Citizens for Accountability

Putin Suddenly Looks Very Small With Trump out of office, the Russian leader has nobody else. Biden has NATO, the G-7, and the upper hand.

The bill, he said, was just another line item in "a grossly, predictably misogynistic agenda — an agenda pursued by a party that is 100% white, in a chamber that is 70% male."

Pennsylvania Republicans cut a lawmaker's mic after he said the state GOP is '100% white' Rep. Brian Sims, a Democrat from Philadelphia, accused the Pennsylvania GOP of pursuing a "grossly, predictably misogynistic agenda."

The results are stark. According to Forbes, those 25 people saw their worth rise a collective $401 billion from 2014 to 2018. They paid a total of $13.6 billion in federal income taxes in those five years, the IRS data shows. That’s a staggering sum, but it amounts to a true tax rate of only 3.4%.

The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

Slave patrol. American police literally come from slave patrols. And that’s how they see themselves to this day.

The authors of the report urge support for a bill introduced in March by Bernie Sanders, called the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act, which would incentivize companies to narrow the pay gap between workers and top executives by imposing a tax rate on companies with high gaps. Publicly traded companies are required to report the ratio between their CEO and median worker pay to the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

US millionaire CEOs saw 29% pay raise while workers’ pay fell, report finds Workers saw 2% decrease as companies gave leaders bonuses and forgiving performance benchmarks amid pandemic

My God. As the verdict was coming down in Minneapolis police in Columbus, Ohio shot and killed a 16 year old girl. Neighbors said she called the police because she was being assaulted and that police shot her almost as soon as they pulled up.

Proposed bill would make protesters convicted of an offense ineligible for student loans The bill comes amid many arrests at protests for Daunte Wright, a young Black man killed by police last Sunday.

Tennessee Student Killed by Police Did Not Fire Bullet That Hit Officer, Officials Say Anthony J. Thompson Jr., 17, a student at Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tenn., was fatally shot during a struggle, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said.