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[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

This is the true legacy of DOGE - the utter decimation of medical research.

MAGA idiots will try to tell you this is just cutting DEI programs. Keep in mind DOGE was filled with such idiots they killed physics grants that mentioned 'polarization' (of light) because of "DEI".

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

🎶Bach - Allegro from Violin concerto in E major BWV 1042 - Sato | Netherlands Bach Society

#Jsbach #Violin #Classicalmusic

[Destroyer of Bad Takes (Emeritus) @_Credible_Hulk]

Matt is correct here. Progressives don’t want to hear it, but the US taxes the rich as much as anyone else. The difference is that we tax poor and middle class earners a lot less.

[Sag Harbor Capital @sagharborcap]

Matt Levine spot on as per usual

[alex @vaudevillehook]

Just got exposed for my role in the coverup of a major scandal and had to resign in disgrace. My legacy and political future are completely tarnished. I’ll forever be remembered as a crook. Pineapple with cottage cheese and warm milk.

[MT @MT_6226]

It is ironic that MAGA claims to oppose the “3rd-Worldization” of America, while engaging in the worst kinds of 3rd World behaviors (hating market-dominant minorities, engaging in blatant cronyism and corruption, attempting to overthrow the government, etc).

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

As other economists have shown, Gabriel Zucman's tax and inequality data is wildly misleading. He turns seemingly every methodological dial to claim that inequality has soared and high-earner taxes have collapsed.

In his own data, virtually the ENTIRE drop in high-income taxes come from Zucman's highly unorthodox assumptions about the incidence of the corporate tax - which he claims cost the top 1% of earners 29% (!) of their income in 1951, and yet now costs them 6%.

And this questionable data accounts for his ENTIRE claimed "drop" in higher-earner taxes.

You see - on the income tax side - Zucman's own data shows that the average individual income tax paid by the rich has RISEN - not fallen - since the 1950s.

See https://t.co/7MV77qBWUe then click on "Table 2: Distributional series," and navigate to tab TG2b, column T for income taxes (and column U for corporate taxes)

As much as Zucman builds up 1950s income tax rates, almost no one actually paid 91% tax rates - or even touched a tax bracket over 50%. And that's why actual income tax revenues - including income tax rates paid by the rich - were *lower* in the 1950s than today.

Zucman's rhetoric is peddling a "tax the rich" utopia of the 1940s-1960s that his own data shows did not exist.

[milo edwards @Milo_Edwards]

say what you will about the uk, but there is no country on earth more willing to humiliate its politicians at random for no reason

[Foreground @foregroundorg]

A clip from the 1997 film DAKAN, one of the first West African films to center homosexuality. More than two decades later, DAKAN remains a landmark of queer cinema and a reminder of the legacy of Black queer storytelling across the diaspora.

#Dakan #QueerCinema #AfricanCinema

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

Little Bobby: I went to Disneyland this summer!

Little Charlie: No way! Lucky!!

Bran (emerging from the shadows): FALSE! He wasn't lucky! His parents took him. It's deserved!

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

Coal miner, union activist, and singer Nimrod Workman performs the traditional Appalachian folk song 'Oh Death'

[František Kupka @artistkupka]

Piano Keys Lake #artbots #kupka

[Art Guide @ArtGuide_db]

Vincent van Gogh
Starry Night over the Rhone, 1888

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Salvador Dalí

[Christopher Satoor​​ @aufgehenderRest]

The Three Kantian Questions.

1). What can I know?

2). What ought I to do?

3). What may I hope?

Was kann ich wissen?

Was soll ich tun?

Was darf ich hoffen?

[Willy @dejectedmoth]

@edzitron Is it so outrageous to think that a gold mine in Ghana was not the most hospitable place for women?

[Willy @dejectedmoth]

@ahmadahead_ @marywitha4 Yes, there are three outcomes but not each of those outcomes is equally as likely. Because there are two variations which give you heads and tails and only one variation where both are heads or both are tails

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” -George Orwell, 1984.