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“In total, undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion, or roughly $9,000 per person, in taxes in 2022, the report shows. While their incomes are usually lower, they’re less likely to claim refunds or earn tax-preferred income”
Undocumented Immigrants in US Pay Nearly $100 Billion in Taxes
Undocumented immigrants paid almost $100 billion of taxes, underscoring the importance of border policies on the country’s tax collections, according to a new report.
www.bloomberg.com
November 17, 2024 at 3:40 AM
“In total, undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion, or roughly $9,000 per person, in taxes in 2022, the report shows. While their incomes are usually lower, they’re less likely to claim refunds or earn tax-preferred income”
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NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024.
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2026 at 6:10 PM
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024.
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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This morning I discussed the regime's attack on history -- using the attacks against the Smithsonian Museum of American History -- and this week's hearings -- as a starting point.
It's an authoritarian move, folks.
I had a LOT to say.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKES...
It's an authoritarian move, folks.
I had a LOT to say.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKES...
On History and Patriotism
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
www.youtube.com
July 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
This morning I discussed the regime's attack on history -- using the attacks against the Smithsonian Museum of American History -- and this week's hearings -- as a starting point.
It's an authoritarian move, folks.
I had a LOT to say.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKES...
It's an authoritarian move, folks.
I had a LOT to say.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKES...
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A fawn and a bobcat found at a rescue center, cuddling after they were saved from a forest fire.
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July 24, 2026 at 4:49 PM
A fawn and a bobcat found at a rescue center, cuddling after they were saved from a forest fire.
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More of this, please. Elected representatives who are unwilling to give-in to stadium demands. The Rays have a perfectly fine place to play in Tampa. There's no reason to build a new venue across the bay so that the billionaire owner can get richer.
Tampa City Council blocks first step in Rays stadium land use change
Rays CEO Ken Babby said the stadium project can continue without the council’s vote.
www.tampabay.com
July 24, 2026 at 3:50 PM
More of this, please. Elected representatives who are unwilling to give-in to stadium demands. The Rays have a perfectly fine place to play in Tampa. There's no reason to build a new venue across the bay so that the billionaire owner can get richer.
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cult shit at the White House as Trump's cronies give him a standing ovation for minutes on end. Note how nobody wants to be the first to stop clapping.
July 23, 2026 at 6:25 PM
cult shit at the White House as Trump's cronies give him a standing ovation for minutes on end. Note how nobody wants to be the first to stop clapping.
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“The push to exclude trans girls from girls’ sports has never really been about transgender athletes. There’s a much bigger gender war that they are fighting about inherent, fixed biological difference.”
The Heritage Foundation only wanted to protect women's sports when it was about trans athletes
Not anymore.
www.motherjones.com
July 22, 2026 at 5:37 PM
“The push to exclude trans girls from girls’ sports has never really been about transgender athletes. There’s a much bigger gender war that they are fighting about inherent, fixed biological difference.”
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This story is crazy.
It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists.
www.notus.org/national/ame...
It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists.
www.notus.org/national/ame...
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
www.notus.org
July 22, 2026 at 2:20 PM
This story is crazy.
It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists.
www.notus.org/national/ame...
It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists.
www.notus.org/national/ame...
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fellow millennials, let's take a second to appreciate how great it feels to be in the prime marketing demographic catered to by all of the culture. I get now why boomers wanted it to last forever
Gillian Anderson has officially revealed the upcoming 1,478-piece LEGO set for THE X-FILES.
The set is centered on Mulder’s office, paired with a forest clearing scene and a hovering UFO.
Includes 8 minifigures, featuring Mulder, Scully, The Flukeman & more.
August 4.
The set is centered on Mulder’s office, paired with a forest clearing scene and a hovering UFO.
Includes 8 minifigures, featuring Mulder, Scully, The Flukeman & more.
August 4.
July 21, 2026 at 3:28 PM
fellow millennials, let's take a second to appreciate how great it feels to be in the prime marketing demographic catered to by all of the culture. I get now why boomers wanted it to last forever
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If you're 60, 69% of the job growth in your lifetime came under Democratic presidents.
If you're 45: 75%.
If you're under 28: 100%.
Not a typo. The Republican column since 1998 nets out below zero. (Source: BLS)
If you're 45: 75%.
If you're under 28: 100%.
Not a typo. The Republican column since 1998 nets out below zero. (Source: BLS)
July 18, 2026 at 5:16 PM
If you're 60, 69% of the job growth in your lifetime came under Democratic presidents.
If you're 45: 75%.
If you're under 28: 100%.
Not a typo. The Republican column since 1998 nets out below zero. (Source: BLS)
If you're 45: 75%.
If you're under 28: 100%.
Not a typo. The Republican column since 1998 nets out below zero. (Source: BLS)
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I hate this game!
July 13, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I hate this game!
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Marlon Brando & Paul Newman at a civil rights march on August 23, 1963.
July 11, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Marlon Brando & Paul Newman at a civil rights march on August 23, 1963.
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This is why Trump is going after New York Times reporters. He is embarrassed.
July 11, 2026 at 7:52 PM
This is why Trump is going after New York Times reporters. He is embarrassed.
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Jacobs: The Trump administration doesn’t give a shit about the Iranian people… They are literally deporting people back to Iran who fled the brutal Iranian regime.
He doesn’t care about human rights anywhere — not here in the United States, not in Iran, not anywhere else.
He doesn’t care about human rights anywhere — not here in the United States, not in Iran, not anywhere else.
March 6, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Jacobs: The Trump administration doesn’t give a shit about the Iranian people… They are literally deporting people back to Iran who fled the brutal Iranian regime.
He doesn’t care about human rights anywhere — not here in the United States, not in Iran, not anywhere else.
He doesn’t care about human rights anywhere — not here in the United States, not in Iran, not anywhere else.
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Russia, friend of America’s “great leader”, is reportedly giving Iran targeting intel on U.S. forces.
That’s a major adversary stepping into the war.
The future of the Paralympics is secure, thousands more people are being disabled every day.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
That’s a major adversary stepping into the war.
The future of the Paralympics is secure, thousands more people are being disabled every day.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
March 6, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Russia, friend of America’s “great leader”, is reportedly giving Iran targeting intel on U.S. forces.
That’s a major adversary stepping into the war.
The future of the Paralympics is secure, thousands more people are being disabled every day.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
That’s a major adversary stepping into the war.
The future of the Paralympics is secure, thousands more people are being disabled every day.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons
The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.
transitics.substack.com
February 23, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
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And, just for the record, eat very little meat these days.
But the "let them eat cake [liver]" aspect of this, from someone born rich and forgiven so much because of his name, drives me nuts.
And, just for the record, eat very little meat these days.
But the "let them eat cake [liver]" aspect of this, from someone born rich and forgiven so much because of his name, drives me nuts.
February 28, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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And, just for the record, eat very little meat these days.
But the "let them eat cake [liver]" aspect of this, from someone born rich and forgiven so much because of his name, drives me nuts.
And, just for the record, eat very little meat these days.
But the "let them eat cake [liver]" aspect of this, from someone born rich and forgiven so much because of his name, drives me nuts.
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A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules.
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...
February 28, 2026 at 3:00 AM
A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules.
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...
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Stockman rule: if fraud in a federal program is less than 5%, it cost way more to police it than to absorb it.
February 25, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Stockman rule: if fraud in a federal program is less than 5%, it cost way more to police it than to absorb it.
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JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."
February 25, 2026 at 9:51 PM
JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."
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Minnesota and the people of Minnesota should withhold their federal taxes until the federal government proves they can be good stewards of their money
Furthermore, Minnesota is a “donor state” who sends @ $44B to the Federal Government than they take from it.
Furthermore, Minnesota is a “donor state” who sends @ $44B to the Federal Government than they take from it.
February 25, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Minnesota and the people of Minnesota should withhold their federal taxes until the federal government proves they can be good stewards of their money
Furthermore, Minnesota is a “donor state” who sends @ $44B to the Federal Government than they take from it.
Furthermore, Minnesota is a “donor state” who sends @ $44B to the Federal Government than they take from it.
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Only in the USA, a sitting president can share a meme of black people as apes but a sitting US Rep., that’s a black man, holds a sign stating ‘black people aren’t apes’ gets removed from the chamber—the people’s house.
There is no free speech in America.
There is no free speech in America.
HERO 🔥
And I don’t want to hear shit about a censure vote against this man.
Rep. Al Greene was ejected from the State of the Union for the sign — “Black People Aren’t Apes.”
And I don’t want to hear shit about a censure vote against this man.
Rep. Al Greene was ejected from the State of the Union for the sign — “Black People Aren’t Apes.”
February 25, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Only in the USA, a sitting president can share a meme of black people as apes but a sitting US Rep., that’s a black man, holds a sign stating ‘black people aren’t apes’ gets removed from the chamber—the people’s house.
There is no free speech in America.
There is no free speech in America.
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Is there any time, place, or context in which a government hanging enormous banners of the Leader’s face was not a sign of a diseased and authoritarian society? Because I certainly can’t think of one.
A banner displaying a portrait of President Trump at the Justice Department headquarters has drawn criticism from Democrats and a former FBI director, who argue it symbolizes his influence over the agency and liken it to authoritarian imagery.
Trump banner on Justice Dept. building draws authoritarian comparisons
Democrats criticized the appearance of the president on the headquarters of a department that has long prided itself on being independent from the White House.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 20, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Is there any time, place, or context in which a government hanging enormous banners of the Leader’s face was not a sign of a diseased and authoritarian society? Because I certainly can’t think of one.
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His blood pressure has got to be through the roof right now, so if anyone has a chance to ask him an aggressive question about the Epstein files, that really could make It happen today.
Come on, reporters. We'll build statues in your honor.
Come on, reporters. We'll build statues in your honor.
February 20, 2026 at 3:29 PM
His blood pressure has got to be through the roof right now, so if anyone has a chance to ask him an aggressive question about the Epstein files, that really could make It happen today.
Come on, reporters. We'll build statues in your honor.
Come on, reporters. We'll build statues in your honor.
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Please enjoy this. You will never see a happier pup,
February 18, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Please enjoy this. You will never see a happier pup,