Charles Engelke

A wealth tax may be too complicated to create, but we can *certainly* treat borrowing against assets as a sale followed by a repurchase for tax purposes, killing this popular dodge. www.wsj.com/finance/the-...

I manage several @googleworkspace.bsky.social accounts. Perhaps you'd be so good as to tell me *which* workspace account this message is for? Because I have no idea otherwise.

Can this 50 page report finally matter? Will anybody finally realize that Trump is a violent rapist, including of underage girls? Will he FINALLY LOSE SUPPORT? Of course, these are only allegations at this point and we should be skeptical. But I believe every. single. one.

I said I'd subscribe to WSJ for their good reporting if they'd let me conceal the headlines for their idiotic editorials. Well, they won't, but I did anyway. And sure enough, after United's CEO endorsed a wealth tax and nearly 100% inheritance task recently, I was faced with a painfully stupid one:

After seeing the outrageous ad with Amy Acton's mother, I wondered how old she (the mother) is. AI search to the rescue!

I wanna hold your hand for tax purposes

First day of early voting in Georgia! (And a new "I voted" sticker, replacing the stupid "I secured my vote" one.)

Here's a story about how Republican gerrymandering and the Democratic establishment defeated one of the challengers I supported in Florida. Elijah Manley was defeated by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the epitome of entrenched establishment politicians. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Just asked Google Cloud about "super intelligence". Glad to report that it doesn't (yet) recognize that term, despite Sundar groveling to Trump. I'm glad I'm no longer a Googler - the company lost what passes for a corporation's soul years ago.

I was called for jury duty on a death penalty case, and the attempt to "death qualify" me killed any possible acceptance of executions. Want to execute somebody? Duct tape a pound of C4 to the back of their head and set it off. They won't feel a thing. Too messy for you? THEN DON'T EXECUTE PEOPLE.

Imagine being the worst Senator from Missouri when your only competition is Josh Hawley…

Man, I wish I could sign up for the @jococruise.bsky.social thanks to their adding Simone Giertz. But I can't. Because I'm already signed up!

17 years older, and it's down to 2 for me. And only because of news stories about their controversies. Which I don't know anything about, either.

Why did the unnamed negative political group send this to us? My wife's name is White, but she would never vote for a Republican! Oh, I get it. They sent it to "The White Household". I hadn't realized Trump had issued another executive order directing USPS to preference delivery by race!

"Unitary Executive" is just a longer way to say "Dictator".

Dolly’s final gift. At a time of extreme ugliness and hate, she has inspired an outpouring of love. It’s still out there, folks. Nowadays, that can be easy to forget.

True. And this is also why we should be happy along with sad today, because she lived a great, full life, contributing joy and lifting up others. And set things up so that even after passing she continues to help others. A third of a billion books given to children so far is almost the least of it.

Did the DOJ actually use the word "deportment" here? Or is the Brunswick (GA) News's headline writer vocabulary-impaired? Yes, this saves a letter over "deportation" but it doesn't mean the same thing at all! thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_n...

The reemergence of completely open racism, bigotry of all kinds, and even Nazi-ism is horrible. Muslims have done nothing to deserve this hatred. People point to extremists, forgetting that EVERY RELIGION and almost every philosophy has had extremists. It doesn't make their mainstreams evil!

Okay, @mcuban.bsky.social, this would require more taxes, ideally diverting current healthcare expenditures to them, but do you think it would work? Our current system is clearly extremely wasteful - is there enough waste to just cover everyone instead?

A lot of people are making fun of this headline because Trump is so unpopular. They misunderstand. The "art" in defending him isn't SUCCEEDING in defending him, it's KEEPING A STRAIGHT FACE while "defending" the indefensible. And Leavitt is the all time GOAT at that.

Dear Google (and @developers.google.com, etc.): they way you have decided to tie Messages for Web to my PHONE is idiotic. The WHOLE POINT of Messages for Web is to use when I DON'T have my phone to hand! This product manager is absolutely NOT as smart as they think they are.

There are just two more months in the primary calendar! For this penultimate month, I'm donating $1000 to Kaela Berg, running for Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District. She's a flight attendant and a union leader, is a Minnesota State Rep and ready to shake up the US House. kaelaforcongress.com

I wish local Amazon logistics managed deliveries better. Almost every delivery starts out this way: - Out for delivery by 11:30 - Now between noon and 1:30 - Now between 2 and 4 - and now? Between 4:15 and 6:15 Sometimes they go to between 9 PM and 11 before giving up and saying "tomorrow". Maybe.

@svdate.bsky.social I liked your novels. Any chance of bringing the backlist out in ebook form?

Tried watching Trump speaking, but I couldn't follow any of it. Run-on sentences, non-sequiturs, slurred words, and a droning monotone. How will this push his followers? I guess his operatives will come up with sound bytes and claim he said them.

UTC only for the win. If we're going to uncouple the idea of 12 noon having the sun near zenith, then let's go all the way. New Yorkers, who seem to start work late anyway, can head the office around 15:00Z. While we're out, ISO 8601 date formats for EVERYTHING.

This was my first thought, too. Maybe I'm a bad person? Maybe not.

Schrödinger's senator. www.cbsnews.com/news/mitch-m...

When elected officials swear to uphold the constitution, I want them to do it in writing, reading each paragraph out loud in public and initializing each one in blood (okay, in indelible ink). They should at least KNOW what they are swearing an oath to. It's clearly the only way they will.

"House Democrats were staggered by the loss of yet another one of their long-time colleagues", 68 year old, 15 term incumbent Diana DeGette. Time for comfortable long-term incumbents to retire. You should be there to serve, not benefit yourself, says this 70 year old. www.axios.com/2026/07/01/m...