Celebrities I am begging u to stop launching beverage lines and start getting serious. Where are the railroads? The concert halls? The amassing of steel? The bribing of senators? Feels like I’m dealing with a bunch of amateurs.

Is this art imitating life or is karma just a b****?

Oh. So they always could have lowered prices.

Illinois Republicans are upset with Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) for passing his sixth balanced budget that funds education, cuts the grocery tax and establishes an earned child tax credit.

Their complaint: His policies are earning him a national profile.
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*Cackles Rhett Butler-ly*

The 49% are all in the comments, abandoning their arguments when people point out the stick they say is down is actually up

NEW: The FTC uncovered a series of texts between big oil CEO Scott Sheffield and OPEC officials agreeing to limit oil production to raise prices.

They raked in huge profits, while their scheme cost consumers $200 billion a year in higher prices.

That’s about $3000 per family.

Your regular reminder that inflation is mostly caused by corporate profiteering

Lowest aircon can get this is probably 90F

126 F in Delhi, a city with a population of 35 million people.

Amazon, Walmart and Target all just announced they're cutting prices to bring back customers after making the 'mistake' of raising them too high. It turns out they COULD have cut prices all along, but chose GREED instead!

The Supreme Court is compromised.

If only there was a profession whose job it was to inform the public about the ideas espoused by the parties and not think it is the job of said parties to drive narratives instead.

Hate how dumb anti-voting leftists are ultra-consequentialists when analyzing liberalism (any bad thing that happens means we need to overthrow the system) and anti-consequentialists when looking to themselves (my intent matters; I don't need to consider realistic outcomes).

Still feels like it should be a bigger story that Clarence Thomas’ billionaire benefactor appears to have committed pretty serious tax fraud

Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Rectenwald confirmed to me he ate an edible pre-presser, saying “This was not some sort of a major political scandal, okay. I wasn't found in bed with Stormy Daniels. I’m at a Libertarian Party convention. Somebody offered me something.”

After Jan. 6 there were a group of people (who'd read their history) who said 'If you don't hold Trump accountable this becomes a trial run,' and then a much larger group of people (most of the political class) who said 'Well he's clearly cooked, we can just move on'

Well Ken Burns pretty much nails it