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Loved ones of Aaron Bushnell, 25, reached out to me and gave me consent to post a blurred version of Bushnell’s protest today against genocide in Palestine. “Aaron is the kindest, gentlest, silliest little kid in the Air Force,” said Errico, who met Bushnell in 2022.

A wealth tax doesn't tax factories. It taxes ownership claims over wealth. That distinction matters. The idea that a billionaire paying a wealth tax somehow causes a factory to disappear only works if you assume investment comes from accumulated savings. post-Keynesians reject that entirely. Firms invest because they expect sales. Banks create the credit to finance that investment. Saving is the accounting result of investment and income, not its prerequisite. The other problem is pretending today's great fortunes are mostly factories and tractors. A huge share of modern wealth is financial assets, land, monopoly rents, and capital gains. Taxing part of those claims is not the same thing as dismantling productive capacity. France and Sweden are always brought up, but those cases say as much about tax avoidance, loopholes, and international tax competition as they do about wealth taxes themselves. They are not proof that taxing wealth inevitably destroys an economy. The real danger isn't that the wealthy contribute more. The real danger is allowing wealth to become so concentrated that purchasing power is drained from the broader economy while more and more capital chases existing assets instead of creating new productive investment. An economy doesn't become richer because billionaires accumulate larger fortunes. It becomes richer when businesses invest, workers are employed, productivity rises, and incomes grow. Those are not the same thing.

BREAKING: Trump is overhauling federal science funding by directing the roughly $200 billion annual research budget away from traditional university grants and toward artificial intelligence and individual scientists, per WSJ

Unearthed audio reveals David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed a man in Maine, threatening to slit his ex-wife's throat: "Every single female in your bloodline is nothing but a disgusting, fat [bleep]. All of you should have your throats slit."

Like millions of Americans, my family has been impacted by the terrible scourge of cancer. The Trump administration’s new CMS rule will be life-threatening for countless cancer patients on Medicaid across our country. They must reverse course — immediately.

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What if I told you the forward P/E for both Health Care and Semiconductors was the same

America’s democratic socialists are obsessed with the Nordic model. The problem? These countries aren’t socialist.