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The billionaire conspiracy has definitely moved me more in favor of a wealth tax. I don't think it's good strictly on the econ merits, but I've come to see taking power from these people as its own social good and if a tax can do that maybe we should give it a try
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The billionaire conspiracy has definitely moved me more in favor of a wealth tax. I don't think it's good strictly on the econ merits, but I've come to see taking power from these people as its own social good and if a tax can do that maybe we should give it a try
I think a Billionaire Tax (annual tax on wealth>$1B) would be pretty popular but there are some implementation challenges
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I think a Billionaire Tax (annual tax on wealth>$1B) would be pretty popular but there are some implementation challenges
It's weird that people like this can straight up be late for a payment and it doesn't affect anything for them. If I'm a day late for something--has happened maybe twice in my life--I freak out bsky.app/profile/thet...
MORE: The local crew foreman on the NASHVILLE tunnel dig says Elon’s Boring Company has been wildly late on pay, and has been trying to hire his guys behind his back.
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It's weird that people like this can straight up be late for a payment and it doesn't affect anything for them. If I'm a day late for something--has happened maybe twice in my life--I freak out bsky.app/profile/thet...
Lately I've just been sewing all buttonholes by hand. In principle my machine can do them faster and better, but the variance is too high. When it screws up, which is often, I lose tons of time *and* the result looks awful. Doing it by hand gives me consistency and control
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Lately I've just been sewing all buttonholes by hand. In principle my machine can do them faster and better, but the variance is too high. When it screws up, which is often, I lose tons of time *and* the result looks awful. Doing it by hand gives me consistency and control
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Scoop: The apparent new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Scoop: The apparent new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns.
The current Surgeon General of Louisiana has made headlines recently, including for allegedly burying a whooping cough outbreak.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Scoop: The apparent new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
It's fun how everyone can just derive their own numbers on this bsky.app/profile/roos...
Thanksgiving costs climbed about 10% this year over last year, according to new research from @groundwork.bsky.social @tcfdotorg.bsky.social & @aft.org.
That’s an increase of more than 3X the overall inflation rate. Explore the research👇
https://bit.ly/4rj7Rtf
That’s an increase of more than 3X the overall inflation rate. Explore the research👇
https://bit.ly/4rj7Rtf
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It's fun how everyone can just derive their own numbers on this bsky.app/profile/roos...
this is also how I look when I'm eating plums bsky.app/profile/arto...
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
this is also how I look when I'm eating plums bsky.app/profile/arto...
I don't know how to write the tax but seems like "people who are actively decreasing density in UES" is also an optimal group to raise taxes on bsky.app/profile/samd...
The first upzoning Zohran should push for is the Upper East & Upper West Side, two of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city with the least housing production.
things have gotten so bad on the UES that apartment buildings are being torn down and replaced by *smaller* buildings with fewer units
things have gotten so bad on the UES that apartment buildings are being torn down and replaced by *smaller* buildings with fewer units
![FIGURE 2
Percent Change in Housing Supply by New York City Neighborhood, 2010 to 2023
Total Percent Change in
Housing Stock
] 0.0% to 2.6%
2.6% to 5.0%
5.0% to 8.5%
8.5% to 15%
15% to 25%
25% or more
Note: "2010 to 2023" refers to the period between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2023.
Sources: New York City Department of City Planning, Housing Database, Unit Change Summary Files: OSC analysis](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gouysuoxatjdb5bjcqe4sfh7/bafkreife56rbkigeaakviy7m3ao7pdhzytdsgaktyngyfaxc76jzwwnkt4@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I don't know how to write the tax but seems like "people who are actively decreasing density in UES" is also an optimal group to raise taxes on bsky.app/profile/samd...
"well oiled machine" does not contain a reference to fossil fuels. I literally oil my spinning wheel every time I use it bsky.app/profile/matt...
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"well oiled machine" does not contain a reference to fossil fuels. I literally oil my spinning wheel every time I use it bsky.app/profile/matt...
the other thing I would do with UK's "soda tax" is just repeal the "soda" part and tax added sugar in all products from any source. "added" and "sugar" will continue to be litigated but this completely eliminates the need to define "drink"
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
the other thing I would do with UK's "soda tax" is just repeal the "soda" part and tax added sugar in all products from any source. "added" and "sugar" will continue to be litigated but this completely eliminates the need to define "drink"
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I want to talk a bit about one specific project we will get off the ground if we're able to meet our goal and hire full time staff. We have been calling it The Reconstruction Papers. It will be a collection of essays focused on a positive, practical vision for the country gofund.me/29ce4ead3
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I want to talk a bit about one specific project we will get off the ground if we're able to meet our goal and hire full time staff. We have been calling it The Reconstruction Papers. It will be a collection of essays focused on a positive, practical vision for the country gofund.me/29ce4ead3
having an "eat this entire can of Pillsbury crescent rolls drenched in butter" day
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
having an "eat this entire can of Pillsbury crescent rolls drenched in butter" day
People think when a recipe says "transfer to a wire rack to cool" the purpose is to cause them to cool faster but what you're actually doing is slowing it down since air is a better insulator than your cold counter that will suck the heat right out
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
People think when a recipe says "transfer to a wire rack to cool" the purpose is to cause them to cool faster but what you're actually doing is slowing it down since air is a better insulator than your cold counter that will suck the heat right out
So I think the right way to read the "half of GDP growth" stat is Trump has engineered a recession in the real economy, but the AI bubble is the one thing preventing it from hitting the headline number bsky.app/profile/cwar...
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
So I think the right way to read the "half of GDP growth" stat is Trump has engineered a recession in the real economy, but the AI bubble is the one thing preventing it from hitting the headline number bsky.app/profile/cwar...
So headlines like this are why it's hard to do taxes efficiently. Everyone who wants an exemption will frame a broad-based tax as being an attack on them specifically, and the press will mostly go along with this bsky.app/profile/cine...
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
So headlines like this are why it's hard to do taxes efficiently. Everyone who wants an exemption will frame a broad-based tax as being an attack on them specifically, and the press will mostly go along with this bsky.app/profile/cine...
I think better than a sugar tax would be a regulation saying that restaurants must serve diet versions of any sugary beverage, and do so on the same terms as the sugar version (same price, same refills etc)
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I think better than a sugar tax would be a regulation saying that restaurants must serve diet versions of any sugary beverage, and do so on the same terms as the sugar version (same price, same refills etc)
sugar tax is meh as a policy idea but I feel very strongly that if a sugar tax exists it must include milk. It's extremely weird and bad that US schools ban coke but have chocolate milk with more grams of sugar than coke bsky.app/profile/mcbr...
Sugar tax extended to milk-based drinks: What you need to know www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sugar tax: What you need to know
Milkshakes and lattes to be included in UK sugar tax scheme for the first time.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
sugar tax is meh as a policy idea but I feel very strongly that if a sugar tax exists it must include milk. It's extremely weird and bad that US schools ban coke but have chocolate milk with more grams of sugar than coke bsky.app/profile/mcbr...
eh. Simply a correct if unimportant editorial bsky.app/profile/bgru...
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
eh. Simply a correct if unimportant editorial bsky.app/profile/bgru...
Is my brain not working today or is this wrong? Medals go on the left side, I can see the arm sleeve, collar, buttonhole, so we are looking front-on not through a mirror bsky.app/profile/bren...
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Is my brain not working today or is this wrong? Medals go on the left side, I can see the arm sleeve, collar, buttonhole, so we are looking front-on not through a mirror bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Every day, this administration does things that are almost too on-the-nose for me.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Every day, this administration does things that are almost too on-the-nose for me.
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
another one of those right wing "what is art?" things bsky.app/profile/benc...
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
another one of those right wing "what is art?" things bsky.app/profile/benc...
It's fun how their strongest argument for not being the third Reich is that they're actually the soviet union bsky.app/profile/scot...
"The Trump administration is trading billions of dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in companies. The unusual practice shows no sign of slowing." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Anti-socialism update:
Anti-socialism update:
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It's fun how their strongest argument for not being the third Reich is that they're actually the soviet union bsky.app/profile/scot...
everyday I log into this website and read the darnedest things bsky.app/profile/malw...
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
everyday I log into this website and read the darnedest things bsky.app/profile/malw...
one hole in the market that has opened up since JoAnns collapsed is there's no longer anywhere around that sells cotton duck canvas, Hobby Lobby doesn't have it
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
one hole in the market that has opened up since JoAnns collapsed is there's no longer anywhere around that sells cotton duck canvas, Hobby Lobby doesn't have it