Adam L. Radman

European governments figured out a neat trick: tax American companies, pass the cost onto their own businesses, and call it "making Big Tech pay their fair share." @TaxReformer and @Tholos Foundation just dropped a full report on it. 🧵

As I said after the World Series, baseball has clearly re-established itself as the number-two sport in the country, behind football. There's no debate at this point. America wants to watch March baseball more than the culmination of the NBA season. The WBC final comfortably outdrew Games 1-6 of the 2025 NBA Finals and beat the series average. Before you pin that on Thunder-Pacers, the WBC Final also outdrew Game 4 of the 2024 NBA Finals and was 500,000 viewers shy of beating the series average. 2024 featured two top-10 TV media markets, legitimate NBA star power in Luka, and NBA royalty in the Celtics. There should be panic at NBA headquarters over this, and MLB should be terrified of a work stoppage that would kill this momentum.

@margbrennan There are about 160 million to 230 million Christians in the country. Not sure why invoking Jesus’s name would be scandalous to anyone but a very small slice of the media.

The Secretary of Defense tells the American public to pray for our troops on bended knee and invoke Jesus' name....

Zohran Mamdani wants a 70% death tax on New Yorkers. That's the combined federal-state rate if his proposal passes. The highest in the world. He also wants to drop the exemption threshold from $7M to $750K — the lowest in the country. New York is already losing people. This would accelerate it. buff.ly/dMITmJ7

The race to zero income tax is real and accelerating. Utah: 6th cut in 6 years ✅ SC: trigger to zero enacted this month ✅ MO: phaseout passed the House, Senate next ✅ States that get this right will pull ahead on jobs, investment, and people. Everyone else will fall behind. buff.ly/iYrDIaT

I can’t speak for everyone, but this is literally what has happened in our parish over the last couple years

This digital necromancy is a very bad idea. First of all what makes a great actor is their unexpected, inspired choices in a given role; A glance, a grimace, an extended phrase. The AI Val Kilmer will be denied all of those uniquely human and very personal choices. It will be an extended facsimile of an actor without his fire or ingenuity- a hallow show. In addition to which, the deceased Kilmer will be saddled with a performance and a role he has no agency over. This is a violation of his dignity and his work as a living artist.

@nikitabier Good to know this is being prioritized. For everyday users and engaged citizens, being able to trust what they're reading is what makes the platform worth using. Curious how the verification layer holds up at scale.

The fortress we are building—and the layers of redundancy—to protect the platform against the AI Slopacalypse will seem obvious in a few months. Whether we use every tool in our toolkit is TBD, but it would be negligent to not have them ready.

@Truth_n_facts1 @TPCarney I never liked the decision, but it was probably the right move at the time. But in hindsight, awful move!

@TPCarney Trading PCA to prop up a mediocre team with half a year of Baez was criminally stupid even if PCA had not turned out to be a very good player.

I miss Wheeler & DeGrom. I will miss Pete and Nimmo and even McNeil. It's sad to root for a team of free agents, when we had so much awesome home grown talent. (Don't even mention PCA).

@TPCarney I miss Jake, but I was over Pete and McNeil. The previous construction was aging out of their prime. We have so much talent coming up now: Benge, McClean, Baty, Alvy, Peterson, Tong, Scott, etc. I think the future is much brighter than our recent experiences.

Caught an early screening of Project Hail Mary last night. Gosling gives the performance of his career opposite Rocky, a puppet-performed space alien, and it's the emotional core of the film. Sci-fi hasn't felt this alive in years. See it in IMAX: buff.ly/EONEADE

@DefiantLs I’m confused by this logic. Don’t we believe in rule of law? If he broke the law, shouldn’t we indict and try him in a court?

Saagar Enjeti on Joe Kent: “I guarantee you they will try to indict him.” “They’re gonna say he breached his security clearance by sharing information, that he was never a real patriot, that he’s a snake, that he’s an anti-Semite.”

@SNY_Mets Is it me or should Mets fans be legitimately excited about this kid? @kerpen @TPCarney

Carson Benge is making his case to be on the Mets' Opening Day roster 💪

U.S. firms already pay nearly $3 billion annually in DSTs. The @TaxReformer / @Tholos Foundation report estimates cumulative costs could reach $117 billion by 2035 if adoption spreads. This is taxation without representation, exported globally. Read the full report: buff.ly/zQTHeWj

@taxreformer @tholos When the UK introduced its DST, Amazon, Google, and Apple all raised fees and charges on businesses serving UK users, each explicitly citing the tax. The statutory burden hit American firms. The real cost hit British businesses and consumers.

European governments figured out a neat trick: tax American companies, pass the cost onto their own businesses, and call it "making Big Tech pay their fair share." @TaxReformer and @Tholos Foundation just dropped a full report on it. 🧵

@taxreformer The targeting is by design. In Spain and France, the vast majority of firms subject to these taxes are American. Domestic firms are largely unaffected. French ministers even called it the "GAFA tax." They said the quiet part out loud.

Illinois primary tonight. If you want real-time updates from reporters and insiders on the ground, my U.S. Elections Tracker list has you covered. x.com/i/lists/202900…

St. Patrick, pray for us!

Paul Ehrlich has died. He was 93. He is survived by 8,300,678,394 people (134% increase from 1968), with a daily worldwide average calorie intake of 2,800 kcal (a 22% increase).