@80xaroundtheworld.bsky.social
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ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax.
Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes.
(Published Dec. 2024)
How Billionaires Sidestepped a Tax Aimed at the Rich
Wall Street financiers were a clear target of the tax, but some, on questionable legal grounds, have claimed their outsized profits were exempt, sometimes avoiding hundreds of millions in taxes.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax.
Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Grifter in chief
ProPublica could not find evidence Trump ever lived at either of the two Florida properties he claimed as principal residences in the 1990s.
Legal documents and other records from the period give his address as Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Legal documents and other records from the period give his address as Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Grifter in chief
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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
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When you do stuff like this and it isn't covered as the massive scandal it should be, the permission structure to do equally awful stuff is quite high.
December 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
When you do stuff like this and it isn't covered as the massive scandal it should be, the permission structure to do equally awful stuff is quite high.
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NEW: When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.
By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno
By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno
The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.
By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno
By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno
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This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government.
(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal
Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government.
(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Idiotic governance
•••••BREAKING•••••
The measles outbreak in western Texas is rapidly growing, with 25 new cases confirmed in just the last five days. In West Texas alone, there are now a total of 223 confirmed cases, according to new data released by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS).
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The measles outbreak in western Texas is rapidly growing, with 25 new cases confirmed in just the last five days. In West Texas alone, there are now a total of 223 confirmed cases, according to new data released by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS).
Watch..
March 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Idiotic governance
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“Although men are rarely (if ever) sentenced to death based on their deviation from masculine gender norms, many female defendants facing capital trials are derided by prosecutors for failures of femininity,” Elizabeth Bruenig writes:
Shamed Onto Death Row
Sexism was used to convict Brenda Andrew. Will that fact save her life now?
www.theatlantic.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“Although men are rarely (if ever) sentenced to death based on their deviation from masculine gender norms, many female defendants facing capital trials are derided by prosecutors for failures of femininity,” Elizabeth Bruenig writes:
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"The decision to love and serve the stranger, the refugee, and the foreigner with charity is a hallmark of the Christian faith, such that a government crackdown on this work seems to be a threat to Christian practice itself," Elizabeth Bruenig writes:
‘A Very Christian Concept’
The faith’s mandate is more arduous than J. D. Vance’s account seems to allow.
www.theatlantic.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"The decision to love and serve the stranger, the refugee, and the foreigner with charity is a hallmark of the Christian faith, such that a government crackdown on this work seems to be a threat to Christian practice itself," Elizabeth Bruenig writes:
Actually, many of the 50 percent of the country that can’t read above the 5th grade level do believe this.
Nobody believes Trump's stupid lie that tariffs are paid by foreign exporters.
February 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Actually, many of the 50 percent of the country that can’t read above the 5th grade level do believe this.
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Lessons of the Trump trade war. The only way to win is not to play. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Lessons of Trump’s First Trade War
The main one is that he made the U.S. the biggest loser.
www.theatlantic.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Lessons of the Trump trade war. The only way to win is not to play. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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It's tiresome to have to repeat familiar facts, but pro-Russia propagandists on this platform - and in the highest offices of the land - never tire of inventing lies.
February 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
It's tiresome to have to repeat familiar facts, but pro-Russia propagandists on this platform - and in the highest offices of the land - never tire of inventing lies.
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Important pro-Trump influencers collected $10 million from Russian intelligence for their political work. They say they were duped, but as yet no indication that any of them has returned the money. apnews.com/article/russ...
Right-wing influencers were duped to work for covert Russian operation, US says
An indictment alleges a media company linked to six conservative influencers — including Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson — was secretly funded by Russian state media employees.
apnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Important pro-Trump influencers collected $10 million from Russian intelligence for their political work. They say they were duped, but as yet no indication that any of them has returned the money. apnews.com/article/russ...
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"They see Capitol Hill as the shortest route to Kyiv. That’s how they see it and we have yet to prove them wrong. They are counting on Mike Johnson and Trump to get them them through."
Timothy Snyder on Ukraine, Russia, America—and What’s at Stake:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLCy...
Timothy Snyder on Ukraine, Russia, America—and What’s at Stake:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLCy...
Timothy Snyder on Ukraine, Russia, America—and What’s at Stake
Two years into the war. For more Conversations, visit http://www.conversationswithbillkristol.orgChapter 1 (00:15 - 38:52): Ukraine, Russia, and AmericaChapt...
www.youtube.com
March 15, 2024 at 11:41 PM
"They see Capitol Hill as the shortest route to Kyiv. That’s how they see it and we have yet to prove them wrong. They are counting on Mike Johnson and Trump to get them them through."
Timothy Snyder on Ukraine, Russia, America—and What’s at Stake:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLCy...
Timothy Snyder on Ukraine, Russia, America—and What’s at Stake:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLCy...
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Timothy Snyder examines how President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to remain in Kyiv at the start of the full-scale war reveals profound connections between freedom and speech, risk, obligation, and security.
Timothy Snyder: Thinking about freedom in wartime Ukraine
The following lecture was delivered in March 2023 at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy as part of a benefit conference to raise funds to establish a Center fo...
kyivindependent.com
September 5, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Timothy Snyder examines how President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to remain in Kyiv at the start of the full-scale war reveals profound connections between freedom and speech, risk, obligation, and security.
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“We have to look at those algorithms … That's making us stupider than we were before. Much more governable by authoritarian regimes and much less capable of democracy.” Timothy Snyder talks to Lionel barber and me @mediaconfpod mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh
Media Confidential
Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber dive into the hugely important world of media.
What—and who—drives it?
What do they get right... And what do they get wrong?
Lionel, former editor of the Financi...
mediaconfidential.lnk.to
September 26, 2024 at 7:36 AM
“We have to look at those algorithms … That's making us stupider than we were before. Much more governable by authoritarian regimes and much less capable of democracy.” Timothy Snyder talks to Lionel barber and me @mediaconfpod mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh
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History Prof. Timothy Snyder: Absurdity of pointing out the people who do Hitlerian things are villains rather than the person doing the things.
He notes as an example the first major action of the SS was to deport 1,500 people. Trump wants a thousand times that.
snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-hit...
He notes as an example the first major action of the SS was to deport 1,500 people. Trump wants a thousand times that.
snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-hit...
Trump's Hitlerian Month
A September to Remember
snyder.substack.com
September 29, 2024 at 7:39 PM
History Prof. Timothy Snyder: Absurdity of pointing out the people who do Hitlerian things are villains rather than the person doing the things.
He notes as an example the first major action of the SS was to deport 1,500 people. Trump wants a thousand times that.
snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-hit...
He notes as an example the first major action of the SS was to deport 1,500 people. Trump wants a thousand times that.
snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-hit...
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To see the pain of others as confirmation of one’s own superiority is to be irresponsible- complicit in sadopopulism and tyranny.
// Timothy Snyder “On Freedom”
// Timothy Snyder “On Freedom”
October 11, 2024 at 3:08 PM
To see the pain of others as confirmation of one’s own superiority is to be irresponsible- complicit in sadopopulism and tyranny.
// Timothy Snyder “On Freedom”
// Timothy Snyder “On Freedom”
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⚠️ According to NPR journalist David Folkenflik on Twitter, the @washingtonpost.com will NOT be making an endorsement in the presidential race.
This is what’s scholar of fascism Timothy Snyder calls “obeying in advance.”
It’s the first thing you are NOT supposed to do in the face of fascism.
This is what’s scholar of fascism Timothy Snyder calls “obeying in advance.”
It’s the first thing you are NOT supposed to do in the face of fascism.
October 25, 2024 at 4:10 PM
⚠️ According to NPR journalist David Folkenflik on Twitter, the @washingtonpost.com will NOT be making an endorsement in the presidential race.
This is what’s scholar of fascism Timothy Snyder calls “obeying in advance.”
It’s the first thing you are NOT supposed to do in the face of fascism.
This is what’s scholar of fascism Timothy Snyder calls “obeying in advance.”
It’s the first thing you are NOT supposed to do in the face of fascism.
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Timothy Snyder is always right.
“I believe that we are not taking the Trump-Vance deportation plan seriously enough. This failure of imagination could allow extreme repression within our country as well as a fundamental change in its society and politics.”
Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder
Twelve Million Deportations
And an altered America
snyder.substack.com
October 21, 2024 at 2:19 AM
Timothy Snyder is always right.
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The Washington Post has capitulated to the man who enabled the killers of their columnist Jamal Khashoggi to get away with murder.
October 26, 2024 at 12:38 AM
The Washington Post has capitulated to the man who enabled the killers of their columnist Jamal Khashoggi to get away with murder.
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A few years ago Fox News viewers seemed quite genuinely to believe that Minneapolis, Portland, and Seattle had burned to the ground in the summer of 2020. They probably still believe it, and even if not they clearly don't resent being lied to about it.
That's who he's pitching to - and who he is.
That's who he's pitching to - and who he is.
October 11, 2024 at 10:45 PM
A few years ago Fox News viewers seemed quite genuinely to believe that Minneapolis, Portland, and Seattle had burned to the ground in the summer of 2020. They probably still believe it, and even if not they clearly don't resent being lied to about it.
That's who he's pitching to - and who he is.
That's who he's pitching to - and who he is.
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There is no neutral middle ground between democracy and fascism. Sulzberger already picked a side with his bothsidesism and refusal to run Watergate level news on the frontpage.
October 13, 2024 at 6:11 PM
There is no neutral middle ground between democracy and fascism. Sulzberger already picked a side with his bothsidesism and refusal to run Watergate level news on the frontpage.
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8 years ago, this bullshit started & @RandyRainbow was prescient about @taylorswift13!
Ya Got TRUMP TROUBLE! - Randy Rainbow Song Parody youtu.be/EufHfhnPKTU?....
VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS!
Ya Got TRUMP TROUBLE! - Randy Rainbow Song Parody youtu.be/EufHfhnPKTU?....
VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS!
Ya Got TRUMP TROUBLE! - Randy Rainbow Song Parody
YouTube video by Randy Rainbow
https://youtu.be/EufHfhnPKTU?si…
October 22, 2024 at 4:55 AM
8 years ago, this bullshit started & @RandyRainbow was prescient about @taylorswift13!
Ya Got TRUMP TROUBLE! - Randy Rainbow Song Parody youtu.be/EufHfhnPKTU?....
VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS!
Ya Got TRUMP TROUBLE! - Randy Rainbow Song Parody youtu.be/EufHfhnPKTU?....
VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS!