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:

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

Me, wisely: "But *his* emails"

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Guy seething with jealousy: Well, I think the normal sky is already pretty cool

Dark pink aurora with tree silhouettes

Pink and purple aurora with a white light like cartoon god coming down??

A white and dark pink corona

Pink and purple aurora, a faint cloud, trees

#alaskasky from Denali, 64°N, never seen so much pink and red

Like I was saying. Rugpulling the expanded premium tax credits suddenly dumps a few million people out of the market and leads to shit like this as insurance cos react, which quickly becomes self perpetuating.

And that’s how you de facto repeal the aca.

An antenna consisting of a metal disk above a metal cone. The cone points upwards and is made of solid copper. There is a smaller, flat copper disk mounted horizontally, slightly above the tip of the cone. A metal rod extends from the mount through the point of the cone to the center of the disc.

Was that a discone antenna?

What we are seeing is a replay of the surrender on Covid protections because it was going to impact the wealth class in a way that would make it harder to accrue wealth without consequences.

Liberals already made the choice to kill millions to maintain the wealth class status quo.

Isn't that the premise of Hung?

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @mluckovichajc)

Oh for fuck's sake

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

It's just such a transparent con. But then again, what isn't?

US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.

NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.

The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:

Virginia Is Illegally Rejecting Student Voter Registrations, Lawsuit Alleges Read more here.

The NAACP filed a lawsuit alleging state election officials are unlawfully rejecting college students’ voter registration applications and same-day registration provisional ballots based on missing address information – such as dorm name or room number – that students aren’t required to include.

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

Here's info about enrolling in this trial: longcovid.scripps.edu?utm_source=l...

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Reasons to visit your local haunted bookshop: Open Until Very Late (image: moonlit bookshop) Staff with nine hundred years experience (image: skeleton bookseller) Home delivery by Headless Hoseman or flying fiend (image: deliveries being made) Readings from famous authors (Image: Shakespeare zombie) Stay and browse forever (Image ghost in a bookshop)

Three @theguardian.com books cartoons from previous halloweens: 1. Haunted Bookshop

Guys, stop with all the pessimism about the economy. It’s doing great. You can tell because UPS, Amazon, and Target are all planning to lay off thousands of people right before the largest shopping and shipping holiday of the year.

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton We Have AI Now

Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

A friend was in town tonight and I was able to take him to the one and only 17th Street High Heel Race.

Yet another reminder that DC is better than Donald Trump could ever fathom.

Multicolored spiral image of a hurricane with the majority bright red indicating high intensity

Hurricane Melissa winds have increased to 185mph as the eye-wall nears Jamaica. That’s the second highest recorded maximum sustained wind speed on record.

Simply incredible imagery of Hurricane Melissa this morning as it approaches Jamaica.

How Much Less Free Are You? A Speech at North Carolina State University A recording from Benjamin Wittes's live video

"How Much Less Free Are You? A Speech at North Carolina State University" www.dogshirtdaily.com/p/how-much-l...

Head’s up, Portland.

Heretic Coffee Co on SE 28th will be giving SNAP breakfast’s daily until SNAP is restored.

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.