inflation isn’t *just* price-gouging by greedy corporations, but a lot of what we call “inflation” really is price-gouging by greedy corporations

I got to interview katie crutchfield about the new Waxahatchee album for The Big Issue Australia. Great record.

NEW: Elon Musk was recently deposed in a lawsuit for falsely accusing a Jewish man of being part of a neo-Nazi brawl. Musk tried to keep his testimony from the public. Here it is. 🧵

huffpost.com/entry/elon-mus…

a common republican problem

I'd like to point something out here. This is the reaction that *a vast majority* of normal people who have been properly socialized in modern society react to the news that a friend has transitioned. The problem is that the media has given an outsized megaphone to violent bigots

If you have a podcast, radio show or publication and want to talk about taxes for tax day (it's coming up), let me know

Republicans keep trying to cut funding to the IRS to protect super rich tax cheats and big tax corporations like turbo tax.

They haven't succeeded quick enough. For the first time, several states have direct file. Go here to see if your state has it: directfile.irs.gov

It's an Easter miracle! A Hanukkah episode of It's Christmastown just in time for Passover! Hosted by man it’s a hot zone, and David Roth and maura quint as my landsman co-guest.

I'm on a podcast again!

Spotify: spoti.fi/4ajHJps
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its…

NEWS: The latest Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll finds that taxing the rich is a wildly popular idea among swing state voters.

That includes the merely affluent -- those making $400,000 and up -- as well as billionaires.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

AOC speaking out against the deliberate starvation of hundreds of thousands of children=fostering hate

Jared Kushner calling for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and saying it has 'very valuable' 'waterfront property'=major award from the ADL

REPORT: Between 2018 and 2022, 35 major U.S. corporations—like Ford, Netflix and Tesla—paid their executives MORE than they paid in federal income taxes.

Many even had a negative tax rate—meaning we gave THEM a refund—while executives got 7- and 8-figure salaries.

A thread 🧵

If you pay $75 a month for a T-Mobile cell phone plan, you paid more to T-Mobile than it paid in federal income taxes in 2022 after making $3 billion in profits. This is what a rigged and corrupt tax code looks like.

#StateOfTheUnion

You know what would be 'tough on crime'?

🔹️living wage
🔹️ fully funded schools
🔹️guaranteed access to healthy food
🔹️affordable housing
🔹️universal healthcare
🔹️child care
🔹️treatment for people with substance use disorder and mental illness

I admit I'm biased, but Jay Willis does a great job of unpacking why a journalist like Burke going to jail would be an existential threat to journalists, journalism and a free and informed electorate going forward.
defector.com/tim-burkes-ind…

A “chaotic incident” is one way to label the IDF deliberately opening fire into hundreds and hundreds of starving people waiting for food. It’s mass murder.

A cop pointing a gun at a guy burning to death is just a perfect image of US police. Literally no sense of duty to help anyone at all. Terrified fascist losers only thinking about how to protect themselves

They want to muffle Aaron Bushnell’s protest by saying that giving your life for a cause is insane. But he was a soldier