This is a **one-time tax** that applies to a very small number of very well-resourced people based on their residency on a **specific day.** This is not "they will uproot their lives" like "rich people will leave New York." This is "they will go to their vacation home for a short time."

15d = £0.75 £0.75 pounds in 1843 = £83.18 today £83.18 today = $111.23 Assuming a 40 hour week (which is not what Cratchit was working...), that is $2.78 an hour. Math is fun, but apparently not as fun as making things up?

I truly do not think these moves are going to have the effect that the people pushing for them are hoping for. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Also, I should add, as much as Bluesky hates Colin Allred, he outperformed Kamala Harris in 2024 and won parts of the Rio Grande Valley.

They were 8 and 11 years old

it looks like the "mississippi" miracle in reading scores was due to be a pretty basic stats error in the design of the experimental study (selecting on the dependent variable)... a lotta people Got Got on this one! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/01/h...

Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith: “In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’” open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

Some light reading of the Rome Statue on a Friday evening.

Neither Montana nor California have legalized in-app gambling and the fact that those two very different states agree on this should be a signal to everywhere else.

I don’t know who needs to read this but the Farragut Metro station is not the White House.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently. This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.

I don't know if I believe in the Devil, but this is 100% from the Devil.

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Is J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) a vampire? A zombie? Has he been reincarnated? I have a lot of questions.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

If you tell me 8 days before the meeting to discuss and approve the budget that we cannot discuss the budget at the meeting, I'm going to assume you're doing something shady. Especially when paired with "we have a one year grace period where we don't have to follow the organization's bylaws."

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

“In the Capitol, Representative Hòa Nguyễn will be remembered for pouring her heart and soul into bringing communities together.” oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/09/o...

Every time he does this a calculator somewhere in the country spontaneously bursts into flames

One of the least surprising revelations from Kamala Harris's book was the fact that Joe Biden couldn't bring himself to empathize as much with the Palestinians as he did Ukrainians, saying simply "I am a Zionist." www.timesofisrael.com/harris-biden...

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

What insane coding issue makes Siri interpret "set timer hour and a half" as "set timer for one hour and two minutes"?

Immergut's second order, given from the bench, will prohibit the relocation or deployment of any federalized national guard to Oregon.

we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

Gov. Tina Kotek on news of Texas National Guard: "This is a continuation and escalation of the President’s dangerous, un-American misuse of states’ National Guard members and hard-earned taxpayer dollars."

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians, according to a Washington Post poll.

Very hard not to conclude that the Dem messaging strategy of focusing on healthcare has been highly successful at shaping public impressions of the shutdown fight so far despite being hated on here to the point that major accounts were actively adopting GOP framing to attack it

I can’t believe (positive) that I’ve lived to see a woman Archbishop of Canterbury.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

100% All Achievements xkcd.com/3148/

The funniest and most frustrating part of old Twitter/new Bluesky is that it consists largely of smart and well-educated people having arguments about things outside their areas of expertise, in ways that rehash the contents of intro classes in the subject, with no self-awareness about it.

i was invited to a gathering tonight and initially wasn’t gonna go because every extra thing feels like so much these days but i made myself go and i’m so glad i did because it turns out community is so fucking important right now

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

One more thing about the WNBA, which is that I know, from experience, that when the only thing keeping your organization standing is the folks in charge demanding loyalty and silence, baby, you are COOKED. It’s the end of the road when you’re a leader spending all your time trying to shut people up.

I feel like it's bad that I can't tell if Alexandra Petri was actually live-tweeting this speech or if it was satire.

Until very recently, both Republicans and Democrats saw political benefit to emphasizing their pro-Israel credentials and their support of the defense relationship. That may be changing. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

At Pew Research Center, we work hard to make sure our surveys include respondents who are as diverse as the American public. However, we typically only report results for groups with an effective sample size of at least 100 people. Explainer: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

I went to the 1st edition of this as an undergrad, and two of my clearest memories from that day are 1. watching a male panelist physically grab his female co-panelist and 2. hearing one of the only women call herself "not a math person."

I think any fair reading of the polls at this point, particularly among the electorate he’s trying to win, would have to conclude that this, in fact, popularism.

1 + 1 = 2, experts say.

One of the biggest divisions in my parish right now is whether or not it is acceptable that we have programming that is community-first and not traditional expressions of faith-first. ⚓

overall though i think that america in general has a loneliness crisis that is in no way specific to men, or the young

It would be great if we hadn't fired all the people at the IRS that update the website with up-to-date tax policy information.

Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

If your slogan polls this much worse than the underlying policy*, it's a bad slogan. Sorry. *The underlying policy according to most of its proponents, but a bunch of its own supporters will gleefully jump into your mentions to tell you that "defund" really means "abolish."