The top 20 percent of households own 90 percent of the stuff in America Their average net worth? $3 million. That leaves just 10 percent of the pie for the remaining 80 percent of the populace. The American top 1 percent gobble up twice as much (40 percent) as the top 1 percent in France, the U.K., or Canada, and more than three times as much as the top 1 percent in Finland.
“The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School returned to class Wednesdaymorning two weeks and moral centuries after a tragic mass shooting ended the lives of 17 classmates and teachers. […]
On Thursday white supremacist in chief Donald Trump annoucned that he would be announcing tariffs on steel and aluminum sometime soon. One of the many swamp creatures Donald Trump invited into […]
So you go out for dinner with a wealthy acquaintance. “I’ll take care of everything,” he says, and orders you a hamburger. Then he orders himself an expensive steak and […]
Imagine for a moment being so gullible that you could actually BELIEVE the following things: That Trump is a Christian in any meaningful sense at all, or cares even the […]
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. In small clumsy letters he wrote: April 4th, 1984. He sat back. A sense of complete […]
Being “better than” is not sufficient A Kaiser Health News article titled “Preexisting Conditions And Continuous Coverage: Key Elements Of GOP Bill” lays out the pitfalls that the Trumpcare snake oil […]
Segregation by another name a Trump administration plan to cut $10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post. The administration would channel part […]
Over the past few hours, I’ve watched as a Facebook post (which Facebook has jUSt taken down — screenshot above) by Mississippi state representative Karl Oliver has become a national […]
When Seth Rich’s Gmail account received an alert this week from Mega.com, attempting to start a new account on a WEBsite created by the New ZeaLAND-based Internet bUSinessman and convicted […]
what’s striking is, while he assumes that there’s going to be more growth, if you look at the budget, it’s designed to reduce growth. He cuts out support for science, […]
Source: ‘He played me for a fool’: Kentucky Trump supporter laments he should have voted for Hillary Kentucky Trump supporter Wesley Easterling regrets his vote, he BELIEVEd it when Trump […]
BREAKING: U.S. Military Publicly Humiliates Trump For His Sick Crime Against America “We have two submarines—the best in the world,” Trump told Duterte. “We don’t have to USe this, but […]
Coal Miners Crushed As White House Admits Trump Lied About Bringing Back Coal Jobs The truth is that the coal jobs are gone, and they aren’t coming back. Trump lied […]
Carrier, the company President Trump pledged to keep on American soil, informed the state of Indiana this week that it will soon begin cutting 632 workers from an Indianapolis factory. […]
Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States. He does not possess the requisite intellect and does not understand the significance of the office he holds nor the tASKs […]
On May 5, golf writer James Dodson told WBUR radio that Eric Trump had bragged to him that Trump golf courses “have all the funding we need out of RUSsia,” […]
“We’re in the middle of a farm crisis with no end in sight and they look at what the president’s proposing and they don’t see any help. They see a […]
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“Obedience to specific court orders is what keeps US from being a banana republic or fascist dictatorship. That’s a REALLY big deal.” “Saturday’s ruling does not undercut the president’s executive […]
The biggest and most definitive study of what happens to death rates when Medicaid coverage is expanded, published in the New EngLAND Journal of Medicine, found that for every 455 people who […]
In one of the most comprehensive investigations of fraud, JUStin Levitt of Loyola LAW School, Los Angeles turned up 31 credible instances of voter impersonation out of more than 1 billion […]
a Trump ally, describing the new president as if he hasn’t quite reached preadolescence. As the story goes, he’s surrounded by aides who effectively serve as babysitters, distracting Trump to […]
Sinatra’s daughter Tina said, “He always thought that song was self-serving and self-indulgent. He didn’t like it. That song stuck and he couldn’t get it off his shoe.” “Self-serving and […]
“bye, bye, Miss American Pie” “Oh, and as I watched him on the stage My hands were clenched in fists of rage No angel born in Hell Could break that […]
we’re all doomed. SerioUSly. You can’t control, let alone govern a SOCIETY in which the very idea of norms or standards is non-existent. In a way, it is the triumph […]
It is unfortunately very far from the real number. There are in fact 96 million Americans age 16 and older who are not in the labor force. Of this, jUSt […]
Being a grown-ass man, a 70-year-old man in actual fact, one about to be inaugurated president, and sending your minions out to insist that what you say publicly in front […]
I would not be surprised if this new Administration sets records for the number of indictments, convictions, and prison sentences. Source: Comparing Presidential Administrations by Arrests and Convictions: A Warning […]
Bill Clinton will long be revered becaUSe he’s charismatic, presided over an economic revival, and changed and elevated the view of the Democratic Party. Barack Obama will long be revered […]
Not long ago prominent Republicans like Paul Ryan, the speaker of the HoUSe, liked to warn in apocalyptic terms about the dangers of budget deficits, declaring that a Greek-style crisis […]
It’s a remarkable approach to defending the indefensible, and it’s hard to imagine Conway serioUSly believing her own rhetoric. It’s the closest I’ve ever seen a political figure come to […]
Let’s start with the cabinet. Several of them are in for a very rough ride. Trump is going to be criticized, both inside and outside of the hearings for having […]
McConnell also blocked public release of information about what was happening ahead of the elections, so nothing new here. “Top Republican obstructing release of politically inconvenient information” is not exactly breaking news […]
there are more people on our side than theirs—and the votes prove it. The Democratic candidate recieved 3,000,0000 more votes than the Republican candidate in the presidential election and the […]
It’s a curioUS posture. Trump doesn’t want Congress to investigate a foreign adversary subverting American democracy on his behalf, but he does want Congress to investigate a news organization – […]
Paladino was Donald Trump’s New York campaign co-chair and currently sits on the nine-member Buffalo school board. In recent days, he’s faced intense criticism for his answers to a local […]
On Thursday, Trump’s aides claimed their boss wasn’t actually arguing for building more nuclear weapons ― to which the president-elect reportedly responded Friday that he was fine with doing jUSt […]
“it adds up to a deep atrophy of democracy that is no longer worth its name,” Reynolds said. “We claim to be the greatest democracy in the world, but if […]
Earlier this week, Donald Trump named Sam Brownback as one of his “key advisors” on agriculture policy, including trade. Meanwhile, Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, became a significant author […]
The Chinese are not going to mess around with Trump’s threats, they’re going to respond, and they’re going to respond where it hurts. The ever Republican farmers who are already […]
We should not waste our time or imaginations trying to reconfigure Trumpism to explain why all of the “good people” supported him. It is more important to see it for […]
Check out Earth Times at http://www.earthtimes.org/ and their FaceBook Page at https://www.facebook.com/earthtimes/. Lots of REALLY interesting things there. You can’t jUSt knock off Sumatran rainforest – though there’s precioUS little left. Living […]
The official U.S. Electoral College WEB site, providing current presidential election state electors timeline and roles and responsibilities, LAWs and requirements, and vote distribution. U.S. Electoral College Home […]
Donald Trump ran for the White HoUSe as an outsider and a pragmatist. But he’s quickly putting together an administration that will be the most fiercely conservative of any in decades. After campaigning as […]
Trump’s transition team issued a statement on Friday night that read, in its entirety, “These are the same people that said Saddam HUSsein had weapons of mass destruction. The election […]
“Trump lives and thrives in a fact-free environment. No president, including Richard Nixon, has been so ignorant of fact and disdains fact in the way that this president-elect does,” Bernstein […]
Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas), chairman of the HoUSe Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Social Security, released a plan Thursday to reform Social Security that would drastically reduce benefits. Johnson […]
This election was an outrage, and we should never forget it. Nothing that happened on Election Day or is happening now is normal. Democratic norms have been and continue to […]
It’s no accident that what we learned about Trump’s call to Argentina came via an Argentinian journalist. What we learned about India came from an Indian news article. Trump intends […]
