Good morning, bad news!
Taxes are due on May 17th, which means that you’re probably about to pay a company like TurboTax to do a bunch of intentionally complicated math for you to figure out how much money you owe the government, but actually the government already knows how much you owe ...
2021-05-12 19:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Good morning, bad news: after 40 years of Ronald Reagan’s trickle-down theory tax cuts, the richest families in America now pay a lower overall tax rate than the middle class, while taxes on the bottom 20% are scheduled to go UP to cover the money that billionaires aren’t paying.
At thi...
2021-05-12 18:59:12 +0000 UTC
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The House just voted along party lines to make the District of Columbia America’s 51st state, and now it is up to the Senate to decide whether or not it’ll actually happen. Adding a new state to the union is a big deal, and requires serious consideration, so here is a list of reasons that Dem...
2021-05-12 18:56:01 +0000 UTC
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Good morning, good news! No, it's actually good news this time!
The effects of sending out $1,400 stimulus checks have finally been tallied, and consumer spending in retail sales is up ne...
2021-05-12 18:49:06 +0000 UTC
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Good morning! Bad news, Georgia just passed a law that makes voting harder for people living in major cities, who are more likely to be BIPOC and vote Democrat, and easier fo...
2021-05-12 18:32:36 +0000 UTC
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Good morning, good news!
The CDC has extended the federal eviction moratorium until the end of June, meaning that if you qualify, your landlord can’t evict you for nonpaym...
2021-05-12 18:11:35 +0000 UTC
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Do you work too much, for too little pay, with few or no benefits, vacation, health care, or plans for retirement, not to mention a never-ending crippling anxiety about losing your job for no reason with no recourse?
Well, that’s because 2021-05-12 18:01:03 +0000 UTC
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The stock market is really just 5 companies. Sure, that might sound stupid to say, because there are actually 6,000 companies trade...
2021-04-17 01:00:45 +0000 UTC
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Did you know that if you’re rich, you don’t need to pay your taxes? And I’m not talking about tax loopholes, or write-offs, or deductions, or offshore accounts, that’s a different thing. What I’m telling you is that if you legally owe taxes, but you’re rich, you don’t have to pay th...
2021-04-17 00:56:10 +0000 UTC
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Good morning. Bad news, Kentucky’s Senate just voted to pass a law that would make it a crime, punishable by jail time, to taunt, insult, or flip off pol...
2021-04-17 00:49:29 +0000 UTC
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Good morning! Bad news, gas prices are skyrocketing and are going to hit $3 (nationwide). This time last year, they were $2.08. So is this all Biden’s fault?
Not really. Fir...
2021-04-17 00:46:11 +0000 UTC
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This is a video about [bleep]. Oh yeah, we’re on TikTok, okay, this is a video about "leaf emoji".
Now, I’m not going to patronizingly explain to you what you already know, that leaf emoji laws were 2021-03-14 17:20:02 +0000 UTC
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Being homeless is a choice. Not THEIR choice, of course, but people who have the power, money, and resources to end homelessness, TODAY - chose not to.
The fact is, we don’t know how ...
2021-03-14 16:54:28 +0000 UTC
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During elections millionaire celebrities will come on TV to say that things are messed up and you should vote, and if you DON’T vote then you’re part of the problem!
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2021-03-14 16:14:18 +0000 UTC
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Hi! When you think of people making minimum wage, do you think of a bored teenager flipping burgers or stocking groceries? Do you think that raising the minimum wage would kill small businesses, raise unemployment, and skyrocket inflation? Well congratulations, you’ve fallen victim to propagand...
2021-03-06 09:15:24 +0000 UTC
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Have you noticed that for some reason Republicans and Democrats are arguing over whether we should get $1,000 or $1,400, as if either amount is even remote...
2021-02-26 23:49:05 +0000 UTC
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Do you ever wonder why it seems like billionaires have suddenly become outrageously powerful political figures? Why Congress was able to pass a 2 trillion dollar tax cut for the ultra-wealthy in two mont...
2021-02-23 02:29:01 +0000 UTC
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If you’re looking at Texas right now and thinking, “it seems pretty bad that a state’s electrical grid can fail overnight from a snowstorm”, I have news for you - it...
2021-02-19 06:19:52 +0000 UTC
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Let's talk about why American healthcare is so outrageously expensive.
Did you know that medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy in the Uni...
2021-02-19 06:13:25 +0000 UTC
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Did you know that there has never been a communist country? It’s true. China’s not communist, North Korea’s not communist, and the Soviet Union wasn’t communist. The reason is that communism was a goal these countries aspired to, but never achieved. So, what is communism and how is it dif...
2021-02-19 05:52:53 +0000 UTC
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Working full time means working 40 hours a week - except on average Americans work 47 hours a week, and actually if you’re full time salaried, you might be working as much ...
2021-02-19 04:32:10 +0000 UTC
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