Steph

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.

“Sure, a robot can lift 600 pounds much more easily than I can — but that doesn’t much help me if I’m trying to work out. The same goes for the thinking exercise of education.”

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.

Bezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you."

I read that entire “Your brain on ChatGPT” (all 200 pages) last fall for my class. Just go read the paper. The results cannot be distilled into a summary or tweet.

reading leftist literature and having to google 10 words every page

I'm listening to Briahna Joy Gray go on about how Mamdani, AOC and every lefty star that gets into office suddenly sells out and starts moderating. She doesn't seem to have a good theory of why this might be the case other than maybe they lack commitment to Sparkle Motion. What I think that she is missing is that these people get into office and realize that throwing bombs doesn't work. If they want to actually move the ball forward, they have to set reasonable goals and actually try to work with people. Maybe, just maybe, the reason why the Dems don't do everything the left wants isn't because they are corrupt or secret conservatives, but because its harder to actually govern than complain.

🚨 HOLY CRAP. A FOREIGN PRIME MINISTER just told American media YOUR war isn't over, and casually floated sending YOUR sons into Iran to grab uranium. NETANYAHU: "It's not over." "You go in and you take it out." REPORTER: With what? Special forces from Israel? From the United States? "I'm not going to talk about military means, but what President Trump has said to me, I want to go in there." "I think it can be done physically." REPORTER: How long? "I'm not going to give a timetable." So a foreign leader sets the mission, dodges the means, refuses a timeline, and YOUR kids fight it. YOUR taxes fund it. YOUR dollar inflates for it. This is Israel dictating YOUR foreign policy. Reject it. 🟧🦍

Nixon established one of the biggest heroin factories in Laos using USAID funds with a Pepsi factory front that never produced a single bottle of soda

Its not that reading theory is wrong, but it’s undeniably alienating to any potential mass base. You need politics that can mobilize people without reading. Look at MAGA, does their base need to read Milton Friedman to be MAGA? They can embody their ideology through everyday life

April 2026 was the worst April for drought in US recorded history, dating back to 1895. Yes, even worse than the Dust Bowl.

Kevin O'Leary's proposed data center in Utah will require 9 Gigawatts of energy to function when fully built, double Utah's current energy usage for the entire state. It will dump around 23 atomic bombs worth of thermal load on the environment every day.

Don't ever forget that your government upgraded the air filtration in its main government buildings during an airborne pandemic, but not the hospital you attend or your mum's care home or your kids' daycare or prisons or shelters.