🦃Teleportnow
@teleportnow.bsky.social
Politics and history nerd. Lifelong avid reader. Gardening, animals, books, baking, yarn crafting and progressive politics! Rescue a fur friend, the next 4 years will be ruff!🐶🧶🪴🍄🌸
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Crazy stats in Tennessee:
-From 2019-22, 40% of companies paid only $100 in franchise tax, including 12% of companies with income over $1 billion.
-63% of corporations paid no excise tax
-over half of state revenues come from a 7% sales tax
-one of 11 states that tax groceries (at 4% rate)
-From 2019-22, 40% of companies paid only $100 in franchise tax, including 12% of companies with income over $1 billion.
-63% of corporations paid no excise tax
-over half of state revenues come from a 7% sales tax
-one of 11 states that tax groceries (at 4% rate)
Aftyn Behn: Running for Congress in deep red Tennessee
Aftyn Behn is trying to flip a seat Donald Trump won by 22 points in a December special election. Grocery bills and corporate taxes dominate.
prospect.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Crazy stats in Tennessee:
-From 2019-22, 40% of companies paid only $100 in franchise tax, including 12% of companies with income over $1 billion.
-63% of corporations paid no excise tax
-over half of state revenues come from a 7% sales tax
-one of 11 states that tax groceries (at 4% rate)
-From 2019-22, 40% of companies paid only $100 in franchise tax, including 12% of companies with income over $1 billion.
-63% of corporations paid no excise tax
-over half of state revenues come from a 7% sales tax
-one of 11 states that tax groceries (at 4% rate)
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THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US made NPR's Books We Love list!
It's described as a "paradigm-shifting, immersive book" and "a trenchant exploration of how America's disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth have fueled housing insecurity for poor working families."
It's described as a "paradigm-shifting, immersive book" and "a trenchant exploration of how America's disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth have fueled housing insecurity for poor working families."
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US made NPR's Books We Love list!
It's described as a "paradigm-shifting, immersive book" and "a trenchant exploration of how America's disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth have fueled housing insecurity for poor working families."
It's described as a "paradigm-shifting, immersive book" and "a trenchant exploration of how America's disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth have fueled housing insecurity for poor working families."
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This is a huge win that you might have missed last week: we successfully pressured airlines to shut down their data broker, which was selling passenger data to the government without a court order. I'm going to keep at it until other industries to follow suit.
After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is a huge win that you might have missed last week: we successfully pressured airlines to shut down their data broker, which was selling passenger data to the government without a court order. I'm going to keep at it until other industries to follow suit.
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Something that must change in Democratic politics is the belief that democracy is “drama.”
Primaries and challenging leadership aren’t “drama,” it’s democracy.
Hesitation to participate in democracy only leads to an erosion of it.
Primaries and challenging leadership aren’t “drama,” it’s democracy.
Hesitation to participate in democracy only leads to an erosion of it.
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Something that must change in Democratic politics is the belief that democracy is “drama.”
Primaries and challenging leadership aren’t “drama,” it’s democracy.
Hesitation to participate in democracy only leads to an erosion of it.
Primaries and challenging leadership aren’t “drama,” it’s democracy.
Hesitation to participate in democracy only leads to an erosion of it.
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Meet your new best friend, Stone, located in Lake Odessa, MI.
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/stone-41177146/mi/lake-odessa/mackenzies-animal-sanctuary-mi133/
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/stone-41177146/mi/lake-odessa/mackenzies-animal-sanctuary-mi133/
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Meet your new best friend, Stone, located in Lake Odessa, MI.
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/stone-41177146/mi/lake-odessa/mackenzies-animal-sanctuary-mi133/
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/stone-41177146/mi/lake-odessa/mackenzies-animal-sanctuary-mi133/
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Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated. Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated. Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
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When the GOP calls every social safety net measure “socialism,” votes like this matter in a policy context.
House Minority Leader Jeffries voting with the GOP in favor of this resolution is showing his ultra-wealthy donors exactly who he fights for.
It’s not the people.
House Minority Leader Jeffries voting with the GOP in favor of this resolution is showing his ultra-wealthy donors exactly who he fights for.
It’s not the people.
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When the GOP calls every social safety net measure “socialism,” votes like this matter in a policy context.
House Minority Leader Jeffries voting with the GOP in favor of this resolution is showing his ultra-wealthy donors exactly who he fights for.
It’s not the people.
House Minority Leader Jeffries voting with the GOP in favor of this resolution is showing his ultra-wealthy donors exactly who he fights for.
It’s not the people.
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4 senior House Dems — Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, Pete Aguilar, & Ted Lieu — voted for a Republican-led resolution to “CONDEMN SOCIALISM,” a symbolic measure that passed the chamber on Wed. The vote comes as NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to meet with Pres. Donald Trump at the WH today.
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
4 senior House Dems — Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, Pete Aguilar, & Ted Lieu — voted for a Republican-led resolution to “CONDEMN SOCIALISM,” a symbolic measure that passed the chamber on Wed. The vote comes as NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to meet with Pres. Donald Trump at the WH today.
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AOC to Pablo Reports: A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity. To remove that designation indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
AOC to Pablo Reports: A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity. To remove that designation indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
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After Hurricane Ian in 2022, Ron DeSantis "reformed" the home insurance market, bringing in a host of new companies.
•4 of the new insurers are recycled from old insolvent ones
•4 have been fined for "misconduct" in claims
•5 closed more than 50% of claims last year without payment
•4 of the new insurers are recycled from old insolvent ones
•4 have been fined for "misconduct" in claims
•5 closed more than 50% of claims last year without payment
New Reforms, Same Old Florida Home Insurance Market - The American Prospect
Inflated ratings, weak oversight, and bare-bones consumer protections continue to leave homeowners exposed to the worst of Florida’s fragile, undercapitalized insurance market.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
After Hurricane Ian in 2022, Ron DeSantis "reformed" the home insurance market, bringing in a host of new companies.
•4 of the new insurers are recycled from old insolvent ones
•4 have been fined for "misconduct" in claims
•5 closed more than 50% of claims last year without payment
•4 of the new insurers are recycled from old insolvent ones
•4 have been fined for "misconduct" in claims
•5 closed more than 50% of claims last year without payment
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🚨BREAKING: PhRMA funneled a secret $4 million donation to congressional Republicans' dark money group & months later the GOP delivered an $8 billion windfall to PhRMA by defanging rules that lower the price of cancer medicines.
The secret $4 million donation was discovered in tax documents.
The secret $4 million donation was discovered in tax documents.
Big Pharma’s Dark Money Scores $8 Billion Bonanza
The country’s top pharmaceutical lobbying group secretly gave millions to a Republican-aligned dark money group, then won billions in drug-pricing exemptions.
www.levernews.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🚨BREAKING: PhRMA funneled a secret $4 million donation to congressional Republicans' dark money group & months later the GOP delivered an $8 billion windfall to PhRMA by defanging rules that lower the price of cancer medicines.
The secret $4 million donation was discovered in tax documents.
The secret $4 million donation was discovered in tax documents.
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How about this headline, eh? More of this, please.
November 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
How about this headline, eh? More of this, please.
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"Quiet, piggy!"
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
"Quiet, piggy!"
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Breaking: Another Israeli strike has hit Lebanon at 6:30 a.m. local time, less than a day after 13 people were killed in an attack on the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp.
Drop Site contributor @galpalpheebs (X) shares the details in the thread below 👇
Drop Site contributor @galpalpheebs (X) shares the details in the thread below 👇
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Breaking: Another Israeli strike has hit Lebanon at 6:30 a.m. local time, less than a day after 13 people were killed in an attack on the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp.
Drop Site contributor @galpalpheebs (X) shares the details in the thread below 👇
Drop Site contributor @galpalpheebs (X) shares the details in the thread below 👇
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Republicans vote overwhelmingly to pretend they want the Epstein Files released. www.axios.com/2025/11/18/h...
House votes to force DOJ release of Jeffrey Epstein files
While the vote marks an important step in backers' crusade to get the files released, significant barriers remain.
www.axios.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Republicans vote overwhelmingly to pretend they want the Epstein Files released. www.axios.com/2025/11/18/h...
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worth restating that the best solution to all this stupid bullshit is and always has been MEDICARE FOR ALL. get everyone on there, add dental and vision, get rid of most cost-sharing, and clamp down hard on price gouging
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
worth restating that the best solution to all this stupid bullshit is and always has been MEDICARE FOR ALL. get everyone on there, add dental and vision, get rid of most cost-sharing, and clamp down hard on price gouging
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Superlative investigation by Moe Tkacik.
A major chunk of the expansion in Obamacare the past few years comes out of Florida and Texas, where fraudsters scoured for low-income and homeless people to sell them janky "bronze" plans so they could collect subsidies.
A major chunk of the expansion in Obamacare the past few years comes out of Florida and Texas, where fraudsters scoured for low-income and homeless people to sell them janky "bronze" plans so they could collect subsidies.
The Obamacare Boiler Room - The American Prospect
Perhaps no Florida health care scam has so concisely illustrated the burning need to rethink our broken health care system.
prospect.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Superlative investigation by Moe Tkacik.
A major chunk of the expansion in Obamacare the past few years comes out of Florida and Texas, where fraudsters scoured for low-income and homeless people to sell them janky "bronze" plans so they could collect subsidies.
A major chunk of the expansion in Obamacare the past few years comes out of Florida and Texas, where fraudsters scoured for low-income and homeless people to sell them janky "bronze" plans so they could collect subsidies.
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Something poetic in the Fed deciding to pull out of bank regulation now that the banks don't really lend anymore and the real lending crisis is in private credit (shadow banks) that are out of the Fed's reach
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/b...
The Fed Is Cutting Bank Oversight. Critics See Risks.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Something poetic in the Fed deciding to pull out of bank regulation now that the banks don't really lend anymore and the real lending crisis is in private credit (shadow banks) that are out of the Fed's reach
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/b...