I’m curious if most Americans understand the terrain of the Strait of Hormuz. An interesting bit is that it’s ~25 miles across at its narrowest but traffic is limited to a 2 x 100 mile channel. Which is tactically both a small & enormous commercial transit waterway to manage during a conflict.

“Raising concerns” oh thank god, for a minute I was worried lawmakers would do nothing

Iran has reasserted control over Hormuz, saying that Trump almost immediately welched on his agreement to reopen the Strait to traffic from Iran. The Iranian description of Trump's conduct appears to be accurate. www.ft.com/content/b45b...

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

OH MY GOD

The leaked tax return showed Trump paid $750 in taxes. He’s made $4 billion since the leak. 750 miles is Chicago to NYC One time around the entire earth is 24,000 miles. 10 billion miles is 400,000 times circling the earth. Him suing for $10 billion is absolutely bonkers.

I don’t think American culture has ever cared about workers even when it benefits the bottom line—which it often does in retention & higher performance. Toyota’s success when being allowed to make cars in the US is a great example of that—GM adopted some practices but never the culture of care.

In the US you can't even take off a day to care for an ill human lmao

The Mississippi Free Press got inundated with a raft of AI-generated opinion pieces—which we pay writers for—from people who don't exist pretending to be Mississippians. One of those columns made it to publication before we caught the scam. Kevin Edwards, editor for our Voices section, explains:

Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

trumps appointees being alcoholic incompetents and trumps jan 6th supporters being pedophiles seems like something historians are going to be studying tbh

Not only has he never had to go to the ✨corner store✨ for ✨groceries✨ but no one he knows has either. Spent his whole life surrounded by out of touch people.

person, woman, man, camera, TV, corner, store

I’m not a lawyer, and I’m exhausted, so I can’t say exactly which part of the constitution forbids it, but if the constitution does not forbid the president from suing the government in his personal capacity and then ordering the government to settle in his official one, it forbids nothing.

Thinking about the 62 million views, and then thinking about how marital rape was only made illegal in all 50 US states in the summer of 1993. I can remember 1993. I can remember what was on the radio at the time. I had just been in my first movie. It was not so long ago.

I was at a dog-friendly bar in NW Portland tonight and a table behind me started singing Happy Birthday and then I realized it wasn’t for a person but a really old dog who was wearing a crown and he was old and fucking adorable and I love this city

If anyone would like to see a photo of a cat that wishes it was a red panda, this is your lucky day. #Caturday

Am I surprised that there were 62million visits to a rape instructions website? No. But I AM surprised a website like that exists coz from what I can tell men already know how to do all that stuff.

Without saying your age, post your favorite film that released the year you turned 18 (Interesting P.S. more than 1500 movies were released that year 😱 and last year less than 600)

one thing cut from this Pitt finale feature was ken kirby (Dr Shen) between takes looking at a prosthetic newborn baby lying in a roasting pan and asking noah wyle what temp he should cook it at wyle: 350! [pause, glance at me] don’t print that [pause] because it’s an old family recipe.

If you missed our remote event for We're Thankful for the Moisture last week, you can catch the full thing on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGnE...

I knew Pope Leo was a Bob Dylan fan.

heated chivalry

Godspeed, patriot.

threw my back out pumping up the jam

Local Bar Comes Out As Gay https://theonion.com/local-bar-comes-out-as-gay-1819569813/

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Rich client shenanigans on tax day 😂🫠 A high six figure earner blew up at owing 8% of his income and said he may have to sell one of his houses to pay for it. Another complained to me that he didn’t realize how many millions he made. I make $17 an hour.

The only part of tax day that doesn’t suck! Krispy Kreme BOGO 😍 🍩 Not only are tax pros exhausted but all day hearing people be upset “I owe how much” and “who designed this” it’s so depressing 😭

Some thoughts on this —heartbreaking that she’d be deported to a 3rd country where she may not be safe & would have little/no contact w her grandchildren in the US —She has legal status to stay & the govt has legal authority to deport. One option does zero harm the other immense unnecessary harm

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public' IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

Freelancers of Bluesky, this week’s Scratch newsletter features a long talk with an anonymous author/tax preparer about how our system sets us up to feel extraordinary shame, stress, and guilt around taxes. (This post will always remain unpaywalled, because we think it’s that important.)

I need someone to run on the IRS sends you your tax return. You revise it, add deductions that aren’t reported to the irs and you’re done.

IRS has the capability to just send us a receipt with the amount owed like other countries. There were two (not consecutive) years I legit forgot to get an extension and they sent me said receipt with the amount owed. The most we should have to do is report investments, deductions, etc.

here's how the FBI extracted deleted Signal messages from an iPhone: Watch more about this, and subscribe, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNUO...

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

LOGGING ON

Has anyone calculated the chance of a J6er being convicted of sex crimes vs the general population? It's gotta be like 10,000% higher

I’d like to thank the Mormons for both the dirty Mountain Dew Baja Blast Zero that I just got from Taco Bell and the two cases of dirty Mountain Dew cream soda zero that just arrived in my grocery delivery. May they nourish, strengthen, and caffeinate my little exmo body. 😇 😈

Gravy a song: 🎶 sweet dreams were made of gravy🎶

Erasing all previous music discourse to tell you that a guy just rolled by listening to "Drops of Jupiter" by Train very loudly in his car, and someone yelled at him to ask "what are you listening to?", in case anyone is curious what it used to be like.

It's wild that American Republicans see millions of people attending No Kings rallies and assume, with no evidence, that they're all being paid...and then some grandma who has literally lobbied for DoorDash delivers to the White House with the *cameras rolling* & they think it's an adorable moment.

Intimacy is when you’re holding out a coupon on your phone and the cashier is trying to aim the scanner thing at it

My 2 year old daughter Brynleelynn Lee said from her crib "daddy if the door dash Gramma lived in Canada her hubsand would have medical care and she wouldn't need to work for tips" and I said "that's right baby" and posted this on the Internet

Gallego gets emotional: "It hurts. It hurts that he hurt a lot of people. And it pisses me off that now we all have to deal with all of his BS."