Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:
Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%
Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%
This is what a rigged system looks like.
I’m finding that trying to use it effectively is like I’m doing another job on top of my job 😂
Yes! Like usually I do a search and then I’ll get it to double check. Use it on other people’s PRs too 🙏
After 4 days of using Claude Code for work; I find using it to READ code infinitely more useful than using it to WRITE code.
Not sure if that will change as I get back up to speed after a year of parental leave but 🤷♀️
This bribe is more than 4x bigger than all the money that changed hands throughout the entire Teapot Dome episode.
You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.
There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.
“He’s not a war hero. He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” -- President Donald J Trump, July 18, 2015
It is no mystery what Donald Trump really thinks of our servicemembers
They're suckers and losers who he gets to use as pawns in his ego trips
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Textbook corporate greed.
Is it illegal to have a paragraph longer than two sentences in a LinkedIn post? 🤔
It was just 24 days between when Zuck went on Rogan and talked about how "never again" would he suppress info based on gov't demands (misrepresenting those demands) and when he texted top gov't employee Elon Musk to say "we're all set up to take down info you want removed."
I wrote about it here.
JUST IN: Democrats tonight have flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Florida.
And not just any seat: This is the district that contains Mar-a-Lago. (It voted for Trump by 11% in 2024).
That's right: Trump will now be represented by a Democrat, Emily Gregory, in Tallahassee.
👀 👀 👀
in three weeks they have fucked this up so comprehensively that returning to a facsimile of the previous status quo is now the goal
The main goal of the war is to undo the main effect of the war. 🙃
I guess it’s not really stunning … since his brain seems long gone but … woof.
Guy needs a visit from the Ghost of Internet Future.
A stunning lack of self-awareness to be doing victory laps around the dead.
Key profiteers off the Iran War
Awful. A teenager, dead by suicide in an ICE detention center. There is now a crisis of suicide inside the detention system; I have never seen anything like it. Suicide has happened before, but they were very rare. This is the third or fourth this year.
God, fuck this.
Trying to find haircut inspiration on Pinterest and … like 90% of the photos are clearly AI? Maybe even more?
I want to know what the haircuts look like on a real person, goddamn it.
The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining.
A senseless, criminal waste
How to win in November
Markwayne Mullin and Tommy Tuberville doing cable hits all day to see who's the dumbest Republican senator
More than 80% of people consistently cited their preference for permanent daylight savings in polls, there’s a realm of data that says it supports better outcomes, and it’s very fun when a government can say “we control how time works”.
About a slam dunk win as you can get these days.