If we applied an FDR-style tax rules of 100% taxe rate above $1B, in 2025 the top 25 billionaires would have given us back $3.2T en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

There were 902 billionaires so maybe in total $6T? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Close to the US gov budget...

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Guy Ritchie's Young Sherlock is bloody brilliant!

a graph of seattle link light rail ridership, shown as a rolling 12M average

US transit data is out today, and Seattle's Link remains one of the fastest-growing rail systems in the nation, with ridership up 9% in the wake of the extension to Federal Way

Ridership should increase even further at the end of this month when the 1 & 2 lines are connected🧵

NBC's top climate reporter quits In an exclusive interview, veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain opens up about burnout, suppression, and why he's going independent.

One reason climate reporters are pushed out of the newsroom: their editors refuse to allow them to tell the truth about the problem.

Case in point: only 8 percent of all corporate broadcast climate segments in 2025 mentioned fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

We also just murdered this guy’s parents, his wife, and his son so good luck getting a peace deal

"The US is too big for high speed rail"

China's high speed rail, overlaid on the US. If we had this I would never need to fly.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

March is the only month that is also a verb wait no we forgot about May never mind as you were

Marathon looks gorgeous and has a world-story I'd love to explore more, but its gameplay loop is not for me. I died so much in solo or pug, without having the time to gear up and understand the gameplay more.

feeling compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason

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Let's go! Equaling the record numbers of goals from corners

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Come on Arsenal!

There's never been a more perfect example of Arsenal being their worst enemy than Hincapie's own goal. But on we continue.

£12m for a Pokémon card? If you’re not in the game you’re missing a trick The record sum paid at auction for a rare example is part of a boom in trading cards – and the prices can be staggering

Tax the rich!

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder C-SPAN Anchor Stunned By Struggling Caller

"Why is it always the poor people that are helping the poor people?"

Heartbreaking C-SPAN call from a disabled blind women who lost most of her SNAP money and survives on not much. Listen to the whole call

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One thing that never gets mentioned is that Israel is the only state in the Middle East with nuclear weapons and it has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

The same Israel carrying out a genocide in Gaza that has unlimited support from the US.

Yet Iran is the "rogue state".

Also the only really smart critique in a movie of violent video games which is not that they make kids violent but that the military would use gaming to recruit kids and the intentional blurring of gaming and drone warfare would intentionally blur war. bsky.app/profile/maxk...

Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California's top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances...

They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.

This sort of thing disgraces all of humanity.

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

Well now you understand why they renamed the DoD the Department of War

USA: the Iranian government killed tens of thousands of civilians.

Israel: yes!

People with a brain: Israel killed more than seventy thousand Gazans.

The world: <cricket>

I don't imagine Trump and the GOP realizes the consequences of their message "People of Iran, take over your government"

Why don't we do the same here?

Man with a gray beard and a blue T-shirt is being hugged by a woman in a gray top with long brown hair and heart-shaped sunglasses. and they are in the sun outside of city buildings and suburban shrubbery.

Today is Rare Disease Day.

Being "rare" feels like playing life on Hard Mode without a manual. But honestly? The creativity in this community is unmatched. We aren't just surviving. We thriving

To everyone navigating the rare path: I see you, I’m with you, & we’re winning the long game together. 🏆

It's only been a year. They can do so much more damage during the next 3 :/