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It’s interesting that labor executives earn multiples of their top members because of a union’s need to “retain elite talent” to be competitive

@GeeScottSr The most significant negative impact of the ACA for middle-income Americans—those who do not qualify for substantial subsidies—has been the steady rise in costs.

What kind of country charges you to get healthy and charges you to get smart? A hospital visit shouldn’t end a family, and a college degree shouldn’t start a 30-year debt.

@GeeScottSr When the government or lenders make it easier and less risky for students to borrow large sums, colleges respond by increasing their prices to "capture" that additional purchasing power.

@AGOWA It's hard to dispute that Nick Brown knows what pure corruption looks like

This is pure corruption, courtesy of the President and the DOJ. nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/…

After leaving the Governor's office in 2017, Nick Brown became a partner at Pacifica Law Group, a prominent firm in the Pacific Northwest. During this time, the firm also served as Bob Ferguson’s private legal counsel.

8 workers, 6 supervisors? Just hire a contractor.

Patty, if you find trusts immoral, you lead the charge on eliminating them. But you won’t, because it would end your career

@Ksaktweets @MayorofSeattle Shitter’s full!

Another failure by @MayorofSeattle

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Trump's ballroom is a highly expensive, concentrated luxury project ($1.4B), while the Fed renovation ($2.5B) is a multi-billion dollar industrial infrastructure project meant to modernize the secure working space of thousands of central bank employees.

Caveat: does not apply in Washington state

@curmudgeon_x @stevemur It’s a mistake to continually reduce accountability in parenting and shift responsibility to the state. Make intentional reproductive decisions: if you can’t by a kid lunch, don’t make a kid

@stevemur Sure, but I don’t know how many people have excess meal prep time available, so I would expect homemade lunch was the exception. Realizing that both of us are far enough away from our formative school lunch habits that they may not be relevant anymore

This seems to be springing up “organically” all over the place. Right at the time the grift and fraud in social programs is being interrupted. Call me skeptical. Can anyone point to the groundswell surge of demand for it?

You’d imagine these carriers had some antitrust experience?

@gothburz @bennyjohnson To your point:

@bennyjohnson The entire democratic leadership needs to be fired and replaced, this includes Kamala. The Democratic leadership had had nothing but bad ideas for years while actively suppressing populist, legitimate, and great ideas.

Kamala Harris says Democrats need a “no bad idea brainstorm” after getting HUMILIATED over their failed redistricting scheme. Translation? The party that spent YEARS trying to rig every institution in America is now panicking because voters rejected them anyway. They controlled Hollywood. The corporate media. Big Tech censorship. The universities. The bureaucracy. The courts. And they STILL lost the country. Now Democrats are openly “brainstorming” ways to change the rules because they can’t win under the system they spent decades manipulating. Notice they never want to persuade voters. They want to abolish the Electoral College. Pack the Supreme Court. Nationalize elections. Lower voting standards. Import millions of future voters through open borders. Every “reform” somehow magically benefits Democrats. Kamala calling for a “no bad idea brainstorm” is the most honest thing they’ve said in years. Because when a political movement can’t survive democracy… it starts trying to redesign it.

@stevemur @engele Fiscal incidence analysis looks at the combined impact of government revenues and expenditures on a household's income. It subtracts the taxes paid from the benefits received to determine if a person is a net taxpayer or a net beneficiary.

It’s kind of crazy how unhinged this chart makes some people.

Bob’s real message: I have national aspirations and I will step on the throats of conservatives in my state to get there

Rs and Ds chasing each other around the toilet bowl

@minty_hawk More importantly, if you can’t afford lunch for your kid, don’t procreate.

This is part of a broader pattern. State and local debates popping up all over about 'fairness' and 'regressivity' proceed with what looks like willful ignorance that the federal government exists, and is funded by an extremely progressive tax structure. Baffling, really.

Gotta create a bottleneck so you can extract tribute