Please pardon me if I'm wrong, but how is replacing health insurance subsidies with "tax credits" going to help people who don't earn enough to pay taxes, or pay for insurance up front? Why is Congress even considering this?
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Please pardon me if I'm wrong, but how is replacing health insurance subsidies with "tax credits" going to help people who don't earn enough to pay taxes, or pay for insurance up front? Why is Congress even considering this?
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The US president was ordered by the courts to use designated funds to FEED qualified citizens and he is FIGHTING TO KEEP THEM HUNGRY
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The US president was ordered by the courts to use designated funds to FEED qualified citizens and he is FIGHTING TO KEEP THEM HUNGRY
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someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
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But sure, more tax cuts for billionaires.
October 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
But sure, more tax cuts for billionaires.
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one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
"O ye, who revel in affluence, see the afflictions of humanity and bestow your superfluity to ease them. Say not, we have suffered also, and thence withold your compassion. What are your sufferings compared to those? Ye have still more than enough left. Act wisely." – Alexander Hamilton, 6 Sept 1772
October 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"O ye, who revel in affluence, see the afflictions of humanity and bestow your superfluity to ease them. Say not, we have suffered also, and thence withold your compassion. What are your sufferings compared to those? Ye have still more than enough left. Act wisely." – Alexander Hamilton, 6 Sept 1772
It's amazing how much a six month old kitten can look like a lioness...
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It's amazing how much a six month old kitten can look like a lioness...
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Breathtaking incompetence www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
October 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Breathtaking incompetence www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Would have thought LXIX (but LIX is very clever 😂)
Part 59 of my pornographic series set in ancient Rome was titled “LIX”
October 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Would have thought LXIX (but LIX is very clever 😂)
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social Would you agree with Rolling Stone's assessment?
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Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
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Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
October 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social Would you agree with Rolling Stone's assessment?
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For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
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Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days.
They have worked 12 days in 3 months.
Epstein Shutdown.
They have worked 12 days in 3 months.
Epstein Shutdown.
October 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days.
They have worked 12 days in 3 months.
Epstein Shutdown.
They have worked 12 days in 3 months.
Epstein Shutdown.
So if Congress is on permanent vacation and the courts are shut down and (presumably) on extended vacation... who can act as a check on Executive power? If tomorrow night Orangelo declares himself king, what are we gonna do, sue? The doors are locked! Congress can't write checks. We are overthrown!
October 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
So if Congress is on permanent vacation and the courts are shut down and (presumably) on extended vacation... who can act as a check on Executive power? If tomorrow night Orangelo declares himself king, what are we gonna do, sue? The doors are locked! Congress can't write checks. We are overthrown!
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Tariff feedback loop
1) set tariffs to encourage manufacturing
2) prices artificially inflated
3) local co's begin manufacturing, sell at inflated prices
4) few can afford it, recession kicks in
5) tariffs removed to stimulate economy & increase profit by using imports
6) rinse and repeat
1) set tariffs to encourage manufacturing
2) prices artificially inflated
3) local co's begin manufacturing, sell at inflated prices
4) few can afford it, recession kicks in
5) tariffs removed to stimulate economy & increase profit by using imports
6) rinse and repeat
October 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Tariff feedback loop
1) set tariffs to encourage manufacturing
2) prices artificially inflated
3) local co's begin manufacturing, sell at inflated prices
4) few can afford it, recession kicks in
5) tariffs removed to stimulate economy & increase profit by using imports
6) rinse and repeat
1) set tariffs to encourage manufacturing
2) prices artificially inflated
3) local co's begin manufacturing, sell at inflated prices
4) few can afford it, recession kicks in
5) tariffs removed to stimulate economy & increase profit by using imports
6) rinse and repeat
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From what I learned (also from private school) - the flip side of this is also meaningful.
The presumption of guilt and punishment enacted by the powerful does not mean one is guilty.
It means simply that one has been deemed an outsider.
And outsiders lose.
The presumption of guilt and punishment enacted by the powerful does not mean one is guilty.
It means simply that one has been deemed an outsider.
And outsiders lose.
Sorry went to private school and seeing too much of this
The presumption of innocence and grace granted by enablers isn’t empathy
It’s moral self indulgence at the expense of others
The presumption of innocence and grace granted by enablers isn’t empathy
It’s moral self indulgence at the expense of others
October 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
From what I learned (also from private school) - the flip side of this is also meaningful.
The presumption of guilt and punishment enacted by the powerful does not mean one is guilty.
It means simply that one has been deemed an outsider.
And outsiders lose.
The presumption of guilt and punishment enacted by the powerful does not mean one is guilty.
It means simply that one has been deemed an outsider.
And outsiders lose.