Why do billionaires even care about taxes? Once you’ve got a billion dollars, how many more millions or billions you have is irrelevant to your quality of life.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Why do billionaires even care about taxes? Once you’ve got a billion dollars, how many more millions or billions you have is irrelevant to your quality of life.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
"Pot, this is kettle."
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 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"Pot, this is kettle."
Now you can celebrate oil drilling and logging in national parks without and entrance fee. JesusfuckingChrist, this guy just keeps blowing my mind.
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www.npr.org/2025/12/06/g...
National parks fee-free calendar drops MLK Day, Juneteenth and adds Trump's birthday
The Trump administration, which has railed against what it describes as "woke" policies, removed MLK Day and Juneteenth from next year's list of fare-exempt days for visitors at dozens of national par...
www.npr.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Now you can celebrate oil drilling and logging in national parks without and entrance fee. JesusfuckingChrist, this guy just keeps blowing my mind.
www.npr.org/2025/12/06/g...
www.npr.org/2025/12/06/g...
I just threw up in my mouth a little reading this headline. wapo.st/4iHmUt8
White House renames building the ‘Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace’
The change comes as Trump’s administration has touted his peace deals and ahead of a signing of a deal between the leaders from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo this week.
wapo.st
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I just threw up in my mouth a little reading this headline. wapo.st/4iHmUt8
Articulates a lot of truths. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Articulates a lot of truths. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
You can feel the greatness.
White House Scraps Cash Payments for Delayed or Canceled Flights
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
You can feel the greatness.
Gotta read the whole bill, people. Where's NC House Majority Leader and president of Asterra Labs, John Bell, on this issue?
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www.wral.com/news/local/n...
North Carolina hemp industry faces upheaval as Senate bill threatens major THC product ban
Part of the recently passed Senate spending bill, intended to reopen the government, proposes a ban on the sale of many hemp-derived THC products by lowering the allowable THC limit to 0.4 milligrams....
www.wral.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Gotta read the whole bill, people. Where's NC House Majority Leader and president of Asterra Labs, John Bell, on this issue?
www.wral.com/news/local/n...
www.wral.com/news/local/n...
Epstein Ballroom
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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October 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I was intrigued by @altonbrown.bsky.social ‘s smoked reverse sear steak method and tried with a small porterhouse — seasoned with salt and pepper, then dried in the fridge. It was phenomenal. I’ve been a sous vide guy, but, having recently gotten into smoking, this might be my new favorite steak.
October 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I was intrigued by @altonbrown.bsky.social ‘s smoked reverse sear steak method and tried with a small porterhouse — seasoned with salt and pepper, then dried in the fridge. It was phenomenal. I’ve been a sous vide guy, but, having recently gotten into smoking, this might be my new favorite steak.
What the fucking fuck.
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
What the fucking fuck.
Guess that Nobel Peace Prize will have to wait. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...
Israel Suspends Aid and Strikes Gaza After Accusing Hamas of Violating Truce
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Guess that Nobel Peace Prize will have to wait. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...
New Republican proposed congressional map for NC.
October 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New Republican proposed congressional map for NC.
@shinyribs.bsky.social at #RaleighWideOpen last night. I think they made some fans.
October 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
@shinyribs.bsky.social at #RaleighWideOpen last night. I think they made some fans.
Isn’t this communism?
www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g...
www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g...
Trump's TikTok deal payment criticized as 'shakedown scheme' by experts
The U.S. government will collect a multibillion-dollar fee from the American investors who will take over TikTok. Some experts call the fee and other deals like it "extortion."
www.npr.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Isn’t this communism?
www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g...
www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g...
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President Trump on Monday repeated false claims about vaccine safety and called for changes to the childhood immunization schedule, shocking medical leaders and unsettling Republican allies on Capitol Hill.
“This is based on what I feel,” Trump said.
“This is based on what I feel,” Trump said.
‘Based on what I feel’: Trump escalates attack on childhood vaccines
Trump promoted long-debunked claims that vaccines can cause autism as he called for changes to the childhood immunization schedule sought by anti-vaccine activists.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
President Trump on Monday repeated false claims about vaccine safety and called for changes to the childhood immunization schedule, shocking medical leaders and unsettling Republican allies on Capitol Hill.
“This is based on what I feel,” Trump said.
“This is based on what I feel,” Trump said.
Reposted by Alex Howard
What the country really needs is mandatory mental-health screening for presidential candidates and nominees for cabinet posts. Like, stat.
September 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
What the country really needs is mandatory mental-health screening for presidential candidates and nominees for cabinet posts. Like, stat.
Michael Hurley covering Kenny Roby as the last song on his last album. Pretty special. song.link/i/1822298517
In A Dress by Michael Hurley
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September 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Michael Hurley covering Kenny Roby as the last song on his last album. Pretty special. song.link/i/1822298517
New Robbie Fulks for the masses! #nowTHATSamericana album.link/0b9rhj2ftwfqv
Now Then by Robbie Fulks
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September 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
New Robbie Fulks for the masses! #nowTHATSamericana album.link/0b9rhj2ftwfqv
Could @govpritzker.illinois.gov activate the Illinois National Guard in some way to keep the Texas National Guard out of Chicago?
September 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Could @govpritzker.illinois.gov activate the Illinois National Guard in some way to keep the Texas National Guard out of Chicago?
"You know why you work 8 hours and not 18? Cause four guys got hanged 100 years ago."
Studs Terkel: "Labor Day's coming up!"
YouTube video by Media Burn Archive
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August 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"You know why you work 8 hours and not 18? Cause four guys got hanged 100 years ago."
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Maybe CBS could give Trump a late night talk show and Colbert could be president
July 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Maybe CBS could give Trump a late night talk show and Colbert could be president
We need to stop trusting “the experts” and start trusting AI. No problem. What’s the worst that could happen?
gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-says-...
gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-says-...
RFK Jr. Says AI Will Approve New Drugs at FDA 'Very, Very Quickly'
gizmodo.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We need to stop trusting “the experts” and start trusting AI. No problem. What’s the worst that could happen?
gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-says-...
gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-says-...
Human trials of a vaccine that has been successful in animals were scheduled to start next year.
www.npr.org/2025/06/11/n...
www.npr.org/2025/06/11/n...
Trump administration cuts program that was developing a promising new HIV vaccine
For nearly 15 years, Dennis Burton worked on creating an HIV vaccine considered to be one of the leading vaccine efforts. In late May, he learned the Trump administration was ending the project.
www.npr.org
June 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Human trials of a vaccine that has been successful in animals were scheduled to start next year.
www.npr.org/2025/06/11/n...
www.npr.org/2025/06/11/n...
Wrist was all that stuff about the Deep State? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Wrist was all that stuff about the Deep State? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...