Progressive States of America

Meet the Internet’s New Iran Expert—Who Thinks the Illuminati Runs the World Xueqin Jiang, a researcher at Harvard, believes that a coalition of Freemasons, Jesuits, and members of a defunct Jewish cult are conspiring to rule the world from Jerusalem, River Page writes.

www.thefp.com/p/meet-the-i... If you want to read more on this clown

I see a lot of YouTube leftists and leftists on other social media citing a "Professor Jiang" who claims the US will lose the war in Iran and it will lead to the collapse of the US. The reality is the "professor" is a high school teacher in China who has a history of promoting conspiracy theories.

👇👇

The fuck kind of answer is this

Today in Budapest, Hungarian authorities took seven Ukrainian citizens hostage. The reasons are still unknown, as well as their current well-being, or the possibility of contacting them. These seven Ukrainians are employees of state-owned Oschadbank, who were operating two bank cars transiting between Austria and Ukraine and carrying cash as part of regular services between state banks. In fact, we are talking about Hungary taking hostages and stealing money. If this is the “force” announced earlier today by Mr Orban, then this is a force of a criminal gang. This is state terrorism and racketeering. We have already sent an official note demanding an immediate release of our citizens. We will also address the European Union with the request to provide a clear qualification of Hungary’s unlawful actions, hostage-taking, and robbery. Statement by Oschadbank:

Orbán is kidnapping Ukrainian bank employees to manufacture a conflict and save his electoral campaign. 7 Ukrainians were grabbed in Budapest, Hungary, while transiting cash between Austria & Ukraine; condition & whereabouts unknown. Kyiv demands immediate release.

www.oschadbank.ua/news/osadban...

Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps Proposition MM's passage means Colorado will be able to fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school students

coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p...

Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps
Proposition MM’s passage means Colorado will fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school students

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ Have it your way?

Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will assess workers' "friendliness" and will be trained to recognize certain words and phrases like “welcome to Burger King,” “please,” and “thank you.”

The AI will be programmed into workers' headsets, according to @theverge.com.

Atlanta has the worst eviction rates in the country.

The metro area is less than a third the size of the NYC metro area, but Atlanta still has more evictions.

Atlanta also has the highest rate of mega-investor owned housing in the country.

A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, according to a new study.

Ohio EPA weighs allowing data centers to dump wastewater into rivers COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency released a draft for a new permit that would allow data centers across the state to release untreated wastewater and stormwater dire…

The Ohio EPA released a draft for a new permit that would allow data centers to release untreated wastewater directly into rivers and streams.

www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

BREAKING: Today Bernie Sanders is proposing new legislation to raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires — a move that would virtually cut their massive fortunes in half.

A chunk of the money raised would go toward sending a $3K stimulus check to every person earning under $150K.

Throwback to the co-founder of Palantir saying this is all about making money in June 2025:

" I'm really excited to invest in Iran if we can get this country to be some sort of republic and not run by crazy people, and that's a lot easier than doing that in Afghanistan..."

On CNBC Steve Eisman says investors should ignore the U.S.-Iran war, because in the long-term this attack "is very, very positive."

The top 1% in America now hoard $55.8 trillion — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.

Temco drivers unionize despite stiff opposition — a first for a Home Depot subsidiary “We did have management telling us that we were going to lose our jobs and would shut down.”

For the first time ever, workers at a Home Depot company have unionized.

Drivers who deliver building materials for Home Depot’s Temco subsidiary have voted to join the Teamsters.

They did so despite a vicious anti-union campaign from Home Depot and Temco.

atlantaciviccircle.org/2026/02/25/t...

A consortium led by BlackRock and a Swedish private-equity firm is buying US power company AES for $33.4 billion.

AES is one of the world's biggest utility companies, generating electricity in 15 countries.

In the US alone the company has over 1 million customers.

US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scienti...

AI-created art isn't eligible for copyright protection, after the Supreme Court chose not to review a lower court ruling.

In 2022 the Copyright Office said images without “human authorship,” don't qualify for copyright protection — this was affirmed in 2023 by a district court.

Sad this needs to to even be a bill

Washington state lawmakers consider restricting workplace microchipping OLYMPIA, Wash. – Lawmakers are considering new legislation aimed at restricting the use of microchipping in the workplace. Proposed House Bill 2303 would specifically ban companies from requiring or p...

A new bill in Washington State would ban bosses from forcibly microchipping workers.

The bill specifically says that an employer may not request, require, or coerce any employee to have a microchip implanted for any reason.

BREAKING: James Talarico wins the Democratic Senate primary in Texas.

Talarico ran on fighting corruption in DC, and winning back power for working people.

In an era of vast inequality Talarico told voters that “billionaires are waging class warfare against the rest of us.”

Record Numbers of Workers Are Raiding Their 401(k) Savings A divergent economy has given people record retirement savings and more need to dig into them.

A record number of workers are raiding their 401(k)s, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Exclusive: Defense executives plan to meet at White House as strikes on Iran diminish stockpiles Companies including Lockheed Martin and Raytheon parent RTX have been invited.

The Pentagon is about to ask Congress for an estimated $50 billion in extra funds for the war on Iran.

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Inside the Trump administration’s scramble to support its own war One State Department official said too few people were read in on war plans.

U.S. Central Command is now saying internally that this war against Iran is likely to last through September, according to information obtained by @politico.com.

This would easily cost over $100 billion, and that number could go much higher.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The Democratic budgets proposed in the New York State Senate and Assembly are going to include higher income taxes for New York millionaires.

This has state Democratic leadership siding with Zohran’s plan to tax the rich — against the wishes of Governor Kathy Hochul.

Bernie Sanders’ billionaire tax would soak about 900 people to fund $3,000 checks for the middle class

Okay. Great

The High Stakes of Keeping the Strait of Hormuz Open

One expert estimates that the U.S. “easily” spent more than $10 billion on air-defense systems in the first 48 hours of this war with Iran.

That cost is largely because of THAAD missile interceptors costing over $12 million each, and Patriot missiles costing over $3 million.

New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice | StateScoop A bill under consideration in New York would provide a private right of action, allowing people to file lawsuits against chatbot owners who violate the law.

A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more.

The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.

Indiana lawmakers are once again trying to weaken child labor laws: Bill sponsored by business owner would enable employers to hide child labor violations Coordinated, industry-backed campaigns to weaken child labor protections continue to target state legislatures in 2026. Yesterday, the Indiana Senate passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements...

The Indiana House and Senate have both passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements for businesses to document the employment of child workers.

If this bill becomes law it would enable employers to hide child labor violations, according to @epi.org.

A small group of Democratic lawmakers have just proposed legislation to bar members of Congress from profiting off prediction markets, citing elected officials' possession of "material nonpublic information."

two purchases of LHX stock from Mullin. each between 15-50 thousand. One on may 13 2025 and another on February 13 2025

Conflicts of interest are already cropping up in Marywayne Mullin's bid to become the next DHS Secretary—he's invested tens of thousands of dollars in a company that agreed to a $62 million settlement last year to resolve claims that it knowingly misled the government about pricing in its contracts.