Jacqueline
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Gardener, photographer, writer, wanderer, expert at road trips. NOTE: I BLOCK unless a historian, a scientist, an environmentalist, a neighbor I follow, friend or family. 📎
The Social Security payroll tax is capped at $184,500. If you're a nurse or construction worker, you're paying Social Security on 100% of your income. But if you're a corporate lawyer, raking in millions, you're only paying Social Security on a tiny fraction of your income. - @warren.senate.gov
Trump promised he wouldn’t touch it. My elderly neighbor believed him. Now the subsidy that keeps her prescription costs manageable ends at the end of this year, and starting in 2027 she’ll pay more just to stay alive. That’s what his promise was worth. #RepublicanMedicareCuts
One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · 2d agoBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Well…yes. You CAN rein in the president. Try…reading the Constitution and CHECKING the executive. My God.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.
Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. From the archives:
Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank
Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.
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Flock's business model is a threat to our constitutional rights. Join the growing push to kick automatic license plate readers out of our communities.
Get The Flock Out
Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) companies like Flock Safety are quietly trying to build a nationwide mass surveillance system. If there are Flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging, and sharing your movements without a warrant. But we're not powerless. More and more communities are rejecting these creepy cameras — and yours can be one of them!
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BREAKING: Senate Republicans just confirmed Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence—an election-denier and Trump sycophant. The GOP should be ashamed for enabling Trump’s dangerous and deranged conspiracy theories.
Thank you to everyone who donated, shared the campaign, or helped spread the word. Because of your support, the Moon Camp property next to Jackie and Shadow’s habitat will now be permanently protected.
David really can whoop Goliath; pro-democracy forces did that and now the Paramount/Warner Bros merger is on hold. Norm Eisen & I discuss: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Coffee with the Contrarians
If you’re looking for the best way to ease yourself into the coming week and its most important developments, Norman Eisen and I dove straight in the morning.
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Sending ICE Agents to intimidate voters at polling places, declaring martial law to try to delay or cancel the election, seizing ballots-As he gets more desperate, there's nothing he won't do to try to save his pathetic orange ass. ALL states should preemptively prepare to defend Democracy! 🇺🇸 ✊
#stunday is on the border, i.e. that's Mexico on the southern side of Santa Elena Canyon with miles and miles of empty, unforgivably hot desert terrain beyond. Torrential floods periodically take out anything near or on the river, i.e. like in recent days. It is stunning.
Many pregnant Texas residents now fear losing their lives during pregnancy, after four young women died in the state when they were unable to access medically necessary abortions.
‘I Don’t Want To Die’: Texas Patients Are Afraid To Get Pregnant
The fear of losing their lives is precisely what many pregnant Texas residents say they’ve experienced after four young women died in the state when they were unable to access medically necessary abor...
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Trump’s Social Security sabotage has included: ❌ Laying off nearly thousands of experienced field office workers ❌ Allowing Elon Musk's DOGE to put our most sensitive data on an unsecured private server ❌ Issuing Social Security cards with political propaganda
A 3-year-old girl watched ICE murder her father yesterday. We all watched Sebastian Guerrero’s final moments through our phones. We can scroll away — but Sebastian’s 3-year-old daughter cannot.
Good morning! Yesterday AM, I asked folks to read the Bill of Rights—because…some of those rights are under attack. I promised to come back last night & discuss them. Homework! They did and I did. Here you go. A brief late-night discussion of the Bill of Rights. m.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbs...
A Few Thoughts For Those Who Can't Sleep -- July 11 Edition
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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Newsom grew up with dyslexia. This week he signed the biggest special-ed investment in California history and said something every parent of a kid who "learns differently" needs to hear. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-good-wee...
Is AI used??? Hmm. However, sharing because points made explain the hard to explain phenomenon that is my soundtrack.
The Beatles Were a 1-of-1 Phenomenon
YouTube video by Cardroom tv
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In the 2024 presidential elections, the price of eggs was the most prominent theme in a campaign designed by Trump to attack Biden's economic stewardship and persuade Americans that it was disastrous. Now a series of studies of the egg industry have established conclusively that America's
Family behind top US egg producer reaped $320mn after price surge
Descendants of Cal-Maine founder sold controlling stake near a record high after what authorities said was an effort to rig the market
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Happy birthday Ringo Starr, 86 today. He still owns Maureen's red vinyl raincoat.
