Jamie

Washington Post Headline: What Trump Wants From The Rest Of The World. Correct answer not in the article: Bribes

for decades, the right wing has wanted to replace the income tax with a sales tax because it shifts the tax burden towards lower income earners. Tariffs are a sales tax and coupled with massive tax relief for the wealthiest, it does just that

Lawyers arguing that lawyers should be punished for offering constitutional representation should themselves be disbarred.

It's almost as if there ought to be process that's, I don't know, due.

A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.

If Trump defunds any state, (college system, transportation, etc), that state should organize a federal tax protest where state residents pay their tax into escrow held by the state. With no irs Agents, what's he going to do about it?

It's taking longer than expected to redact all the Trump connections from the Epstein files. This is my theory for the release delays.

This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨‍🔬🧬🖥️

🧪 Graduate student admissions paused and cut back as universities react to Trump orders on research via @statnews.com

You had it right the first time.

Trump is openly punishing Zelensky for not giving in to Trump's attempt to extort him for mineral rights.

NOAA will replace all their equipment and people with a weather stone. If Trump says it's wet, it's raining. If Trump says it's warm, it's sunny.

I just read Fox News online after reading the NYT. The psychedelic fiction most of the country is hearing is so disconnected from reality it's hard to imagine there will ever be a reckoning for the atrocities Mump is carrying out on the country we've built.

On a lighter note, is it I snowblowed or I snowblew?

CSN's Long Time Gone is my current protest anthem for this time. It's going to take time and endurance to get this ship back on course

Trump’s vengeance machine is even more dangerous than it was before. He's effectively the mob boss who keeps his hands clean while others do his dirty work. Some thoughts.

Take Musk's heart ... Please

Susan Collins maintains her perfect record of only voting against Trump when her vote doesn't matter. If she is ever the deciding vote against Trump, I'll be completely shocked.

In his first term, Trump secured the title of worst US president in history. Today shows he's trying in his second term for the international title.

Science, The Constitution and basic humanity abolished as crime family takes over US government.

It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter

No one voted for Musk and he's attempting to dictate terms and strong arm all branches of government to satisfy his own whims. We must reject is authoritarian oligarchy.

This addresses both the excess of healthcare profit and the excess duty to shareholders that grew in the eighties. Both of these can be reversed with enough political will. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

It's astounding how the anti-immigrant crime narrative has taken over, despite this: We've had the fastest increase in the immigrant share of the population in decades, and the fastest ever decline in the US homicide rate.

Every "fact" has context, language, process and tools from which it arose. So does every believable lie.