Good news from the Badlands! Today, October 6, Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, a Lakota nonprofit based on the Pine Ridge Reservation, plans to return 50 bison to nearly 40,000 acres in the Stronghold area of Badlands National Park.
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:
Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%
Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%
This is what a rigged system looks like.
Hillary Clinton: "Xi is thinking, 'They they can't defend anybody anymore bc they don't have capacity. Maybe we can coerce Taiwan into giving up bc there's not going to be support.' If you look at the world map, it's not favorable to the US largely bc of wrongheaded decisions by this administration"
You know who else has an unfair advantage in sport?
Naturally talented athletes.
And people with high hemoglobin.
And rich people with money for sports camps and coaches.
Why should they be allowed to compete?
“Fairness in sports” my ass. Never since NFTs have I heard such bullshit.
don't be sad today
marvel at the fact that out of all the billions and billions of people who have ever existed throughout time, you were lucky enough to be alive at the same time as Dolly Parton
This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”
Back in October, our culture columnist, Meredith, wrote an article about the legacy of Dolly Parton in American life. As we remember and mourn her today, we also celebrate her life and her commitment to allowing people to be who they are and treating everyone with respect.
The Bureau of Land Management is rounding up thousands of mustangs around the U.S. and quietly selling them on the cheap to buyers who are exporting them for slaughter abroad, an examination of government records by The New York Times found. nyti.ms/4grb8Co
Stephen Colbert and David Letterman throwing things off the Ed Sullivan Theater.
Colbert: “Anything you’d like to say, Dave?”
Letterman: “In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow to CBS: ‘Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.’”
TEN POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS FOR WHY THE NOBEL COMMITTEE REJECTED DONALD TRUMP FOR THIS YEAR’S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
10. They probably had no idea he wanted one
9. For a peace agreement between Israel and Hamas to truly be considered Nobel-worthy, it must last longer than 45 seconds
Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.
#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1960: Harper Lee publishes her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Noted for its treatment of a child’s awakening to racism in the South, the book won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was an immediate success, eventually selling more than 40 million copies.
To every woman who feels overlooked or unheard—Women’s History Month is a reminder of your strength and worth. Together, we move forward in solidarity.
Just because we're poor doesn't mean we're lazy. The cycle of poverty is hard to break. Lack of transportation is a huge barrier. Not everyone has the ability to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. It takes a village.
Google folded. AP didn’t. Not acceptable.
Here’s how to complain to google. We need millions of people doing this thing that takes 2 minutes. It’s cathartic I promise