Tom Potter

the independent minded quadruple vaxxed inelegant left footer… he/him/his… whimsy and quirk

[John @john_notabot]

You are unable to drink outside where Douglas lives in the USA

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

White mans Zionist opinion: 1
Ethnic woman’s Palestinian opinion: 0

Fuck the @abcnews

[Kieran Maguire @KieranMaguire]

With less than 72 hours to go before the FIFA World Cup starts there are unsold tickets for 87 out of the 104 matches on the FIFA website

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@AndersAxelson1 You’re equating me saying “fucking” with a sitting Liberal MP using a slur that denigrates intellectually disabled people.

Read that back, Anders.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

A Daily Reminder: If Bernie's Social Security bill was enacted in 2021, Elon Musk would've paid $2.9 billion more in taxes, Social Security would be solvent for 75 years, benefits would be expanded by $2,400 and 91% of Americans would pay $0 more in taxes.

Scrap the damn cap.

[yang goi @GongR1ght]

Norway said that they are not going to play in World Cup in Qatar even if they qualified (they didn’t). Denmark left it until the last minute to confirm their participation in the World Cup 2022Germany forced their players to make political statements before the match in FIFA WC 2022 even though some players didn’t want to do it.

BBC literally disrupted the coverage of one of the best opening ceremonies of the World Cup in Qatar just for virtue signaling.

but for World Cup 2026, the whole media is silent other than a few token articles here and there and Norway and Germany aren’t protesting anything when there’s so much to protest about 🤡

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

This conversation between Alexei Sayle, Miriam Margolyes & Michael Rosen is magnificent. Funny, fascinating, heartfelt, insightful & wise. The very best of Jewish humour, intellect & progressive politics. Definitely the Right Jews

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

While so many countries are paralyzed with fragmented grids, zoning headaches and 5-year waiting lists just to plug in 1 solar farm, China has already built 46 UHV (Ultra-High Voltage) transmission lines spanning over 60,000 kilometers (enough high-tech wires to circle the Earth 1.5 times)

The rest of the world combined has built exactly two.

>Standard high-voltage lines bleed 10% of their electricity over long distances
>China’s UHV lines operating at a massive 1,100kV slash that loss to basically nothing
>This allows large volumes of clean, zero-marginal-cost electrons in the Gobi Desert to drop instantly into the industrial heartlands of Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen over 2,500 kilometers away
>Just 1 of their new lines from Xizang to Shenzhen carries 10GW of capacity, delivering 43 billion kWh of clean power every single year. (That's the equivalent output of 10 massive nuclear reactors flowing down a wire)

The most arresting thing is that China is not slowing down any of it
>Under the newly released 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030), its State Grid is spending $550b (a 40% capex hike) to build 15 more UHV lines
>This will expand cross-provincial clean energy transmission capacity by another 35%, allowing renewables to take over the majority of energy use in the world’s manufacturing superpower

Wires chewing pipelines - fast

[Richard Amador @acuriocabinet]

Ultra High Net Worth Individuals (UHNWI) do own yachts for tax reasons, but not because they are a modern replacement for palaces.

Most of the world runs residency-based taxation. As in, if you stay over 183 days somewhere you become a taxable base. The US is the outlier, as it taxes you regardless of where you live, based on citizenship.

That difference produces two entirely distinct wealth architectures.

European UHNWI have a structural incentive to stay mobile. Not being in one place too long is itself a tax strategy. Yachts happen to serve that lifestyle perfectly - flag-registered in favourable jurisdictions, moving between anchorages, never accumulating residency days (and benefiting from things like Cypriot 2 month stay non-dom status). The tax regime does not cause yacht ownership, but it makes yachts a remarkably efficient asset class for people whose wealth depends on being nowhere in particular.

This is why European UHNWI do a yearly circuit - Wimbledon one week, Cannes another, the WEF, the Biennale. The social calendar is not separate from the tax strategy. They are the same thing. This also mirrors the itinerant courts of the past, where the aristocracy would move around from one part of the kingdom to another throughout the year, according to king's mood.

American UHNWI face the opposite constraint. Citizenship-based taxation means mobility cannot solve the problem. So they optimise differently - dynasty trusts, LLCs, state domicile arbitrage. They are not less sophisticated. The same economic incentive just produces a completely different behavioural output when the underlying regime changes.

[Paula @poulter_pauline]

Not only Franco Puleo, the owner of the Gotham City brothel

Source: @ShereleMoody
"I have it on authority the campaign has the support of the Liberal Party and Liveable Victoria - an organisation focused on planning and other state issues" ... Sherele Moody

Jane Oldham is president of Liveable Victoria
Ian Morgans is secretary of Liveable Victoria
James Patto - member
They are affiliated to @LiberalVictoria

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

"It brings me no pleasure to compare what Israel is doing to what the Nazis did, but how can we not? When you have things like ghettos, starvation, concentration camps and planned systematic extermination of people"

Jewish journalist @kthalps

CC: LBC @lewis_goodall @hasanthehun

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

Israeli media reveals that in late February Iran hit Israel's secret geospatial intelligence Unit 9900 building "hidden inside a residential area." In other words Israel deliberately uses human shields to protect military assets

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

“Just to be clear now, you have not told people to vote for a man who says a Black man should be lynched?”

@mehdirhasan picks a bone with ex-CIA whistleblower @JohnKiriakou seemingly endorsing far-right Republican James Fishback in the Florida governor's race.

[ICIJ @ICIJorg]

Former Trump administration adviser and intelligence official Amaryllis Fox Kennedy previously helped her father secure at least $12M from a Russian investment bank that cooperated with the Kremlin, leaked documents show.

Read the story: https://t.co/uzOx0PXXYT

[nutanc @nutanc]

I didn't think this would happen so fast. I thought we had at least a couple more years of subsidized token maxxing.

[Braxton 🟥 @Braxtonbrew96]

Actually cannot believe this is a real New York Times story.

Apparently debt collectors are having a tough time financially right now — because many of them are being called by other debt collectors.

[Omar Baddar عمر بدّار @OmarBaddar]

Do you know how insane it is to report on Israel, whose army is inside Lebanon actively flattening entire villages, claiming Hezbollah firing is a violation of a "ceasefire?"

[Katie Halper @kthalps]

HI Lewis, I'm a Jewish journalist who made a video comparing Israel to Nazis. Happy to come on.