All those billionaires “leaving” California? Yeah...Not quite. The LLC in Miami or the pied-à-terre in Nevada is hardly an exodus, especially with regard to California residency requirements.

Nominative determinism

Trump talking about gas prices is like Lucile Bluth talking about banana prices.

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I love how Michael Dell just did the math for Americans: 25,000,000 kids can receive $250 and that’s *only* 4% of his total wealth. I can’t decide which meme is more appropriate here:

getting on bluesky right now feels like stumbling into the middle of a model U.N. meeting

New in The Hedgehog Review, Stanford PACS Research Scholar @ahorvath.bsky.social tells the story of how, over the past 30 years, funders and philanthropy professionals recast civil society as objective, pragmatic, and above the fray of politics.

Folks unsubscribing from the Washington Post might also consider boycotting…Amazon…AWS…WholeFoods…

Timothy Snyder:

I’ve said as much before: Musk sucking all of the oxygen out of the “billionaires a reactionary shitheads” discourse really let people like Bezos and Zuckerberg fly under the radar. Nothing fundamentally has changed about any of them, ever