Mark Cathcart
@markcathcart.com
Music research • Writer for @ctproduced.com • Govt Watch for #LouisvilleCO #BoulderWeekly • Investor in @prsportslab.com
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Formerly/formally IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Academy of Technology, Fellow of the British Computer Society.
✓ Dad ✓ Husband.
Formerly/formally IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Academy of Technology, Fellow of the British Computer Society.
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Mark Cathcart
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· Apr 9
Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
As a reminder, it's about this and staying out of jail.
Everything else is running cover for it.
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Everything else is running cover for it.
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Make America Great again not going so well.
Meanwhile building billions of dollars of ICE concertation camps is the GOP and Republicans focus.
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Meanwhile building billions of dollars of ICE concertation camps is the GOP and Republicans focus.
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This is the stuff people need to remember when Republicans claim they care about working class and rural people
FEMA denies disaster aid for 2025 flooding, leaving NEK towns scrambling - VTDigger
Towns including Sutton, Burke, Sheffield and Wheelock must find other ways to fund their recovery, which could include raising taxes for residents.
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February 10, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Make America Great again not going so well.
Meanwhile building billions of dollars of ICE concertation camps is the GOP and Republicans focus.
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Meanwhile building billions of dollars of ICE concertation camps is the GOP and Republicans focus.
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"Slightly more" isn't good news.
February 10, 2026 at 7:19 PM
"Slightly more" isn't good news.
It'll be fine - builds resistance*, asides from if the can is lined with plastic.
*Not medical advice
*Not medical advice
February 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
It'll be fine - builds resistance*, asides from if the can is lined with plastic.
*Not medical advice
*Not medical advice
Things are going well over at Unit Healthcare... their chatbot and agents can't answer simple questions about their new PCP referral requirement.
Here is my chat from this morning to ask them to confirm.
Good news, I am "You are our most valuable member."
Here is my chat from this morning to ask them to confirm.
Good news, I am "You are our most valuable member."
February 10, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Things are going well over at Unit Healthcare... their chatbot and agents can't answer simple questions about their new PCP referral requirement.
Here is my chat from this morning to ask them to confirm.
Good news, I am "You are our most valuable member."
Here is my chat from this morning to ask them to confirm.
Good news, I am "You are our most valuable member."
Excellent, thank you.
February 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Excellent, thank you.
I wrote about this 10-years ago in the run up to #brexit
The British effectively invented concentration camps.
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The British effectively invented concentration camps.
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February 10, 2026 at 3:59 PM
I wrote about this 10-years ago in the run up to #brexit
The British effectively invented concentration camps.
markcathcart.com/2016/06/24/m...
The British effectively invented concentration camps.
markcathcart.com/2016/06/24/m...
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Current status of the GOP here in the land of the free: People who criticize the U.S. government can't represent the country; people who enjoyed an artistic performance should be prioritized for state punishment.
February 10, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Current status of the GOP here in the land of the free: People who criticize the U.S. government can't represent the country; people who enjoyed an artistic performance should be prioritized for state punishment.
Except jailed. I'd like that please.
February 9, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Except jailed. I'd like that please.
As always, he doesn't. It's just another soundbite for outrage and clicks, he doesn't have the spine and will never have the power to do anything... especially not the moral power.
February 9, 2026 at 9:23 PM
As always, he doesn't. It's just another soundbite for outrage and clicks, he doesn't have the spine and will never have the power to do anything... especially not the moral power.
Interesting read, but anything that doesn't actual state what leadership looks like beyond corruption + anti-moderate is not much use to us on the outside wondering if the Dem's are going to start leading.
Schumer and Jeffries don't have to go, but we need to agree that are not the leaders we need.
Schumer and Jeffries don't have to go, but we need to agree that are not the leaders we need.
February 9, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Interesting read, but anything that doesn't actual state what leadership looks like beyond corruption + anti-moderate is not much use to us on the outside wondering if the Dem's are going to start leading.
Schumer and Jeffries don't have to go, but we need to agree that are not the leaders we need.
Schumer and Jeffries don't have to go, but we need to agree that are not the leaders we need.
If your credulity is stretched by the main storyline to the new series of the Lincoln Lawyer, with a dead body in his trunk, here is one for you...
Westminster Colorado
www.denverpost.com/2026/02/04/w...
Westminster Colorado
www.denverpost.com/2026/02/04/w...
February 9, 2026 at 5:45 PM
If your credulity is stretched by the main storyline to the new series of the Lincoln Lawyer, with a dead body in his trunk, here is one for you...
Westminster Colorado
www.denverpost.com/2026/02/04/w...
Westminster Colorado
www.denverpost.com/2026/02/04/w...
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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
While the Epstein files quite rightly reach into every corner of life, including the Outdoor+ sports columns - someone by the moniker Paul Dodd seems to have taken it upon himself to become the public arbiter of Epstein - a super weird thing do do.
Paid by Howard Lutnick per chance ;-)
Paid by Howard Lutnick per chance ;-)
February 9, 2026 at 5:10 PM
While the Epstein files quite rightly reach into every corner of life, including the Outdoor+ sports columns - someone by the moniker Paul Dodd seems to have taken it upon himself to become the public arbiter of Epstein - a super weird thing do do.
Paid by Howard Lutnick per chance ;-)
Paid by Howard Lutnick per chance ;-)
If you are like me, I had no clue what was going on at halftime, I just sat back and enjoyed it.
This is the thread for us.
This is the thread for us.
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 6:16 AM
If you are like me, I had no clue what was going on at halftime, I just sat back and enjoyed it.
This is the thread for us.
This is the thread for us.
Reposted by Mark Cathcart
12/10 - no notes
February 9, 2026 at 4:57 AM
12/10 - no notes
We are left with most people worried about a few hundred dollars here and there while a few thousand people are shorting the government by tens of thousands and a few hundreds by millions...
February 8, 2026 at 4:22 PM
We are left with most people worried about a few hundred dollars here and there while a few thousand people are shorting the government by tens of thousands and a few hundreds by millions...
But again I get it. For the last 70 years the IRS has been portrayed by accounting firms, Republicans and the media as the evil arm of the government... And so we cant do anything to change that... Trust no one, fear making a mistake... Claim everything.
February 8, 2026 at 4:22 PM
But again I get it. For the last 70 years the IRS has been portrayed by accounting firms, Republicans and the media as the evil arm of the government... And so we cant do anything to change that... Trust no one, fear making a mistake... Claim everything.
It's really a case of removing the friction of tax handling and getting the IRS to actually focus tax avoidance rather being a world leading paper storage facility.
February 8, 2026 at 4:22 PM
It's really a case of removing the friction of tax handling and getting the IRS to actually focus tax avoidance rather being a world leading paper storage facility.
Right but are you arguing 163 million of you? I don't, for the vast majority of tax payers in the USA don't need to
Sure people with shares and investments, and lots of people have tax avoidance schemes... But really surely for people like you the tax brackets and allowances should take care of it.
Sure people with shares and investments, and lots of people have tax avoidance schemes... But really surely for people like you the tax brackets and allowances should take care of it.
February 8, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Right but are you arguing 163 million of you? I don't, for the vast majority of tax payers in the USA don't need to
Sure people with shares and investments, and lots of people have tax avoidance schemes... But really surely for people like you the tax brackets and allowances should take care of it.
Sure people with shares and investments, and lots of people have tax avoidance schemes... But really surely for people like you the tax brackets and allowances should take care of it.
The fun thing is it's true in America. Other countries have trains, trams, streetcars functioning bus services that coordinate with the trains and so much more. In many European cities cars are a choice.
Once Amazon has crushed Kroeger et al we'll still need cars for many things
Cars suck
Once Amazon has crushed Kroeger et al we'll still need cars for many things
Cars suck
February 8, 2026 at 6:17 AM
The fun thing is it's true in America. Other countries have trains, trams, streetcars functioning bus services that coordinate with the trains and so much more. In many European cities cars are a choice.
Once Amazon has crushed Kroeger et al we'll still need cars for many things
Cars suck
Once Amazon has crushed Kroeger et al we'll still need cars for many things
Cars suck
So yes there are some reasons why you'd have to submit, split child custody, house sales, inheritance, splitting joint returns with carryovers but for most Americans charitable deductions are less than the standard dedication...
February 8, 2026 at 6:10 AM
So yes there are some reasons why you'd have to submit, split child custody, house sales, inheritance, splitting joint returns with carryovers but for most Americans charitable deductions are less than the standard dedication...
Don't banks and lenders also submit 1099s and other docs to the IRS?
Ffs Venmo has to.
I'm required to submit FINCEN statements for my UK pension, which the UK pension people tell they already send to the IRS.
Ffs Venmo has to.
I'm required to submit FINCEN statements for my UK pension, which the UK pension people tell they already send to the IRS.
February 8, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Don't banks and lenders also submit 1099s and other docs to the IRS?
Ffs Venmo has to.
I'm required to submit FINCEN statements for my UK pension, which the UK pension people tell they already send to the IRS.
Ffs Venmo has to.
I'm required to submit FINCEN statements for my UK pension, which the UK pension people tell they already send to the IRS.
Thanks for posting, I meant to post this morning when it showed up in the daily. Email.
I need to find some of the old news reports about Fred Trump. I rented an apartment near the van wyck expressway on the early 80's so so wanted to be the mob' but couldn't so went with racism.
I need to find some of the old news reports about Fred Trump. I rented an apartment near the van wyck expressway on the early 80's so so wanted to be the mob' but couldn't so went with racism.
February 8, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Thanks for posting, I meant to post this morning when it showed up in the daily. Email.
I need to find some of the old news reports about Fred Trump. I rented an apartment near the van wyck expressway on the early 80's so so wanted to be the mob' but couldn't so went with racism.
I need to find some of the old news reports about Fred Trump. I rented an apartment near the van wyck expressway on the early 80's so so wanted to be the mob' but couldn't so went with racism.
More importantly, can you hear them booing JD Vance?
February 8, 2026 at 5:54 AM
More importantly, can you hear them booing JD Vance?