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@WorkingFamilies @robertgreenwald 21,000,000/4,900,000,000=0.00429 Less than 1/2 cent per lunch.

Every year, public schools serve 4.9 billion lunches at the cost of about $21,000,000 per year. Bezos said doubling taxes for billionaires like him wouldn't help. One year of doubled taxes would give kids free school lunches for 82 YEARS.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos said doubling his taxes wouldn’t help regular, working people. So we did the math, and the results are staggering.

@AndresGIbanez @FaceTheNation @CBSNews I may be in the minority but I adjust my withholdings to minimize my refund or shortfall.

@Merriiman @FaceTheNation @CBSNews Except you typically withhold based on what you expect to pay or what the withholding tables indicate based on the current tax laws. These were not updated as the Big Beautiful Bill was passed I believe in the third quarter of 2025. So the refund is indicative of lower taxes.

When asked about a Bank of America report that found the spike in gas prices has cost consumers $19 billion and cut tax returns by nearly half, White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett says “that analysis is incorrect.” “Think about it this way: 153 million people have filed taxes already, and the average refund is $3,600,” he says. “53 million people have benefited from no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social security…Real incomes are growing, and real incomes, when they adjust for inflation, include the price of energy.”

@matthewstoller Utilities seem like a rigged game.

A very powerful attack on utility monopolies by Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. whyy.org/articles/penns…

@Beno10_MFC X=50 Y=0 50^0=1

Almost all people with high IQ underestimated this mathematical problem and ended up failing. Be smart Can you solve?

@6speedgomango @crampell Someone who looks obviously over 21 shouldn’t have to show ID Businesses have been coerced to require ID from everyone fearing that law enforcement deploys underage “agents” who look over 21 to entrap them. People are so use to it they don’t recognize another restriction on them

@crampell The left never addresses the issue. Are you against showing ID to vote? A glass of wine with dinner requires ID. Our federal elections should!

A friend asks: “Has it occurred to anyone that the MAGAs think you have to show IDs at restaurants because they’ve been eating all their meals at strip clubs? This isn’t even an unreasonable theory”

@kyledcheney When you are a mob boss everything sounds like mob talk.

Comey’s lawyers will copy-paste this right into their inevitable vindictive prosecution filing.

@ABC They can’t be that stupid. Must be simply abusing the system to punish Comey. Are those the type of people that should be in positions of authority? Maybe there should be a tik-toc challenge to duplicate Comey’s act 100,000 times.

BREAKING: A federal grand jury has indicted former FBI Director James Comey over a controversial Instagram post from last year that President Trump and members of his administration claimed was a threat against the president. abcnews.link/1gfiTHj

@larrywilmore Will you be checking comments during show?

Catch me on CNN tonight on Abby Phillip’s Show. Feel free to comment during the show! 10pm EDT

@emptywheel People don’t seem like they know what mandates means or what it is. You have it or you don’t. The false interjection of degree is a distortion of its meaning.

BREAKING!!! Trump's most loyal follower says Trump did not get a mandate in 2024. This destroys all Trump's excuses for fascist power grabs.

@KatrinaNation Where can I get one of those “Trump is Criminal” mosaic door mats?

The Strategic Aftershocks of Trump's Iran War foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/20/str…

@luxemiaa Might they have been angling for a bribe? What country did this occur in?

“Where are you flying to?” “Brussels” “Where is your visa” **shows visa** **ignores visa shown and flips to another page** “Your Brazil visa expired” “OK, but I’m not travelling to Brazil, I’m going to Belgium” “Where’s your visa?” “The one I already showed you” “That one is for The Netherlands” “You’ll figure it out soon enough” “You need a valid visa for Brazil to go to Belgium” “I do not” **blank stare** **blank stare** “Let her pass, all her documents are in order” “Oh, you know her?” 😐

@CNNThisMorning @Harrison_J_Mann @sarafischer Did I hear that Trump was also surrounded by military and elite military personnel during the signing?

Pres. Trump signs Joe Rogan-backed order on psychedelic drug research, despite the podcaster’s recent Iran war criticism. Panel discusses why. @Harrison_J_Mann @sarafischer #Psychedelics #JoeRogan #Trump #Reaction #News

@XFreeze @elonmusk Does anyone know what literal means anymore?

SpaceX is moving at literal light speed right now SpaceX launched 2 more Falcon 9s in under 24 hours AGAIN - Florida in the morning, California at night Even with unlimited budgets, government space programs usually launch only once or twice a year Meanwhile, SpaceX is doing multiple launches a day with just hours between them, and Starlink reliability is going through the roof with every single payload

@carolrosenberg Forever trials..

Lastly, we heard that the prosecution got nothing back from the White House to support President Trump's assertion of an Iranian role, involvement in the attack. (Defender Miller said Mr. Trump has made it three times since the war began.) nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/…

Good morning from the Pentagon conference center where I am watching pretrial proceedings in the USS Cole case. The court is in a mid morning recess due to untrue reporting to the court of an interrupted feed down here. The feed had been solid. nytimes.com/article/uss-co…

@BonBic36554 @WallStreetApes It doesn’t align w/my experience growing up in the 50’s. My father refurbished our 100 yr old house. He made much of the furniture we had. He was up early tending an acre garden before work. Mother did work on the side to supplement family income. One used car. Not that easy.

@WallStreetApes Sorry there are holes in this story. Growing up no one in my neighborhood had 2 cars. We didn’t have 2 until 1986 and then they were both old used cars. Teachers unions have made it possible to retire at 50. I know a few. Full salary and only $100. a month for health insurance.

American says both his grandparents were school teachers. One of them stopped working to raised their kids, so their income was only about $20,000 per year On $20,000 in a year, he was able to buy a house, support a family of four, buy 2 cars, send my father to private school. He was even able to retire 10 years early He says this kind of life is now impossible and that’s why young people feel “hopeless” “But in 2026, our government, our society is geared solely towards maintaining the wealth and comfort of the boomer generation. Every year without fail, proposals that help young people, proposals that help poor people, first time home buyers, yada, yada, yada fail in Congress. — But every year, hundreds of billions of dollars in Social Security increases sail through the chambers of Congress without a second thought. There is really no support system for the younger generation at this point.” “Most people are trying to come to grips with the fact that they are never going to be able to retire at all, let alone retire 10 years early. It's just not the same world that it was, not even close.” - Roughly 80% of Boomers were able to buy homes - High estimates of Gen Z say only around 20-27% will be able to buy a home (this seems very generous)

@JillFilipovic Well put.

Is this… a thing? What is the evidence for it? Words mean things and when we start sticking the most extreme terms on everything, those terms start to lose meaning and impact.

So this may be a spectacularly stupid question but El-Sayed calls Trump’s war in Iran “genocidal.” The war is clearly insane and murderous and Trump *threatened* a genocide earlier this week, but this is the first time I’m seeing someone claim a genocide is actually happening…?

@emptywheel The administration was so upset that anyone would imply that Trump , et al, was issuing illegal orders. How ironic that we may be now watching it happen in real time.

Also, if you hit Bushehr you don't need a bomb.

@John85615578 @JonathanTurley You are such a scholar.

This is pretty simple. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." If the phrase "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof", meant anyone present in the US, why did they add it? If that's what it means then it's redundant because they already said "All persons". They added the phrase importantly starting with the word "and". So you don't get citizenship just by being here. You also have to be subject to the full jurisdiction of the US.

The Hill just posted my column on the possible need for a 28th amendment on citizenship after the Supreme Court rules in Trump v. Barbara. The combination of open borders and open-ended citizenship is an existential threat to this Republic...thehill.com/opinion/immigr…

@HarryKinney56 @AGPamBondi Cut the zombies a break.

@AGPamBondi Maybe we shouldn’t be so critical of Bondi here. She was clearly following orders from Trump. I used to think it was all her but I realized the ALL of his cabinet members are zombies just following his ridiculous orders.

Over the next month I will be working tirelessly to transition the office of Attorney General to the amazing Todd Blanche before moving to an important private sector role I am thrilled about, and where I will continue fighting for President Trump and this Administration. Leading President Trump’s historic and highly successful efforts to make America safer and more secure has been the honor of a lifetime, and easily the most consequential first year of the Department of Justice in American history. Since February 2025, we have secured the lowest murder rate in 125 years, secured first-ever terrorism convictions against members of Antifa, shattered domestic and transnational gangs across the country, taken custody of more than 90 key cartel figures, and won 24 favorable rulings at the Supreme Court. I remain eternally grateful for the trust that President Trump placed in me to Make America Safe Again.