OrneryHobbit
@orneryhobbit.bsky.social
Optimist wearing a pessimist's armor. Looking around, I often find myself asking: JHFC, is this really the best we can do?
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NEW: A host of billionaires — sports team owners, oil barons, Wall Street traders and others — have managed to avoid paying a tax on investment income.
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How Billionaires Have 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.
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December 18, 2024 at 1:00 PM
NEW: A host of billionaires — sports team owners, oil barons, Wall Street traders and others — have managed to avoid paying a tax on investment income.
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Friends, hate followers, people who still wonder if I’m the same guy that used to be a bike racer, I am doing a reading of a draft chapter from my upcoming book in order to raise money for our friends in Rojava. You can come! Or you can watch it on the @YPTActual feed
December 13, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Friends, hate followers, people who still wonder if I’m the same guy that used to be a bike racer, I am doing a reading of a draft chapter from my upcoming book in order to raise money for our friends in Rojava. You can come! Or you can watch it on the @YPTActual feed
At least they’re keeping in character. www.propublica.org/article/unit...
UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2024 at 10:20 PM
At least they’re keeping in character. www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs.
Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.
www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.
www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2024 at 1:34 PM
NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs.
Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.
www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.
www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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LOL. Floating the idea of a Nobel Prize for Trump.
This is beyond obeying in advance:
this is more like putting on a miner's helmet, grabbing a pickaxe, and delving into the very bowels of abject sycophancy.
This is beyond obeying in advance:
this is more like putting on a miner's helmet, grabbing a pickaxe, and delving into the very bowels of abject sycophancy.
November 27, 2024 at 10:01 PM
LOL. Floating the idea of a Nobel Prize for Trump.
This is beyond obeying in advance:
this is more like putting on a miner's helmet, grabbing a pickaxe, and delving into the very bowels of abject sycophancy.
This is beyond obeying in advance:
this is more like putting on a miner's helmet, grabbing a pickaxe, and delving into the very bowels of abject sycophancy.
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please help spread the word! i'll be speaking in Portland, Oregon this Thursday, Nov 14 at OJMCHE with Steve Wasserstrom. We'll talk about how several Portlanders helped James Mason make his neo-Nazi terrorist tome "Siege" & how local media enabled them. www.ojmche.org/events/fight...
Portland's Role in Neo-Nazi Terrorism: Book Talk with Spencer Sunshine and Steve Wasserstrom
In conversation with Steven Wasserstrom, Sunshine will talk about the role played in the creation of Siege by several important musicians, publishers, and Holocaust deniers who lived in Portland, Oreg...
www.ojmche.org
November 11, 2024 at 9:53 PM
please help spread the word! i'll be speaking in Portland, Oregon this Thursday, Nov 14 at OJMCHE with Steve Wasserstrom. We'll talk about how several Portlanders helped James Mason make his neo-Nazi terrorist tome "Siege" & how local media enabled them. www.ojmche.org/events/fight...
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Veterans who worked in America’s Cold War missile silos now face all kinds of health challenges: muscular issues, immune problems, cancer. Many missileers believe the Air Force has downplayed the dangers they were exposed to.
Notes from the Cold War Underground
The weapons infrastructure of the Cold War is now getting rented out on Airbnb or memorialized as patriotic kitsch.
thebaffler.com
November 12, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Veterans who worked in America’s Cold War missile silos now face all kinds of health challenges: muscular issues, immune problems, cancer. Many missileers believe the Air Force has downplayed the dangers they were exposed to.
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read all those books you bought in 2020
November 12, 2024 at 4:43 AM
read all those books you bought in 2020
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Can Politico be the new Vichy?
November 12, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Can Politico be the new Vichy?
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NEW from LCRW: Last week, a group of white men went an outdoor CBP detention site where asylum seekers have to wait in harsh desert conditions to be processed. They damaged shelters, stole sleeping bags & punctured a water tank. They've yet to be ID'd.
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VANDALS WHO DAMAGED ASYLUM SEEKER SHELTER IN JACUMBA STILL UNIDENTIFIED
| Left Coast Right Watch
Activists say a group of young white men partially destroyed a shelter at a CBP outdoor detention facility in Jacumba, CA.
leftcoastrightwatch.org
March 8, 2024 at 11:15 PM
NEW from LCRW: Last week, a group of white men went an outdoor CBP detention site where asylum seekers have to wait in harsh desert conditions to be processed. They damaged shelters, stole sleeping bags & punctured a water tank. They've yet to be ID'd.
leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/van...
leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/van...
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When I launched THE UNDERTOW I did an event w/ a NYT politics reporter who scoffed at use of "fascism." When pressed, he didn't seem to know what it means. Here's my definition, informed by years of reading and... "fieldwork." With illustrations! A thread. 1/
January 6, 2024 at 6:07 PM
When I launched THE UNDERTOW I did an event w/ a NYT politics reporter who scoffed at use of "fascism." When pressed, he didn't seem to know what it means. Here's my definition, informed by years of reading and... "fieldwork." With illustrations! A thread. 1/