We call them bouncy castles here in the UK. Bounce house sounds like a brothel.

Democrats Have a Tax Problem. They’re Solving It Wrong. Cory Booker and other Democrats want to expand the standard deduction. A $375/mo Standard Tax Credit would put $4,500 a year in every American's pocket—and reach those deductions leave behind

It's Tax Day so it's time to dive into why Democrats should not be pushing for a larger standard deduction and should instead be pushing to replace it with a fully refundable $4,500 standard credit that can be received monthly (a small $375/mo UBI) in advance like the 2021 expanded child tax credit.

When some gold bug goes off about the Federal Reserve I usually agree and suggest instead we should have a bank who, in emergencies, will be a lender of last resort, lending money freely at a high rate of interest, against good collateral.

Oof.

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Tapping the sign.

The only correct definition of progressive is my exact set of policy preferences.

Also Newsom is kind of a, IDK, slime ball?

Guess a number between zero and jail.

Are You Playing Dungeons & Dragons or Doing Your Taxes? “The rules are constantly being updated, but they’re still shackled to a system from the 1970s.”

1. Your goal is to retrieve your treasure from a monstrous entity.

2. All you need is a pen and paper, but expensive software makes it much easier.

3. The rules are constantly being updated, but they’re still shackled to a system from the 1970s.

Congratulations, Macklemore!🥳

It was hard to imagine a worse outcome than a Iranian blockade of the Strait. Some how the Republicans managed to think of one: An American blockade.

How does that work, the US fires on Chinese and Pakistani ships?

Lake Sturgeon spawning

After disappearing from the Milwaukee River in the early 20th century due to overfishing and habitat loss, the new discovery of an adult sturgeon 20 miles upstream from Lake Michigan is a milestone in a massive restoration project that’s been underway for 20 years www.wuwm.com/lake-sturgeo...

Watched the splash with my 7yo. Pretty cool.

Arguably, the North Korean arch is actually more restrained and tasteful.

And a video game.

The UKs primary rival is Russia. US is asking them to sail to asia when they're in a low intensity war in Europe and subs are lurking the north sea. I'm not sure they really care if Iran becomes a regional hegemon.

Probably seems like that's an Arab / us problem.

"...They are committing the American people to the use of force in that area, since only by force can a Jewish state in Palestine be established or maintained.” The commission thereby accurately predicted the course of the subsequent century.
― Rashid Khalidi

NEET!

Peace without victory is better than war without end.

"Mr. President, we and you ought not now to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war."

-N. Khrushchev

If the oil moves, they're going to declare victory and take their hand off the stove. Probably just pretend Iran doesn't have a bomb in 2028.

Really a bad time to discover you're agoraphobic.

Big "God will sort them" energy.

I'm really starting to question my 3rd vote for Trump.

We did learn though. And now we learn that learning was just a prelude for forgetting.

Hallelujah!

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

Wikipedia screenshot: Exercise action Photo of Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper Red, commanded by retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper, adopted an asymmetric strategy. In particular, Red utilized old methods to evade Blue's sophisticated electronic surveillance network: Van Riper simulated using motorcycle messengers to transmit orders to front-line troops and World-War-II-style light signals to launch airplanes without radio communications in the model. Red received an ultimatum from Blue, essentially a surrender document, demanding a response within 24 hours. Thus warned of Blue's approach, Red used a fleet of small boats to determine the position of Blue's fleet by the second day of the exercise. In a preemptive strike, Red launched a massive salvo of cruise missiles that overwhelmed the Blue forces' electronic sensors and destroyed sixteen warships: one aircraft carrier, ten cruisers and five of Blue's six amphibious ships. An equivalent success in a real conflict would have resulted in the deaths of over 20,000 service personnel. Soon after the cruise missile offensive, another significant portion of Blue's navy was "sunk" by an armada of small Red boats, which carried out both conventional and suicide attacks that capitalized on Blue's inability to detect them as well as expected.

Just thinking about the US military exercise Millennium Challenge 2002 which simulated a US war against a country like Iraq/Iran that was cancelled & restarted after the US general in charge of the defender used asymmetric tactics & a cruise missile attack from small boats to 'sink' 16 US warships