Tom Fout
@fwammy.bsky.social
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Music, Concerts, Disc Golf, Electronics, Audio, Seattle Sports, Reading (Fiction, SciFi, History), Cooking and Food, My Wife, My Family, My Doggies
Ending Premium Tax Credits is Adding More Blood onto the Hands of Our Government.
@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov
Bring Back (And Extend) Premium Tax Credits
@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov
Bring Back (And Extend) Premium Tax Credits
November 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Ending Premium Tax Credits is Adding More Blood onto the Hands of Our Government.
@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov
Bring Back (And Extend) Premium Tax Credits
@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov
Bring Back (And Extend) Premium Tax Credits
Make sense of it for me?
ACA Insurance Premiums based on a percentage of Gross Pay
Student Loan IBR are based on Gross Pay
Both can reach near 10% of Gross Income
Tax avg. 15%+, 6.2% for SS and 1.45% for Medicare
Result: > 40% of salary to the Government.
Shouldn't payments be based on Net Pay?
ACA Insurance Premiums based on a percentage of Gross Pay
Student Loan IBR are based on Gross Pay
Both can reach near 10% of Gross Income
Tax avg. 15%+, 6.2% for SS and 1.45% for Medicare
Result: > 40% of salary to the Government.
Shouldn't payments be based on Net Pay?
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Make sense of it for me?
ACA Insurance Premiums based on a percentage of Gross Pay
Student Loan IBR are based on Gross Pay
Both can reach near 10% of Gross Income
Tax avg. 15%+, 6.2% for SS and 1.45% for Medicare
Result: > 40% of salary to the Government.
Shouldn't payments be based on Net Pay?
ACA Insurance Premiums based on a percentage of Gross Pay
Student Loan IBR are based on Gross Pay
Both can reach near 10% of Gross Income
Tax avg. 15%+, 6.2% for SS and 1.45% for Medicare
Result: > 40% of salary to the Government.
Shouldn't payments be based on Net Pay?
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I find this delightful.
August 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I find this delightful.
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WATCH: Last night, Trump said his bill saved 2 BILLION family farms in Iowa from paying the estate tax. As @chrislhayes.bsky.social points out, the number is closer to 50 for the entire country.
July 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
WATCH: Last night, Trump said his bill saved 2 BILLION family farms in Iowa from paying the estate tax. As @chrislhayes.bsky.social points out, the number is closer to 50 for the entire country.
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June 14, 2025
June 14, 2025
Tonight I offer you Peter Ralston’s “Still There.”
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
June 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
June 14, 2025
May 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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I don't want this to get lost: after RFK Jr. finished with his tantrum, he ADMITTED he is blocking BILLIONS in federal child care funding.
That needs to change IMMEDIATELY.
That needs to change IMMEDIATELY.
here's the full clip of RFK Jr losing his shit at Patty Murray today during a hearing so badly that Republican Sen. Capito had to step in and tell him to "hold back"
May 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I don't want this to get lost: after RFK Jr. finished with his tantrum, he ADMITTED he is blocking BILLIONS in federal child care funding.
That needs to change IMMEDIATELY.
That needs to change IMMEDIATELY.
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SCOTUS is a lifetime appointment. Trump will be dead soon.
I don’t see even his appointees putting up with much more of this. Why would they willingly give up their power in the long term?
I don’t see even his appointees putting up with much more of this. Why would they willingly give up their power in the long term?
The Trump regime violated court orders again, this time illegally sending immigrants to South Sudan.
Trump admin deports Asian immigrants to South Sudan in violation of court order, lawyers say
Their lawyers say they learned of the deportation plan after receiving an abrupt notice Monday evening. By Tuesday morning, the men were already on a plane.
www.politico.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
SCOTUS is a lifetime appointment. Trump will be dead soon.
I don’t see even his appointees putting up with much more of this. Why would they willingly give up their power in the long term?
I don’t see even his appointees putting up with much more of this. Why would they willingly give up their power in the long term?
I'm so mad
I ordered a pizza with peppers on the left side.
I had to return it because the put the peppers on the right side!
I ordered a pizza with peppers on the left side.
I had to return it because the put the peppers on the right side!
May 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I'm so mad
I ordered a pizza with peppers on the left side.
I had to return it because the put the peppers on the right side!
I ordered a pizza with peppers on the left side.
I had to return it because the put the peppers on the right side!
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Meet the new Director of Communications for the US Navy, Kristina Wong, who on Jan 6 sat and watched the violence at the Capitol North Doors. She thought it was funny: "a lil sporty". This woman now speaks for the US Navy. (h/t/ PIperK on Twitter who first flagged her new position.) 1/
April 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Meet the new Director of Communications for the US Navy, Kristina Wong, who on Jan 6 sat and watched the violence at the Capitol North Doors. She thought it was funny: "a lil sporty". This woman now speaks for the US Navy. (h/t/ PIperK on Twitter who first flagged her new position.) 1/
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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
www.wired.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
One If By Land
Two It By Sea
But What if the Aholes are Running the Country?
Two It By Sea
But What if the Aholes are Running the Country?
April 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
One If By Land
Two It By Sea
But What if the Aholes are Running the Country?
Two It By Sea
But What if the Aholes are Running the Country?
When will real Republicans wake up to the truth that Appeasement is not a good path to follow?
April 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
When will real Republicans wake up to the truth that Appeasement is not a good path to follow?
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“Griffin didn't challenge most overseas voters in NC. Instead, he limited his challenges to only four of NC's 100 counties. All four are Democratic-leaning counties with large universities.”
What’s stopping Riggs from challenging all the overseas votes from Republican-leaning counties?
What’s stopping Riggs from challenging all the overseas votes from Republican-leaning counties?
NC Supreme Court votes to throw out some, but not all, ballots contested in 2024 race for seat on court
Republican Jefferson Griffin's challenges against several thousand voters will be allowed to go through -- an outcome that could help him secure a seat on the state's highest court. One GOP justice br...
www.wral.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
“Griffin didn't challenge most overseas voters in NC. Instead, he limited his challenges to only four of NC's 100 counties. All four are Democratic-leaning counties with large universities.”
What’s stopping Riggs from challenging all the overseas votes from Republican-leaning counties?
What’s stopping Riggs from challenging all the overseas votes from Republican-leaning counties?
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Shout it from the rooftops. This is not left vs right, this is a class struggle.
March 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Shout it from the rooftops. This is not left vs right, this is a class struggle.
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4 Teslas were set on fire in Berlin, Germany today. Police there suggest a “political motive cannot be ruled out” — I’m thinking 1939 hasn’t been forgotten.
March 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
4 Teslas were set on fire in Berlin, Germany today. Police there suggest a “political motive cannot be ruled out” — I’m thinking 1939 hasn’t been forgotten.
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Diversity, equity, and inclusion aren’t just aspirations that any decent human being should support—they’re at the very heart of the life, teachings, and existence of Jesus.
Christians fighting these things are rebelling against their supposed God.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/hey-white-...
Christians fighting these things are rebelling against their supposed God.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/hey-white-...
Hey White MAGA Christians, You Know DEI Was Jesus' Whole Point, Right?
So, DEI is the new “woke”: MAGA America’s default boogeyman-du-jour.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Diversity, equity, and inclusion aren’t just aspirations that any decent human being should support—they’re at the very heart of the life, teachings, and existence of Jesus.
Christians fighting these things are rebelling against their supposed God.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/hey-white-...
Christians fighting these things are rebelling against their supposed God.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/hey-white-...
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Trump in the Great Hall of Justice, "The case against me was bull shit."
There is applause. In The Great Hall of Justice. For that.
There is applause. In The Great Hall of Justice. For that.
March 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Trump in the Great Hall of Justice, "The case against me was bull shit."
There is applause. In The Great Hall of Justice. For that.
There is applause. In The Great Hall of Justice. For that.
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The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.