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Native 🌮Texan. | #Tax Blogger✍️Journalist | ❤️ Wife | 🦅Birder | ⚾️ Sports Fan 🏈 | Order based on whims.
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From the totally not a surprise file: KenCen under 🍊🤡 oversight is stiffing performers. www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-...
Kennedy Center to Artists: Your Checks Are In the Mail
According to reps for several performers, the beleaguered arts institution isn’t showing them the money.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
taxtweet.bsky.social
THIS is what the internet is for!
jonathanslater.bsky.social Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 1d
Perfect end to the day. Goodnight Blue Sky
December 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Perfect end to the day. Goodnight Blue Sky
December 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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jaywillis.net
Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Texas is not on “the eve of an election,” as was true in the case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020) (per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was “just weeks” away. 549 U. S., at 4. Here, Election Day is eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which Texas could change) is in March. The District Court care- fully listed the various “election preparations” underway to switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein- stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145. Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, every- one expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it will be used in a special runoff election in the State’s largest county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly concluded, “[a]n injunction in this case would not cause sig- nificant disruption.” Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congres- sional election is not well underway. 16 ABBOTT v. LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS KAGAN, J., dissenting And even supposing it is now the ninth or tenth hour, whose choice was that? It was of course the Texas legisla- ture that decided to change its map six months before a March primary. The plaintiffs could not have moved any faster: They requested an injunction before the new law was even signed. And to try to speed the litigation, they de- clined discovery. (That decision, by the way, probably ac- counted for their failure to submit an alternative map, which to be probative must be based on the State’s particu- lar districting criteria. See supra, at 13 n.) The District Court moved expeditiously too, issuing its 160-page opinion (on November 18) just a month after post-hearing briefing concluded. No one dilly-dallied in this case. The District Court ruled as “late” as it did because the legislature en- acted a new map less than three months before. If Purcell prevents such a ruling, it gives every State the opportunity to hold an unlawful election. The District Court, once again aptly, made the point: Were judicial re- view so broadly foreclosed, then to implement even a “bla- tantly unconstitutional map,” the “Legislature would need only to pass” it on a schedule like this one. App. 154–155. That cannot be the law—except of course that today it is. According to the majority, Texas had a free pass to redis- trict in August 2025 for the 2026 House elections. See ante, at 2. All that the plaintiffs can hope for is better luck in 2028.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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@greenhousemd.bsky.social #medsky
Contemplating the events of today’s ACIP meeting. The health of my future grandchildren and their access to vaccines will be decided by people who don’t even understand what they are voting on. We have set the bar so incredibly low.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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I don't fly anymore, but it's good to see some airports try to add a little holiday spirit to the seasonal madness. 10 festive airports that go all out for the holidays wapo.st/4pc3kHI
10 festive airports that go all out for the holidays
Tall trees, oversize ornaments and costumed carolers will greet travelers at airports across the country this year.
wapo.st
December 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
taxtweet.bsky.social
And 🎅’s afternoon got worse.
December 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
taxtweet.bsky.social
Even Santa has those mornings now and then.
December 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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jamellebouie.net
rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Item in today's @joebwan.bsky.social @eidebailly.bsky.social roundup notes that IRS implies that TikTok tax advice is not always correct. Thank goodness we have Joe & EB to curate the accurate advice online and beyond.
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Turning your required minimum distribution into a Qualified Charitable Distribution could be a good tax, and philanthropic, move.
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A QCD in lieu of an RMD can be a tax saver
If you have enough retirement savings to enjoy the lifestyle you want, consider donating some of it. It could be a good tax move for you, as well as help your favorite charity.
dontmesswithtaxes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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johnlyon.bsky.social
Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Snoop around in their medicine cabinet for clues.
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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If you have enough savings to enjoy the retirement you want, consider donating some of it. Turning your required minimum distribution (RMD) into a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) could be a good tax move for you, as well as help your favorite charity.
dontmesswithtaxes.com/a-qcd-in-lie...
A QCD in lieu of an RMD can be a tax saver
If you have enough retirement savings to enjoy the lifestyle you want, consider donating some of it. It could be a good tax move for you, as well as help your favorite charity.
dontmesswithtaxes.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
taxtweet.bsky.social
Before #GivingTuesday2025 slips away, check out @joebwan.bsky.social @eidebailly.bsky.social roundup for some tax-related charitable info, as well as some donation suggestions.
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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My email box is blowing up with solicitations from nonprofits on this #GivingTuesday. If yours is, too, check out this look at how new charitable donation rules could apply to your gifts in 2025 and beyond. dontmesswithtaxes.com/coming-chang...
Coming changes to charitable tax deductions and giving strategies on Giving Tuesday 2025
Today is Giving Tuesday 2025. The Tuesday after Thanksgiving, dubbed Giving Tuesday when it was initiated in 2012, is now the unofficial kick-off of the annual end-of-year charitable season. Most peop...
dontmesswithtaxes.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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philiploring.com
Capitalism has been giving us things we don’t actually want for so long the strategy is now threadbare and skill-less.
paulhaine.bsky.social Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 3d
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Late today, but notable item from the "what color is the sky in 47's world?" file via @joebwan.bsky.social @eidebailly.bsky.social roundup: "Over the next couple of years, I think we'll substantially be cutting—and maybe cutting out completely—income tax," Trump said.
December 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Being sick sucks. Having to pay a lot of out-of-pocket medical expenses can make you feel even worse. But if you have a lot of medical and dental costs, you might be able to put them to itemized tax deduction use.
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These tax-deductible medical expenses could make itemizing worthwhile
Understanding tax deductible medical expenses can help you save money on your next tax return. Learn how to maximize your deductions.
dontmesswithtaxes.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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pauleric70.bsky.social
Timeline Cleanse ⚜️🎶⚜️😎⚜️🎶⚜️

“Green Onions” might just be one of the coolest songs ever recorded.
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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louleoresist.bsky.social
So he's going after Maduro for alleged drug trafficking, but he's pardoning the former Honduran president who was convicted of drug trafficking here for 45 years. We have bypassed the Twilight Zone and are now in the Outer Limits 😏
November 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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llessu.bsky.social
When SCOTUS immunizes "official acts" all the world becomes Fifth Avenue.
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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The big winner during this holiday football patch? Beyoncé. Texas Hold ‘Em is the default musical lead in to Lone Star State games. And neither game was in her hometown of Houston.
a woman wearing a white cowboy hat and a sash that says ' cowboy ' on it
ALT: a woman wearing a white cowboy hat and a sash that says ' cowboy ' on it
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November 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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sarahbca.bsky.social
If you are a White House pool reporter and you don’t stick up for your fellow colleagues after Trump calls them “Piggy” or “Stupid” you are tacitly condoning his behavior and just as culpable at Trump.

Shame on you.

Walk out.
Speak up.
Don’t give him an audience.
Courage is contagious.
November 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
So if all the people from “third world countries” should be banned from migrating to America because of a deadly shooting, what are we going to do about all the armed and alienated young white men?
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM