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International tax policy nerd/lawyer by day, fowl-mouthed sweetheart by night. Tax policy, law, social security, art, gaming, parenting, geese, politics, life, etc.

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Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · Dec 10

The thing to understand about Social Security is that no one understands Social Security. That’s why the GOP can lie about needing to cut benefits and Democrats can pretend there’s no problem.

I’ve written about some of the things people get wrong before, but I want to get a bit more basic (1/ ).

Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · Nov 24

I see some myths repeated too often about Social Security, and it’s only going to get worse with the GOP looking to make cuts. We need to defend Social Security with all our might, and it’s important to stay clear-eyed about what the real issues are, and not get distracted by the irrelevant. (1/10)

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Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 3d

Incidentally, as if I didn’t have enough reasons to love him, TIL that Gene Kelly left the Catholic Church over the exact opposite of this (that they supported Franco and didn’t help the poor as much as he thought they should).

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 5d

If you don’t, are you really even living?

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Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 5d

Micro-internships are the future of unpaid labor

Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 10d

There’s nothing like oral surgery to make you realize how often your 8YO accidentally hits you in the face while playing gorilla.

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Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 10d

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Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 13d

It feels like they have maybe 3 or 4 people in the administration who are capable of doing a job, and they just have them do all of the jobs.

Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 13d

Specifically, GEFTA says: “Each employee … furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse … at the earliest date possible.”

It isn’t even arguably ambiguous. There’s stuff about excepted employees too, but both are clearly covered.

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 14d

Let me be clear: It’s ILLEGAL to deny federal workers back pay after a shutdown.

There’s a 2019 law that guarantees it, but Trump is once again trying to break the law.

You don’t get to punish people for doing their jobs just because you’re failing at yours.

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Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 14d

You mean the disappointing part

Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 14d

Be that as it may,

Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 15d

All I know is I found a hep cat dictionary from the 1920s and it kept me busy for an entire afternoon

Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 15d

As I approach 50, one thing I’ve noticed about slang and pop culture is that, from the Baby Boomer generation and earlier, it all seems hokey and old-fashioned, and from the Millenials on, it all seems contrived and silly.

I feel lucky that GenX is the only one that has been cool this whole time.

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Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 15d

My 8YO is sobbing because she got to the end of The Phantom Tollbooth and there’s no more of it to read. ❤️

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Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 18d

Portland, TN is the one that kills me.

Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 19d

It’s Q1 for us

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 19d

"“We’re worried LGBTQ content will be deprioritized or cut entirely and that LGBTQ and especially trans employees will be on the chopping block," says one EA employee and member of the Pride Employee Working Group. "Few of us feel heard right now.”

AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 19d

Follow-up on the EA Saudi deal rounding up a lot of relevant reporting and putting it in some context

EA's Saudi Deal Fallout: Junk Ratings, Risky AI Bets, And Developer Fears

The sports game powerhouse promises no 'immediate' changes as uncertainty mounts

kotaku.com

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Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 19d

I’ll believe it when I see it. 😒

Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 19d

I was scared to start Hades II because I played original Hades obsessively* and didn’t want to be disappointed, but holy cow, it’s fantastic.

* How obsessively? Despite not being unusually good at games, I played enough to get <8 min runs with 3 weapons, <10 with all of them

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Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 20d

I know two things about posse comitatus:

1. You can sing it to the tune of Gary, Indiana from the Music Man

2. A lot of grifters have said a lot of confident bullshit based on reading the Posse Comitatus Act and ignoring all of the exceptions and the lack of a meaningful enforcement mechanism.

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Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 23d

Looks like the right size box to me

Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 24d

My 8YO said the thing she most likes to do with her mom is arts and crafts and the thing she most likes to do with me is hugs.

A better husband would not have spent the entire day gloating, but we play the hand we’re dealt.

Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 27d

It’s like when that Apple manufacturer put nets up to address the fact that all of their workers were committing suicide

Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 28d

You blew it 🪿

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Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · 29d

If legality still matters: Congress has sole authority to set immigration policy, and they built protections of US workers into the H-1B visa program. The executive has discretion over general fees, but it’s a blatant abuse of authority to impose an exorbitant fee to discourage use of the program.

Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · Sep 20

It’s also inscrutable. Like, I dare anyone using it that way to define it.

Goose @gooseegg.bsky.social · Sep 20

That’s just common sense reform