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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

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The crazy thing about humans is this: We could provide food, water, shelter, healthcare, & education to everyone on earth. The reason we don’t is because we’ve decided to put profits first. That’s it. The acquisition of bits of green paper over all else is a choice. Greed is holding us back.

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Instead of working on the actual content of my new book, I'm designing a cover for it. This, children, is the essence of #Lichtenbergianism: #TaskAvoidance. www.lichtenbergianism.com/task-avoidance

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Write for yourself, write for your loves, write for fun, write for distraction, write for satisfaction, write because someone told you that you couldn't, write because someone else told you that you could, write because you read something amazing that inspired you, write just because.

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Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

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I want science to come up with a pill people can take to contract empathy

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Strategically, I suspect it would be better for Democrats to hammer that Trump’s cognitively unfit, which will infuriate him, than compare him to world autocrats, which he takes as flattery.

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🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: Two men (20s?) are strolling through the centre of town. One's strumming a guitar and is singing snatches of song. The other's armed with notebook and pen and is suggesting phrases and words, scribbling furiously. Lyrics and melodies on the go. (1)

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For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

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This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

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Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.

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Everich rose hath its þ

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We often do not know—once we choose a beginning—what shape our project will take. Often it is beneficial to walk away from it or set it aside to that all its ideas have time to spread and grow, to take shape. #TaskAvoidance #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

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In unrelated news, now is a great time to get in on the ground floor of my new start-up EV manufacturer, which I'm thinking of naming after the great Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla. For further updates, please sign up for X, my new social media site.

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As I told parents of the 3000 students nominated for GHP when they asked what if their child were not one of the 700 finalists, “Not all baby sea turtles make it.” Not all art gets finished. (p.112) #Abandonment

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with my apologies, another #BadEtching... badetchings.blogspot.com/2014/09/drop...

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Protection - who needs your protection? - #MusicVideo #NowPlaying

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"To that end, I have twenty questions for Mr. Rubio, and I encourage all reporters covering him and the State Department to be candid in seeking clarification on what constitutes 'anti-Christian bias' under his new policy..." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/questions-...

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[tw: pet peeve alert] Okay, people, it's not 'blackmail,' it's 'extortion.' What Trump is doing to Lindsey Graham is blackmail; what he's doing with tariffs to countries and corporations is extortion.

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With apologies, another #BadEtching. badetchings.blogspot.com/2014/09/on-b...

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One billion percent tariffs.

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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

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“Well, Dr Franklin, what do we have, a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic… I think… wait… let me refresh my feed again…”

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The WH political director from Trump 1 is my congresscritter, Brian Jack. Nearly 200 days after the election, his reply emails have not changed: "As I get my office in order..." I'm thinking this is incompetent, right?

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About a decade ago I embarked on a project called "Bad Etchings" over at blogspot.com, wherein I took antique illustrations from the Internet Archive Book Images and wrote appalling captions for them. If I can remember, I'll start posting one a day. badetchings.blogspot.com/2014/09/mean...

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I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation

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Has the Supreme Court really become so woke that it's demanding an innocent man be returned from an El Salvador torture prison?

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Has anyone else noticed that Elon Musk does not seem to have sued anyone for libel for describing him as "ketamine-addicted"?

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From my personal blog: www.dalelyles.com/2025/04/11/a... #SocialSecurity

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