Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation WASHINGTON—Responding to recent revelations suggesting the prominent economist was a close associate of the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a devastated nation reportedly joined together to...

‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation

"Nobody wants to work". Au contraire. Too many people want to work. It makes life miserable for the rest of us, having to put up the facade, having to adopt grind and hustle mindset and pretend boring business bullshit is what we want most out of life.

#WolffBites: Two guys in trench coats tell a bartender he must pay $500/week for protection. Angrily, he asks "From whom?" From us they say. Trump tells Europe to invest $ billions in the US. Why asks Europe, To lower our tariffs against you, says Trump.

This really cannot be emphasized enough. China is driving the global green transition (in terms of green energy tech production, exports to the rest of the world, and installation), and this is occurring because of industrial policy and *not* because of "market mechanisms".

His statement still has xenophobic elements to it, but I agree with the decision to remove the post with the quote that wasn't a quote.

I think that's almost a perfect profile if you include the word "divorced."

Jobs suck ass. I am against any politician who threatens to create more.

United Health one year stock graph. Ups and down. Followed by a steep line down. Current price 290.18. down 224.40 (43.61%) in the last year.

Here have some serotonin

"A couple of the sounds that I really like
Are the sounds of a switchblade and a motorbike"

Were you just outside a hipster coffee shop with Jacob Wohl?

Mother Jones and two of her quotes. “My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.” And “I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.”

THE Mother for all of us, Mother Jones.

Why not do a seance in court? Break out an Ouija board? What's the difference?

I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages

The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy.

These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.

If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

Archipelago fuck yourself

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

I guess with all the other open-air graft going on it's easy to overlook, but the U.S. Commerce Secretary using his official position to go on cable news to tell people to buy the stock of his boss's largest campaign donor is just astonishingly corrupt.

When There's No Money In The Pursuit Of The Good And No Goodness In The Pursuit Of Money Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

When There’s No Money In The Pursuit Of The Good And No Goodness In The Pursuit Of Money

"Our systems reward and elevate sociopathy, which is why we now find ourselves ruled by sociopaths."

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/when-there...

Bernie Sanders grilling RFK Jr for selling anti-vaccination onesies is the energy I needed today.

What's a life worth? On the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson

“Where life is precious, life is precious.” - Ruth Wilson Gilmore

And where it’s not, it’s not. The for-profit health care industry profits off denying care. Across the industry 1 in 7 claims are denied.

Our job isn’t to debate a murder, it’s to create a system where life is precious.

My latest:

Wow a suspect list of only 32% of their millions of "customers."

The editorial board of 'The Washington Post' is saying out loud what many don't have the courage to say so straightforwardly: the ICC should be limited to serving as an instrument of Western interests.

This is your brain on Libertarianism.

I appreciate how Elon reminds us that being a CEO isn’t a real job