Bethany Erickson
@shoomer5.bsky.social
Happily married mom of 5. Catholic convert, still love the Anglicans. Neurodivergent. Probably reading Goodnight Moon.
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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
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 2:24 AM
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
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the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
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The mythology of Russia having the second most powerful military in the world was crushed when Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It alerted Xi to the fact that he too has a house of cards. Dictatorships are so corrupt that even the dictator gets fooled by their own propaganda.
The heads of all but one of the People’s Liberation Army’s regional commands are currently unaccounted for, are under investigation or have been fired on.ft.com/4qZXPNE
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The mythology of Russia having the second most powerful military in the world was crushed when Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It alerted Xi to the fact that he too has a house of cards. Dictatorships are so corrupt that even the dictator gets fooled by their own propaganda.
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Tremane Wood is alive in spite of the Supreme Court, which, this morning, rejected his request to block Oklahoma from executing him at 10am as punishment for a murder he did not commit
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt commuted the sentence to life in prison at 9:59
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trema...
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt commuted the sentence to life in prison at 9:59
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trema...
Oklahoma Didn’t Kill Tremane Wood, No Thanks to the Supreme Court
The justices used to struggle with the constitutionality of the death penalty. Now, they rubber-stamp it.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Tremane Wood is alive in spite of the Supreme Court, which, this morning, rejected his request to block Oklahoma from executing him at 10am as punishment for a murder he did not commit
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt commuted the sentence to life in prison at 9:59
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trema...
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt commuted the sentence to life in prison at 9:59
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trema...
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good thread.
rental rates are about 1/3 of the population. that's a lot of people! (and of course concentrated among young/lower income people)
rental rates are about 1/3 of the population. that's a lot of people! (and of course concentrated among young/lower income people)
So before I mute this guy allow me to point out this is completely dumb shit.
I have been to 44 states. People are worried about rent all over the country. This is happening in cities big and small.
Those trying to buy are also worried about costs.
I have been to 44 states. People are worried about rent all over the country. This is happening in cities big and small.
Those trying to buy are also worried about costs.
This is real urban liberal brain. Rent is very high in liberal cities but the vast majority of all American voters have fixed rated of mortgages or own outright. With renting even less common in swing states.
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
good thread.
rental rates are about 1/3 of the population. that's a lot of people! (and of course concentrated among young/lower income people)
rental rates are about 1/3 of the population. that's a lot of people! (and of course concentrated among young/lower income people)
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Importance: High
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
When QAnon Meets Veep
The dumb, abhorrent truth at the heart of the Epstein scandal
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Importance: High
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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but for real i tried to capture what i felt going through these emails (on here & in the document hellscape). how it feels like a last nail in a coffin of some kind in terms of a rot in the heart of the elite. and proof that the truth is dumber than fiction
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Fact-check: true 😕
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Fact-check: true 😕
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Attacking a federal district judge as an “activist” for issuing a lawful ruling is an assault on judicial independence. A democracy cannot function when executive agencies denigrate judges for doing their jobs.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Attacking a federal district judge as an “activist” for issuing a lawful ruling is an assault on judicial independence. A democracy cannot function when executive agencies denigrate judges for doing their jobs.
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Judge plans March trial over feds' use of force in Chicago deportation push
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Judge plans March trial over feds' use of force in Chicago deportation push
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis is aiming to begin the trial ahead of a possible surge of immigration agents in the spring.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Judge plans March trial over feds' use of force in Chicago deportation push
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
I was told Trump was the peace candidate
I wonder which country we're invading this time? Venezuela? Colomba? Mexico? Who knows.
November 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I was told Trump was the peace candidate
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Trump's HUD is preparing to gut federal support for long-term housing programs.
The changes could put 170,000 formerly homeless people at risk of losing their housing — many of whom are disabled or over 50.
The cruelty is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
The changes could put 170,000 formerly homeless people at risk of losing their housing — many of whom are disabled or over 50.
The cruelty is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Trump Administration Expected to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Trump's HUD is preparing to gut federal support for long-term housing programs.
The changes could put 170,000 formerly homeless people at risk of losing their housing — many of whom are disabled or over 50.
The cruelty is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
The changes could put 170,000 formerly homeless people at risk of losing their housing — many of whom are disabled or over 50.
The cruelty is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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There's no problem Vance won't blame on immigrants, even if he has to invent the problem himself.
A few weeks ago he was insisting immigrants lived in cramped squalor and their (white) neighbors had a right to be upset about that.
Now they're so rich they're snatching up all the good houses? OK.
A few weeks ago he was insisting immigrants lived in cramped squalor and their (white) neighbors had a right to be upset about that.
Now they're so rich they're snatching up all the good houses? OK.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
There's no problem Vance won't blame on immigrants, even if he has to invent the problem himself.
A few weeks ago he was insisting immigrants lived in cramped squalor and their (white) neighbors had a right to be upset about that.
Now they're so rich they're snatching up all the good houses? OK.
A few weeks ago he was insisting immigrants lived in cramped squalor and their (white) neighbors had a right to be upset about that.
Now they're so rich they're snatching up all the good houses? OK.
Those screenshots are bonkers
It’s how you end up with language like “paperwork American” or the idea that Thanksgiving turkey is some sort of natural ethno-national tradition that certain other groups are incapable of ever appreciating
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Those screenshots are bonkers
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I keep saying that the catholic church [as an institution] basically made a deal with the devil [trump] on abortion and is now Just Shocked that trump is throwing the rest of their beliefs under the bus
A lot of these guys forget that pre-Roe Catholics were a heavily Dem group because it was the closest party to Catholic social doctrine
October 2, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I keep saying that the catholic church [as an institution] basically made a deal with the devil [trump] on abortion and is now Just Shocked that trump is throwing the rest of their beliefs under the bus
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It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
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I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
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“It’s all true.”
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
“It’s all true.”
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One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it.
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it.
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My god (sorry I’m late on a bunch of this stuff. But wow!)
According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
My god (sorry I’m late on a bunch of this stuff. But wow!)
According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
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Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely