Washington State just passed a bill to tax the super-rich, for the first time ever.
The top .5% will have to pay a state income tax, raising up to $4 billion every year.
That money will pay for school lunches, expand a tax credit for low-income families, and fund services.
The protest taunt, “cops and Klan, hand in hand,” has never been idle rhetoric.
It emerged from an observable phenomenon: far-right vigilantes have long been either disproportionately represented in law enforcement agencies or allied with them. https://t.co/95l6AA0ZXn
The Trump administration has repeatedly insisted that no Americans have been caught up in its immigration dragnet.
But reporting by ProPublica and many others shows that is not true: Americans have even been detained for days by immigration agents.
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Every time I get on this app, I find some new basic feature that doesn’t work anymore. Is my account located in Mongolia or Korea? Why would it say both? I found mentions through a search after the Mention screen came up with nothing. 💩❌
A Somali-American woman in Minnesota straps her U.S. passport to her head while going about her day, ensuring instant proof of citizenship in the face of heightened ICE enforcement and racial profiling fears
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
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The socialist Morris Hillquit believed that socialism was not a foreign import but rather the development of traditions of freedom and democracy integral to America. https://t.co/3YXU5UreWt
The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate.
It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.
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