Join me in voting against the GOP this year.

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"Moderate" Nancy Mace.

Thanks Joe! 😎 👍🏿

' the IRS wants a 50% jump in the audit rate for households with incomes of $10 million and up, the agency said in a report Thursday. It’s also seeking to nearly triple the rate of corporate audits.

here are no plans to bump up audits on households making less than $400,000 '

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/irs-says-audits-for-rich-people-and-corporations-are-about-to-hit-a-whole-new-level-buckle-up/ar-AA1o3vPl

Trump Media's accounting firm BF Borgers has been charged with widespread fraud impacting more than 1,500 filings. https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/03/business/trump-media-accounting-firm-charged-fraud/index.html

#battlestargalactica

#TrumpNYcriminalTrial
Andrew Weissmann:
Why Hicks is such a devastating witness against Trump:
1. Hicks makes clear Trump knew of the Cohen payoff scheme to Daniels.
2. Even if you believe his statement to her that he only learned after the fact.
3. Her testimony sinks Trump's defense since he is on record in a civil case admitting that he reimbursed Cohen the $130,000.
4. Hicks establishes that Trump knew that money was for Daniel's silence- not for the claimed legal fees 4ongoing legal work

Bannon is set to appear in a New York court Wednesday in connection with allegations that he defrauded people who donated to a campaign to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Bannon, a former White House senior adviser, is scheduled to appear in front of Judge Juan Merchan for a pretrial motion hearing at the New York Supreme Criminal Court, where Bannon's lawyers are expected to argue that the case should be thrown out.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/steve-bannon-to-face-the-music/ar-AA1nZrqf

Trump rally in Wisconsin.

He just went and confirmed the #jan6th testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson. The story that his lawyers and supporters denied ever happened

The story that after his speech he wanted to join the people at the Capitol but the SS refused

#politics

You know, before they carved it, Mount Rushmore's natural beauty was unpresidented.

Florida's 6 week abortion ban went into effect. The graphic in the article is sobering.The impact does not stop at the FL border.

#GiftArticle #Abortion #Florida

"Women in Miami who are beyond six weeks will now need to travel more than 700 miles to reach the nearest clinics — in Charlotte, N.C., where state law requires two visits spread over three days."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/01/upshot/florida-abortion-ban.html

#Dachau #AuschwitzMemorial
#NeverForget

“April 29 marks 'the Day of Polish Clergy Martyrdom During World War II'. 
It is observed on the anniversary of the liberation of Dachau where 868 Polish clergymen perished.”

RIP. Memory Eternal.

' An Arizona grand jury has indicted former Donald Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani along with 16 others '

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arizona-grand-jury-fake-electors-trump_n_662994a0e4b005d7bf0c72a6

15 years ago, at a local PMI meeting, I found myself on the same table as an automotive I.T. consultant.
His view was that in 10-15 years, auto manufacturers would be giving away cars for nothing, because they would be making their revenues from onboard software.
Tesla appears to be the most aggressive with this model. However, other auto makers are occasionally trying it.
The era of your controlling ownership of any object controlled by vendor software may be ending quite soon.

#ClimateChange

Bill McKibben on Climate Crisis: How we got here and what we can do now
https://youtu.be/q-d296gUjgM

Here's the thing: Navalny was a threat to Putin. But he was not a threat to Russian imperial pretensions.

The rot in Russia is not any one man; it's Russian culture writ large.

Ensure justice: Jail Trump and sequester the jury. Now.

@White_Rabbit
Alfred is sure handy, for those pesky reference look-ups.

It would take me at least 20 minutes to find the correct book, and index.

Apparently Trump is taking that gag order literally and gagging everyone in court with his toxic farts.

I believe that one of the core issues with modern economies - and globalized capitalism in particular - is that they put very little if any focus on resilience.

Way I see it, resilience is actually more important than any other factor with respect to the economy and governance; it is *inevitable* that things will go horribly wrong in one way or another over the long term, so setting up society to minimize/withstand the consequences when that happens is absolutely crucial.