Build denser housing around transit. Thatās a no brainer. apple.news/ANNmTn37yRVG...
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Build denser housing around transit. Thatās a no brainer. apple.news/ANNmTn37yRVG...
Anyone not willing to support a gay or trans kid is not ready to be a parent.
Every Tesla driver should read this. After another deadly failure of āFull Self Drivingā mode, hereās how Tesla handed the critical data about the crash: - uploaded data to their private server - tried to delete the local copy - claimed they couldnāt find the data apple.news/AdowqT89QRSK...
Well isnāt this lovely. Opera star sings Habanera (from Carmen) in the airport (?) What a terrific voice. #opera I donāt care if theyāre staged, we need more profl free public #music and #art.
Project 2025: Fascist Christian Nationalism.
Good read. āThe top 499 wealthiest Americans tax rates were lower than the average paid by all American households.ā We are all getting screwed by billionaires. apple.news/AXKKehGMgSUG...
Vance: āIf you go back to WWII, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation.ā Narrator: āWorld War II ended with Hitlerās suicide, two atomic bombs, and Germany & Japanās unconditional surrender.ā Does he know anything about anything?
They only painted the USA side of the wall black. You know, to keep Americans from climbing into Mexico. And, of course, thatās the North side of the wall, you know, the side that sits in the shade. ššš
Painting the Northern side black to, you know, absorb heat from the sun.. š
Thatās fine if itās in addition to a progressive income tax. Those sources alone wouldnāt cover our current government spending. Zero political chance, however, that weāll add these āwealthā or āassetā taxes. But go for it.
āAs Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writes in a partial dissent, the decision is āCalvinball jurisprudence,ā KBJ is a force!! apple.news/AhckRLrbGSXy...
Ghislaine lies as easily as TACO. Her statement is 100% BS.
The AI-bros are always pitching a UBI to make up for their planned destruction of all jobs. But whoās going to pay for that? Not the AI-Bros; I mean how will they become trillionaires if they need to pay taxes? š apple.news/AWSS2xOp7Q6a...
Love the fact that he got mad only after watching the male cheerleader āover and over againā. Dude. š
I now NEED to see this in the Winter Olympics. š
This is A+ trolling
Allowing someone with addiction or mental health issues to sleep in the street, where theyāre exposed to drug dealers and assault, is NOT compassion. Compel housing, healthcare, and detox (not jail). What would you do for your kid? www.npr.org/2025/08/13/n...
Best summary of US trade deficits I've read yet! "Despite Trump's fixation with eliminating the trade deficit, his policies are distinctly counterproductive." www.piie.com/blogs/realti... @piie.com
He will deploy the National Guard in every single city with a Democratic mayor. (Especially if that mayor is female or non-white.) This is how they plan to keep power.
Antoni is a joke. No one will trust a single number he published. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Let Texas redistrict. Let them. To increase the number of seats, theyāll have to make each seat more at risk. If 14% of GOP voters changed their votes, the Dems would GAIN not lose seats in Texas in the mid-terms. Make my day.
Tariffs: - Increase taxes on the middle-class - Subsidize tax breaks for billionaires - Invite corruption and bribery
Hereās some other ideas: - Revoke non-profit for entities that pay any exec over $1M/yr - Tax inheritance like ordinary income - Remove the contribution cap to Social Security, while not raising the max pay-out - Include non-salary income in Social Security tax calculations - Same for MediCare
Markās right: Taking all the cash from all the billionaires wonāt pay our debt. But raising their tax rates, treating cap-gains like ordinary income, removing the negative tax rate on pass-through entities will start to rebalance the wealth.
The GOP gerrymandering is horrible. But the shape of the district is the wrong metric. The GOP wins in rural areas which gives them an advantage in compact, or ānatural lookingā, maps. Citizen committees should draw maps. Voters choose representatives. Representatives donāt choose voters.
Not surprising: The GOP is full-on pro-pedophilia at this point.
āTariffs are part of a package of policies that will massively redistribute income from the have-nots to the haves.ā open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Meeting Putin in Alaska will just emphasize that Putin has threatened to invade Alaska to restore āits former place in the Russian Empire.ā Trump got played; again. apple.news/AT6eLRZBOSym...
Universities are handling the Trump threats like idiots. Donāt give in. Go to court. apple.news/A32LyMX-oRV6...
Dems should fight on every front. If Texas steals 5 seats, Dem states should redistrict 30 GOP members out of their districts. We should insist DOJ release the entire Epstein File. Not only shouldn't we bring knives to a gun fight, if they bring pistols, we should bring machine guns.
Hiring and firing the CEO is literally the only real job the BOD has. āI canāt be wondering if Iām going to be tossed out for political reasons by activists. That would be unacceptable.ā - Tesla CEO, MechaHitler apple.news/AIrF0ONTfSBG...
āTrump isnāt waging a trade war against other countries, instead, heās waging a class war against middle- and lower-income Americans in favor of the wealthy.ā open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Hereās the choice: Force every state to let citizens draw districts or let CA be 52D-0R.
Letās do it!!!
Letās do it!!!! Fire with fire.
And we're officially at the end of being able to trust the jobs numbers in this country ever again.
North Korean level BS. apple.news/Ae3B2qZINTPa...
Iām shocked someone hasnāt already just released it.
Teslaās āRobotaxiā is pathetic! apple.news/A0GjfAfXnSle...
Kevin OāLeary is in the Epstein files. Cuz of course he is.
For those keeping track, weāve now gone from: The Epstein Files are on my desk > The Epstein Files donāt exist > Someone might have planted my name in the Epstein Files. Gonna be wild watching MAGA defend him for pardoning Maxwell.
Midwest MAGA farmers arenāt going to like Jr. kicking corn-based sweetener out of our foods. But they voted for it, so live with it.
All of the GOPās policies slow growth. - Tariffs - Deporting immigrants - Denying student visas - Lowering research funding - Vaccine skepticism - Cutting Medicaid These policies will lower GDP growth. For DECADES!
Up is down -- Russ Vought claims "the patience that the president has demonstrated toward Chairman Powell is in fact a defense of Fed independence"
Not the worse thing he does, but cheating at golf should have been a deal breaker. š
The reason why sexual assault/abuse/exploitation is not reported: š People do not believe the victim š The perp has connections with local LE š Reporting it ends up in victim blaming š Reporting an assault has more risks than benefits
Small benefit: Thereās a good chance that AI will forever render JD weirdly. Just too much content for it to guess what he really looks like. š
This is the stupidest lie ever. Zero chance āevery file they have has been shown to a grand jury.ā
So that will, by definition, increase the trade deficit. Trade deficit ~= Foreign investment. If the EU actually (š) invests $600B more in the USA that will increase the trade deficit. Not a debate. Just math. (But math is woke, right?)
Agreed. But even simpler would be to give Medicaid to everyone who doesnāt have other health insurance. Simple.
A decade ago.
Even MechaHitler thinks Trumpās an idiot.
Itās time to listen to the girls and women he assaulted. Listen. Again. Carefully. open.substack.com/pub/abbeynee...
Deep article on the history of the chip industry and why building chips in the USA isnāt trivial. open.substack.com/pub/howardyu...
Math is too woke for TACO. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Red herring. āTrump knows SDNY prosecutors didnāt ask questions about him in their grand jury presentations while he was POTUS. Itās a red herring to distract from the evidence that matters: witness interview notes, videos, photos, etc.,ā apple.news/AxKkvakGAQGG...
āRural stations ā often in red states ā depend heavily on federal funding to survive, unlike stations in larger markets that can better tap donations from listeners with money to spare.ā The GOP are all idiots. apple.news/AAKdxVsDXSo2...
Colbert should run for President. Worked for Zelensky.
āāThe Late Show's' cancelation is a bribe, sacrificing free speech to curry favor with the Trump Administration as the company looks for merger approval." Best show on TV. But billionaires gotta make more billions. š¤® apple.news/ACRJfMOHBQ1q...
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Truly idiots!! āNo water, no sewer, little electricity.ā apple.news/AQC6vgWBkQVK...
TACOās tariffs are a tax on the middle class to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.
REPORTER: Will you commit to include California in any disaster aid package? MIKE JOHNSON: We've not seen the formal disaster relief request from California yet REPORTER: The formal request was sent to your office in February
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Meiselas: Mar-A-Lago was used as the grounds in cases to sex traffic underage girls. And this isn't me being conspiratorial... it's documented.
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āGrok partly formulated its answer by searching the internet for statements by Musk.ā Now we know why Grok is a Nazi. š apple.news/A0u1smMywRTO...
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Exactly! If youāre posting on Xwitter, youāre just training Nazi AI.
I think the Bible is pretty consistent that one shouldnāt have sex with children. So Iād assume that until we hear otherwise.
Says the dude in his underwear.
$50B āstabilizationā fund is paying hospitals to NOT help patients. Idiotic and cruel.
Ask Dr. MAGA whether his kids have set their career goals on factory work. š
Perhaps they need to resign from ICE. I hear there are plenty of job openings picking strawberries.
Brazil exports 2% of GDP to the USA. They can, and should, tell TACO to go F himself.
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Itās bad. Very bad. But, Iām hoping this paves the way to - MediCare for all who want itā (RE Pete) - Tax capital gains as ordinary income - Stop subsidizing pass through entities
Sounds like we should be calling the Oxnard police to report any sighting of masked men with guns. Right?
And Iām glad Iām not named William.
āThree Democrats put Redstone on notice that settling the caseāin an effort to smooth the mergerācould put the company at risk of violating bribery laws.ā Damn straight. Everyone who pays TACO should be prosecuted for bribery one the rule of law is reestablished. apple.news/A5tMIRXxZT8W...
Peteās right (as always). open.substack.com/pub/petebutt...
Their voters will believe them. This bill, as gross as it is, will be praised on Faux News. MAGA believes only what their Faux god tells them. And the cuts donāt happen until just after the midterms. This bill will pass, will become popular with MAGA, and will allow them to keep congress. š
Trump owns Elon. Trump can kill Tesla and SpaceX with an executive order and his investors know it. Elonās an idiot.
Over half the babies born in rural areas get Medicare. Is that the waste, fraud, and abuse theyāre cutting for billionaire tax breaks?
Or it shows the danger of letting billionaires decide how they want to spend taxpayers dollars. (Via tax deductions.) Letās tax the billionaires and let US citizens decide how to spend it.
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So to offset the impact of cutting Medicare on rural hospitals, the GOP wants to give those hospitals $25B for NOT providing care. Cut healthcare for the poor, but still pay hospitals executives. Idiotic. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
President TACO sure seems like President Sharpie.
Grok wasnāt Nazi enough for Elon. š
CA should prosecute.
āName and badge numberā should be the first thing off our lips.
Cause Grok isnāt Nazi enough. š
Sorry, but screw the farmers. They are the largest exploiters of illegal immigrants in the country and yet they mostly voted for TACO; specifically to hurt immigrants. They expect TACO to bail them out again with direct subsidies from taxpayers.
š Saving Social Security is easy if the uber wealthy paid the same percentage of their income, including dividends and capital gains, that ordinary Americans do. Letās get it done.
Stand your ground. Fight back.