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Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income
This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.
truthout.org
February 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
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NIH has cut billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
NIH has cut billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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WOW! Cory Booker isn't holding back!
"There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent." 🤘🔥
#DemocracyNotDictatorship
"There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent." 🤘🔥
#DemocracyNotDictatorship
February 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
WOW! Cory Booker isn't holding back!
"There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent." 🤘🔥
#DemocracyNotDictatorship
"There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent." 🤘🔥
#DemocracyNotDictatorship
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Ooo this is a good one ☺️
February 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Ooo this is a good one ☺️
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Watching powerless from Europe how democracy is crumbling in the US, reminds me of those movies where someone is mind-controlled by an alien or ghost. I want to yell: "America, we know you are still in there. If you can hear us, you must fight. YOU CAN DO IT. FIGHT THIS!"
February 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Watching powerless from Europe how democracy is crumbling in the US, reminds me of those movies where someone is mind-controlled by an alien or ghost. I want to yell: "America, we know you are still in there. If you can hear us, you must fight. YOU CAN DO IT. FIGHT THIS!"
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Déjà vu all over again.
February 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Déjà vu all over again.
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Here’s the thing.
The problem isn’t just this guy.
It’s all the doctors and “leaders” who said nothing or treated this “brave heterodox” thinking or launched juvenile immature attacks against those of us who tried to correct his misinformation.
They all own this too.
It’s their legacy.
The problem isn’t just this guy.
It’s all the doctors and “leaders” who said nothing or treated this “brave heterodox” thinking or launched juvenile immature attacks against those of us who tried to correct his misinformation.
They all own this too.
It’s their legacy.
February 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Here’s the thing.
The problem isn’t just this guy.
It’s all the doctors and “leaders” who said nothing or treated this “brave heterodox” thinking or launched juvenile immature attacks against those of us who tried to correct his misinformation.
They all own this too.
It’s their legacy.
The problem isn’t just this guy.
It’s all the doctors and “leaders” who said nothing or treated this “brave heterodox” thinking or launched juvenile immature attacks against those of us who tried to correct his misinformation.
They all own this too.
It’s their legacy.
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They suck equally hard.
February 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
They suck equally hard.
This had to be said.
No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.
January 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This had to be said.
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Dr. King spread a message of justice and persisted in the face of hatred.
His legacy calls us to serve each other and to continue striving towards a more inclusive and united Minnesota.
His legacy calls us to serve each other and to continue striving towards a more inclusive and united Minnesota.
January 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Dr. King spread a message of justice and persisted in the face of hatred.
His legacy calls us to serve each other and to continue striving towards a more inclusive and united Minnesota.
His legacy calls us to serve each other and to continue striving towards a more inclusive and united Minnesota.
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BREAKING: President Biden just pardoned:
* General Mark Milley
* Dr. Anthony Fauci
* Jan. 6 Committee members of Congress and staffers
* The police officers who testified before the Jan. 6 Committee
Biden says these pardons are not an acknowledgment of wrongdoing.
* General Mark Milley
* Dr. Anthony Fauci
* Jan. 6 Committee members of Congress and staffers
* The police officers who testified before the Jan. 6 Committee
Biden says these pardons are not an acknowledgment of wrongdoing.
January 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
BREAKING: President Biden just pardoned:
* General Mark Milley
* Dr. Anthony Fauci
* Jan. 6 Committee members of Congress and staffers
* The police officers who testified before the Jan. 6 Committee
Biden says these pardons are not an acknowledgment of wrongdoing.
* General Mark Milley
* Dr. Anthony Fauci
* Jan. 6 Committee members of Congress and staffers
* The police officers who testified before the Jan. 6 Committee
Biden says these pardons are not an acknowledgment of wrongdoing.
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Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025
January 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025
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Donald Trump ends CBP One, the border app that gave legal entry to nearly 1 million migrants with online appointments.
You know, the one his first administration created.
You know, the one his first administration created.
January 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Donald Trump ends CBP One, the border app that gave legal entry to nearly 1 million migrants with online appointments.
You know, the one his first administration created.
You know, the one his first administration created.
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Even though he thinks Jay Bhattacharya got COVID all wrong, Dr. Andrew Noymer is eager to have him run the NIH if there’s another pandemic because he’ll be invited to more debates.
Really.
My latest on how some treated the pandemic as a parlor game.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/amnesiaapathy/
Really.
My latest on how some treated the pandemic as a parlor game.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/amnesiaapathy/
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Was Nice to Someone During a Debate. That Doesn’t Erase the Consequences of His Misinformation. | Science-Based Medicine
This is what it looks like when doctors treat the pandemic as an intellectual parlor game.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
January 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Even though he thinks Jay Bhattacharya got COVID all wrong, Dr. Andrew Noymer is eager to have him run the NIH if there’s another pandemic because he’ll be invited to more debates.
Really.
My latest on how some treated the pandemic as a parlor game.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/amnesiaapathy/
Really.
My latest on how some treated the pandemic as a parlor game.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/amnesiaapathy/
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While at Princeton, Pete Hegseth was the publisher of The Princeton Tory student newspaper. He published an opinion piece that claimed that sex with an unconscious woman was not rape since there was no duress. [Source: Mayer, Jane (December 1, 2024). "Pete Hegseth's Secret History". The New Yorker]
January 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
While at Princeton, Pete Hegseth was the publisher of The Princeton Tory student newspaper. He published an opinion piece that claimed that sex with an unconscious woman was not rape since there was no duress. [Source: Mayer, Jane (December 1, 2024). "Pete Hegseth's Secret History". The New Yorker]
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As DHS secretary Kristi Noem will be responsible for FEMA
After a record breaking flood, As governor, she left her own constituents, high and dry w/out National Guard assistance, but she did send the national guard to the Texas Mexico border 1200 miles away at taxpayers expense—5 times!
After a record breaking flood, As governor, she left her own constituents, high and dry w/out National Guard assistance, but she did send the national guard to the Texas Mexico border 1200 miles away at taxpayers expense—5 times!
January 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
As DHS secretary Kristi Noem will be responsible for FEMA
After a record breaking flood, As governor, she left her own constituents, high and dry w/out National Guard assistance, but she did send the national guard to the Texas Mexico border 1200 miles away at taxpayers expense—5 times!
After a record breaking flood, As governor, she left her own constituents, high and dry w/out National Guard assistance, but she did send the national guard to the Texas Mexico border 1200 miles away at taxpayers expense—5 times!
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Snoopy out here protesting Kristi Noem’s confirmation
January 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Snoopy out here protesting Kristi Noem’s confirmation
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I just spit out my tea.
January 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I just spit out my tea.
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A reporter asks Karine Jean-Pierre in her final White House press briefing about giving Donald Trump credit for the ceasefire and hostage deal between Hamas and Israel that President Biden started negotiating back in May.
KJP isn't having any of it.
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KJP isn't having any of it.
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January 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A reporter asks Karine Jean-Pierre in her final White House press briefing about giving Donald Trump credit for the ceasefire and hostage deal between Hamas and Israel that President Biden started negotiating back in May.
KJP isn't having any of it.
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KJP isn't having any of it.
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Every question from the senators should have been job specific like this. This demonstrates lack of preparedness. This could have convinced 3 republicans he isn’t the right one for the job
YIKES! Duckworth asks Hegseth to name a country that's in ASEAN. He names three -- none of which are in ASEAN.
"I suggest you do a little homework," she says.
"I suggest you do a little homework," she says.
January 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Every question from the senators should have been job specific like this. This demonstrates lack of preparedness. This could have convinced 3 republicans he isn’t the right one for the job