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For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

OBAMA: When I was president, all these Republicans are all deficits, deficits, debt, debt. You got to do something about it. And now—$40 trillion—Crickets. Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office

“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

I’m a Program Officer and scientist at NIH, writing in my own personal capacity, and RFK Jr. is harming the NIH. I look with alarm at the harms he has done to our sister agencies, FDA and CDC, and to public health in general.

Boycott Elon Musk and everything he sells.

A president saying clearly and with his full chest “I am directing the Department of Justice” to do … anything, would have been a five-alarm scandal in previous years. Now? It’s just a Tuesday.

Yes, it really is that embarrassing.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Helping Putin at Ukraine's expense doesn't make America safer. It emboldens Russia, undermines our alliances, and risks encouraging other autocrats to believe that aggression pays. Standing with Ukraine is both the right thing to do and in America's national interest.

I remain despondent at the apologists who argue: "who knows what's true anymore..." I do. We do. What has disappeared isn't truth. Not at all. It's shame. Republicans no longer feel shame about lying all day, everyday.

It’s hard to think of a better definition of a traitor to the West than someone who deliberately sabotages a European democracy’s military operation against a barbaric Russian invasion.

Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

This is how you write a headline.

If Trump were working directly for Putin this whole time, people ask, taking orders to destroy US democracy and the Western alliance, would anything look different? Yes. Trump would be more subtle about it.

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

"Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us."

Women are NOT safe around men.

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

Katie Phang on Trump’s latest attack on the press: “He’s not trying to win a legal argument. He’s just trying to make a point, and the point is: ‘I can do this to you, and you can’t stop me fast enough to make it matter.’” More 👇

Members of Congress from both parties should be demanding Trump undergo a full neuropsych exam. Enough of his crazy bullshit about passing the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

Anne Applebaum: "The Trump administration has just announced a new “deal” with Greenland. It seems to be more or less the same deal that the U.S. has had with Greenland since 1951...Denmark...agreed to give the US the right to build military bases on Greenland, in the context of the NATO treaty."

National security decision-making has a longer time horizon. It would be stupid for Canada, Europe, South Korea, etc. to act now based on assuming the US will be a reliable in a decade. We have shown that we are not. Many Americans still don’t appreciate how profound of a change that is.

Gina Hinojosa: "The fight of 2026 is to decide is this going to be a Texas and America that is by and for the people, or is this the billionaires' world and we just live here. That's the fight."

"Imagine Hunter Biden letting an associate of Putin’s pay for his wedding, or one of Obama’s daughters doing the same. The scandal would be through the roof. But it’s worse because of the younger Trump’s role investing in defense firms and all the access and information that comes with that."

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Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.

Washington Litigation Group, which sued to halt Trump's shuttering of Kennedy Center: "This constant effort to add Trump's name to the Kennedy Ctr facade is the definition of insanity. This is now the 3rd attempt to deface this sacred memorial and turn it into a vanity project for one man's ego"

What a surprise to learn that a Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for Junior’s lavish wedding. Who could’ve expected it?

The president has taken a hostage

“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

“AI is truly a life altering technology. The question for us is: In what way does it alter our lives?” Abdul El-Sayed said it’s time to take more drastic steps to ensure AI doesn’t lead to economic and societal catastrophe.

There have to be so many prosecutions. This all can’t just be forgotten or papered over.

I wish the media had the same urgency about the state of Mitch McConnell as they did for Kamala's W-2 from McDonald's in the 80s.

To take a day dedicated to shared national grief and use it to take petty, sarcastic swipes at Joe Biden says everything you need to know about JD Vance. He isn't clever. He’s just mean-spirited, hollow, and painfully insecure. And he will never, ever be president.

Happening now in TX: Voters in battleground Tarrant County are telling GOP local officials what they think of their plan to cut 30% of voting locations this year “Nothing you can do can stop us from removing you in November”

All the money in the world can’t make up for the crippling loss of leadership caused by Hegseth’s purges. Trump and Hegseth may be buying more hardware, but they are endangering the apolitical professionalism—the operating system--that made the U.S. military the envy of the world. wapo.st/4gFl3Ey

Retired Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii:

“.. there are really two separate economies: one for people who make their primary income through investment and passive income . . . and then typical workers who clock in day in and day out.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6f3a...

Alex Pretti's mother, Susan, tells Good Morning America that seven months later, people still wrongly call her son a "domestic terrorist" because of the Trump administration's disinformation campaign.

Alex Pretti's family reveals that no one from the Trump administration has contacted them seven months after a federal immigration officer killed him. GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: "What does that tell you?" MICHAEL PRETTI: "That they don't care."

here's the thing you won the last election if, by the next election, you're still blaming your predecessor for everything that's going on, you've fucked up

1/ In March 2025, shortly after his return to power, Donald Trump’s administration postponed the compliance deadline for the FDA’s Food Traceability Rule by 30 months. That moved it back from January 20, 2026, to July 20, 2028. We are now paying the price.

After his 35-year-old wife bled to death from a miscarriage in a Houston-area hospital, a Texas father is suing—and taking her story to Capitol Hill. msmagazine.com/2026/08/21/p...

I’m still trying to process how the president of the United States somehow talks tougher about Canada than North Korea.

Why were the AG & FBI Dir. campaigning w/Trump as the Solicitor General was flattering him in a SCOTUS brief? It’s not a coincidence. They understand the rules at Trump’s DOJ. And those rules have nothing to do with the rule of law. Read here & stay informed: joycevance.substack.com/p/deeply-dis...