Laura Thorsett
laurathorsett.bsky.social
Laura Thorsett
@laurathorsett.bsky.social
Polling at GBAO. Posting about politics, TEC, child welfare, ed policy, and women's soccer. West coast best coast.
This is a **one-time tax** that applies to a very small number of very well-resourced people based on their residency on a **specific day.**

This is not "they will uproot their lives" like "rich people will leave New York."

This is "they will go to their vacation home for a short time."
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 4:11 AM
15d = £0.75
£0.75 pounds in 1843 = £83.18 today
£83.18 today = $111.23

Assuming a 40 hour week (which is not what Cratchit was working...), that is $2.78 an hour.

Math is fun, but apparently not as fun as making things up?
December 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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I truly do not think these moves are going to have the effect that the people pushing for them are hoping for.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Harvard Replaces Leader of Health Center Said to Have Focused on Palestinians
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Also, I should add, as much as Bluesky hates Colin Allred, he outperformed Kamala Harris in 2024 and won parts of the Rio Grande Valley.
December 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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They were 8 and 11 years old
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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it looks like the "mississippi" miracle in reading scores was due to be a pretty basic stats error in the design of the experimental study (selecting on the dependent variable)... a lotta people Got Got on this one! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/01/h...
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:

“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”

open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Some light reading of the Rome Statue on a Friday evening.
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Neither Montana nor California have legalized in-app gambling and the fact that those two very different states agree on this should be a signal to everywhere else.
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I don’t know who needs to read this but the Farragut Metro station is not the White House.
November 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.

He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.

This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I don't know if I believe in the Devil, but this is 100% from the Devil.
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Is J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) a vampire? A zombie? Has he been reincarnated? I have a lot of questions.
he’s crashing out
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
If you tell me 8 days before the meeting to discuss and approve the budget that we cannot discuss the budget at the meeting, I'm going to assume you're doing something shady.

Especially when paired with "we have a one year grace period where we don't have to follow the organization's bylaws."
October 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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“In the Capitol, Representative Hòa Nguyễn will be remembered for pouring her heart and soul into bringing communities together.”

oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/09/o...
Oregon Rep. Hòa Nguyễn dies at 41 after cancer diagnosis • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon State Rep. Hòa Nguyễn, D-Portland, died Thursday morning following a months-long battle with advanced stage cancer. She was 41.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Every time he does this a calculator somewhere in the country spontaneously bursts into flames
Trump: "We're gonna be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500% and even more than that."
October 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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One of the least surprising revelations from Kamala Harris's book was the fact that Joe Biden couldn't bring himself to empathize as much with the Palestinians as he did Ukrainians, saying simply "I am a Zionist."
www.timesofisrael.com/harris-biden...
Harris: Biden couldn’t show Gazans empathy, support for Netanyahu helped lose election
PM disregarded White House loyalty, 'wanted Trump in the seat opposite him,' former US vice president and Democratic nominee says in her account of failed 2024 presidential campaign
www.timesofisrael.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
October 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
What insane coding issue makes Siri interpret "set timer hour and a half" as "set timer for one hour and two minutes"?
October 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM