There’s a virus in our tax system.
A stealth virus, it was embedded in America’s economic DNA for a century, biding its time. And then we created those conditions, unleashing it to infect our institutions of culture and democracy, replicate, and burst forth to infect anew.
An oligarchy virus.
Love your breakdown! This is what good writing can inspire. I mean, I heard & was all "YEAH! WHY AREN'T THEY FIGHTING?!" And then I remembered I live in the US & I hear this all the time & I think "we are fighting, the question is HOW are we fighting." So...yeah. I felt this on a personal level too.
Politico headline: "Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal" Residents of a St. Louis suburb turned out in droves to unseat four incumbents just days after the council approved a development agreement for a $6 billion data center.
Energy policy think tanks keep putting out proposals like "give Mark Zuckerberg sole control over our utility rates by making him America's next grid czar" and the people in Everytown, America are like "go ahead and fuckin try"
To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.
The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
That is how we will pay for it.
This is for my parents. I'm afraid they won't get the care they need because of the ridiculous American healthcare system that wrings dollars out of people then leaves them high & dry when they need help. If you can help by donating and/or signal boosting, thanks.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-glend...
The greed is wild. Apple is worth nearly $4 trillion but can't tolerate a single store with unionized workers because they're so against workers getting what they deserve.
The Arts and Sciences are peak human being. Without them, we are nothing.
Science is good. We should fund it.
watching NASA hit a very specific target in the big big ocean with a vehicle that just came back from outer space at 25,000mph definitely has me reflecting on the charter bus company that couldn't get me to a bus station
I mean yes, but...it's mostly men. Can we not try to divert from that reality?
Reminder: All the amazing high quality video you’re seeing from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters
youtu.be/GvJtVOmFs5Q?...
I cannot overstate how nice it is for things to go exactly as planned. The total absence of drama involved in landing #artemis is healing my soul. Nothing ad hoc, nothing panicked, just calm smooth efficiency.
We can have nice things.
Welcome back, Integrity!! Pay attention kids, you can't ChatGPT your way into this kinda awesomeness!!! #ArtemisII #Integrity
Can we just...stop electing men for a while? I am so tired of this shit.
Move slow and fix things
For a start you need to get informed abt Prairieland. People making noise outside an ICE detention center hit with "ant!fa" terrorism charges. This is intended to have a cooling effect. If you can't care about this I don't expect you got what it takes to really resist
prairielanddefendants.com
"Why don't Americans..." they do. There's brave acts happening out of sight everyday.
Why don't YOU support them when they get arrested or provide material cover for them?
If you read one thread today, make it this one.
I fear we're mere hours from "This is just the language of New York real estate, that's how they do deals, why don't you get that?" pieces about Iran.
Fuck that.
You saw what you saw. He posted those words. None of this can ever be normalized.
Yeah, we've had a LOT of rough days with this psychopath as president, but this one is just beyond. Him and Bibi both can walk the fuck off a cliff. They're both nuts.
I’ve researched the entire history that led to the 25th Amendment and what followed and wrote about all of it nearly a decade ago.
Since then — and, in part, due to its limits and complications — I’ve only called for Section 4 to be invoked on two dates: January 6, 2021, and today.
A man and 3 children are sitting around a fire. The man's business suit is tattered as he tells the children, "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
This has never felt as real as it does right now.
After Trump's latest genocidal utterances, I'm posting this again from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
I mean, I live in a deep red state and we keep trying. But our congress members are so deep in the kool-aid for power. It's vile.
This is terrifying. Not gonna lie.
The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.
books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.
reconstructing all knowledge of the Before Times by asking the last remaining computer terminal found beneath the rubble if it will explain human civilization before making me a burrito bowl
