Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.

That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.

So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

We should've made a bigger national crisis of someone breaking into Nancy Pelosi's home & trying to kill her husband. But then, we should've made a bigger national crisis about hundreds of someones breaking into the Capitol & trying to steal an election. But then, we should've done lots of things.

We obtained records showing how an ex-DOGE staffer with no medical experience used AI to identify which VA contracts to kill.

“I would never recommend someone run my code and do what it says,” he said.

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At least a century ago, at least they had ten years in between a pandemic, stock market crash and war.

The rancid yam man is trying to give us all three in 90 days!

FFS

The department sent a letter to state leaders threatening the loss of funds for K-12 schools that don't follow its interpretation of civil rights laws.

"These are defacto tax cuts for the wealthy paid for by the poor" - Steve Liesman on CNBC

Showing young BusinesSquire from 2002 this tweet and watching his head explode scanners style

What if you’re so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?

🔥 @ninajankowicz.com: "Mr Taibbi said when he was first searching through the so-called Twitter files he didn't know what he was looking at. Well, he still doesn't. Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."

So the basic proposal, if I’m following correctly, is to wrench the whole American consumer economy back to Gilded Age protectionism by means of Executive fiat, right now, tonight, while Congress tries to relieve the tax burden on some rich people but everyone else goes on paying income taxes too.

Correct

Longest speaking filibuster ever was 24 hours, 18 minutes by Strom Thurmond in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

In a few hours, that record will be shattered by Sen. Cory Booker, a Black man, laying out the case for saving democracy from an aspiring despot.

The Oversight Project last week wrote several major law firms suggesting they provide pro bono work worth $10 million to the group and its “center-right” allies to avoid scrutiny from the White House

Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

My book was published one year ago today. I am sad to see that its message is more relevant than ever. If you want to understand the disinformation tactics authoritarians use to seize power, I hope you’ll check it out.

“Women are walking around, suspicious and guarded and apoplectic, knowing that some in our families or neighborhoods voted us back into second-class status, and wondering what else they’re ready to go along with.” By
@clarajeffery
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Billionaire grifters are about to dismantle your government. So instead of your tax dollars going to your Medicare or your Medicaid or your affordable care act or to veterans benefits or your social security - it will go to THEM in the form of tax cuts for the wealthy.

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