Lou Mac
@loumac2.bsky.social
We should be careful of each other. We should be kind while there is still time.
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Under Joe Biden, CFPB returned $6 billion to American taxpayers. They took on Wells Fargo and Walmart and Zelle, junk fees and overdraft fees and medical debt on credit reports
The billionaires won and we lost.
The billionaires won and we lost.
36 Hours After Russell Vought Took Over Consumer Bureau, He Shut Its Operations www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/b...
36 Hours After Russell Vought Took Over Consumer Bureau, He Shut Its Operations
The agency had been one of Wall Street’s most feared regulators, with the power to issue rules on mortgages, credit cards, student loans and other areas affecting Americans’ financial lives.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Under Joe Biden, CFPB returned $6 billion to American taxpayers. They took on Wells Fargo and Walmart and Zelle, junk fees and overdraft fees and medical debt on credit reports
The billionaires won and we lost.
The billionaires won and we lost.
"Size of Rhode Island" alert! This should be a recurring bit on @thepressbox.bsky.social
About the size of Rhode Island, the iceberg known as A23a got stuck in an ocean vortex this summer, spinning in place for months. Now, it's free, and heading back into open Antarctic waters.
Watch: Satellite video shows world's biggest iceberg, A23a, break free
About the size of Rhode Island, the iceberg known as A23a got stuck in an ocean vortex this summer, spinning in place for months. Now, it's free, and heading back into open Antarctic waters.
www.npr.org
December 20, 2024 at 8:59 PM
"Size of Rhode Island" alert! This should be a recurring bit on @thepressbox.bsky.social
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the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
December 3, 2024 at 1:41 PM
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
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President-elect Donald Trump's intel pick Tulsi Gabbard was briefly placed on a government watch list for overseas travel and foreign connections earlier this year.
Trump’s intel pick was placed on government watch list for overseas travel and foreign connections | CNN Politics
Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the intelligence community, was briefly placed on a Transportation Security Administration list that prompts additional security screening before flights aft...
www.cnn.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:24 PM
President-elect Donald Trump's intel pick Tulsi Gabbard was briefly placed on a government watch list for overseas travel and foreign connections earlier this year.
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Rep Jasmine Crockett bringing the fire.
November 19, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Rep Jasmine Crockett bringing the fire.
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“We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90th income percentile yields more than $12 in revenue, while audits of below-median income taxpayers yield $5.”
Recently accepted by #QJE, “A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution,” by Boning, Hendren, Sprung-Keyser (@bsprungkeyser.bsky.social), and Stuart: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution
Abstract. We estimate the returns to IRS audits of taxpayers across the income distribution. We find an additional ${\$}$1 spent auditing taxpayers above t
doi.org
November 19, 2024 at 3:08 AM
“We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90th income percentile yields more than $12 in revenue, while audits of below-median income taxpayers yield $5.”
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Sound garden, or Alice in Chains.
November 19, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Sound garden, or Alice in Chains.
@roxanegay.bsky.social nails it in an NYT op-ed.
November 18, 2024 at 12:57 AM
@roxanegay.bsky.social nails it in an NYT op-ed.
@thepressbox.bsky.social Do overworked joke from BlueSky count? Netflix "I need to return this DVD" joke should win by a mile.
November 16, 2024 at 5:23 AM
@thepressbox.bsky.social Do overworked joke from BlueSky count? Netflix "I need to return this DVD" joke should win by a mile.
Seeing @tednesi.bsky.social quote-posted all over my feed. Viral his first week on BlueSky. Guy is a legend. 🤣
First quote in this new @politico.com story is from RI's Dem committeeman Joe Paolino: "The progressive wing of the party has to recognize — we all have to recognize — the country’s not progressive, and not to the far left or the far right. They’re in the middle” www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Centrist Dems seize opening at the DNC: ‘I don’t want to be the freak show party’
Recriminations over Kamala Harris’ defeat are shaping the early stages of the race for DNC chair.
www.politico.com
November 16, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Seeing @tednesi.bsky.social quote-posted all over my feed. Viral his first week on BlueSky. Guy is a legend. 🤣