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[Ian-Mitchell Dear @IDear_Sports]

Everyday of 2020...

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

JUST IN: The wealthiest 1% of Americans now hold more wealth than the entire U.S. middle class combined

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

You left out the part where the bill merges the U.S. military with Israel’s military, you treasonous bastards.

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

American companies spent $1,000,000,000,000 buying back their own stock last year.

That’s money that could’ve been raises.

Could’ve been better benefits.

Could’ve been lower prices for consumers.

Instead it went to inflating share prices so executives could cash out their options.

Your employer told you there was no budget for a raise the same year they spent billions making rich shareholders richer.

There was always a budget.

You just weren’t in it.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

This is the list of the 50 GOP Senators who voted yes on merging the US military with Israel.

Each and every one of them should be charged with treason.

[More Luigis Needed @LisaA311]

Biggest theft of our lives. That was our money and they handed the refund to corporations instead of back to you

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

Price Increases over last 7 years...
New Cars: +22%
Used Cars: +29%
Groceries: +33%
Shelter: +35%
Family Health Insurance: +38%
Restaurants: +39%
Transportation: +41%
Electricity: +44%
Gasoline: +49%
Auto Insurance: +51%
Gas Utilities: +60%
Home Prices: +60%
Fuel Oil: +60%
Dozen Eggs: +72%
Ground Beef: +79%
Coffee: +127%

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

They killed our pensions and floated it as your responsibility in the form of a 401k. They gutted unions who fought them to secure more rights for workers. They consolidated power and hoarded all the wealth just to call you lazy for thinking you deserve better.

[skumm🧊 @skumWgmi]

You can't tax rich people on unrealized gains from stocks because "it's not real money until it's sold."

So explain to me why my property taxes keep going up based on the unrealized value of my house?

I didn't sell it, didn't cash out and didn't even make a profit.

But somehow I'm paying taxes on paper gains every single year.

Interesting how "unrealized gains" only become a problem when wealthy folks are involved.

[Russell Foster A New Texas @RussellFosterTX]

It's not just housing. I am about to pay the same amount of money tomorrow for a 10-year-old car that I would have paid for a brand new car 10 years ago. How does that make any sense?

[David Bakhtiari @DavidBakhtiari]

Tell me you don’t care about player’s safety, without telling me you don’t care about player’s safety? @NFL

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

We grew up watching hand drawn Disney and now it's gone. We don't talk about this enough.

Every frame of this video was painted by hand, by a human being. Every single one...

To put that into perspective: to make Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney employed around 750 artists for three years, and they produced nearly two million individual paintings. More than 700 of the backgrounds were painted in watercolour. Over 150 people worked in a single department whose only job was to ink and paint the transparent sheets, called cels, that the characters were drawn on.

It all ended within our lifetime.

According to the Smithsonian, The Little Mermaid, released in 1989, was the last Disney feature made with the hand-painted cel method. The very next film, one year later, went digital.

And something was lost in that transition. In every frame of the old films, a human hand physically touched the surface. A person sat at a desk, held a brush, and made a decision. Two million small decisions, made by hundreds of people, most of whose names we will never know.

But the deepest difference is that the old animators knew they were making a cartoon. They did not try to copy the world. They stretched it, exaggerated it, bent it out of shape, because they understood something we seem to have forgotten: a drawing that imitates life exactly feels dead.

Walt Disney even had a name for this: he called it the plausible impossible.

Today, everything chases realism. And somehow, the more real it looks, the less alive it feels...

I started my newsletter because the past is full of beauty, and fewer and fewer people take the time to show it to us anymore. Every week I try to. If that is something you'd like to be part of, you can join through the link in my bio, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

Thanks for reading.

[Russell Crowe @russellcrowe]

Sam Neil.

Kind, wise, impish, graceful, warm.

The last time I saw him I took the opportunity to tell him he was an inspiration to me.

Rest in Peace Sam.

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Stock buybacks were considered illegal market manipulation. That is until, you guessed it, Ronald Reagan.

[⚜️Ralph Lauren⚜️ @504Tru]

Remembering Tom Benson on his birthday 🙏

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

The biggest scam humanity has collectively accepted as normal, according to Claude

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

🎯🎯🎯

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Since Flock tracks everyone’s location.
it’s only fair we know theirs, too. 👇

🏭 Flock Manufacturing Plant
1885 Mitchell Rd SE, Suite 600,
Mableton, GA 30126

🏢 Flock Headquarters
1170 Howell Mill Rd NW, Suite 210,
Atlanta, GA 30318

They mapped us. Now we're mapping them.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Kentucky Republicans have tried to take away Governor Beshear’s ability to appoint Mitch McConnell’s replacement. Beshear says he’s considering ignoring the state legislature and appointing a Democrat to replace McConnell anyway.

He believes the law is unconstitutional, that Kentucky’s constitution gives him the authority, and that he’s prepared to test the GOP on it.

This is exactly how Democrats should be fighting.