Rising corporate profits were the largest contributor to Europe’s inflation over the past two years as companies increased prices by more than the spiking costs of imported energy. https://bit.ly/441jfya

🔗 IMF (@IMFNews)

This is both surprising and extremely good news. The independent state legislature theory would have given state legislatures almost total control over federal elections, which would grant republicans a permanent seat in every single branch of government, forever. Dissenters were Gorusch, Alito, and Thomas. Surprisingly, Kavanaugh and Barrett concurred with the majority opinion, but this is less surprising given some of their more recent liberal decisions in the Supreme Court. This is legitimately monumental.

Conservatives are trying their hardest to make up cases of detrans folks who are not trans supportive and it's really fucking funny.

Question: Are you in favor of eliminating any agencies?

DeSantis: We would do education, commerce, energy, and the IRS. If Congress won’t go that far, I’m going to use those agencies to push back against woke ideology…

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Friendly reminder that this man is actually fucking nuts

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BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court overturns student loan debt relief plan in 6-3 ruling

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/politics/supreme-court-student-loan-forgiveness-biden/index.html

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court

BREAKING: Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro banned from public office until 2030