American health care $ You are legally required to buy insurance. You can only buy insurance at certain times and for certain reasons. It will cost almost as much as your housing. Your teeth and eyes are not part of your health coverage. Healthcare is privatized but a well visit books a year out.

Trying to decide if I should squeeze in a three day work trip. It’s a fun event in a fun town. Worried I’m over committing and will burn through my cognitive reserve because I have three other events in the same small window. Go for it or slow down and pace myself? #NeurodivergentBS

I’m angry because my husband’s employer decided that the medical treatment chosen by my medical team of Drs, who actually treat me, isn’t in their economic interest. Even though it’s been going well for 9 months, it will not continue. Bonus- meds ended now instead of easing off and it’s miserable

Serious question- is there a way to just block words and phrases from your social feeds? I don’t want to try to block 100s of people, I just want to keep my sanity by filtering out certain topics or bullshit.

I'm bringing back the ADHD tips and tricks videos. This week in Ovata Collective, we are working on identifying the most important things to do and then getting them done. Struggling to get started? Try this quick and easy tip. #adhd #autism #womenwithadhd #neurodiversity #accounting #neurospicy

If you have a book with US copyright that may be among those stolen-for-profit by Anthropic (🤬), you can proactively enter your book & contact info here: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact

Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

What's wild (and fitting) is how much the sign looks like something a comic book villain would put up. newrepublic.com/post/199561/...

North Korea isn’t the only dictatorship where Dear Leader hangs giant banners of his own fat face on public buildings.

For the people in the back- this has way more impact on getting your call answered, your return processed, and access to help, than your likelihood to be audited. #blueSkyTax

Sunday garden chores and “The Nickel Boys” audio book. 📖 #BlueSkyBooks #BlueSkyGardening

Trump doesn't care about crime in D.C. — which is at a 30-year low. He's creating another fake "emergency" in an attempt to show force. If he actually cared about keeping the city safe, he wouldn't have stoked insurrectionists to attack the Capitol on Jan 6. Hello?

Trump’s mobilization of the National Guard, ICE, and FBI in D.C. has nothing to do with safety. In fact, violent crime has hit a 30-year low in D.C. It’s plain and simple—this is what authoritarians do. The Trump regime is attempting to instill fear, create propaganda, and consolidate control.

Many of your reps hold office hours. This was part of my job when I interned for a state rep. These are great opportunities to sit face to face with legislators and get help, ask questions, engage in the system.

Nothing to see here. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Today I knocked several things off the long term to-do list, sent some hard emails, and maybe saved my gardens from the drought we are having. I will pay for this productivity with a less productive day tomorrow. Such is ADHD life. #sprints #spoons

It appears that a great number of people who voted for this didn’t understand their state health benefits were, in fact, Medicaid. Phase two of this will be increases in private ins premiums as hospitals must bill more to cover the free care they must now deliver. 🚫 insurance doesn’t = 🚫🤧😷.

When you adopt a tech tool because it’s simple and right sized for your needs then they decide they need to be like everyone else in the market and add all kinds of features you don’t need and it ruins the tool and now it’s fancy but doesn’t do the core thing it was built to do 😑 #taxBS

Today we celebrate the ADA’s 35th anniversary, landmark legislation that works to make everyday life more accessible for Americans living with disabilities.

Treasury Department files reviewed by Senator Ron Wyden’s staff members show 4,725 wire transfers, adding up to nearly $1.1 billion, associated with just one of Mr. Epstein’s bank accounts. Follow. The. Money.

I’ve always respect art as a form of protest. But I underestimated how critical it is to protest. Without artistic expression, protest is just a dry lecture. Thank you to all those sign makers, folks who dress on theme, signers and song writers, poets and limerick writers, chanters, & button makers.

What might have been different if enough people had taken a stand earlier in Germany? The Congo? Rwanda? I’d rather be wrong than look back and think- I should have done more.

Wednesday is with us again, so grab your family and friends and drag them out to buy a book! - Michael

Even prison gangs can agree that child predators are scum. Yet, the president just fired a federal prosecutor who has repeatedly built and tried these cases. Interesting. #currentEvents #epstien #Diddy

🧠 Accountants who think differently — we see you. Ovata Collective is hosting an online gathering for neurodivergent pros in accounting. ADHD, autistic, dyslexic? This space is for us to connect, share real talk, and build something better together. Details in the comments 👇

Landscaper is teetering on failure not because of a revenue issue but because of cash flow. What’s your #1 piece of advice to them? #taxbs #smallBusiness

Thread. There's also the issue that good, intensive journalism costs money and takes an editing/publishing infrastructure - more than many individual writers can afford and manage on their own. Single-writer newsletters can't and won't save journalism.

It might be time to tax churches like we do any other business. #taxBS

The garden really prefers neglect 😂

Tackling the stuff I dislike the most 1st on this lovely Monday. Sales and contract work ✅ I may also be in fan pics of Childish Gambino because we were sitting next to one and other at the coffee shop and people don’t know how to let celebs just have a vacation. #ADHDhack #NDBizOwner #TaxBS

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

Whatever marketing person pitched putting the Boston Dynamics’s robo dogs on Americas Got Talent is it being paid enough #AGT #RoboDogs

I would like to know what would happen if states like MA, NY, CA that pay more up to the fed than they receive in support just stopped paying into the Fed system? What would those numbers look like?

📣 Join us June 17 at 10AM EDT for Neurodivergence in Accounting: A Roundtable Discussion! @iragilligan.bsky.social and I want to hear from you about what you want in a ND accountant community 💻 Online & free to attend → bit.ly/3Tj6bAc #Neurodiversity #Accounting #Inclusion

The anniversary of the Equal Pay Act. How should we celebrate?

So, like are we just doing choose you own adventure on childhood vaccines now? Vacationing in the EU and Turkey for basic healthcare?

HAPPENING NOW: Protesters marching peacefully in the streets of LA to protest ongoing ICE raid operations and Trump’s federalization of the National Guard 📍Los Angeles, CA

QuickBooks’ price increase is a masterclass in how you can leverage being sticky. I wrote about why we are staying and ponder a bit about what it will take for us to make a change. It’s probably too blunt but here it is #taxsky #smallBusiness www.snowandblair.com/blog/quickbo...

ADHD folks, I completed a return today.

My garden is showing off a little today. 😍

Looking forward to hearing from all the great neurospicy accountants we can 🌶️🧠

A National Weather Service office in Kentucky was scrambling to cover the overnight forecast on Friday as severe storms moved through much of the eastern U.S. The office is one of several left without an overnight forecaster as a result of cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency.

When it’s food and wine festival on Nantucket things can get a little nuts. My preferred strategy is to pop in early to some of my favorite spots and grab a bar seat. Ventuno is a solid on my list of favorites season after season ❤️🍝 Cheers to another season with some of the best 🍷

Are you an accountant who’s neurodivergent? You’re not alone. We’re building a supportive space just for you. 🧠 Celebrate how your brain works 🛠 Talk tools, tech, and self-advocacy Come as you are. Find your people. #NeurodivergentAccountants #Neurodiversity #AccountingCommunity

Could a few more CEOs be like Ben and less like Elon?

Post of the day in my book.