My cat knocked over my favourite lamp, shattering it on the floor.
I’ll never look at her in the same light again.
My cat knocked over my favourite lamp, shattering it on the floor.
I’ll never look at her in the same light again.
In recent years, lots of proposed laws purport to reduce “harmful” content on the internet, especially for kids. Some have good intentions. But the fact is, we can’t censor our way to a healthier internet.When it comes to online (or offline) content, people simply don’t agree about what’s harmful....
Tell congress to make the wealthy pay their share of taxes.
Recent corporate earnings reports paint a dire picture of corporations with sky-high profits paying little in taxes―or even getting money back (negative tax rates): General Electric = $7 billion in profits; -6% federal income tax rate T-Mobile = $11 billion in profits; 0.4% federal income tax rate General Motors = $6 billion in profits; 4% federal income tax rate Tesla = $3 billion in profits; 1.5% federal income tax rate Billion dollar corporations are taking advantage of loopholes to pay tax rates far below the statutory corporate rate of 21%, and even lower than the 13.6% rate that the average American household paid in a recent year. Just look at this chart, which shows how corporate tax rates have plummeted over the last 70 years: Meanwhile, over the last 45 years, CEO pay has soared 1,209% compared to just a 15% increase for the average worker. This fuels socially unsustainable income and wealth gaps that disproportionately impact Black, Latino, and American Indian/Alaska Native workers who have generally been stuck in lower-paying jobs by centuries of racial discrimination. While congressional Republicans and high-priced Wall Street lobbyists are demanding even more corporate tax breaks to benefit their millionaire and billionaire benefactors, President Biden is proposing that we raise the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% and the stock buyback tax from 1% to 4%. Stock buybacks are a gimmick used by corporations to artificially inflate their stock price by buying up their own shares, further enriching CEOs and wealthy shareholders. Because over 90% of all corporate stock is owned by the wealthiest 10% of Americans―and over half is owned by the top 1%―whenever corporations use this market maneuver they’re almost exclusively further enriching the already rich. Corporate priorities couldn’t be clearer. Even as General Motors was claiming last year that it couldn’t afford to pay striking UAW workers what they deserved, the company was spending $11 BILLION on stock buybacks to make their already wealthy shareholders even wealthier. We’re fighting for a tax system that rewards work and makes large profitable corporations pay their fair share. Sign now to tell Congress that greedy tax dodging corporations must pay their fair share in taxes.
Subject: Tell the FTC: Protect our location data from anti-abortion groups!
I just signed a petition with the gender justice organization UltraViolet to demand that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to intervene on our behalf and prevent this data broker from being able to sell our location data.
Please join me and sign the UltraViolet petition: https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/FTC_data_privacy/?referring_akid=54777.123109.wBaqfM&source=taf
The sociopathy theory of human evolution goes like this:
1. We know sociopaths comprise 1% to 4% of our population.
2. Their lack of moral inhibition pushes them to the top of the power food chains.
3. Capitalism being the ideal political realm to operate in, they amass power over time by amassing capital.
4. When a critical threshold of immorality is reached, revolutions happen. The moral band together to diffuse the weight of committing atrocious acts and the sociopaths are purged from power --- and often their heads are purged from their shoulders too.
5. But the thing is, society stagnates without the rule breakers. It's a love hate relationship obviously. We love to lionize sociopathy ... as long as it hurts someone else.
But if it begins hurting too many people ... guillotines.