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Tax millionaires more, states
In California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, New York,
Maryland, and Washington,
state legislators are pushing to tax
millionaires more.
The campaign is looking for legislators who want
to do this in other states.
I am curious about their target for the highest tax bracket,
which is not stated in the article.
Massachusetts voters (including me) voted for a higher tax on high
incomes in the November 2022 election.
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| 7:18a |
Biden says latest objects shot down over US not linked to China spy program
Biden acknowledged that the three balloons shot down most recently were
not surveillance balloons
and were not Chinese.
One of them seems to have been launched by an
American group of hobbyists.
I recommend a system for high-altitude balloons to carry radio transmitters to
identify themselves and who owns them.
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'Extraordinary Repudiation': NY Senate Rejects Hochul's Right-Wing Judicial Nominee
Democrats in the New York State senate rejected Governor Hochul's
right-wing nominee to the
state supreme court.
I applaud this decision, but does not erase the wrong she did by
nominating such a person. If she runs for reelection, voters should
demand that she come clean about this.
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| 7:18a |
Now Is the Time to Defeat the Insatiable Greed of the Prescription Drug Industry
Bernie Sanders: *Now Is the Time to Defeat the Insatiable Greed of the
Prescription Drug Industry.*
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Findings in Georgia Trump report could be enough to bring criminal charges
*Findings in Georgia Trump report could be enough to
bring criminal charges.*
And it looks like the DA of Fulton County is investigating
state-level charges of perjury.
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| 7:18a |
Yes, Wall Street Would Kill Your Granny for a Few Extra Bucks
*Yes, Wall Street Would Kill Your Granny for a
Few Extra Bucks.*
That may be an exaggeration. I don't think a big company's CEO
would bother killing one granny even for a thousand dollars.
Perse would call that "small potatoes" and look for ways
kill thousands of grannies for millions of dollars.
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| 7:33a |
Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down By USAF
Many hobbyists launch very small "pico balloons" (smaller than a nano
balloon would be) which carry a GPS receiver plus a
radio transmitter
to say "here I am".
But only in daylight, because batteries would be too heavy to carry.
It is plausible that the balloons that the US recently shot down were
pico balloons. Some of them have drifted around the Earth several
times.
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| 7:33a |
'Absolute Hypocrisy': GOP Unveils Bill to Make Trump Tax Cuts Permanent While Howling About Debt
Republicans in Congress want to continue the wrecker's tax cuts for the rich,
which currently
are supposed to last only until 2025.
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| 7:33a |
Fetterman Applauded for 'Courage' of Being Open About Clinical Depression
*Fetterman Applauded for "Courage" of Being Open
About Clinical Depression.*
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| 7:33a |
'Very Disturbing': Amid Ohio Disaster, Another Norfolk Southern Train Derails in Michigan
Another Norfolk Southern train has had a derailment and some .
cars were
overturned
US railroads have prioritized profit over safety; it the government
has the responsibility to make them stop. Specifically,
Transportation Secretary Buttigieg had better get moving.
Proper safety precautions would require giving workers time to think,
rather than making them rush, and giving them sick pay so they won't
be doing safety checks while not quite up to it.
Perhaps the US should establish a legal requirement for railroad
workers to report certain sorts safety flaws in trains directly to the
NTSB. It would be harder for railroad bosses to pressure workers to
keep quiet if keeping quiet is a criminal offense. Indeed, asking
staff to keep quiet should be a criminal offense too.
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| 7:48a |
Peruvian loggers given 28 years in jail for murder of four Indigenous leaders
*Peruvian loggers given 28 years in jail for murder of
four indigenous
leaders.*
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| 7:48a |
Pesticide Use and Climate Crisis Locked in 'Vicious Cycle' Backed by Polluting Industries
*Pesticide Use and Climate Crisis Locked in 'Vicious Cycle' Backed by
Polluting Industries.*
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| 7:48a |
Civil Society Calls On African Union to Foster Fossil-Free Future for Continent
*Civil Society Calls On African Union to Foster Fossil-Free
Future for
Continent.*
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| 9:33a |
Protests at Raytheon's office in Arlington, Virginia
Thugs repressing protesters at Raytheon's office in Arlington, Virginia, told
the protesters that Raytheon owns the sidewalk so no one can protest there.
In the meeting that they protested, all elements of the
military-industrial-media complex with so thoroughly mixed up that the
distinction becomes artificial.
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| 9:33a |
DC thug fed info to suspected criminal groups
A DC thug whose job included monitoring suspected criminal groups such
as the Proud Boys gave them information about the suspicions against
them, shortly before Jan 6. |
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Tesla fired 30 workers in response to union drive
Tesla union busting: the company fired 30 workers in response to a
union drive.
One thing the workers demand is a decrease in surveillance. I wish the
customers would demand the same thing. |
| 9:33a |
Treatment of asylum seekers from Venezuela
The US used to put asylum seekers from Venezuela in a private
(unaccountable) immigration prison and tortured them with sleep
deprivation and other sadisms, hoping they will break and agree
to be deported.
The new system is to deport them immediately to Mexico, so they don't
get a hearing. The only way they can ask for asylum in the US is to
request it at a distance — probably running nonfree software — and
be prepared to pay the cost of a commercial flight to the US. |
| 9:33a |
Taliban ban contraceptives in Afghanistan
The Taliban have banned contraceptives in Afghanistan — perhaps some
kinds and not all.
The Christian Taliban that threaten the US have similar goals, and sooner
or later will try to impose similar laws in the states they control. |
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Google gave publicity to software project
Google gave publicity to a software project designed by Aramco
employees to use Google servers to find and repair methane leaks.
Did Google do good, or harm?
Repairing the leaks is good but small. Helping Aramco distract
attention from its far bigger activities, which accelerate global
heating, is harmful. Which one is more important?
The fact that Google specifically acted to get publicity for Aramco's
token emissions reductions, which don't compensate for its emissions
increases, suggests that this is misleading greenwashing, for Google
as well as Aramco.
The article linked to describes other ways in which Google's
misrepresents its assistance to Aramco and other planet roasters
to deny that they exacerbate global heating. |
| 9:33a |
President of Tunisia arresting opposition leaders
The president/tyrant of Tunisia has started arresting opposition leaders
and people who can influence the public. |
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Fox News supported Trump's claims while knowing they were lies
*Fox News hosts thought Trump’s election fraud claims were ‘total BS’, court
filings show,* while endorsing those same lies while on the air. |
| 9:33a |
Gentrification is effect of building Obama Center
Constructing the Obama Center in a black neighborhood of Chicago is
supposed to benefit people there, but the actual effect (even before
the center is built) is rapid gentrification -- they are compelled to
move away. |
| 9:33a |
Labour ordered to refuse to let Corbyn to run again
Starmer ordered the Labour Party to refuse to let Corbyn run again
in the next general election.
His supporters are not going to yield
meekly. |
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Mississippi's special court for prosecution of crimes
Mississippi's Republican government has created a special court for
prosecution of crimes in part of the capital, Jackson, which will have
no accountability to the (majority black) inhabitants of that area.
This could be a plan to institute racist "justice." |
| 9:33a |
EU Tax Haven Blacklist called a "Joke List"
*Oxfam Calls Updated EU Tax Haven Blacklist Nothing But a "Joke List".
*"Zero- and low-tax-rate countries should be automatically blacklisted,"
said one tax expert. "E.U. countries should not get a free pass."* |
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Allegations corrupter profited from dealings with Crown Prince Bone Saw
Allegations that the corrupter and his relatives profited directly
from corrupt dealings with Crown Prince Bone Saw.
This corruption, if proven, would justify putting them in jail.
But it is not as bad as the damage caused by the political chaos
and dishonesty that the corrupter unleashed on the US. |
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| 11:48p |
An inmate froze to death while detained at an Alabama jail last month, family alleges in suit
Anthony Mitchell died in an Alabama jail of hypothermia. His
relatives accuse jail thugs of punishing him by locking him in
the
freezer, which killed him. |
| 11:48p |
Asylum seekers ‘living in fear’ as more UK anti-migrant protests planned
A hate movement in the UK is stirring up hatred against asylum
seekers. Those under its influence respond to any inconvenience or
problem by assuming asylum seekers are to blame. Often this is false,
but they don't bother to check.
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| 11:48p |
Leaked files reveal reputation-management firm’s deceptive tactics
Leaked files from the reputation-whitewashing company Eliminalia
showed that it made fraudulent copyright complaints to get negative
stories taken down, and used fake accounts to flood the net with
fake positive stories,
drowning out the criicism.
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| 11:48p |
Roald Dahl rewrites: edited language in books criticised as ‘absurd censorship’
Salman Rushdie and others have condemned the changes that the
publisher has recently made in
Roald Dahl's books.
The publisher says that the changes are so that Dahl's books "continue
to be enjoyed by all children today," but I think it is more a matter
of what some believe children are supposed to think.
The actual changes I have seen appear to be minor, and I don't think
they ruin the books. What arouses my ire is the idea of revising the
writings of the past to expunge all ideas that have been declared
++ungood. It reminds me of when students demanded to do in George
Washington High School in San Francisco.
It also reminds me of Chinese censorship.
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| 11:48p |
After Cyclone Gabrielle, New Zealand wonders how – and if – to rebuild
New Zealand suffered widespread destruction from a cyclone's heavy rain,
which destroyed many homes, roads and
civic infrastructure.
It will have to rebuild very differently.
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