The Evening Blues - 4-17-19
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 04/17/2019 - 1:58pm
Diaries
Amazon isn't the only company that paid $0 in federal taxes last year
Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Wed, 04/17/2019 - 1:16pmWe’re way past the time for pitchforks and tumbrels.
Amazon isn't the only company that paid $0 in federal taxes last year
Under President Trump's new tax law, 60 of America's biggest corporations paid $0 in federal taxes in 2018, despite earning billions of dollars in profits.
Medicare For All opponents just had a Come-To-Jesus moment
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 04/17/2019 - 12:57pmFor the predators in Big Pharma and Big Insurance, it just got real. That singular moment in Bernie's Town Hall on Fox, where Bret Baier asked the audience about Medicare For All was the bloodsuckers' 9/11.
Pg. 1 Lede in Today's NYT: "'Stop Sanders’ Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum"
Submitted by bobswern on Wed, 04/17/2019 - 10:03am...and a similar headline--regarding today's Times article--over at CommonDreams.org, on Tuesday: "As Sanders 2020 Campaign Gains Steam, Corporate Democrats Reportedly 'Growing Increasingly Nervous'," are basically telegraphing to the public that the writing's on the wall, as far as the Democratic Party's status quo's 2020 Presidential Primary campaign strategy is concerned.
Wednesday Open Thread: Desert Bloom 2019
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 04/17/2019 - 5:00am
t's Day 107 of the Year 2019 CE (Gregorian), meaning that it's April 17, 2019 (Gregorian), or 13.0.6.7.8 by the long count
How long will our Forever Wars last?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 11:20pm
America doesn't actually have troops on the ground in Yemen, but Trump decided to veto the resolution against the genocidal war anyway. So who knows how long we'll be involved in that disaster.
The Mythical Third Party Has Already Emerged
Submitted by CharredPC on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 10:23pmMy Republican friends, fellow registered Democrats, Independents, and Greens- let's just all of us say it out loud together: The people who lose most playing Red vs Blue are me and you.
Julian Assange: Land Of The Free vs. Putin's Russia
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 5:56pmBoth Republicans and Democrats are in agreement. The Land Of The Free(tm) thinks that Assange should be extradited to the U.S., given a trial that will confirm his obvious guilt, and then thrown into a very deep, dark hole.
The Evening Blues - 4-16-19
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 2:56pm
Closing the Barn Door.....
Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 2:01pmEU passes law on protecting whistleblowers (and facilitators) … days after Assange’s arrest
Don’t say bureaucrats in Brussels don’t appreciate irony. Following the arrest in London of Julian Assange, the co-founder of whistleblowing site WikiLeaks, MEPs overwhelmingly voted for a law on protecting whistleblowers.
