Jon Grode
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Thank you, @DonaldTrump! Polls are now open. Bring five friends with you. Post your photos to remind Texans that today is election day! Let's work together to make Texas great.

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This is both the saddest and scariest thing I’ve seen for our country’s future.
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus
Reading scores have absolutely tanked since 2015 while spending per student skyrocketed. Mississippi saw the biggest jumps without spending more. They’re still near the bottom nationally. They just went back to phonics, trained teachers in real methods, and quit passing 3rd graders who couldn’t read. TLDR: schools don’t need more money and politicians and teachers unions are leeches and grifters who don’t give a crap about your children.
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Sometimes things pleasantly surprise you.
DC_Draino@DC_Draino
This is the Google homepage on Memorial Day. I almost had to do a double-take. They actually did something appropriate.
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@DefiantLs I believe that in our country the voices of all people are equally important.
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@engineers_feed Refrigeration - it allowed people to store food and freed their time up. This sparked all modern innovation.
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@MatrixMysteries She’s got to skim quick before she gets ousted and the money is no longer available.
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A farmer dies in April 2026.
His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.
The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.
On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.
In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.
The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.
The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.
A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.
The Treasury collects £140,000.
The land never produces British food again.

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The data is even more revealing when you remove suicides.
In 2024, America had 15,364 gun homicides.
The same year, Europe had around 62,700 deaths from summer heat.
America had ~2000.
That's a policy choice.
Bryan Beal 🎧@bryanrbeal
The craziest statistic you will hear all year: more Europeans die from summer heat than Americans die from guns
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