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I thought this administration was all about transparency…..

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Here’s another way to think about it. We import roughly $3.25 trillion in goods every year. Income tax receipts total roughly $2.2 trillion. So we’d need a universal tariff rate of, give or take, 65% to be able to do away w the IRS. But… 1/2

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People are fleeing Florida and Texas. As of Jan. 2025, those states collectively accounted for over 30% of ALL homes for sale in the US. Florida had 157,221 active listings—the highest in the country—followed by Texas with 102,552. Repressive state governments and rising insurance are to blame.

submitted 6 days ago • 956 comments

I heard of 3 unconfirmed reports in New Mexico as well

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Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.

submitted 10 days ago • 84 comments

“Values are determined by majority rule” Now please vote in this extremely gerrymandered district so your vote can be counted via the electoral college to ensure the winner isn’t determined by popular vote….

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Excuse me while I vent for a moment SHE IS THE APPROPRIATIONS CHAIR. SHE CAN SUBPOENA OFFICIALS, HOLD TELEVISED HEARINGS, HOLD UP ANYONE’S FUNDING, ZERO OUT THE WHITE HOUSE’S FUCKING ICE CREAM AND DIET COKE BUDGET, AND ENFORCE THE APPROPRIATIONS LAWS THAT ARE THE SOURCE OF HER PERSONAL POWER.

submitted 15 days ago • 433 comments

Bit of an experiment for those of you not deep in the weeds of immigration. I’ve got a question for you. Imagine a woman from India with an MA degree. She has a job lined up willing to sponsor her for an immigrant visa. How long do you think it will take to get the visa? Reply below. No googling!

submitted 28 days ago • 264 comments

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

submitted 36 days ago • 505 comments

1/ A recent FB post by a friend from my college years set me off. He was opining that the "National Debt" was so great, there was "no way" to "tax ourselves out of this," and so we should just forget trying to tax the rich and dismantle the government instead.

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NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵

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Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

submitted 89 days ago • 634 comments

Stuffed with turkey, time for the nap. Love this boy

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I will never understand how a billionaire, the richest man on Earth, spent millions to buy an election for ANOTHER billionaire, and told us that his policies would cause all of us non-billionaires “temporary hardship...” ...and the public didn't tell BOTH OF THEM to fuck off.

submitted 100 days ago • 3590 comments

Murray is ready for winter ❄️❄️❄️

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Too much? lol

submitted 101 days ago • 624 comments

That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement

submitted 104 days ago • 86 comments

The US currently has 2% inflation, 4% unemployment, and has seen years of sustained real income growth. Americans are consuming more than ever before in history, eating out more, and taking more vacations. Our information environment is completely broken.

submitted 105 days ago • 36 comments

“Resistance to perpetual violence was an act of terror.”

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

“They are already taking my future! They can’t have the things that mattered to me in the past.”

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“Praying that when they came for us, it’d be a bullet to the head. Because that was far more merciful than what awaited in the bowels of their prison system”

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“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave”

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“If she had done only what a girl was supposed to do until now, she would have no power, no acclaim”

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“You’ve identified so hard with the colonizers, you think any threat to them is a threat to you. When are you going to realize you can’t be one of them?”

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid Nymph then a virgin, nurse then a servant Just an appendage, live to attend him So that he never lifts a finger 24∕7, baby machine So he can live out his picket fence dreams It's not an act of love if you make her You make me do too much labour

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

I will not be returning my shopping cart for the next 4 years

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