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BY PRIYANKA ARIBINDI & CROOKED MEDIA Friday, May 31, 2019 |
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| —Attorney General William Barr on his own reputation... |
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| A NEW TRUMP TAX |
| President Trump announced a new five percent tariff (i.e. a tax) on all goods the U.S. imports from Mexico unless the Mexican government stops illegal immigration into the U.S. If they don’t, he’ll raise the tariff an extra five percent every month until it hits a maximum of 25 percent. I guess the Art of the Deal is just punishing your allies?
Who will pay these tariffs? You! Tariffs are paid by companies that import products, which then pass that cost on to consumers. A recent study found that Trump’s tariffs have already cost American households an average of $831.
Why (else) these new Mexican tariffs are dumb: So many reasons.
Bottom line: Trump’s pissed that his immigration policy is an abject failure, so he decided to 1) raise prices on American consumers, 2) hurt American businesses like the auto industry, and 3) potentially add to the influx of immigrants crossing our border.
Very. Stable. Genius. |
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| Under Trump’s tax cut, corporations paid $91 billion less in taxes in 2018. The tax law slashed corporate tax rates from 35 percent to 21 percent, and when combined with write-offs and tax credits, corporations were able to get their “effective” rate down to just seven percent. Seven! That’s the lowest rate since World War II.
Meanwhile, the IRS collected $100 billion MORE from individual taxpayers. Infuriating, right? Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren thinks so too, and has released a detailed plan to ensure that companies making over $100 million in profits pay their fair share. |
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| Eleven people were killed and at least six others were injured in a shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center on Friday. The gunman was a city employee, and according to the police chief, he has died. This story is developing.
Missouri’s last abortion clinic will stay open thanks to a judge who ruled on Friday to allow the clinic to continue perfoming the procedure temporarily. The state’s health department had refused to renew its license, which would have made Missouri the first state with no abortion providers since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973. Not today, Republicans, not today.
According to a South Korean news outlet, North Korea executed its nuclear envoy to the U.S. and four foreign ministry officials who worked on negotiations in the failed summit between Kim Jong Un and Trump earlier this year. They were charged with spying for the U.S. and held responsible for the summit’s collapse. Absolutely horrifying. Of the almost 2,000 unaccompanied migrant children detained in border facilities, hundreds have been held longer than the legal time limit of 72 hours. These facilities are largely overcrowded, and at least six children have died since being held in them. Measles cases in the U.S. reached a 25-year high with 971 cases in 26 states. FYI, measles was declared “eradicated” in the U.S. in 2000, but the virus has made a resurgence in communities where certain parents have refused the vaccine that prevents it. Facebook said it banned a bunch of white nationalist groups after a gunman in New Zealand live streamed his massacre of 51 people, but they never actually left. Many are still on the platform and use it to recruit new members. But at least Zuck invented the poke button! NASA hired three companies to help them land on the moon for the first time since 1972. The first mission hopes to launch by September 2020, just in time to tap out from this planet before the election! Brb, need to book a flight…
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, the woman who just stole your parking spot in a Porsche Cayenne, used her show to defend Paul Nehlen, a notorious, unrepentant white supremacist. Ingraham stuck up for Nehlen as a prominent right-wing voice who had been “censored by social media.” Instead of firing her, like they should have years ago, Fox has defended her.
Last night’s Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in an unprecedented eight-way tie because apparently words like “moazagotl” and “choumoellier” were just too easy for these kids. The winners, who are all between 12-15 years old, each went home with $50,000. Ugh, what a bunch of choumoelliers.
RIP iTunes. Apple will replace it with separate music, TV, and podcast (hint, hint, wink, wink, rate and review!) apps next week. iSad :’( |
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| Campaign Zero’s new Police Scorecard used data from the 100 largest police departments in California to evaluate their performance in protecting people from harm, acting without bias, and holding themselves accountable.
See the grades for each department, and the ways you can hold them accountable → http://policescorecard.org |
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| The DNC will require each Democratic presidential debate to include women and people of color moderating. This is the first rule of its kind—previously, the majority of moderators have been men.
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