Taz on the carpet
Taz on the carpet
A Progressive Way to End Corporate Taxes, @deanbaker13.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/o...
“While tens of thousands of employees have lost their jobs in Mr. Trump’s slash-and-burn approach to shrinking the federal work force, experts say the cuts disproportionately affect Black employees — and Black women in particular.” Gift article.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Require airport-style security checks in specific polling places, thereby slowing voting, and insist polling places—again, in specific places—close at scheduled times even though long lines remain.
I usually do my own arranging, but this is from Flying Bear in Langley, WA. I brought in the vase, said the amaranth looks interesting, and left it up to them.
Is he saying Satan is responsible for an entire political party’s idolatrous worship of guns?
There is no line. Initiating Mutual Assured Destruction would be shrugged off by congressional GOP if the alternative were to leave a negotiating tactic unused, thereby tying the president’s hands behind his back.
A mind-set that became terminally ill when Newt Gingrich insisted “No compromise,” took to its deathbed when Mitch McConnell forbade SCOTUS confirmation hearings, and died when the GOP reelected a candidate who refused to recognize results of a presidential election and hints he won’t leave office.
States governments do not pay federal taxes for the state itself. They collect payroll taxes from state employees, but withholding those would screw the employees, who would still owe the taxes.
We don't pay federal taxes to the state government; what is it that the state would be withholding?
Indeed
What is this, 1985? His Beverly Hills friends have third-party stereos mounted in their Range Rovers?
Reality must be made to match the utterances of the leader
With the new approach, how long will the US economy be the “world’s largest”?
Taz found the new blanket
Authentically horrible is better than satirically horrible?
Is the president participating?
They’re here
Weren't the "tyrranical" COVID lockdowns primarily under Trump?
The absence of anything of meaning amid the trinkets is sad
Double Dog Dare
"Anybody in a committed relationship out there in the LGBTQ community, you ought to consider getting married," Clinton said.
Major newspapers need to keep a running tally of instances when the Trump administration pardoned, commuted, stopped investigating, refused to prosecute, etc, convicted or alleged sex criminals and perpetrators of crimes against children
No Line On The Horizon is underrated. Perhaps the most humorous U2 album.
—title character expressing sympathy for persecuted migrant workers in a scene written by Shakespeare in the play “Sir Thomas More”
A tale of two vibes.
Adding insult to injury, President Putin didn’t even say thank you once.
Oregon Grape, Langley,Washington (Whidbey Island)
Since I looked it up: The Bismarck was laid down by the Nazi government in 1936, christened by Hitler himself on Valentine’s Day 1939, and damaged so badly in battle by the Royal Navy in 1941 that the Nazis scuttled her. The ship never saw any other government of Germany.
bsky.app/profile/manm... Ghislane Maxwell is able to leave prison on work release. WTAF?
Joan Didion
It’s called “Documentary”
I thought Batman was the one who wore the mask
Early on, it seemed like there was more equality of reach. Then the people who dominated Twitter transferred their thrones to Bluesky. Totally understandable. They are good at posting. But that reduced the impetus for nobodies like me to post. No?
So the UK can stop waiting to recognize Palestine, now that it’s certain its conditions will not be met? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Promise I’ll be good!
I use a changing array of photos of my dog for desktop backgrounds. This one makes me miss Santa Barbara. I love living on Whidbey Island, but in SB I had a wider array of walks accessible from my front door.
My favorites
Interesting: “Rather than being a cause of job loss in the 00s, rapid productivity growth was the result of the job loss.”
I don’t understand “as we guard others trespass.”
Immediately thought of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's albm cover for It's Blitz!
You ever feel like someone has tweaked the simulation? We've had this painting hanging for 20 years. The artist is unknown, but the condition and what I know of the history makes me think it's from the 1930s. I just today noticed that the dog is wearing a life jacket.
Taz
Lots of berry seeds in the scat on the trail. I assume it comes from coyotes.
Berry season approaches Hammons Preserve, Whidbey Island, WA
Reddy Kilowatt!
Toshi
Former tree
Recently got the GrooveWasher Vinyl Record Cleaning Kit and have been amazed at the results. Records I'd almost given up on sound like new. Maybe cleaning the records would make this much difference regardless of the cleaner; I don't know. But this was easy to use and worked well.
Help me understand “BOTD”
These facts are what make him an ideal choice for Trump and the GOP. He chooses obedience to Trump over rule of law.
I moved from Santa Barbara last year. A court had ruled that a 1980s agreement with the Coastal Commission barred the city from limiting vacation rentals in my neighborhood. Families now compete with businesses for homes, and “neighbors” change every week.
The orangutan is Joe Martin
They are banned in Santa Barbara County and city but people use them anyway.
Not sure why this is marked adult
Could he have been viewing photos of the first lady while contemplating renaming the Kennedy Center Opera House in her honor?
The child has no right to their own identity. The adoptive parent has the right to torture a child who does not fit their religious standard—which is the standard enjoyed by other parents. Not respecting identity never works out well for parents or children. And I say that as a queer adoptee.
I make this during plum season every year and guests rave about it www.epicurious.com/recipes/food...
Paul Simon, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, King Crimson, Stevie Wonder
Is this a photo/scan of a painting?
Young bald eagle bathing in our pool. Adult eagles and owls like that same spot.
Every time I call Walgreens, I must repeatedly tell the AI “you can’t help me” before it finally forwards me to a real person. The “answers” the AI can provide comprise the information available in the app.
He looks perpetually embarrassed by what comes out of his mouth
“A former president is entitled to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his ‘conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority.’"
How’d the “inalienable truth that rich white guys should be allowed to do whatever they want” turn out for Russian oligarchs?
Toshi on the beach
JD Vance discussed the birthday message with Murdoch before it was published in the WSJ, but said “Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it” after publication?
King Toshi
When (some) public broadcasting survives the loss of government funding, won't the GOP come for their assets? Studios, lights, cameras, etc.?
Did they find it on a laptop left at a computer repair shop?
Toshi
We’ve had eagles do it too! This photo is of the same location as the owl video.
We had a barred owl do that recently
Not intentionally, but I like it
We call them Grogu ears
The issue is not which party is better at helping people, but whether government is supposed to help people at all
My favorite model, Toshi
A person who never laughs has freed us all to laugh
Shouldn’t alleged murderers be permitted to carry guns in court until convicted?
Wait. Nick Adams is a real person?
“Land of snap decisions”
Are they transitioning from “citizens will eagerly take jobs previously usurped by immigrants” to “AI or automation will eliminate the need for immigrant labor”?
I have voted for the bill that was in the senate and which I said I was hoping someone would amend in the house Forgive me it was delicious so sweet to the rich and so cold to those on medicaid
We need to get rid of immigrants and cease trade with longterm partners to bring jobs to the USA... for AI
She was supposed to go to college, but not take out student loans
The previous administration relied on the best economists, so now we must completely ignore them
I rarely use baking powder, but needed some today
The electric blue of a Stellar’s Jay feather
They claim the symbol of the Declaration of Independence, like they claim the name and symbols of Christianity, without aligning their thoughts and behavior with either
Does this include people they’d fired and then rehired?
Hasn’t the administration fired anyone who would dare issue a report that questions the administration’s success?
AI will eventually be able to show you
And the bribe is just the icing on the cake. The cake is networks understanding that they are not to displease Donald Trump.
But are they getting Medicaid?
