Chris Jones

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:

I do miss Twitter for the facility to get an immediate response to complaining about bad customer experience (except effing Virgin Media of course). Feels pointless to complain here about the bag of mostly rotten potatoes that Tesco sold me the other day

Clear out toys now!

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Approximately one third of Spotify’s revenue is gross profit, so up to £4 a month of your subscription goes into Ek’s huge investments into AI weapons development. Cancel that sub or you are directly contributing to god knows what future human misery

Imagine having more than enough money to end global hunger, and then not doing it

Lose the double tracking on the vocal, it doesn’t sound nice and your voice is better than you think it is, embrace it

Bloody hell!

Please. #Jamaica needs help. People are lost, homeless and pretty desperate. Most of the island has no power and very little telecoms. Some places, especially where #HurricaneMelissa made landfall (as the strongest Atlantic storm ever to do so) look like war zones.

What a unit, saw them around this time 3 times I think, so sad, the way they played together

He’s terrible, has been for years

Hammersmith Apollo 2015 with the Vanguard - Pino, Jesse Johnson, Chris Dave!!, Kendra Foster, Keyon Harrold, whole band was just insane. His arrangements and the band he put together to play them PLUS his effing singing, one of the very best. A shit year just got shitter

Amen

YouTube video by fortheluvofyou. D'Angelo And The Vanguard - Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival (2015)

Gutted. One of one.
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I was driving down Park Lane listening to LBC when this happened, laughed so hard I nearly hit a bus

I need those jeans!

I’m fascinated/astounded by the unfavourable comments about Prince’s songwriting 🤷‍♂️

Na

Hahaha

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Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting Teachers, firefighters and military personnel among those who lost jobs after posting their opinion on social media

Dear journalists - can we please get on record an answer from 47 or senior MAGA how they reconcile advocating free speech with this? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Killing Commendatore by Murakami - I was devastated when there were no more pages to read, just stunning

Political theater.

According to Oxfam the wealth of the richest 1% has surged by $33.9 trillion since 2015, enough to eliminate annual global poverty 22 times over

Gotta love the Bangles

🤣🤣🤣

Spotify used to seem like a necessary evil for musicians. Now it just seems evil | David Bridie I am removing my music from Spotify because I don’t want my songs – some written with survivors of conflict – to enrich people who fund weapons

Tldr: Ek is investing the enormous profits he makes from exploiting the work of musicians into AI-driven autonomous weapons systems. IMHO this is beyond unacceptable and I suspect an anathema to the vast majority of musicians, certainly those that I know
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

*VM not BM

Absolutely gutted that O2 mobile support has been been rebranded as Virgin Media. Presuming this will come with BM’s attitude to customer “service”
1. spending hours on hold
2. action promised but not taken
3. money taken
4. go to step 1
Tempted to return to Twitter to bitch where they can see it😡

That’s bloody funny