Make religious enterprises aka “churches” pay taxes.
Make lobbyists pay taxes on donations. Call it a sales tax.

Make a donation to a local food bank. I would rather give my money to help people in need than pay taxes to the current administration.

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Free education

Before I update, I would love to hear what people think about iOS 26.

Thank you, Cody ❤️

Brilliant

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Budgie Bungalow

Green parrot licking rainbow popsicle

To be a bird licking a rainbow popsicle on a hot July day

Actually bumped into Kelly McGillis in Malibu - we were both looking at a theater marquee on the other side of the street.

Picture of bird. Text is Plain Chachalaca. Ortalis vetula. To 2 ft. (60 cm) Comment above reads "Les flamboyant relative of the Boom Chachalaca"

I didn't do it, but I wish I had.

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#birds #budgies #art

Something that would-be f@scists should think about

Dictator Franco's head replica rolls on football pitch in Spanish art festival — Reuters Spanish artist Eugenio Merino and a U.S. art collective used a lifelike replica of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's head as a football at an art festival to warn of the dangers of fascism amid the ...

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I look forward to the strips, but you take care of you

OK, this is how it's done.

A brightly colored bird perched on a mossy branch, displaying vivid green feathers on its head and back, deep red on its belly, and long white tail feathers hanging below.

A very soggy male Resplendent Quetzal posed for me late in the afternoon last week, right outside my cabin at Paraiso Quetzal Lodge #CostaRica

#birds #nature

#WokePope

Such obvious bullshit. Did this guy say, “I am a Democrat, here’s my voter registration card”? Stupid f*ck can’t even tell a good lie.

Dry cleaning fluid ☠️

I am enjoying seeing all these #handsoff protests springing up around the country in towns both big and small. It's a hopeful thing to witness in such dark, scary times.

And I love these DC protest signs.

neil degrasse tyson: you are not a planet pluto: you are not carl sagan ndt: flips bird pluto: flips two birds

never surrender

It’s adorable

I like the Kawaii best, but it’s all good.

I’m not an economist, but I think I would prefer a democratic socialist or cooperative-based economy more than our current systems. *No* system can sustain when corruption, censorship, and greed takes hold.

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