A new bill in Washington State would ban bosses from forcibly microchipping workers.
The bill specifically says that an employer may not request, require, or coerce any employee to have a microchip implanted for any reason.
AI-created art isn't eligible for copyright protection, after the Supreme Court chose not to review a lower court ruling.
In 2022 the Copyright Office said images without “human authorship,” don't qualify for copyright protection — this was affirmed in 2023 by a district court.
The U.S. war on Iran is estimated to have already cost taxpayers over $2 billion dollars.
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Washington post editorial board: Bernie sanders 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose. sub head: a 5 percent annual wealth tax on america's billionaires aims to halve their wealth
The Jeff Bezos Washington Post really doesn't like Bernie’s proposal to tax the rich.
03.03.2026 15:09 — 👍 761 🔁 159 💬 56 📌 30
Ohio has approved a $4.5 million sales tax exemption for a data center expansion project. The project will create 10 new full-time jobs.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/03...
A consortium led by BlackRock and a Swedish private-equity firm is buying US power company AES for $33.4 billion.
AES is one of the world's biggest utility companies, generating electricity in 15 countries.
In the US alone the company has over 1 million customers.
85% of those who hold side jobs do that work during the school year, not just over breaks, according to the new Gallup survey done in partnership with the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Walton Family Foundation.
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The overwhelming majority of American public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a new survey released today.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/b...
For the first time ever, workers at a Home Depot company have unionized.
Drivers who deliver building materials for Home Depot’s Temco subsidiary have voted to join the Teamsters.
They did so despite a vicious anti-union campaign from Home Depot and Temco.
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The top 1% in America now hoard $55.8 trillion — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.
02.03.2026 16:13 — 👍 1615 🔁 637 💬 31 📌 98On CNBC Steve Eisman says investors should ignore the U.S.-Iran war, because in the long-term this attack "is very, very positive."
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Throwback to the co-founder of Palantir saying this is all about making money in June 2025:
" I'm really excited to invest in Iran if we can get this country to be some sort of republic and not run by crazy people, and that's a lot easier than doing that in Afghanistan..."
The money would also be used to:
-Reverse the cuts to Medicaid
- Raise the minimum salary of every public school teacher to $60,000
- Expand Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing for seniors
- Build $850 billion of affordable housing
- Provide universal childcare
BREAKING: Today Bernie Sanders is proposing new legislation to raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires — a move that would virtually cut their massive fortunes in half.
A chunk of the money raised would go toward sending a $3K stimulus check to every person earning under $150K.
The first page of the draft reads: “It has been determined that a lowering of water quality of various waters of the state associated with granting coverage under this permit is necessary to accommodate important social and economic development in the state of Ohio.”
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The Ohio EPA released a draft for a new permit that would allow data centers to release untreated wastewater directly into rivers and streams.
www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...
DHS has awarded a $250,000 contract to American Made Media Company, managed by former Trump campaign officials, to provide “strategic counsel” to top officials.
AMMC will draft branch negotiations and secure preferred media outlets to cover Kristi Noem’s press conferences.
Maryland AG Anthony Brown has filed a federal lawsuit to block the Trump administration’s “unlawful decision” to convert a warehouse into a massive immigration detention center to hold 1,500 people.
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Whirlpool is enacting another round of layoffs at an Iowa plant, while moving work to Mexico, all while continuing to praise Trump's tariffs that cost the company $300 million last year
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
