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I am eternally a work in progress. It's ok to evolve as long as you always own up to who you are. I am me!

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

Elon Musk: Trillionaire

Jeff Bezos: Billionaire

Public School Teachers: Can anyone help me get some pencils for my students?

[Reuters @Reuters]

As protests in Albania continue to grow, Edward McAllister, Reuters Bureau Chief for Greece and the Balkans, explains how the demonstrations over a planned luxury resort have grown into general political discontent with Prime Minister Edi Rama

[Holly Bullard @HollyBullardFL]

NEW: Revenue Estimating Conference (with DeSantis appointees and the state economist, etc) met today and adopted the fiscal impact of the soon-to-be Amendment 3 property tax cut proposal.

The cuts to local revenue—
$11.86 Billion.
Annually.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

What's most infuriating about the Musk trillionaire shit is that his enterprise is built almost exclusively on gov contracts. It's not just that he's expropriating our wealth in an abstract way -- his fortune is built on the tax dollars we pay, that he then obtains through graft.

[john teufel @JohnTeufelNYC]

SpaceX IPO so perfect for right now. A company without profit, sold on a market detached from reality, based on fake promises about things it will never do. Layers and layers of bullshit.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

📺 Telemundo TV commentator: "We are one of the only networks in the world to NOT show ads during the World Cup cooling breaks."

"We prefer the old school way. We should be able to see what the players do. We show fans, people enjoying, not the corporate direction of football."

[Utkarsh Sharma @techxutkarsh]

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

[V @Vallistar13]

@anneapplebaum @dwallacewells We have pathological liars in leadership everywhere so it would make sense that LLM are just imitating them.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations.
https://t.co/s3LE8vedNi

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

Local Boca Raton, FL post office was oddly closed last Saturday while all the other post offices were open. Clerk said they’re cutting all the postal workers. Just in Boca Raton alone they went from 188 clerks to 42. He said when he retires, they are not replacing him. So last Saturday, one person called out sick and another didn’t show up, so they just didnt open. Our wonderful government at work while pissing away our taxpayer money on performative, propagandist POTUS pissfests. Stop. Voting. Republican.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

If taxpayers are going to pay to build a stadium, then the taxpayers should own the stadium.

You can’t socialize the cost, then privatize the profits.

[Jess @MeetJess]

New study shows metformin given during acute COVID-19 infection reduced risk of clinician-diagnosed long COVID by 50%
https://t.co/noDfQK7Cx9

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

I love that someone said that. Everyone hates Boomers (understandably) but it is genuinely a problem that the “Great Transfer of Wealth” is not going to be to the children and grandchildren of Boomers.

Your parents/grandparents assets will be given to these healthcare companies

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Anyone else find it genuinely unsettling that one person has just become a trillionaire?

It’s gone past rich, beyond obscene and hard to compute.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Taxpayers paid for over $38 billion in subsidies and government contracts for Space X, and Elon Musk gets to be a trillionaire off of our tax dollars.
https://t.co/uI5Yy5ervR

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

Those who celebrate @elonmusk's $1 trillion fortune need to be reminded of a simple and vital truth:

That there is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy.

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

This is actually a perfect example of "what's the difference between a bouncer checking your ID and a website doing it?"

Identity theft.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

A new proposal in Ohio would let the state and utility companies take private property to build data center infrastructure.

The proposal from the powerful Ohio Business Roundtable would even let land be taken from people before the owner gets paid.

A document obtained by the Ohio Capital Journal shows the Ohio Business Roundtable recommending that lawmakers change eminent domain law so that it includes "infrastructure projects," a category broad enough to include data centers and projects that power them.

https://t.co/WBzLt4eyWA