New in PN: Are voters finally realizing that GOP presidents are disasters?
"The last 3 R presidents have handed their D successors an economic catastrophe, & the last 3 Ds have had to do their best to clean it up. Why don’t Ds ever say that? I think it would make a difference" — @mjtoma.bsky.social
Looks like Mayor Z's pied a terre tax is not collapsing the real estate market or causing the wealthy to flee Manhattan after all. Indeed, the opposite. Who could have possibly imagined this scenario?
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Every second, $6,000 in fossil fuel subsidies are handed out globally. That’s $5 trillion/year.
Renewables? Barely a fraction.
We have 6–7 years to halve emissions. The industry has zero years of conscience.
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Our new pied-à-terre tax will have the ultra-wealthy elite — those who own $5 million apartments in New York City but don’t actually live here — pay their fair share.
The Justice Department alleges that the SPLC improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups. n.pr/4u228c6
The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.
Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.
The Justice Department alleges that the SPLC improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups. n.pr/4u228c6
Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.
I have read the history of the world and of USA. At no point did I ever think; "These people have no idea what they are foing."
I think I might read some of those historical texts with less optimistic view of events.
I’m really surprised that Barron isn’t looking to join the military to carry on the Trump family’s proud tradition of military service to the United States.
Looking at the mug shots Bondi posted of folks who allegedly impeded ICE officers... I'm reminded me of some of the iconic 1960s images of 'criminals' from counter sitins and freedom rides
She is his personal lawyer. What were you expecting?
He put his personal lawyers atop many agencies upon securing an agreement that they would continue to act as his personal lawyers, no matter their title.
How many years are we planning to wait for corporate media to pick up on this obvious ploy?
More people should know about the day 90% of Icelandic women went on strike, forcing real political change towards gender equality:
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