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Checking in…

So do we support the idea of a wealth tax on billionaires?

5% spread over 5 years. That’s 1% per year at a time when wealth concentration is at historic levels and cuts are always framed as “necessary” for everyone else.
December 31, 2025 at 12:52 AM
December 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
December 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The “fun” thing about the kennedy center freakout is that conservatives have been carving out “creative” exceptions to anti discrimination laws so they can be bigots to ordinary people just trying to make a purchase, but if actual artists don’t want to perform for the god king they must be punished
December 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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tell me if you've heard this one before: a billionaire gets upset for being criticized for saying stupid things on social media, then confidentially concludes the problem is most certainly everybody else
Mark Cuban Says It’s ‘CRAZY’ That 'Real Conversations' Are Easier On X Or Threads Than On Bluesky
Mark Cuban, billionaire entrepreneur and longtime "Shark Tank" star, is stepping back from Bluesky, the social media platform once hailed as a kinder, more
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December 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Remains pretty wild there are no Trump Gaza protests and zero curiosity about this fact
Netanyahu: We've never had a friend like President Trump in the White House. It's not even close. I think Israel is very blessed to have President Trump leading the United States.
December 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.
December 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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“Just one more thing, Ms Bondi…

… If The Epstein Files are a hoax, why the redactions?”
December 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Watergate was not packed with as many lies as Trump's medical reports. Everyone from licensed physicians (who should be sanctioned) to the WH press secretary is not telling the truth about Trump's infusions, a matter of national importance

There must be consequences www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
Trump’s Bruises Spread in Blow to Leavitt’s ‘Hand Shake’ Claim
President Donald Trump slathered a fresh coat of makeup on his right hand for another round of peace talks with Ukraine on Sunday—but it was his other hand that drew attention. Trump, 79, welcomed Ukr...
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December 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman
December 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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“Woman Enjoying Career Literally Made Possible by Feminism Declares Feminism a Failure”
December 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Should someone tell him who wrote “White Christmas” and where that person was born.
December 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington
December 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 7d
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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US citizens are being deported
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
bit.ly
December 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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thinking of the fugitive slave act and people who profited from it
NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
theintercept.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Trump's VA just banned abortion care for veterans—even in cases of rape, incest, or threats to health.

This is cruel, and dangerous.
December 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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That’s ONE way to get “consumption” up. 🤡

#GDP
December 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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‘How the South Won the Civil War’ 💯🎯
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Our government is supposed to be of the people, by the people, and for the people. Not corporations. It's time to overturn Citizens United and put power back in the hands of the people!
December 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Trump's in the Epstein files over 600 times.
December 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM