David Bergman

Because his family doesn't want him either.

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.

(Published 2019)

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

It's not gambling when you have that level of insider information.

Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead Effective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle.

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Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop

Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop
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I am an empathetic person, or I try to be. I cannot get myself anywhere near the headspace of someone that would make that phone call.

The thing I admire most about Jeffery Goldberg right now is that he didn't sit on his incendiary scoop, waiting to reveal it only when he could make money from it in a book, like so many other selfish people who know shocking things about this administration have done and will continue to do.

What does controlling precednt mean under this Court?

How are you doing?

Aaril

And will likely short term mcost the government more than their bogus figure in court costs, roll backs, and improper termination expenses. Never mind the long term costs in fixing the damage and re-building the infrastructure.

Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

And decades of voter suppression by the GoP!

You named Obama who tried to close it, and did not blame the Republican Congress that blocked him because they had the votes. Trying and failing does not make it Obama's
fault.

So here's the deal with Facebook's new fact check & hate speech rules.

Let me explain who I am: from January to July of 2021, starting with the insurrection - actually, because of it - I co-led a team that deplatformed extremists for Facebook. These are our numbers.

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The population of Plains, Georgia is 573. Jimmy Carter knew his neighbors and they turned out to bid him a final farewell. 🇺🇸

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”

— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

She is more of a journalist than every motherfucker at the New York Times put together.

Why are Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Pichai and Tim Cook visiting and giving money to Trump ?

Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world.

Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.

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Black wolf looking straight at the camera. Pine forest behind. Yellow eyes.

We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky.

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Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...

New York mayor closes shelters for asylum seekers amid rightward turn Eric Adams will close 25 shelters in next two months including Floyd Bennett Field, which houses 2,000 people

Your daily reminder that NYC Mayor Eric Adams, in addition to being corrupt, is also a fascist who’ll do anything to curry favor with Trump to get himself a federal pardon, at the expense of New York’s weakest & most vulnerable persons. He’s a villain & a coward.
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Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer | WashU Medicine Clinical trial targeted recurrence of hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancer

Early days, but another exciting application of vaccine technology.

And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.

Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....

Exclusive: US issues order mandating bird flu testing of milk supply The U.S. issued a federal order on Friday mandating that the national milk supply be tested for bird flu, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Reuters, as authorities seek to grapple with rapid spread of the virus among dairy herds.

Exclusive: US issues order mandating bird flu testing of milk supply

Detected in half of California farms. Now the question becomes, if H5N1 has migrated to cows, can people be far behind?

Is there potential for an novel H5N1 outbreak in Humans?

No one knows.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

There’s no such thing as working productively with MAGA nihilists like Elon, Vivek and RFK, Jr. They want to bring down our Republic. Don’t normalize them by pointing out a few of their good ideas.

You can’t play nice with the leopards. Let them into your house and they will eat your face.

The Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day as early as 2027, with a likely window within 9-20 years after 2023. This won’t bring dramatic change overnight, but it marks a fundamental shift in the Arctic’s natural environment—a stark warning about climate change. #ActOnClimate

We don't need more remakes of old movies. We need more MUPPETS remakes of old movies.