Sunday, August 30, 2026

‘Tax these moochers’: Top 1% dodge $163 billion in taxes each year

“We can no longer tolerate a rigged tax system that allows the top 1% to avoid $163 billion in taxes that they owe,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Two deranged blowhards walk into a bar . . . pontificate like know-it-alls ....

The horror exceeds whether Trump is stupid, ignorant, senile and/or fixated, even locked into failed “instinctual” responses. What matters is the damage done from MAGA recklessness before being defanged, decommissioned, impeached or exiled.

Charlie Hebdo Team Regrets Not Parading Caricatures of Hypocritical World Leaders at Paris Rally

Many of the world leaders in the rally would have jailed the Charlie Hebdo staff if they had been operating in those countries. So here are a few Charlie Hebdo caricatures just for the politicians in attendance, for many of whom the victims had only contempt.

The Koch brothers’ new look

Their rebranded network now says they will support community groups trying to cure the miseries of eons – everything from poverty to addiction.

What made the Great Recession ‘great’?

People who lose their jobs tend to cut back on their household spending. But in a starkly unequal economy they won’t be the only ones to cut back deeply.

Flynn’s facts: Get to know Trump’s pick for national security advisor

An uncharitable person might conclude that Flynn is seeking revenge against enemies in the previous Administration.
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‘I will govern as a Democratic Socialist’: Watch Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders at...

Mamdani vowed to “govern expansively and audaciously” for residents.
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U.S. admits role in civilian deaths in Mosul

These elite attitudes toward ordinary Iraqis are probably more dangerous to the future of the country than a few mere terrorist attacks.

Pink tide rising? Gabriel Boric wins power in Chile, birthplace of neoliberalism

Barring coups and outside meddling, Latin America may see another ‘pink tide’ that brings even more progressive change than the one earlier in this century.

70% of Americans support deciding state abortion rights by ballot measure: Poll

After an "enormous victory" in Kansas, some progressives argue that ballot measures "are the next frontier" for protecting access to reproductive healthcare.