https://weeklysift.com/2024/11/25/early-signs/

«I’m guessing that neither Don Jr. nor the guy who originally posted this have ever done their own taxes. If they had, they would know that progressive tax rates add almost no complexity to the process, so making everybody pay the same rate would not simplify anything. What’s complicated is defining income. Once you’ve determined your taxable income, you just look up your tax on a table.

What makes defining income so tricky? Rich people like the Trumps who hire smart accountants to seek out every possible trick for hiding income. If everybody could be trusted to report their income fairly and accurately, the tax code could indeed be much shorter and simpler.

Bottom line: Flat taxes are not simpler. Period. All they do is shift the tax burden from the rich to everybody else.»

https://bsky.app/profile/pkrugman.bsky.social/post/3lbmo2fsgo22o

Via The Weekly Sift, which I recommend: https://weeklysift.com/2024/11/25/early-signs/

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-impoundment-appropriations-congress-budget

«Trump’s designs on the budget are part of his administration’s larger plan to consolidate as much power in the executive branch as possible.»

What’s that you say, Republicans? Something about “imperial presidency?”

Y’all are so full of it.

https://uhrp.org/about/#:~:text=The%20Uyghur%20homeland%20is%20known,as%20a%20settler%2Dcolonial%20occupation.

East Turkistan, not Xinjiang, which means literally “new frontier”.

TIL financial trading companies use saved Wireshark packet captures (libpcap) as audit sources. Neet!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42269227

Reading an essay written in a foreign language:

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/11/kendrick-lamar-gnx-new-album-review/680806/?gift=ly-h2TZGdDJyaoFv6n-KafyaTHx6m3OPlB3vq-7i6Xw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article296175214.html

Republicans. No honor. No courage. Unable to just take the L.

NC State Board of Elections currently has 3 Dems, 2 Repubs. The Republicans want it to deadlock.

At this point, I’m pretty sure I will go to my grave voting Democrat. Which… young me would probably never have expected.

«“The oral and written misrepresentations made by the conference to convince and effectively trick our client to not hold a vote to leave the denomination under rule 2553 while such right existed severely prejudiced and permanently injured our client,”»

https://www.al.com/news/2024/11/unholy-threat-united-methodists-sue-breakaway-beach-church.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20oral%20and%20written%20misrepresentations%20made%20by%20the%20conference%20to%20convince%20and%20effectively%20trick%20our%20client%20to%20not%20hold%20a%20vote%20to%20leave%20the%20denomination%20under%20rule%202553%20while%20such%20right%20existed%20severely%20prejudiced%20and%20permanently%20injured%20our%20client%2C%E2%80%9D

“We didn’t knooooowwwww!!! 😭”

🙄

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5010049-boebert-cameo-ethics/

So, uh… is Cameo like OnlyFans? I’ve never heard of it before.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/26/far-right-weaponising-ai-generated-content-europe

Brave new world. If you’re seeing what you want to be seeing, maybe… it’s AI?