Thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, Amazon saw its corporate income taxes shrink by more than HALF last year, even as its profits climbed.
But instead of investing the savings into their workforce, Amazon just announced thousands of layoffs and plans to spend $200B on AI.
Textbook corporate greed.
🚨I took to the Senate floor to pass a bill to force the Senate to sue the Trump administration for violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Republicans objected.
Top of the photo in white text reads: "BREAKING OVER 680 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS, INCLUDING 10 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, ENDORSE IMPEACHING RFK JR." Below that in black text is a statement reading: "We, the undersigned Members of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, writing in our private capacities, endorse the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives on Dec 10, 2025 by Representative Haley Stevens." Below that is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE " logo. Below that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr".
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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Heads are going to explode 💥
Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
AOC on Epstein Files: We need to get to the bottom of it. It does not matter if you are a Republican, Democrat, or donor. We are talking about sexual crimes and trafficking.
watch out boys, we had a rash of these types in America and it turned out it was because they were all diddling ten year olds
holy shit
I know abuses perpetrated against children is at the top of all of our minds with the horrible details revealed in the Epstein Files. While we seek justice for those victims, we must demand that the children being traumatized in detention centers be released immediately too. Please call your reps 📞
www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/b...
BREAKING: A search was being carried out at the French offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X as part of an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday.
MAGA people lining up wanting the taxpayers to give them money. Trump wants $10 billion. Lindsey wants $1 million. J6ers want money. Farmers want money. Of course CEOs want their contracts,
subsidies & tariff waivers. It’s griftapalooza at taxpayer expense for the gangsters.
Gavin Newsom: “ You will not have a country if he rigs this election — you will have a president who will be running for a third term
He is wrecking this country, wrecking the economy. He's a lawless president. Wake up, America — wake up to what's going on”
Catherine O’Hara of Beetlejuice and Schitt’s Creek has died at age 71. RIP to one of the all-time greatest women in comedy. people.com/catherine-oh...
I am no longer with the New Stack. What I hate is the stories I didn’t get a chance to finish. Covering frontend and web development was a fun and interesting beat. I will miss it.
Mastra empowers web devs to build AI agents in TypeScript: thenewstack.io/mastra-empow... via @thenewstack
Don’t forget Keith Porter!!
On December 31, 2025, Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old father of two, was shot and killed by an off-duty U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles.
High school friend remembers Alex Pretti: “He was a singer, a dancer. He was a very funny individual, and he was a role model. He was one of those effortless leaders, through his kindness & his generosity. He was the best of us.”
#ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory
Frontend news Anthropic extends MCP with a UI framework: thenewstack.io/anthropic-ex... via @thenewstack
“The only thing more dangerous than speaking your truth is pretending you don’t have one.”
— Inspired by Virginia Woolf
Real leadership listens first. Really listens. Not just listening for confirmation bias.
As John Lennon said, he’d look great with an apple in his gobbler.
A security checklist for your React and Next.js apps: thenewstack.io/a-security-c... via @thenewstack
Developer proves AI agents can be reprogrammed via new exploit: thenewstack.io/developer-pr... via @thenewstack
Developer proves AI agents can be reprogrammed via new exploit: thenewstack.io/developer-pr... via @thenewstack Special thanks to @ike.io for his help on this and showing how the exploit can be used against AI agents.
@ike.io I updated the story to add your comments. I appreciate it!
I'm going to add that. I wrote it from your post and Github. Please send a notification or ping me if anything needs fixing. thenewstack.io/developer-pr...
Wow! Great work.
Is there a fix
