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International tax policy nerd/lawyer by day, fowl-mouthed sweetheart by night.

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No one who thinks page boy and beard is a good look should be ruling over anything.
WaPo headline: The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA's future Chris Buskirk put tech elites at the center of power in Trump's Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory — an "aristocracy" is needed to move the country forward. Picture: a man with a short salt-and-pepper beard, and, inexplicably, a page boy haircut, looks grumpy at the camera.
November 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Dear NY Times, a “loophole” implies a mistake or ambiguity in a rule that leads to unintended results. Calling the $800 exemption a loophole is an endorsement of Trump’s decision to revoke it. Just say Trump is costing consumers money by revoking a longstanding exemption, without editorializing.
NY Times headline: A Tariff Loophole on Cheap Imports Has Closed. How Will It Affect Shoppers? The end of the “de minimis” exemption — which allowed packages less than $800 to enter the U.S. tariff-free — is leading to confusion.
August 29, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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I used exactly this prompt and it evaded the question 8 different times with follow-up questions before creating a fake link to a chart it clearly had not created. When I pointed out that the link didn’t work, it finally made this:
A chart of presidents since Hoover, with incorrect names including Richard Ford, Lyndon I. inson, Barack Obam2, and a number of very AI-looking fake photos.
August 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Thank goodness the readability crisis is finally at an end.
U.S. plans to ease human rights criticism of El Salvador, Israel, Russia Leaked draft reports show the Trump administration is planning to eliminate or downplay accounts of prisoner abuse, corruption, LGBTQ+ discrimination and other alleged abuses. The administration says the reports are shorter for “readability.”
August 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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This was almost a real thing.
On September 15, 2014, WWE and Warner Bros. announced a direct sequel to WrestleMania Mystery to be released in 2016. In February 2016, it was announced it will be named Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon.[6] Hulk Hogan was billed to be prominently featured.[7] However, on July 23, 2015, WWE terminated their contract with Hogan due to his racist comments; he has no role in the final version of the film. This film also marks the final film for Dusty Rhodes who already did voicework prior to his death a year before the film's release. It is the third co-production between Warner Bros. Animation and WWE Studios after Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery and The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!
July 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Never fails to impress me how quickly folks can take a post by a Black woman about a problem faced by Black women, and try to take out the race part and the gender part.

Don’t do this, folks.
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett: We shouldn't need a Black Women's Equal Pay Day, but here we are. Still underpaid. Still undervalued. 66 cents on the dollar means we lose thousands every year, for doing the same job. Over a lifetime? That's hundreds of thousands gone. Pay Black women. Period. Reply by …We Hold These Truths 4 Pay WOMEN Reply by dwarrowdane.osky.social Or... You know... Workers.
July 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Audrey Hepburn says, "I already know an awful lot of people, and until one of them dies I couldn't possibly meet anyone else."
July 9, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Went out for a walk today and saw this bug, but didn’t figure out it was a spotted lanternfly until I got home. Sorry to the plants for my ignorance.
A red and black bug with white spots on its back and legs.
June 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Whoa! I thought there was next to no chance of a deal to exclude the US from Pillar 2, even within the G7. Getting rid of 899 is good news. Probably not great news for the future of multilateral tax cooperation, but electing Trump in the first place probably put the nail in that coffin. #TaxSky
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: After months of productive dialogue with other countries on the OECD Global Tax Deal, we will announce a joint understanding among G7 countries that defends American interests. President Trump paved the way for this historic achievement. On January 20, the President issued two Executive Orders instructing Treasury to defend U.S. tax sovereignty, and as a result of President Trump's leadership we now have a great deal for the American people. OECD Pillar 2 taxes will not apply to U.S. companies, and we will work cooperatively to implement this agreement across the OECD-G20 Inclusive Framework in coming weeks and months. I want to thank my G7 counterparts for their partnership and collaboration towards achieving this historic outcome. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Based on this progress and understanding, I have asked the Senate and House to remove the Section 899 protective measure from consideration in the One, Big, Beautiful Bill. This understanding with our G7 partners provides greater certainty and stability for the global economy and Show more By reversing the Biden Administration's unwise commitments, we are now protecting our Nation's authority to enact tax policies that serve the interests of American businesses and workers. We are also preserving our tax base, preventing the loss of over $100 billion in American Show more The Trump Administration remains vigilant against all discriminatory and extraterritorial foreign taxes applied against Americans. We will defend our tax sovereignty and resist efforts to create an unlevel playing field for our citizens and companies.
June 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Saw this little guy on my walk today and wanted to sketch him ❤️
A pencil sketch of a little round baby bunny
June 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Bannon is trying so hard to make this sound cool
"Scott said, 'You're a fraud. You're a total fraud," Bannon said in an interview. Musk then rammed his shoulder into Bessent's rib cage "like a rugby player," Bannon said, and Bessent hit him back. Multiple people stepped in to break up the scrum as the two men reached the
June 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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literary good boy
Doggo with glasses on its head and a notebook and pen in front of it.
June 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Bipartisan anti-immigration legislation incoming
WSJ headline: Suspect in Colorado Flamethrower Attack in U.S. With Expired Visa, Homeland Security Says
June 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Vanilla Ice awaits your apology
Vanilla ice tweets: Happy memorial day happy because we have the freedom to have a backyard cookout, sports, and sharing smiles. Thanks to the soldiers. Picture of Leonardo of the teenage mutant ninja turtles wearing an American flag
May 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Don’t threaten me with a good time, WSJ.
A passage from a WSJ editorial, sarcastically asking, « If marginal rates don’t matter, why not 50%, or 70% »
May 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Is tax evasion even fun if you don’t risk being devoured by wild animals when you’re caught? #TaxSky
sale of slaves. Tax dodging is as old as taxation itself, but these particular offenses were considered so serious under Roman law that penalties ranged from heavy fines and permanent exile to hard labor in the salt mines and, in the worst case, damnatio ad bestias, a public execution in which the condemned were devoured by wild animals.
April 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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You know, from this angle it doesn’t look so bad
Stock market graph turned upside down, so that the arrows go up, with the US on top.
April 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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I can’t believe he really tweeted this.
Obviously fake Trump tweet says “I should be impeached immediately!”
April 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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20 minutes blending to get the perfect green and orange.

10 minutes shaping.

10 seconds for it to start guilt tripping my 8YO about practicing Spanish.
A child’s clay sculpture of Duo the owl
March 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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And yet you just completely ignored my invitation to come to my birthday party.
A Canada goose sits sadly at an empty birthday party, wearing a birthday hat. A cake sits next to him and there is a banner reading “happy brithday” in the background.
March 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Yes, the Trump Administration have long since reached cartoon villain status, but more importantly, I thought for a second that the EPA administrator was named Led Zeppelin
The Trump administration intends to eliminate Environmental Protection Agency offices responsible for addressing the disproportionately high levels of pollution facing poor communities, according to a memo from Lee Zeldin, the agency administrator.
March 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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My attempts to get AI to make a fowl pornographer ran smack into DALL-E’s anti-furry countermeasure. I was able to get this out of it though.
On the left, a Canada goose with human feet in red pumps, with a flower and feather on its head, a single curl on its forehead, and long, thick eyelashes. On the right, the same goose but with a human body in a short strapless red dress with a contoured bodice. The goose is lifting the front of the dress up, showing off its legs.
January 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Okay, my hopes are officially through the roof that season 2 of Last of Us will feature the Take On Me scene.
Quote from Wikipedia saying that Bella Ramsey plays the guitar and sings.
January 4, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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This does sound unsettling. Thoughts and prayers to the men of Texas for the difficult feelings they’re having as a direct result of the laws they passed.
'Baby in a dumpster. ‘A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.
December 30, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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Okay, the fascism is cancelled. We did it! Thanks WaPo.
WaPo Headline: Democracy in America Majority of Americans oppose Trump's proposals to test democracy's limits
December 18, 2024 at 10:03 PM