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Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes on an Epic Scale After a year of reporting on the tax machinations of the ultrawealthy, ProPublica spotlights the top tax-avoidance techniques that provide massive benefits to billionaires.

The top tax-avoidance techniques used by billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and more 👇

(Published 2022)

Some good news.

Despite election interference and disinformation campaigns - likely from Russia - Moldova vote towards the EU friendly parties, rather than Russia friendly ones.

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

There's nothing really profound going on here. Trump is leading a fascist takeover. Business and media are for the most part enabling it.

We can defeat Trump but we need to be operating at a much bigger scale than we currently are. And the goal has to be to remove him from power. Before 2026.

I'm a single issue voter, and my issue is "the government shouldn't be fascist."

Folks, I don’t know what end is up right now.

Man, a lot of crazy shit has happened since Epstein’s birthday letter was released a week ago Monday.

Who’s after Kimmel? Corporate-owned media is bending the knee to our dim-witted dictator

Who’s after Kimmel?

Corporate-owned media is bending the knee to our dim-witted dictator

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Shocked but not surprised to learn how many ~titans of industry~ who probably think of themselves as brave ballsy businessmen are actually cowardly pieces of shit when it counts.

Kingkiller is the reason why I won't start a series before it is finished.

When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.

Headline: The New York Times Just Launched a New Logic Game Called 'Pips'. A graphic shows colorful squares marked with numbers. 5 sets of domino tiles are below it.

There’s a word for the dots on dice and dominoes: Pips. That’s also the name of our newest game, a logic puzzle that tickles the left side of your brain. Play it here: nyti.ms/45JmkF6

David Stratton has died, but Margaret disagrees with him.

…and his film reviews weren’t half bad either.
Vale David Stratton
#auspol

RIP David Stratton - shakycam haters 4 life

'Giant in his field': Legendary film critic David Stratton dies aged 85 The critic, author and educator was known for his decades-long on-screen partnership with co-host Margaret Pomeranz, as well as his promotion of Australian cinema — plus his lifelong battle against fi...

He is missed
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Why have blue whales stopped singing? The mystery worrying scientists The powerful sounds made by blue whales help them communicate with partners or signal the discovery of abundant food.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

There’s no way this ends well.

Even New York’s Strict Gun Laws Couldn’t Prevent the Midtown Shooting New York City has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation. But Monday’s mass shooting showed their limits, security experts said.

Alternate Headline:

"Even the $5 billion NYC Spends on the NYPD Couldn't Prevent the Midtown Shooting.

NYC has the highest per capita level of policing in the US. But Monday’s mass shooting showed policing's limits, security experts said."

Why not go with that headline? Why not? WHY. NOT?

Oh crap. I certainly shouldn't have said I knew Jeffrey Epstein was kidnapping young girls from my hotel spa.

I keep going back to this because it shocks the hell out of me. This is not far from me. This happened in Cincinnati during the Good Trouble protests on Thursday.
Police beat the ever loving crap out of protesters as well as media/

I hate when someone unearths my pube-autograph to the world's most famous pedophile while I'm dying of cankles

ICE fund vs. world's top defense budgets United States China Russia India Saudi Arabia United Kingdom Japan Australia France Ukraine Germany Poland Turkey South Korea Canada ICE Italy Israel Netherlands Brazil Switzerland $126.0 billion $75.0 billion $74.8 billion $71.5 billion $57.0 billion $55.7 billion $55.0 billion $53.7 billion $50.0 billion $48.7 billion $47.0 billion $46.3 billion $41.0 billion $37.5 billion _$30.9 billion $30.5 billion $27.0 billion $26.1 billion $25.0 billion

ICE now has more funding than the military in Israel, Italy, Brazil and elsewhere.

Trump Targets Mamdani While Opening a Literal Concentration Camp Plus, more news for your Wednesday.

As Trump continues to flood the city with masked ICE agents and inks a bill that's likely going to have devastating consequences for New York, "liberals" are joining rhetorical forces with the president by focusing their ire on Zohran Mamdani.

Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer This is another communist candidate running for Congress in Illinois. If DSA@DemSocialists had their way, Congress would be full of jihadists and wannabe hookers who want to seize all means of production. Not only is she running for Congress, but she's also dating @oneunderscore_Ben Collins, the CEO of the Onion. These are not serious people. Please cover your cooch @KatAbughazaleh. kabughazaleh. [picture from my Instagram of me on the fridge behind the bar in fishnets, shorts, and a top being goofy with my coworkers]

lmao

Me: Well everyone was talking about “beach bodies” so I just figured it’d be a good place to leave the corpse.

My Attorney: WHAT DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT “REMAIN SILENT”?

Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

I've never seen the libertarian-to-fascist pipeline so viscerally represented. This is incredible.

Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"