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The price of gas under Biden was 600% lower.

Amal was under rubble and still conscious, she was speaking to family. The IOF fired on rescuers for 6 hours to make sure she couldn't survive.

@CuffsTheLegend This is embarrassing

Jalen Brunson & Luka really the same type of player. Can score at will but neither one can guard a soul.. they don’t even try at all defensively! Just out there to SHOOT lol It’s wild the Dallas Mavericks really had both of them

Everyone should read what the Israeli military did to journalist Amal Khalil today in this minute-by-minute account as the international community watched in horror. First the text messages threatening her then trapping her and a photographer in a house then bombing them then firing on international rescue crews, all with the world watching in real time. There are no words left for the horrors that U.S. political leaders are enabling.

@DongJohnsonIV @mattyglesias Interesting that most Palestinians will accept some sort of 2 state solution if there were no threat of terrorism, but it's nearly impossible to find an Israeli who will countenance the thought.”

@mattyglesias Interesting that most Israelis will accept some sort of 2 state solution if there were no threat of terrorism, but it's nearly impossible to find a Palestinian who will countenance the thought.

This is the essence of the Israel-Palestine conflict, two wildly unreasonable groups of people who reject the slightest effort to engage with contrasting perspectives much less actually compromise on anything. slowboring.com/p/if-israel-do…

@RepLisaMcClain Israel has killed scores of more Americans than Hamas.

Michigan doesn't need a senator who can't tell the difference between our allies and the terrorists who killed Americans.

The real cheat code isn't the $81,400 salary. It's what happens at the end. Bezos' base pay has been frozen at $81,400 since 1998. The 2026 Amazon proxy confirmed it last week. That number was 2x the US median male income in 1998. Today it's barely 16% above it. The payroll tax dodge is the smallest piece. Even at top marginal rates, it saves him maybe $40K a year. Rounding error. The borrow piece is bigger. An SBLOC from his private bank lets him pull cash against his Amazon stock at roughly the Secured Overnight Financing Rate plus a spread. Right now that's around 5%. No capital gains triggered. Loan proceeds aren't income. So he never sells, never realizes the gain, never pays the 20% federal plus 7% Washington or 13.3% California capital gains tax on hundreds of billions in appreciation. But here's the part almost nobody explains. IRC Section 1014. When he dies, his heirs inherit his Amazon shares at fair market value. The cost basis resets to whatever the stock is worth that day. Every dollar of lifetime appreciation, wiped from the tax rolls. So Bezos' cost basis on his earliest Amazon shares is roughly $0.075 per share adjusted for splits. Today the stock is around $220. That's a gain of roughly 293,000% per share. All of it disappears at death. The estate then sells a slice of the now stepped-up stock at basically zero gain, uses the proceeds to pay off every outstanding SBLOC, and passes the rest to heirs. Buy. Borrow. Die. He doesn't avoid income tax because his salary is low. He avoids income tax because the US tax code treats a loan against $200B in stock as "not income" and treats death as a basis eraser. Congress has introduced bills to repeal step-up at death in 2021, 2022, and 2024. All failed. The 2025 tax law explicitly preserved it and raised the estate exemption to $15M per person. The salary story is the distraction. The real subsidy is Section 1014.

IMAGINE BEING SO VILE, SNEAKY AND DISGUSTING THAT LAWS HAVE TO BE CREATED TO KEEP NORMAL PEOPLE FROM HATING OR CONDEMNING YOU.

@ThePettiestLA The first four rows of Lakers games are filled with maybe 20% fans. The rest just want to be seen or mingle

LA fans spend too much money on the drip and personal Lakers merch to wear the shirts. 🤣

@JoshKraushaar Sounds like free speech won. The world is healing.

Makled = candidate who praised Hezbollah Acker = Jewish candidate whose house and car was repeatedly vandalized with antisemitic graffiti

@therightvoice @samstein @ClayTravis Please advise what intelligence agency stated Iran is a credible threat to the United States.

@RealSamBat @samstein @ClayTravis Just consistent. You keep blaming the boogeyman.

Tim, I’ll bet you a million dollars that by this time next year — call it closing price on April 1, 2027 — gas prices will be lower than they were on February 27th, 2026, the day before we bombed Iran. Higher than $68, you win, lower than $68, I win.

@therightvoice @samstein @ClayTravis You’ve been wrong this entire time. I don’t understand what you think is actually happening in the world. Iran has been neutered in relation to the US for decades. And we aren’t here to defend Israel. But that’s literally the entire purpose of this “war”.

@RealSamBat @samstein @ClayTravis 14 years later…

@therightvoice @samstein @ClayTravis Defense against what exactly? Be precise.

@samstein @ClayTravis It should be noted that Trump prompted the defense of America’s security for decades to come. Such an irrelevant argument.

LeBron's insane help in the 1st Round vs Houston: Marcus Smart: 2022 Defensive Player of the Year Deandre Ayton: Former 1st overall pick Jake LaRavia: Wake Forest legend Rui Hachimura: 2020 All-Rookie 1st Team Luke Kennard: 3x 3FG% champion Jarred Vanderbilt: 2017 McDonald's All-American Bronny James: Literally another LeBron James Maxi Kleber: 11th place finisher for 6MOY in 2022 Nick Smith Jr: Son of Nick Smith Sr. This team is more loaded than the 2017 Warriors. No excuses to lose for LeFlop.

@mcuban Better yet, deposit what your employer pays for your health insurance into that account. Fuck insurance companies, let’s self-insure.

What if there was a bank account available, that required you to deposit monthly, what you would have paid an insurance company in premiums, for an ACA silver plan. So for a family of 5 about $2100. The amount would then be used for Stop Loss Insurance set at $30k dollars. About $300. Another $200 would be used for local Direct Primary Care for your family The balance would be in YOUR bank account. Like an HSA, It could only be used for approved medical expenses. If you never have any medical expenses, you will get to keep the money plus checking act level interest, when you turn 65 If you have a medical event that is more than what you have saved, your bank will loan you the money you need to pay for it, up to the $30k stop loss trigger You would repay that amount using the monthly $1600 net deposit. Once the loan is paid off, the deposits start to accrue to you again. This is not insurance. It’s a specially designed bank account that gives you control, support, a doctor to work with and catastrophic financial protection. Lots of work and issues to be addressed. But I was curious what people think Let me know !

@joseph_palasky @RoKhanna What does that have to do with Israel?

@RoKhanna He’s the senior senator of the largest Jewish population in the country. Go after someone else.

Chuck Schumer was one of 7 Senate Democrats to vote to send bulldozers to Israel. 40 Democratic Senators voted no. Mr. Schumer, you are out of touch with our base and the nation. Step aside.

@TheVotersSay @MassomiBasir @tarriqpuri @Acyn It’s New York City. There isn’t exactly a city that compares, in terms of prestige. These people won’t sell because of a 1-2% tax. It’s embarrassing you think they well.

@MassomiBasir @tarriqpuri @Acyn Let me help. When property taxes are too high, property values (all properties) go down because nobody wants to move there. Property taxes are based on house values. So, what do you think happens next? Tax revenues DECLINE. Foolish.

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich 
Well, today we're taxing the rich...

Wherever Israel goes, young children are slaughtered and massacred like this, because -- and it's so vital to understand this about Israel -- that state does not assign value to the human life of anyone outside of the dominant, supreme ethno-religious group that rules it.

We need a registry of every IDF soldier in the United States. We cannot allow people who put sniper bullets into the heads of children in Gaza to roam freely. They are sleeper cells for all sorts of TERRORISM.

Is anyone talking about the MATERNITY HOSPITAL Israel hit in Lebanon with over 300 casualties? Or are we all just immune to it yet?