Jen Taub

📌 Kvelling here. A glowing review by @JamesStewartNYT of BIG DIRTY MONEY appears in print in the New York Times Book Review on page 10 today, Sunday, November 29, 2020. @nytimesbooks @VikingBooks

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

Horrific racism

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

“Billionaires who popularized stock-based lending include Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Both borrow to avoid having to sell shares—which could trigger a taxes and dilute their voting rights—in companies they founded.” www.wsj.com/finance/the-...

HUGE, GOOD NEWS: In total reversal from Friday’s stonewalling, perjury-flirting “status report,” ICE now says it has secured a one-way travel document so Ahmed Soliman can return to the US via a commercial flight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit rules 2-1 to dismiss DOJ's effort to force California to remove 20,000 purported noncitizens from the voter rolls based on data CA officials view as faulty. Majority: Bennett (Trump) Sanchez (Biden) Minority: Bumatay (Trump) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We’re demanding Meta provide answers after the No Kings Coalition’s Instagram account was temporarily suspended in the middle of a nationwide day of action. The company must explain what went wrong and make sure this doesn’t happen again. Read more: https://ow.ly/yHgk5101aNt

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

Guys, Paolo may have been lying. Huh.

Why are Rapublicans so obsessed with everyone’s private parts?

He's so close

Fitting for any Republican candidate. Donald Trump, their leader, is an adjudicated sex offender and convicted fraudster

“Also included in the ad were a few shots of the woman's husband Vernon Edwards, who was convicted of gross sexual imposition in 2006 for molesting several of his nieces under the age of 13.” They have since used CGI to edit him out. He can’t even vet an ad. How is he going to be my governor?

It wasn’t a dumb question. It was a rhetorical question so it is dumb to answer it.

Serbia to Trump: Drop Dead.

SHOW ME THE DOCUMENTS>>>>> We did something sort of crazy at The NYT this year, as we look for ways to dig into what has happened at the Environmental Protection Agency since Trump returned to the White House. We collected more than 466,200 pages of federal and state documents.....

exchange between a right wing Brazilian congressman and a left wing congressman is pretty brutal for the former

…. and in Detroit, the Lions won

The owners of Elvis Presley’s music sued Anthropic, saying it trained its AI models on more than 200 of Presley’s songs without permission, accusing it of copyright infringement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/a...

This isn't hyperbole or a joke. Parents actually called the cops and got the black boy and his family removed and the league claimed they were trespassing because he was "putting on a show" and wasn't playing "fair."

Basic PR pro-tip: Never repeat the accusations against you word for word in your own voice.

I recommend Early Voting in person, if available.

Incredible gender difference in voting intention in Brazil.

I keep seeing posts from Republicans pretending to be insulted by Barack Obama's Cheesecake Factory quip because most Americans supposedly think it serves haute cuisine. First, it does not. And you know that. Second, his remark wasn't about the food. It was about the over-the-top golden decor.

Huge event. Failed Jared Kushner/Trump luxury hotel project planned for Belgrade played a role in starting expanded protests against Vucic.

Check out how easy this is.

it literally does?

excuse me ‘obama’ but our nation’s proudest and most toothless yokels think of the cheesecake factory as a sort of high end golden corral which fyi means a lot in their culture. i know this because a lot of them used to janitor for my young republicans meetings at yale

Humbled to have the 44th president with us in our movement to demand more for working people in Michigan. Change is in the air. 🤝

VOTE THEM OUT

Lula Goes HARD

Lula is to my left. Magyar is to my right. And I don’t care in the slightest, because they are the candidates of democracy against autocracy.

VOTE

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

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The Justice Department represents the United States of America, not the president. That’s what White House counsel is for. 

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Quite the headline

This is an excellent read! Please give this article from JoJo From Jerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social a few moments of your time today. It's very enlightening. #VivekRamaswamy #AmyActon My Mother Gave Me A Scar. Vivek Would Have Handed Her a Microphone jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/my-mother-...