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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 4h

Yes.

Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 4h

Mario has achieved escape velocity!

You can't blame the parents because despite optimal environmental conditions, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 4h

How does someone who did excellent PhD research on slavery, not the twisted "Blacks were better off as slaves," but genuine work looking at continuing African family structures in the New World, come to have Reed's abysmal populist views against academia?

JD Vance w/o Ivy degrees & much resentment

panchovillian.bsky.social @panchovillian.bsky.social · 8h

truly a mind blowing & fucked up read
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

The Inconvenient Scholarship of Kevin Roberts | Los Angeles Review of Books

Samuel G. Freedman traces the long and contradictory intellectual journey of the man behind Project 2025.

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 5h

The act of evil thoughts is not the harm. It is acting on them that is harmful. Unfortunately, the two most often are hand in glove.

It does not surprise me that a poisoned mind already set to see groups of people as other than fellow humans could easily adopt new prejudices after relocating.

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

Troll.

Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you for doing your homework before casting your ballot!

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

Ding! Ding! Ding!
Thank you for saying the emperor is buck naked!

Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

Again, you and Jeffries ask the wrong question!

Call Tapper out!

Is the question Mamdani's policies or his color and religion?

Stop helping nod-n-wink-racism go unchecked. Doing this is a big part of the problem.

When Tapper is forced to say (we hope) "policies," we can have a conversation.

Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

Not being rich enough for servants, I must go back to house work (uncompensated domestic labor). We know this work has value b/c when it is done for pay, it's part of GNP. Fortunately, marriage partners who only work at home earn half of a spouse's Soc. Sec. payment -back door way to recognize value

Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

The biggest problem is how being in Congress immediately jumps up income & opportunities for wealth. No pay increase since 2009, but $174,000/yr is damn good, Speaker of the House gets $223,500; Majority & Minority Leaders, $193,400. Fed employeeshave caps, even for overtime to keep us below.

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

Wealth is preserved for heirs by automatic step up to current value on death. If a business is going to relatives who are running it, we can write rules to protect them. It has been easier to pretend family farms mattered while giving unneeded breaks to Wall Street. Talk real economic fixes for all.

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

My other favorite squirrely tax loophole from Trump I is Section 199A of the IRS Code that gives busineses a 20% deduction of income from a qualified trade or business.

How about the rest of us get to shield 20% of our income from taxes?

@sanders.senate.gov are you listening? Fix the tax code!

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

Daycare should be fully deductible. Most businesses don't have flex spending accounts & child tax credit is too small. Childcare is a cost of earning. Businesses can write off everything "to earn income," but wage earners can't. Give us deduction parity, and no 2% threshold (Reagan era tax plan).

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

Dems can start w agenda getting rid of tax loopholes that benefit the very rich. We know differences between capital gains from a family run business & stock trading--trading should be ordinary income-rate 37%. Give working people back deductions for tools and union dues-like other costs of income

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is the economic discussion required for this country. Democrats lost their way when they let the GOP conflate race and economic status. Both are valid, but separate, issues. The Democrats need a straight up, race neutral, economic agenda to help the bottom half-all of it

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 11h

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and Jake Tepper are playing disgusting games w race & religion. Jeffries recites Mamdani's platform of affordability, but fails to push back w Tepper? "Are you asking about his policies?"

Inability to push back on racist questions says much about Dems confused thinking

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 18h

Hakeem Jeffries says Zohran Mamdani is not the future of the Democratic Party.

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 13h

Happy to export people who feel this way to Russia or wherever they feel they'll be happier. I'd be a hypocrite if I said they could not hold their views or act on them in ways that do not harm other people. As long as their children are housed, even w the goats, fed & schooled. Good luck to them

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 15h

We'll need to check the date of approvals before taking new medicines.
Politics (& money) continue to over rule science.

Even people MAGA enough to get appointed are complaining.

I'm not sure the most MAGA folks signed up for having improperly reviewed drugs.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/h...

F.D.A. Drug Unit Chief Is Placed on Leave, and Cites a ‘Toxic’ Environment

www.nytimes.com

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 1d

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Tuberville thinks no folks in his district are using SNAP? How about the young men in his state using SNAP? How can a US Senator with 15% of the people in his state do this? His office is not getting calls?

'Let that sink in': Joe stunned by Sen. Tuberville's comments on SNAP and 'young men'

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 1d

This is not a series of video games. What is going on with The Regime.

The US looks like fools. We send a carrier group against a navy smaller than half its size.

We curse and swear at country with no ability yo fight back, then kiss up to dictators in Russia and China.

Looking really tough.

Nash Is Here For It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 1d

We’re going into Nigeria with “guns-a-blazing” to steal their oil and rare earth minerals, not to save Christians. The broligarchy is insatiable…

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone. Any time. Anywhere.
Blank vehicle. Armed, masked men.
Local rapists? Government, but w/o warrants? How does one know?
You don't think sexual predators are getting worse ideas?

If I were a young girl in Chicago, I'd not come out my door for anything.

These scenes are terrorizing us all.

Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 1d

These guys are bullies. They selected themselves for these jobs for opportunities to abuse people.
It's not about orderly detention of aliens w/o authorization. It's about adrenalin and testosterone. B/ we can!
That is not professional conduct. No warrant. No admission.

youtube.com/shorts/1L0tX...

ICE agents clash with cemetery workers trying to help a man in Des Plaines River…

YouTube video by WGN News

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 1d

What I want from paywalls are true micro-payments. I don't want 300 subscriptions. I want to read one story - $0.50 - there you go.

The problem is credit card companies w a habit of charging inflated prices (3% of purchase) vs. actual cost of execution.
$0.45 off McDonald's vs $9 off steak dinner.

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 1d

Herd mentality. They saw more stores buying the anti-theft devices, they went for them. I saw this from an alarm company w the pitch, "All of your neighbors are getting one. They'll have signs out, so the burglars will come for you."

On Wall St, they taught us people by on fear: losses or left out.

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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 1d

We have a press corp that sees itself more as stenographers than investigators. (They seldom use the power of Lexus-Nexus to check facts or history).

Most are bad at math and are easily lead with sketchy statistics. Because of this, they never took a real economics course, because *numbers!**

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