PSA: Help victims of the tornadoes in Oklahoma by donating $10 to the Red Cross. Text REDCROSS to 90999, or visit redcross.org.
Federal officials met with South Dakota’s nine Sioux tribes on Wednesday for a historic summit in Rapid City. A year in the making, it was an effort to address long standing concerns over the high number of Native American children the state places in white foster homes. State officials, however, didn’t show up for the meeting.
State officials, however, didn’t show up for the meeting.
A funding crisis caused the Buena Vista School District to close its schools for the rest of the year—and perhaps permanently.
(Source: thesmithian)
Who took down Stockton? by TYTInvestigates
Stockton, California recently became the largest city to file for bankruptcy in American history. And now we know why. (Spoiler alert: big banks, government corruption, greed.) They interviewed a lot of Stockton employees who got formally screwed over (healthcare cut, retirement accounts wiped out) when the city went bankrupt. It’s really heartbreaking and poignant to see the impact of austerity on human lives up close.
The real scandal is that: The IRS has interpreted our tax laws to allow big corporations and wealthy individuals to make unlimited secret campaign donations through sham political fronts called “social welfare organizations,” like Karl Rove’s “Crossroads,” the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and “Priorites USA.” This campaign money has been used to bribe Congress to keep in place tax loopholes like the “carried interest” rule that allows the managers of hedge funds and private equity funds to treat their income as capital gains, subject only to low capital gains taxes rather than ordinary income taxes, and other loopholes that allow CEOs to get special tax treatment on giant compensation packages that now average $10 million a year.
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Hi folks!
- I’m here, just busy
- Going to throw some links your way and try to make more time for political ranting tomorrow
- I promise my silence isn’t some kind of anti-Yahoo! protest
- Because honestly, could they really do a worse job than Karp?
- Maybe we’ll be able to reply to replies and reblog Asks now! Fingers crossed!
The other point…which we’re not hearing frequently or loudly enough…is a real scandal: ‘the social welfare tax exemption is being used by existing 501(c)(4) organizations, including some very large ones, to promote partisan political interests—the very activity Congress has explicitly prohibited for a century.’ In other words, Karl Rove and Crossroads. This is a serious issue, one deserving of investigation. But Republicans could be biting off more than they can chew if it causes a bright light to be shone on how politically partisan organizations, like Rove’s, are exploiting the law.
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| — | Joan McCarter at Daily Kos (via thesmithian) |
Guns: Because freedom, or something. (PS: 4,127 Americans have been killed by guns since Newtown.)
(Source: sandandglass)
In not too many years, Texas could switch from being all Republican to all Democrat. If that happens, no Republican will ever again win the White House. New York and California are for the foreseeable future unalterably Democrat. If Texas turns bright blue, the Electoral College math is simple … The Republican Party would cease to exist. We would become like the Whig Party. Our kids and grandkids would study how this used to be a national political party. ‘They had Conventions, they nominated Presidential candidates. They don’t exist anymore.
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Ted Cruz [R-TX] Guys like Ted are oblivious to how they themselves are destroying the GOP. (via liberalsarecool) C’MON TEXAS MAKE IT HAPPEN |
If giving bad intelligence about a terrorist attack for a few days is a scandal. Imagine if you did that for years to justify a war.
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| — | LOLGOP (via samuraifuckingfrog) |
furthest-city-light said: I love your blog, but I would have to unfollow you if you brought back my French class nightmares by using “vous.”
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Honestly, I would unfollow me for bringing back memories of French class.
