Janet Kinneberg
@jkinneberg.bsky.social
Grateful for my time on our amazing planet. Here to learn from & support experts in their fields #climate #health #law #science #politics 🇺🇦
Humans are a young species — & that gives me a bit of hope.
Mom to 2 wonderful men — so not giving up #Utah #Impeach
Humans are a young species — & that gives me a bit of hope.
Mom to 2 wonderful men — so not giving up #Utah #Impeach
“Vought posted that reductions in force (RIFs) had begun & 1,300 layoff notices have gone out to Treasury employees..in addition to ~25k in IRS job cuts earlier this year which compound effects of IRS furloughs
#NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation
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#NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation
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November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
“Vought posted that reductions in force (RIFs) had begun & 1,300 layoff notices have gone out to Treasury employees..in addition to ~25k in IRS job cuts earlier this year which compound effects of IRS furloughs
#NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation
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#NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation
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”This isn’t your grandfather’s DOJ or Department of Education, or even your grandfather’s presidential administration. This is a revolutionary new place where change is happening.” ~Harmeet Dhillon — an election denier now in charge of enforcing the Voting Rights Act.
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“in the dual strategy of fiscal debilitation & voter suppression, tax component has always been the less obvious aspect. & that has had pernicious consequences..
For a democracy to thrive, it must have the resources to act. Without taxation, there is no representation.
lpeproject.org/blog/the-lon...
For a democracy to thrive, it must have the resources to act. Without taxation, there is no representation.
lpeproject.org/blog/the-lon...
The Long Anti-Tax Tradition of American Oligarchy
Throughout U.S. history, oligarchs have fettered the tax power of the state to ensure that the government would be too feeble to rein in their power. The Trump Administration'
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November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
”This isn’t your grandfather’s DOJ or Department of Education, or even your grandfather’s presidential administration. This is a revolutionary new place where change is happening.” ~Harmeet Dhillon — an election denier now in charge of enforcing the Voting Rights Act.
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“If a future government manages to roll back current administration’s efforts to consolidate power but fails to rebuild national tax capacity, it will be a hollow victory. For a democracy to thrive, it must have resources to act. Without taxation, there is no representation.
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Such an impt read! Besides enriching his own coffers & those of his cronies, Trump is fundamentally undermining the tax system which “strikes at the very capacity of a democratically elected government to act.”
“Together, taxation & representation make a powerful govt accountable to the public.”
“Together, taxation & representation make a powerful govt accountable to the public.”
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“If a future government manages to roll back current administration’s efforts to consolidate power but fails to rebuild national tax capacity, it will be a hollow victory. For a democracy to thrive, it must have resources to act. Without taxation, there is no representation.
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“in the dual strategy of fiscal debilitation & voter suppression, tax component has always been the less obvious aspect. & that has had pernicious consequences..
For a democracy to thrive, it must have the resources to act. Without taxation, there is no representation.
lpeproject.org/blog/the-lon...
For a democracy to thrive, it must have the resources to act. Without taxation, there is no representation.
lpeproject.org/blog/the-lon...
The Long Anti-Tax Tradition of American Oligarchy
Throughout U.S. history, oligarchs have fettered the tax power of the state to ensure that the government would be too feeble to rein in their power. The Trump Administration'
lpeproject.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“in the dual strategy of fiscal debilitation & voter suppression, tax component has always been the less obvious aspect. & that has had pernicious consequences..
For a democracy to thrive, it must have the resources to act. Without taxation, there is no representation.
lpeproject.org/blog/the-lon...
For a democracy to thrive, it must have the resources to act. Without taxation, there is no representation.
lpeproject.org/blog/the-lon...
Our book club is reading #UncleTomsCabin so history of slaveholders’ fight w taxation offers lessons on power of taxation to undermine representation!
“Slaveholders also ensured that there was no effective bureaucracy for tax assessment”
#TrumpTariffs are illegal
#NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation
“Slaveholders also ensured that there was no effective bureaucracy for tax assessment”
#TrumpTariffs are illegal
#NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Our book club is reading #UncleTomsCabin so history of slaveholders’ fight w taxation offers lessons on power of taxation to undermine representation!
“Slaveholders also ensured that there was no effective bureaucracy for tax assessment”
#TrumpTariffs are illegal
#NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation
“Slaveholders also ensured that there was no effective bureaucracy for tax assessment”
#TrumpTariffs are illegal
#NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation
Reposted by Janet Kinneberg
A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy.
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the west
New research shows how incentives in the modern media ecosystem help explain rising division and negativity
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy.
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Reposted by Janet Kinneberg
A study earlier this month found that America’s more fragmented media landscape — particularly the takeoff of cable news — accounts for fully one third of the increase in cultural conflict in the US since the year 2000.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A study earlier this month found that America’s more fragmented media landscape — particularly the takeoff of cable news — accounts for fully one third of the increase in cultural conflict in the US since the year 2000.
Reposted by Janet Kinneberg
No single US news source is consumed by more than 25% of Americans, whereas 60% of Brits regularly watch/read/listen to the BBC.
A single shared source of truth makes it harder for partisan echo chambers to form, or for divisive narratives to dominate. It’s good for social cohesion and compromise.
A single shared source of truth makes it harder for partisan echo chambers to form, or for divisive narratives to dominate. It’s good for social cohesion and compromise.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
No single US news source is consumed by more than 25% of Americans, whereas 60% of Brits regularly watch/read/listen to the BBC.
A single shared source of truth makes it harder for partisan echo chambers to form, or for divisive narratives to dominate. It’s good for social cohesion and compromise.
A single shared source of truth makes it harder for partisan echo chambers to form, or for divisive narratives to dominate. It’s good for social cohesion and compromise.