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Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches The richest Americans can largely avoid paying income and other taxes. A new book explains the history.

Mark Zuckerberg earned just $1 at Meta in 2024. Elon Musk made $0 at Tesla. They're not alone. A tax law professor explains how the ultrawealthy legally avoid income taxes while their wealth grows by billions annually.

One day I'll learn to stop dancing long enough to take a video. Last night was not that day. OMD @ House of Blues

Everybody panic – the workplace has become too ‘feminized’! | Arwa Mahdawi This week, Mexico’s president was groped in public. But a New York Times podcast is fretting about excessive wokeness

Everybody panic – the workplace has become too ‘feminized’! | Arwa Mahdawi

Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.

can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.

we’ll all subscribe en masse

#booksky

In 1980, Trump promised to preserve Art Deco sculptures on the stylish 1929 Bonwit Teller department store, which was being demolished to make way for his vulgar Trump Tower.

He lied. He destroyed them.

In 2025, Trump promised to preserve the East Wing.

He lied. He destroyed it. (John Baron👀)

First ladies made history in the East Wing. It was razed for Trump's ballroom. The East Wing is home to the Office of the First Lady and has played a key role in women's visibility in the White House.

The East Wing is home to the Office of the First Lady and has played a key role in women’s visibility in the White House. This week, bulldozers began to tear it down to clear the way for President Donald Trump’s $250 million ballroom.

Kim Stanley Robinson Archive Goes to The Huntington The Huntington has acquired the personal library and papers of Kim Stanley Robinson, including drafts of novels, annotated works, photographs, and more. All told, The Huntington describes the colle…

Kim Stanley Robinson Archive Goes to The Huntington

Hugo Awards program

Hugo Awards program

Hugo Awards title screen in ballroom

So excited to be here. Congrats to all the nominees! #Worldcon #HugoAwards #SeattleWorldcon2025 🪐📚

Fanzine art of Bjo Trimble, circa 1961 at Seacon exhibit at Seattle Worldcon

Happy 92nd Birthday to Bjo Trimble, founder of the #Worldcon Art Show! Come see Bjo's fanzine art at the Seacon 1961 exhibit! #SeattleWorldcon2025

Mary and Tuesday, arriving to Worldcon via TARDIS

Special Exhibits are open on the 2nd floor of the Summit Building and Dealers' Room opens in 5 minutes. Come see us at the Seacon 1961 exhibit! #Worldcon #SeattleWorldcon2025

These badges come to us courtesy of the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy at UC Riverside, where the Busbys' papers are preserved for future generations of fans.

Reproductions of the Seacon 1961 badges of F.M. "Buz" and Elinor Busby. Eaton Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy, UC Riverside.

On display at Worldcon will be recreations of the badges worn to Seacon 1961 by F.M. and Elinor Busby, Seattle's own beloved fan writers. The Busbys made history in 1960 when their fanzine, Cry of the Nameless, won a Hugo, making Elinor the first woman ever to take home a Hugo Award. 🚀🪐📚 #scifi

Replica of the Seacon 1961 (19th Worldcon) registration card of F.M. "Buz" Busby, courtesy of the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy at the University of California, Riverside. Registration fee: $2.

Ways to save money at #Worldcon: Go to Worldcon in 1961.

#SeattleWorldcon2025 #Seacon1961

As well as the original issue of Analog in which the story first appeared!

Analog Science Fact & Fiction, Dec. 1960 issue

With thanks to Astrid Anderson Bear, the Seacon 1961 Special Exhibit at Seattle Worldcon will feature the Hugo Award trophy won by Poul Anderson that year for his classic short story, "The Longest Voyage," published in the Dec. 1960 issue of Analog!

#SeattleWorldcon2025 🪐📚💙

Oh wow! I'm bringing some Emshwiller covers (circa 1960) to Seattle to put in the Seacon exhibit because he won the "Best Artist" Hugo in 1961. These are so much fun!

This has been such an incredible blog!

Box 3 of the F.M. Busby collection at the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy at the University of California, Riverside

Headed to Seattle Worldcon 2025? Want to learn all about the rip-roaring good time had by attendees at Seacon 1961 -- the only other time Worldcon has visited the Emerald City? We have been digging through boxes and combing through archives just for you. 🚀

#SeattleWorldcon2025

Oh, this sounds amazing! I'll put it on my watchlist. Thanks! Looks like Bixby wrote a bunch of other interesting stuff as well...

It is fun to wonder whether he would be flattered or irritated! Someone should write a novel that fictionalizes people from the past responding to their present-day fictional / historical representations...

How to Vote Instructions for voting in the 2025 Hugo Awards.

It’s the FINAL COUNTDOWN!

Hugo Award voting closes TONIGHT at 11:59 p.m. PDT!

Still cramming to finish that last novella? We get it. But don’t forget to submit your ballot before time runs out!

seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw...

#HugoAwards #SeattleWorldcon2025

Sofia Samatar said okay I'll write a book about the university and what she wrote is The Practice, The Horizon, and the Chain because speculative sci-fi might actually be the best way to call things what they are right now

The brand spanking new Seattle Worldcon 2025 T-shirt and Donato Giancola totebag. T-shirt reads, "Seattle Worldcon 2025 Volunteer" and features a drawing of the solar system in rainbow colors.

Oh hello, new things! #SeattleWorldcon2025

"...the speculative appears in poetry as early as we can possibly imagine...even going all the way back to ancient Mesopotamia. . . .The epic poem as a form is evidence that metre and lyricism has been so core to the act of storytelling that our very first stories take its shape in long verse form."

Con-Verse: Calypso and the Legacy of the Epic Poem One Hugo best poem finalist has been of particular interest to me because its presence inadvertently reveals one of the core historical touchstones of speculative poetry and reifies the core strength...

Con-Verse: Calypso and the Legacy of the Epic Poem: One Hugo best poem finalist has been of particular interest to me because its presence inadvertently reveals one of the core historical touchstones of speculative poetry and reifies the core strength … seattlein2025.org?p=4028

Blue canarye yn the outlette by the lighte swicche
Who waccheth ovir thee
Make a litel dovecote yn thy soul

Great news!