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This is a healing grid by Japanese artist Ryota Kanai. If you stare at the center, the irregularities start to heal themselves because your brain strongly prefers to see regular patterns.

I don’t know if you guys have fully internalized that America is about to simultaneously invent superintelligence and monopolize outer space.

Rick Steves on the Millionaires' Tax: "A new tax on fat paychecks like mine was just signed into law in my home state — and I like it... And — for those of us with a heart for the public good — it’s simply common sense." It's time to change our upside-down tax system.

The tax situation in WA is starting to feel like we’re living out Atlas Shrugged in real time. The pitch is always the same: You don’t need it. It won’t affect you. It’s for the greater good… so we’re taking it. That’s not generosity, that’s forced altruism, real altruism is voluntary. The moment it’s mandated, it stops being a virtue and turns into a claim on someone else’s effort and labor. When a system starts treating success like it’s villainous, the people driving that success don’t just sit here forever. They scale back, move capital, change where they invest, re-domicile, or simply disengage. It shows up in less growth and local revenue, fewer job opportunities, vacant buildings, and less investment over time. Thats how economic incentives work. And who pays for that? Not them, they can adapt. It lands on workers, small businesses, and communities that depend on that activity. That’s how a policy aimed at fairness ends up hurting the very people it claims to help, and the people who build say “who is John Galt?” Most policy happens in the margins, and the income tax is a false promise that even at its best won’t deliver upon its promises. It only takes some to peace out of WA for it to crumble apart. The hallmark of greed is using the force of government to snatch other people’s property because it makes you feel good.

Millionaires and billionaires got a huge tax cut from the federal government at the expense of working families. Here in Washington state, we took a historic step forward to rebalance an unfair system.

Tiger on his way to the 2026 Masters Champions Dinner