Michael Mason
@attymason.bsky.social
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2022: Massachusetts enacts a 4% tax on millionaires. Critics predict catastrophe.
2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.
Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...
2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.
Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...
Fixing the $12 Billion Lie
How Mayor Mamdani Plans to Fix NYC's Existential Budget Crisis—And Why It Affects Every Single American Nationwide
www.qasimrashid.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:20 PM
2022: Massachusetts enacts a 4% tax on millionaires. Critics predict catastrophe.
2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.
Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...
2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.
Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...
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A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
January 23, 2026 at 11:19 PM
A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
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A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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If Congress follows Trump's directive to rename the Defense Department, it could cost taxpayers nearly $2B in new signage, letterheads, and digital code.
Imagine if we invested that money — and our bloated military budget as well — on the American people instead of the Pentagon.
Imagine if we invested that money — and our bloated military budget as well — on the American people instead of the Pentagon.
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If Congress follows Trump's directive to rename the Defense Department, it could cost taxpayers nearly $2B in new signage, letterheads, and digital code.
Imagine if we invested that money — and our bloated military budget as well — on the American people instead of the Pentagon.
Imagine if we invested that money — and our bloated military budget as well — on the American people instead of the Pentagon.
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
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The ballroom is such an obvious winning political issue for Dems, it’s breathtaking how little they want to talk about it. It will be ugly, omnipresent, a literal metaphor for Trump‘s disinterest in doing anything that actually helps American voters. Run on it, you fucking morons.
Only 24% approve, and less than half of Republicans, of demolition at White House
October 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The ballroom is such an obvious winning political issue for Dems, it’s breathtaking how little they want to talk about it. It will be ugly, omnipresent, a literal metaphor for Trump‘s disinterest in doing anything that actually helps American voters. Run on it, you fucking morons.
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UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
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Wow. Tell your farmer friends & family.👇🏽😡
Q: “What do you say to farmers who think the deal helps Argentina more than them?”
Trump: “Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady…
You understand what that means? They are dying...
l happen to like [their] President.”
youtu.be/hb1sscIbYg8?...
Q: “What do you say to farmers who think the deal helps Argentina more than them?”
Trump: “Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady…
You understand what that means? They are dying...
l happen to like [their] President.”
youtu.be/hb1sscIbYg8?...
Trump says Argentina is 'dying' and 'fighting for its life' | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Wow. Tell your farmer friends & family.👇🏽😡
Q: “What do you say to farmers who think the deal helps Argentina more than them?”
Trump: “Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady…
You understand what that means? They are dying...
l happen to like [their] President.”
youtu.be/hb1sscIbYg8?...
Q: “What do you say to farmers who think the deal helps Argentina more than them?”
Trump: “Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady…
You understand what that means? They are dying...
l happen to like [their] President.”
youtu.be/hb1sscIbYg8?...
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Via @jvl.bsky.social "the answer isn’t to stamp out neurodivergence or “cure” people of being who they are.4 It’s to widen our arms and be more inclusive so that they can find their place in the world a little more easily.
www.thebulwark.com/p/autism-mah...
www.thebulwark.com/p/autism-mah...
Autism, MAHA, and the Face of God
One part junk science, two parts incompetent government, and with a dash of blasphemy, for seasoning.
www.thebulwark.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Via @jvl.bsky.social "the answer isn’t to stamp out neurodivergence or “cure” people of being who they are.4 It’s to widen our arms and be more inclusive so that they can find their place in the world a little more easily.
www.thebulwark.com/p/autism-mah...
www.thebulwark.com/p/autism-mah...
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Clearly this is not about making DC, or any of us, safer.
August 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Clearly this is not about making DC, or any of us, safer.
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When school sucks for autistic and ADHD students, the emotional impact hits them twice as hard. Unsurprisingly, this can lead to increased anxiety and depression. New research backing up autistic common knowledge:
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju... #neurodiversity #autism #ADHD
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju... #neurodiversity #autism #ADHD
Neurodivergent adolescents experience twice the emotional burden at school
Negative school experiences generate twice the emotional burden in autistic and ADHD adolescents compared to their neurotypical classmates, and this is significantly correlated with depression and anx...
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
When school sucks for autistic and ADHD students, the emotional impact hits them twice as hard. Unsurprisingly, this can lead to increased anxiety and depression. New research backing up autistic common knowledge:
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju... #neurodiversity #autism #ADHD
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju... #neurodiversity #autism #ADHD
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I am not a technophobe but I am deeply concerned about the AI hallucination problem. Mostly I worry about it in my area which is law. But it is also a NIGHTMARE for medicine. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
The Make AI Hallucinate Again agenda.
FDA's New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies: Report
The AI, dubbed Elsa, is supposed to be making employees better at their jobs.
gizmodo.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I am not a technophobe but I am deeply concerned about the AI hallucination problem. Mostly I worry about it in my area which is law. But it is also a NIGHTMARE for medicine. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
July 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
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"The Constitution, of course, grants Congress no express power to strip people of their citizenship, whether, in the exercise of the implied power to regulate foreign affairs or in the exercise of any specifically granted power." - Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967).
July 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"The Constitution, of course, grants Congress no express power to strip people of their citizenship, whether, in the exercise of the implied power to regulate foreign affairs or in the exercise of any specifically granted power." - Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967).
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While Kristi Noem’s out here blaming everyone but herself, here’s her own April press release bragging about clawing back $882M in disaster resilience grants. The kind that could’ve helped in Texas. They’d rather wage culture wars than actually protect human lives.
July 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
While Kristi Noem’s out here blaming everyone but herself, here’s her own April press release bragging about clawing back $882M in disaster resilience grants. The kind that could’ve helped in Texas. They’d rather wage culture wars than actually protect human lives.
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Ever wonder where the tomato on your July4th burger comes from? These Central Valley tomato harvesters spend hours bent over under the sun harvesting. On an average they lift around 170 buckets a day. Each bucket weighs 25 Ibs. It's exhausting, physical labor. WeFeedYou
July 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Ever wonder where the tomato on your July4th burger comes from? These Central Valley tomato harvesters spend hours bent over under the sun harvesting. On an average they lift around 170 buckets a day. Each bucket weighs 25 Ibs. It's exhausting, physical labor. WeFeedYou
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Heartbreaking testimony from a mom, Pam Berek, whose son, Carlson, lives with different medical conditions (cerebral palsy, catastrophic drug-resistant epilepsy and autism). He has several doctors, specialists and an electric wheelchair to give him mobility. Carlson needs care 24h/day..
July 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Heartbreaking testimony from a mom, Pam Berek, whose son, Carlson, lives with different medical conditions (cerebral palsy, catastrophic drug-resistant epilepsy and autism). He has several doctors, specialists and an electric wheelchair to give him mobility. Carlson needs care 24h/day..
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1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.
June 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.
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#BlueZicos
#MusicChallenge
Saturday: Train
R.E.M., “Driver 8”
And the train conductor says
Take a break, Driver 8
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFI...
#MusicChallenge
Saturday: Train
R.E.M., “Driver 8”
And the train conductor says
Take a break, Driver 8
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFI...
R.E.M. - Driver 8
YouTube video by REMVEVO
m.youtube.com
June 28, 2025 at 6:15 AM
#BlueZicos
#MusicChallenge
Saturday: Train
R.E.M., “Driver 8”
And the train conductor says
Take a break, Driver 8
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFI...
#MusicChallenge
Saturday: Train
R.E.M., “Driver 8”
And the train conductor says
Take a break, Driver 8
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFI...