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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.

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Two of Rep. Trevor Lee's former bosses say he's a con man. Lee allegedly: ✅ Committed check fraud in 2013 ✅ Borrowed $93K from an employer he was secretly undercutting ✅ Offered to leverage his Capitol seat to wipe out the debt Read more: utahpolitics.news/two-of-rep-t...

Erica Payne, founder of @patrioticmillionaires.org: "Doing it around the edges is what got us this freak show in the WH sending out memes about him being Jesus & getting in a fight with the Pope in a country that prides itself on the separation of church and state. For heaven's sake! Enough already"

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/

RFK Jr’s conspiracy approach to medicine will kill people, now and in the future

My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents. When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

The very definition of evil is incarcerating for life in one of the worst hellholes on Earth men who did everything right. But it’s beyond evil—beyond demonic—to then not try to do anything to save the men you consigned to Hell, *and* to in fact libel and slander them daily when they cannot reply.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - Frank Wilhoit

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Trump Argues Toy Shortages Easily Overcome By Making Servants Dance

The alluring claim of the wellness industry is that doctors only understand treating disease, whereas wellness focuses on prevention And yet they are obsessed with attacking two therapies that have prevented more deaths than any other medical interventions in history – statins and vaccines

Moscow has had its clutches on Trump for my entire adult life. Just weeks after returning from the Soviet Union as their guest in 1987, Trump spent more than $100,000 for a series of full page ads in the NYT & other big papers. He called for ending defense alliances unless they paid for protection.

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Fentanyl is very much like a weapon of mass destruction in the sense that Republicans like to lie about finding it and then use that lie as a justification to do ruinous, destructive things

Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children. He's a eugenicist. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Disappeared: Mahmood Khalil Disappeared count: 1 Khalil was a Columbia University graduate student, US permanent resident, and husband of a US citizen detained by order of the White House on 3/9/2025. He spoke out against the Israeli government, which is believed to be the reason he was targeted.

Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.

The US built the post war global order. We are now this uncanny paradox, historically inexplicable, angry rebels against our own hegemony.

An underrated part of this video is you can watch the Dow go down in real time in the bottom right

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.

DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

At this point the U.S. Constitution is in danger of becoming something like a restraining order, only stopping violence if everyone involved believes in its power, ineffective against those who believe more in their right to rage.

Musk is rumored to spend $40M on Super Bowl ads with his wildly distorted claims attacking USAID. Don’t believe them. The last round are debunked below. wapo.st/3ErHBZM And I'll unpack the reality in this 🧵, too. 1/13

Remember what Trump did to the USPS? Next in line are other agencies filled with experts and professional public servants. FDA, OSHA, USDA, NOAA, etc. Next year when hurricane season hits, he won’t need the Sharpie.