Dan Osborn: "If I would've beat Deb Fischer in 2024, the Big Beautiful Bill Act wouldn't have passed. I would've been the tiebreaker. So that's leverage for Nebraska ... they're gonna need to come to me to get my vote. If they want my vote, I'm going to deliver for Nebraska."
π¨ BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge just HALTED the destruction of Big Bend.
This is a massive victory for the landowners, local communities, and everyday Texans who stood up to protect one of our state's greatest treasures.
The fight isn't over, but today, the people won.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
The traveling exhibit and bookmobile gives people access to roughly 3.5 million pages of Epstein-related records released by the Trump administration after Congress forced their disclosure.
βJudges simply donβt believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,β a former federal judge said. βI donβt think...in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, weβve ever seen anything close to this.β
(Pub. July)
Trump refusing to let some media outlets cover him, and the solidarity of other media outlets calling bullshit, led to one of the greatest self-owns in my lifetime.
#ProudBlue#Pinks#SheShed
The Pentagon has been caught in two separate scandals this week: undercounting casualties and hiding the extent of our destroyed infrastructure in the Middle East. Both are what Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton (Ret.) would describe as "military malpractice." Watch his full analysis now.
A fundamental tenet of MAGA and all the other "populist" parties (Reform UK, RN, AfD, etc) is that global warming is a hoax and we must not believe the climate scientists. But the evidence is unequivocal.
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassieβs fake βcharity,β laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.
Dr. Vin Gupta, an actual health expert, just dismantled RFK Jr.βs entire health agenda piece by piece.
Medicaid cuts. NIH trials canceled. Environmental protections gutted. "Lots of marketing, little substance" on food policy.
Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes:
Superior: gichi-gami (great sea)
Erie: erielhonan (long tail)
Michigan: michigami (long body of water)
Ontario: OntarΓ'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water)
Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
Imagine an administration so evil it *intentionally* makes citizens worry about where their next meal is coming from.
Well, guess what? You donβt have to imagine. That evil is our reality.
In 1965, CEOs were paid 21 times as much as a typical worker.
Today, that number has spiked to 281.
The system is rigged and it's time we level the playing field.
US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.
BINGO!
James Talarico: "I have a legislative record, Ken Paxton has a criminal record. He doesn't serve us, he serves himself. Since taking office, he has become a multimillionaire on a government salary. His net worth has increased 7000% while the pay of Texans is the same."