FIVE MONTHS AGO the ‘Blood Tribe,’ a white supremacist, neo nazi group demonstrated on the University of Wisconsin campus, brandishing rifles, carrying swastika flags, and chanting “Israel is not our friend” and “there will be blood,blood,blood.” The protesters were all white males. Police did NOTHING. YESTERDAY unarmed, peaceful, students demonstrated at Emory University against genocide in Palestine. The protesters were mostly Black and other non-white students. Police tear-gassed, tased, brutalized, used rubber bullets, and arrested them.

Investigative reporter @JoshuaPVaughn from @PennLive says that there are laws on the books about properly reporting the number of deaths in custody, however, they either have no enforcement mechanism or there fundamentally appears to be no desire to enforce the law #SenDemPolicy

WOW! Chris Wallace goes all out and criticizes his former co-worker Tucker Carlson. He says that calling Carlson a useful idiot “is unfair to useful idiots". He then goes on to show a clip from when he, himself, interviewed Putin and asked him why so many people wind up dead around him. I agree that Tucker could have certainly pushed back a lot more and also asked much tougher questions. It was an opportunity that many journalists would have loved. Why do you think he didn't?

A Pennsylvania chapter of Moms for Liberty dwindled from 200 members to three, and decided to disband. No one stepped up to take over. trib.al/vWjQCz9

I was just kicked out of a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing on Cuba policy because the Republican Chair didn’t like my views. I’d share the livestream, but Republicans cut out the sound when I stood up to defend myself & call them out.

The 10 most regressive state and local tax systems, according to our Tax Inequality Index: 1. Florida 2. Washington 3. Tennessee 4. Pennsylvania 5. Nevada 6. South Dakota 7. Texas 8. Illinois 9. Arkansas 10. Louisiana Full details here: itep.org/whopays-7th-edition…

Massachusetts taxed the rich. Now they have an extra $1.5 billion to spend. In November, 2022 voters approved a 4% tax on incomes over $1 million. The state can now use that money on free public school meals, free community college, and public transit. wbur.org/news/2023/12/28/mas…