The rich won't leave if you tax them. Norway put a 78% tax on fossil fuels and oil companies still begged them to drill. Don't fall for it.
12.11.2025 23:38 β π 5251 π 1577 π¬ 121 π 40@lylebutch.bsky.social
Husband, father, grandfather, poet, writer, retiree, and believer in the golden rule. I am against name calling, defamation, and violence. I believe what we need as a nation is courageous empathy, a quote from Senator Booker.
The rich won't leave if you tax them. Norway put a 78% tax on fossil fuels and oil companies still begged them to drill. Don't fall for it.
12.11.2025 23:38 β π 5251 π 1577 π¬ 121 π 40This important.
So, very different schooling DOES produce significant differences in IQ after all. IQ is not just some inborn "merit."
And that means denying kids the best possible education is a crime that _the kids_ will pay for lifelong, not the perpetrators.
www.psypost.org/major-iq-dif...
A Statement from NPRβs Editor in Chief on the Pentagonβs Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
Can we add Trump to those words
28.09.2025 23:06 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Gaslighting and itβs worst
09.07.2025 22:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0According to a new report, defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon have raked in over HALF of Pentagon spending since 2020.
Trump's new $1 trillion annual DoD budget will pad their pockets even further as he cuts the social safety net.
War is a racket.
Mamdani is not allowed to get very high SAT scores. And Rufo is allowed to either publicly lie or publicly misunderstand how SAT scoring works.
09.07.2025 11:05 β π 1704 π 331 π¬ 51 π 7It is obscene to give tax breaks to the top 1% by throwing more than 16 million people off health care, cutting nutrition for hungry kids and making it harder for working class young people to go to college.
That is exactly what Trump's budget reconciliation bill does.
Group-think is the worse form of government. If the leader doesnβt think he or she is ever wrong, its negatives are exponentially increased. God help those who are blind to this!
30.06.2025 14:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The World Cup meets Trump's travel ban .. a nightmare. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
24.06.2025 01:32 β π 265 π 56 π¬ 27 π 4All he knows is to lie and he only knows how to operate from a position of strength. Such a pathetic leader!
24.06.2025 11:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They told me if I voted for Kamala we'd have Middle East war, inflation, an economic slump, weaponization of DOJ, no peace in Gaza or Ukraine and incompetents all over govt. Well, sure looks that way now.
19.06.2025 13:49 β π 1369 π 320 π¬ 52 π 19He has been chicken little for decades
20.06.2025 11:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The video is indisputable! How can he lie so blatantly?
15.06.2025 03:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Criminals do not seek hard labor jobs!
13.06.2025 20:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0From Cian Westmoreland If you are Active Duty military or National Guard and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FOLLOW THOSE ORDERS Call the GI Rights Hotline 1-877-447-4487 https://girightshotline.org/ The GI Rights Network is a private, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that answers thousands of calls from military personnel & their families.
Make thisπ phone# visible on NoKings day!
Remind them that someone who is employed/USED by a criminal, a dictatorial tyrant
is NOT a law-enforcer;
β WHEN (because they will) the trials come,
"I was only following orders"
will NOT save you.
& don't forget to fly the US flag:
Take back your country!
Peaceful protests like MLK had. No yelling. No obscenities. Let the opposition be the villains. Donβt give them justification for actions!
11.06.2025 09:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There is a reason we are all born with two eyes and two ears but only one mouth! Discussion relies on listening more than talking!
09.06.2025 13:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Why is there less alarm about the Big Beautiful Bill negating enforcement of contempt and blocking restrictions on AI laws? This is also major!
09.06.2025 13:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"The former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan is leaving the law firm Paul Weiss to join Jenner & Block, defecting from a firm that struck a deal with the Trump administration to sign on instead with one that fought it in court..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
What happened to state rights and state self-governance?
09.06.2025 13:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Democracy allows EVERYONE a voice in being governed. Democracy REQUIRES everyone to ALLOW everyone to speak! I believe I now see the problem.
09.06.2025 13:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Everyone wants to be understoodβfew want to understand. But democracy isnβt built on agreement; itβs built on our willingness to stay in the room with difference.
www.noacttoosmall.com/post/the-rip...
Everything thatβs happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
09.06.2025 00:39 β π 56184 π 17107 π¬ 884 π 826β¬οΈ β¬οΈ
08.06.2025 22:59 β π 2798 π 949 π¬ 72 π 41Make this viral
09.06.2025 13:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
08.06.2025 21:54 β π 47183 π 14612 π¬ 2983 π 1381There is no mass-deportation campaign going on right now. Deportation is a process.
This is kidnapping and human trafficking.