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Tim Danahey: A real wealth tax, a simple alternative to the income tax that most will love

4 days ago Egberto Willies

Radio Host Tim Danahey sent me a note that gave me pause. If we could…

Lost opportunity: Jen Psaki first fail; should've used the question to uplift the working class

2 weeks ago Egberto Willies

We all love how effective Jen Psaki has been as President Joe Biden’s White House Press Secretary….

Infrastructure Bill Is A Golden Chance To Kill The Idea That Only Dems Need to “Pay For” Their Bills

1 month ago RETIII

Among the countless examples of inane “Washington group-think” is the notion that only Democrats have…

VA-Gov: Virginia GOP Picks Their Nominee, Trump Gives Him The Kiss Of Death

1 month ago Sam Sero

So this happened yesterday: Glenn Youngkin, a wealthy first-time candidate who walked a line between…

Punish Republicans with this part of the Biden speech every time they object to his agenda.

2 months ago Mastergardener2k

I have heard Democrats touch trickle-down economics on the edges. But they always seem to…

CA-Gov: Rep. Ted Lieu (D) Brilliantly Trolls Uninformed Idiot On Twitter With A Politics 101 Lesson

2 months ago Mastergardener2k

Fail: REALITY BITES: That didn’t take long. Reality TV star and political neophyte Caitlyn Jenner was…

Stephanie Ruhle grills GOP Rep. objecting to taxing corporations for infrastructure. BIG FAIL!

2 months ago Egberto Willies

I refute Rep. Kevin Brady’s defense of GOP’s objections to taxing corporations with a myriad…

Minerva @ Midnight: strange times in the Show Me State

2 months ago annieli

What is it with Missouri? Extortionist governors, seditious Senators, child abusing state legislators, and now…

Was the previous guy's presidency the most successful Russian intelligence operation in history

2 months ago annieli

So much still unresolved from the Trump era installed in 2016, and continued through 2020,…

Minerva @ Midnight: has Biden already been moved leftward

2 months ago annieli

Anand Giridharadas wrote a piece for The Atlantic asserting that Biden has been moving leftward. …

Minerva @ Midnight: don't defund police, reduce the domestic military force occupying our country

2 months ago annieli

Structural change needs to happen, because in community policing, community should precede policing. The paramilitary…

Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: 432 Park and the Other Guys' parody as meta-criticism

2 months ago annieli

Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual…

Economists reportedly 'giddy' about Biden's $3 trillion stimulus plan

3 months ago Aldous Pennyfarthing

Remember Infrastructure Week? It’s coming back—this time without an infrastructure weakling deflating the promise of…

Intel Community: “Previous Guy was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken the USA.”

3 months ago annieli

Truly a tool, as the Inspector General reports are coming and Previous Guy’s going to be…

Liberal economists Krugman & Summers battle on the American Rescue Plan. One belongs in GOP?

3 months ago Egberto Willies

On this panel, Paul Krugman gets it right as Larry Summers continues his attack on…

ex-POTUS* may have hung on to an unpaid debt and perhaps avoided income tax owed

3 months ago annieli

Like Chicago gangsters a century ago prosecuted for tax evasion, the Chicago way may catch up…

One chart shows the dramatic difference between Biden's American Rescue Plan and the Trump tax scam

3 months ago Aldous Pennyfarthing

I still remember when Donald Trump got up in front of a throng of masochistic…

CNN: Tapper & ABC: Raddatz grilled Sen. Joe Manchin with inconvenient questions & got naive

3 months ago Egberto Willies

Both Jake Tapper & Martha Raddatz grilled Joe Manchin on why a Senator from a…

Shocking (not): Elaine Chao Accused of Misusing Her Position as Sec'y of Transportation

4 months ago dankoh

Elaine Chao holds the (dubious) distinction of being one of the few Trump cabinet picks…

Republicans said $2.3 trillion for wealthy’s OK but $1.9 trillion for you It’s too much. READ THIS!

4 months ago Egberto Willies

Sadly too many Americans allow the con from Republicans on spending. Ali Velshi exposes what…

Disorganized Castor and Schoen blow their unconstitutionality defense, admit Trump lost election

4 months ago annieli

Jim Acosta of CNN reports that a Trump advisor says that “Trump is F’ed if…

Tapper embarrasses Sen. Toomey with his own words after he went after Biden for using reconciliation

4 months ago Egberto Willies

One must not throw stones if they live in a glasshouse. Jake Tapper made Senator…

Arrested insurrectionist who said she'd 'do it again' allowed to go on foreign vacation!

5 months ago SemDem

There’s going to be a lot of swearing in this. Let me begin: What the fucking…

“uber-capitalism” in a neoliberal market of revenant bears tiptoeing through tulips

5 months ago annieli

The best explanation of short selling (as it applies to GameStop) that I've read pic.twitter.com/o9ZL5HqsKf…

The “grievances fired by false narratives” fueled large short position on GameStop's space laser

5 months ago annieli

Large hedge funds representative of fictitious capital aka “dumb money” got screwed by swarming reddit collective…

Elizabeth Warren is done listening to GOP talking points on the wealth tax

5 months ago Aldous Pennyfarthing

Conservatives love to mythologize wealthy people as brave, resolute, patriotic captains of industry who won’t…

NRSC Chair Rick Scott's (R. FL) Field Director Already Pushing The “Biden Has Dementia” Lie

5 months ago Sam Sero

While I didn’t plan on getting back to posting election diaries until after today, I…

NYT: Trump insiders are selling access to POTUS to secure pardons

5 months ago Aldous Pennyfarthing

In other words, a monstrous, noxious, venal scheme to lightly garnish the shart soufflé that…

The deficit is back! For a limited time only!

6 months ago Aldous Pennyfarthing

Yeah, you knew this was coming. And it’s here — until the economy is drowned…

Tucker Carlson co-signs Jill Biden slur: She's a doctor 'in the same sense Dr. Pepper is'

6 months ago Aldous Pennyfarthing

Of course, Tucker Carlson is a journalist in the same sense that Joseph Goebbels was….

GA-Sen A & B: Lin-Manuel Miranda & The Cast Of Hamilton Reunite To Help Flip The Senate Blue

6 months ago Sam Sero

Received this e-mail today from the Georgia Democratic Party: Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) & …

How Shall We Hold Trump Responsible

7 months ago dankoh

All his life, Donald Trump has managed to avoid responsibility for the damage he’s done…

The descendants of Chinggis Khan face an unprecedented and dangerous climate change feedback loop.

7 months ago Pakalolo

Men argue. Nature acts. Voltaire Climate change does not respect any international borders. Disaster is…

Trump's end-game prompts a ruling class survivalism, worrying us looters about possible end-times

7 months ago annieli

Trumpist anti-certifying efforts for the remaining states seem a fools’ errand but Trump and Giuliani seem to…