Saturday, November 7, 2026

Trust Congress? Consider what Smedley Butler said

Congress can be bought today as it was bought then.

Sports teams: The everlasting tax shelter for billionaires

A perverse loophole allows owners of profitable teams — and their heirs — to lower their tax bills by claiming huge paper losses.

‘Which side are you on?’: Poor People’s Campaign pressures US Senate on democracy and...

“Democracy versus autocracy is the battle of our time,” said Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II.
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Suppression session: Texas Democrats flee to D.C. to block State Republican voting restriction bill

“Republicans have turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to the needs of the citizens of Texas.”

Let them suck Sikorskys, let them eat pork

The Pentagon consumes more fossil fuel than any other entity on Earth.

What should progressives be insisting on?

This is going to be a list, borrowed from other lists...

The existential threat from the non-stop barrage of right-wing sedition

Long term democratic states are, by any known measure, the great exceptions, not the historic rule.

Biden signs new executive order aimed at food and farming sector

President Biden signed an executive order that will protect American farmers under the Packers and Stockyards Act against abuses suffered at meat...

11 charts on taxing the wealthy and corporations

The raging debate over public investment financing has created a huge opening for long overdue fair tax reforms.

The verdict on Republicans? Guilty as charged, on all counts

It has sold its heart and soul to gain power and control.