Michael Washburn

#wotus "based on common sense and science" is an idiotic sentence when most common sense is founded on utter ignorance

12.03.2025 14:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

surely there's a metaphor somewhere in this

05.03.2025 16:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

insofar as i'm right, it's the perfect Democrat message, i suppose

05.03.2025 14:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

yes to all of what you're saying, as well as: there's not a single person in the MAGA crew that gives half a shit about this appeal to history/Reagan. it's amnesia, lack of imagination to meet the moment, and a demonstration of impotence all rolled into one

05.03.2025 14:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: KWA Town Hall - SB89. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. A free, online Town Hall discussion about the impact that SB89 will have on the waters of Kentucky.

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28.02.2025 22:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Kentucky bill would give coal, other industries the right to pollute our water | Opinion Senate Bill 89 is being promoted as a win for industry, particularly coal, but the consequences for our water supply would be disastrous.

25.02.2025 17:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

More and more people pointing to distinctions between the Trump/Musk gov’t and a fascist regime—true, not fully there yet—as a way of avoiding plain evidence, long on the table, that this is a fascist movement. Not fully consolidated. I believe we need to name it to stop it from getting there.

23.02.2025 14:11 — 👍 179    🔁 37    💬 8    📌 5

Title: What Costs More: Billionaire Tax Avoidance or Federal Workers? Subtitle: Musk’s tax avoidance could fund 677K federal jobs • Current Tax Rate: 3.27% • Top Federal Tax Rate: 37% Cost Comparison (Bar Chart): • Cost of Musk’s Tax Avoidance (smallest bar, purple) • Cost of Top 100 Billionaires’ Tax Avoidance (largest bar, red) • Total Federal Workforce Salaries (mid-sized bar, green) X-axis ranges from $0B to $380B, showing that billionaire tax avoidance covers a significant portion of federal workforce salaries. Impact on Federal Workforce: • Average Federal Salary: $106,000 • Jobs Musk’s Avoidance Could Fund: 677,782 (29.5% of all federal employees) Federal Workforce Breakdown (Pie Chart): • A segment representing 29.5% of the workforce highlights the share Musk’s avoided taxes could fund, labeled “Share Equal to Musk’s Avoided Taxes: 29.5%”. Sources: • Musk’s Tax Rate: ProPublica • Billionaire Gains: Bloomberg Billionaires Index (Dec. 31, 2024) • Federal Employee Data: USAFacts

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes?

Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce.

Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

21.02.2025 01:12 — 👍 3322    🔁 1722    💬 59    📌 97

this bill would make Kentucky the state in the country that voted to relinquish state control of its waters.

20.02.2025 14:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

for a high school that processed people from Hunter Thompson and Jack Harlow to jabronis like me, this is the best Atherton has ever - or ever will - produce

20.02.2025 13:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0