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706 corporations raked in $198 billion in tax breaks last year. That's on top of $263 billion in tax breaks from the corporate rate cut in 2017. Their collective tax rate for 2025 is the lowest we've ever tracked.

Since SCOTUS allowed states to legalize sports betting in 2018, Americans have legally bet more than $600 billion. Apps like DraftKings and FanDuel say they have tools to protect bettors who lose control. We spent 10 weeks testing their safeguards.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Democrats around the country dream of a blue wave in Texas. Organizers and voters say they need more of an irrigation system. Can the Party leaders build it? www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

Saudi Arabia is running out of options. Ansar Allah is hammering Saudi oil infrastructure, targeting airports, and threatening the Kingdom’s economic ambitions. MBS is begging for help. But the US is tied up with Iran, and the Houthis know how much leverage they have. There is no easy way out.

Trump's affordability message: "You could even come to Mar-a-Lago. You'll be my guest. The problem is that for $5,000 the most you'll be able to buy is a hamburger and maybe a small dessert. I'm not even sure you could buy that! No, don't go there. It's not a good place if you're price conscious."

We spent 24 hours live-streaming ourselves reading from a literal tome of abortion pill stories. This binder is so thick it makes the Cheesecake Factory menu look like a CVS receipt. For an administration that loves pretending our stories don’t exist, we figured we’d make them impossible to ignore.

More than 150 people from at least 30 countries gathered in Montreal to strengthen a global effort to preserve LGBTQ+ history online.

just heartbreaking stuff Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.

In speeches, Obama hit Trump on gas prices and a war nobody asked for. Hours later, Trump bragged at a rally that the country is making a fortune on oil and he doesn’t give a damn what people pay at the pump. Interesting strategy. My write-up in the link in the comments.

ICE took a day laborer in a raid and left his two dogs behind. Ana promised him she’d do everything in her power to reunite them. Ana’s story is Episode 14 of Fractured, a docuseries exposing the consequences of ICE enforcement. Watch the full episode here: act.link/gi-CA4bhM

Donnie didn't like that one bit.

"If no security force will actively confront ICE, who will?"

Talarico: You want to know why they are spending $200 million against me? Because I don’t take their corporate PAC money and I never will. I don’t work for them. I work for you. When we flip this seat in Texas, I’m going to vote to ban corporate PACs so billionaires can’t buy our elections.

Defense attorneys for the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk are suggesting a 2029 trial date because they say it could take them that long to prepare their case. https://to.pbs.org/3WIYng4

The race to replace Ken Paxton as attorney general of Texas is a contest that has way bigger stakes than you might assume from the outside www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

🚨BREAKING: Democrats have asked a federal judge to move quickly in their lawsuit seeking to stop the White House from threatening state and local election officials with criminal prosecution and demanding that states remove voters from registration rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

HHS is hardly the only part of the administration that’s misused AI, but RFK Jr’s department has suffered more than its share of humiliations. After the first incident, it’s tempting to think these guys would’ve learned a lesson. After four incidents, they have no excuses www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

“As Omar noted in the interview, the Homeland Security Investigations agents would actually have more access to information related to her emigration and naturalization at their office than they could possibly find at her home.”

good morning, my livestream with Alex Gibney is tomorrow at Noon Eastern/9 am Pacific, please join us for a conversation about the making of "MUSK," storytelling in the age of social media, the threat that media consolidation poses to independent journalism, and much more

"This week we’ve seen two red-state Democrats in close races calling out their opponents’ gross bigotry and making clear that fellow Americans’ gender identity shouldn’t be treated as a political football." open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

A good summary here of how much Meta is in the tank for Trump. And a reminder that the authoritarian threat comes not just from within the Trump administration but from its oligarchic allies. Oligarchic power is now a clear and present threat to our democracy. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Happy Sunday, everybody. Vote 🗳️

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.

New in PN: The weird rise and spectacular fall of Katie Zacharia "Zacharia is not a victim. She is a lying conspiracy theorist who desperately maneuvered herself to attract the attention of an image-obsessed fascist in hopes that she could gain money and fame by lying on his behalf."

Thanks, Meidas Touch

More than *five million* voters have already cast their ballot in this year's midterms. Are you ready to join them? Registration deadlines are approaching in many states. Check your registration, make sure your address is current, and help someone else do the same. Find everything you need here ⬇️

No Kings: Vote Early is tomorrow! Where will you be & what do you have planned? ❌👑 #NoKings #VoteEarly

TOMORROW IS THE BIGGEST PROTEST OF THE YEAR! Vote Early. We’re flooding the streets by the millions, & then we’re flooding the ballot box right behind them. The wanna-be king is counting on you staying home. #VoteEarlyForNoKings https://social.demcast.com/s/sNf5Fqtf

Immigrants with harrowing accounts of domestic abuse were detained after contact with local police, sometimes after calling them for help. "I had suffered from domestic violence,” said one woman, whose daughter was still nursing when she was detained. “But the one who ended up in trouble was me.”

Putin, Trump and Musk all colluding to defeat Ukraine

#tariffs 🇺🇸 www.foxnews.com/politics/ame...

"La Bola Negra," a $15 million Spanish queer epic, is expected to challenge "The Odyssey" for best picture.

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said that his office will investigate why an immigration agent driving an SUV ran over a 48-year-old man during an enforcement operation on Saturday. ICE officers were looking for Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, who had a deportation order.

My God, imagine getting laughed off the stage at a League of Women Voters event.

🚨 WOW: Trump supporters at his Dayton, Ohio rally are speaking out AGAINST the Iran war. “I don't believe we should be in Iran.” One says he ditched his diesel truck due to costs. Another questions the war's direction: “What plan?” GOP Sen. Jon Husted isn't escaping criticism either.

“They’re forcing my son to detransition because I am poor,” one New Jersey mother says.

UNDERREPORTED: Gasoline-only vehicles accounted for less than half of global new-car sales for the first time on record, falling from 73% in 2021 to 49% in the first half of 2026. ground.news/article/fuel...

Federal agents searched Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C. home on Monday, only three weeks before the frequent target of President Donald Trump's criticism stands for reelection in her congressional district in Minnesota. https://to.pbs.org/4i2xaw3

Troy Jackson: "She is the chair of appropriations. If she wants to stop the war, she could cut the funding off for the war, but she's not she is not willing to do that because Donald Trump wants this."

A bipartisan group of senators is condemning President Donald Trump's diesel deal with Russia. In a letter to the president, the six Republicans and six Democrats write that, "This deal is a gift to our adversary and a betrayal of our Allies; it should be rescinded."

Texas attributed the backlog of nearly 600,000 voter applications to a software glitch and said it resolved the issue in September. But reports of counties saying they were suddenly inundated with delayed records came after the state said it had fixed the issue: https://demdock.com/4jSnre7

See, they never plan ahead, these ninnys. Ask yourself this, “you call libs radical? Wait until these ferals get hungry enough. Not enough beer money. Sick, but clinic closed. No gas to go 200 miles to the E.R.? Yeah. You thought we blue hats were angry?

Revisiting this one because seeing traitors held accountable makes me smile.