Alvin Mack

@SenWarren FREE? FREE!

Tax prep companies are spending big to BLOCK my bill. Why? Because I want to make filing your taxes directly with the IRS easy and FREE. We can't let them win.

The company founded and formerly run by Energy Secretary Chris Wright paid no federal corporate income taxes last year, according to its regulatory filings, and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS. Liberty Energy, the oil field services company Wright founded in 2011 but left last year to join the Trump administration, was among several energy companies included in a report issued Tuesday by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy naming 88 companies that together made more than $105 billion before taxes last year but paid no federal corporate income taxes.

@SenWarren Free?

This Tax Day, don't forget this: Donald Trump went out of his way to shut down the IRS' FREE and EASY tax filing program. But I have a bill to bring it back for good. Let's get it done.

@SenateDems @SenWarren Don't think you understand what the word free means.

BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked a bill by @SenWarren that would have let Americans file their taxes for free directly with the IRS.

Japanese society is so civilized that the fires simply drive themselves to the fire station

Gas prices in the US are up over 20% in the past two weeks (from $2.98/gallon to $3.59/gallon). That's the biggest two-week spike that we've seen in the past 30 years.

@RoadandTrack Save the manuals.

Ford CEO Farley: They'll have to rip the Mustang's stick shift 'out of our cold, dead hands'. bit.ly/3NiuSxj

In every clip I've seen of Noem today, she's saying something she can't know or that is a lie. She also undercuts 2A to say carrying ammo is a problem on its face. I know it's too much to expect people to be responsible, but this is opposite of a grown-up doing the job.

2014. Bill Kristol advocates for the deportation of migrant children. George Stephanopoulos says that Obama needs to send a message to migrants that they need to go back home. Even Ana Navarro was sort of reasonable back then. Strange times.

Tim Walz’s appointee in charge of the state’s accounting and finances said they do not have tools to hold agencies accountable for fraud - despite it being their job! “Madam chair, we do not have a tool to hold agencies accountable.”

I've lived in 5 states, visited several more. Been around plenty of white people. The number of negative racial incidents I've had in decades I could count with one hand. Since 2021, I've lost count as to how many times a white leftist has called me a coon, nigger, house nigger

BREAKING: Protesters STORM Minneapolis Church | “THE PASTOR IS ICE?!” x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

EXCLUSIVE: Tech workers say they were mistaken for ICE agents, accosted by anti-ICE mob What began as a casual lunch between five Twin Cities software engineers quickly escalated into a frightening encounter after the men were misidentified as undercover federal agents and protesters were alerted to the Minneapolis restaurant where they were dining. Alpha News obtained video and spoke with one of the men, Lee, a software engineer from Plymouth, who described how the situation unfolded. Lee said the group was eating lunch at Clancy’s Deli, near 38th Street and Grand Avenue South, when one of the men — who belongs to an anti-ICE Signal chat — received a message from a group labeled “SW Minneapolis Rapid Response” claiming that plainclothes ICE agents were dining at the restaurant. “My friend was shocked,” Lee said. “He’s on the [anti-ICE] side politically. He lives nearby. He’s eaten there before. And suddenly he’s seeing messages saying we’re ICE.” The software engineers — all white males dressed casually in sweatshirts and jackets — were soon confronted by protesters who surrounded the restaurant, shouting insults and blowing whistles in their ears as they attempted to leave, according to Lee. Lee emphasized to Alpha News that the group’s political views were mixed, but said the encounter left some of them reconsidering their positions. “One of us is pro-ICE, one anti-ICE, others on the fence,” he said. “After this, I think some of them are rethinking everything.”

The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world. Ideally, to cover an uprising is not just to show crowds and slogans. It requires answering a basic question: why are people risking death? In Iran, the answer is simple and unavoidable. The people are rising up because the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades suffocating every aspect of life—speech, work, family, art, women, and economic survival—under a clerical system that treats liberty as a crime. There is no way to tell that story without confronting the nature of the regime. Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it. Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on “brown people,” Arabs, or “the Middle East,” as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine. This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. Western liberal media routinely collapses entire civilizations into a single stereotype: “all Middle Easterners are Arabs,” “all Arabs are Muslim,” and “all Muslims are a monolithic, oppressed identity group by white European colonizers.” Iranians disappear entirely in this framework. Their language, history, and culture—Persian, not Arab; ancient, not colonial; distinct, not interchangeable—are erased. By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them—or ignores them entirely. There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues. As you know, Iran is not only a religious dictatorship. It is a centrally controlled, state-dominated economy where markets are strangled, private enterprise is criminalized or co-opted, and economic survival depends on proximity to political power. Decades of price controls, subsidies, nationalization, and bureaucratic micromanagement have obliterated the middle class and entrenched corruption as the only functional system. The result is not equality or justice. It is poverty, stagnation, and dependence on government’s dark void of empty promises. Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically. This is deeply inconvenient for Western media institutions that routinely promote expansive state control, centralized economic planning, and technocratic governance as morally enlightened alternatives to liberal capitalism. Iran demonstrates where such systems lead when insulated from accountability and enforced by ideology. It shows that when the state controls livelihoods, non-conformity becomes existentially dangerous. That lesson cannot be acknowledged without undermining the moral authority of those who advocate similar ideas in softer language. Western liberal media prefers not to hear this. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape. That is what terrifies Western liberal media. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored. So the silence continues.

Hello again Hennepin County: Do you know which one of your staff approved $672K to a grantee that they quit DHS to work for DAYS LATER? Is it one of your staff? ;)

Five of the active and two of the closed day care centers featured by Nick Shirley in his viral video received a combined $6.3 million from Feeding our Future, claiming to serve 2.8 million meals from 2018-2021.

Great message. Thank you @andersoncooper.

@tnelsonChE81 @GopherHole Guy thinks he's on the team.

@GopherHole Yeah so we can kick the Gophers ass 70-7. 😝

WOW!! Such sore losers. Join a conference like everyone else.

@DanBarreiroKFAN Did we need Common and the Family Cole?

We didn’t need Darnold.

@RyanBurnsMN Playing not to lose means you will lose

it's what you expect from Fleck at midfield at this point Weston punts and Nebraska starts at their own 6 62 seconds left and two timeouts