NapoleonXII
@crashingbore.bsky.social
Twitter refugee looking for a better (online) life. #Comics #Vinyl #Music #Poker #Games
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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What you want from a functional, thriving superpower is every reporter in the country spending all day combing through a cache of documents that all say, more or less, “hi [rich ruling class person], it was good seeing you last week for all the child sex crimes!”
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
What you want from a functional, thriving superpower is every reporter in the country spending all day combing through a cache of documents that all say, more or less, “hi [rich ruling class person], it was good seeing you last week for all the child sex crimes!”
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The thing about Donald Trump is that not only is he a pedophile and convicted felon, he’s also a shitty president.
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The thing about Donald Trump is that not only is he a pedophile and convicted felon, he’s also a shitty president.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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Primary the lot.
Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Primary the lot.
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
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Democrats are so inspiring, man. The consistency with which they fail to meet the moment. I don’t know that I could ever lock in like that
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Democrats are so inspiring, man. The consistency with which they fail to meet the moment. I don’t know that I could ever lock in like that
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I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them
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all these "I'm voting no! statements" from senators are empty bullshit to me unless they are calling for new leadership and shunning each coward caver and swearing to make their life half the living hell they just put their constituents through for no reason
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
all these "I'm voting no! statements" from senators are empty bullshit to me unless they are calling for new leadership and shunning each coward caver and swearing to make their life half the living hell they just put their constituents through for no reason
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If your position is that Democrats have no choice but to agree, than you are impliedly admitting the Democrats are no longer an opposition party because the cost of opposition is too high, and we are effectively a one party fascist state.
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If your position is that Democrats have no choice but to agree, than you are impliedly admitting the Democrats are no longer an opposition party because the cost of opposition is too high, and we are effectively a one party fascist state.
Furloughed-but-excepted federal employee working for free here...DO. NOT. CAVE. Our sisters and brothers relying on members of Congress to hold the line against injustice deserve to be heard. Do NOT let this sacrifice be for nothing. #GovernmentShutdown
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Furloughed-but-excepted federal employee working for free here...DO. NOT. CAVE. Our sisters and brothers relying on members of Congress to hold the line against injustice deserve to be heard. Do NOT let this sacrifice be for nothing. #GovernmentShutdown
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"HEY CHUCK! FIGHT DON'T FOLD!"
@bkindivisible.bsky.social turning out across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment in brooklyn
@bkindivisible.bsky.social turning out across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment in brooklyn
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"HEY CHUCK! FIGHT DON'T FOLD!"
@bkindivisible.bsky.social turning out across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment in brooklyn
@bkindivisible.bsky.social turning out across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment in brooklyn
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
This...is absolutely my new favorite cartoon of all time. Fuck outta here, Gary Larson, you been replaced.
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This...is absolutely my new favorite cartoon of all time. Fuck outta here, Gary Larson, you been replaced.
Can confirm...
The amount of extra work that federal employees are having to do right now (with no pay) just to make up for the incompetence of the GOP in Congress is quite stunning.
November 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Can confirm...
...we made Carter divest from a fucking peanut farm 50 years ago. What even are we as a country anymore?
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
...we made Carter divest from a fucking peanut farm 50 years ago. What even are we as a country anymore?
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i often think about how the us could have been an early leader on solar power. but it turns out all that capitalist stuff about the spirit of innovation and better ideas winning was bullshit. they’ll protect their dying and dirty industry at any cost so long as obsolescence can still make a dime
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
i often think about how the us could have been an early leader on solar power. but it turns out all that capitalist stuff about the spirit of innovation and better ideas winning was bullshit. they’ll protect their dying and dirty industry at any cost so long as obsolescence can still make a dime
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Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
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“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”