Massachusettes "Millionaires Tax", which was targeted to fund transportation and education, has been a resounding success. It has funded FREE school lunch for ALL students, FREE buses in lowest income communities (people can get to work, etc.), and FREE community college. And "exodus" was minimal.

Millionaires tax surges past expectations, once again

The voter-approved surtax has sailed past its $2 billion estimate for another year in a row.

boston.com

Said this before but imagine sentencing Stephen Miller to a lifetime of manual labor in San Bernardino or picking produce in the Central Valley

rich traditions@helldude.bsky.social · yesterday

"Mass Deportations Now" vs. "We Just Gotta Teach 500 Unlikeable People a Very Serious Lesson"

peekaboo!! hyena looks very happy to have just devoured the corpse of your loved one! yum!!

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

The questions are no longer about whether Talarico is ahead and can he win. The answers are clearly yes and yes. Even Fox News now has him over 50%. The question is whether Texas Republicans can successfully suppress enough votes to swing the election. They are taking active measures to do so now.

was finally able to revisit a client's place after a few months (she was also gone for a month) and i technically had 100% survivorship of the woody plants i purchased for the yard, not bad for a spring planting in Texas

when it's day 2 and the pad slips overnight

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 2w ago

Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized

scheduled an appointment to donate blood plasma next thursday, pray for me as last time i passed out lmfao

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

yeah i ran the math with student loan back in play + hours cut + credit card payment + utilities + rent i literally have less than 200 a month for groceries and gas lmfaoooooo how am i supposed to survive on this

if anyone knows of anyone in austin area who needs some yardwork or anything please share (yes i will work if it is 100 degrees out) this is the worst hiring market i have ever faced and i could really use any money right now sites.google.com/view/greenan...

worst debt situation i have ever been in and no end/hope in sight lmao i've applied to dozens of jobs and only one interview since february. maybe 4 total in 15 months and i am NOT asking for a lot. like i want a full time 15/hour gardening position

It’s literally not possible to have a functioning society, anywhere on earth, where this piece of shit is not imprisoned for life and stripped of all his assets.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Teens sue Musk's xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them *** Two of the teenagers behind the lawsuit are under the age of 18…” 3/16/26 … 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...

"inflation has hit hardest in the single most visible expenditure category" does I think have a lot to do with why people have reacted so negatively to the state of the economy

John Gramlich@johngramlich.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Buying food to eat at home has gotten 33% more expensive in U.S. cities since the beginning of 2019, according to government figures. In the 7.5 years before that, prices rose 6.4%." (via @apnews.com) apnews.com/article/groc...

would be really cool if there was a sort of new deal-esque program to subsidize making leather out of the invasive pythons in south FL. would definitely prefer wearing stuff made of that over say, plastics lol

My favorite way to put this, as someone who studied Classical History in actual college (not just on Twitter): If you told an ancient Roman or Athenian that his culture had "more in common" with a German or Briton than with an Egyptian or Ethiopian, he'd punch you in the throat.

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

The best cosmic justice available in the US is that none of these guys can be eulogized for their accomplishments (which are abhorrent to everyone watching) so you just get their idiot friends going “he was REALLY IMPORTANT. I don’t know what he did but he was THE BEST at it, whatever it was.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Stephen Miller on Lindsey Graham: "He's someone we're still gonna be talking about 200 years from now"

If ICE can simply execute anyone at any time, none of us have any basic rights.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4w ago

Second time in just about a week when a man not targeted by ICE was killed by them

i drew again for the first time in months today but i cannot post it bc i cant use my vpn on my phone and i refuse to give my ssn numbers just to verify im an adult so yall are just gonna have to trust me on it

also my mom texted me at 5 am to tell me a certain senator died with caption "wonderful news" lmao

I did not know this & I have a new life ambition

mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · last mo.

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

oh they already are, the EU invested over a billion in their own internet satellites last year and France is switching to their own Linux distro on government PCs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFn1... very thorough, nuanced version of my general feelings about how Greece is handled in modern (historical sense) western culture and it is nice to hear it from someone else of Eastern Mediterranean ancestry but actually culturally connected to it

Nolan's Odyssey & The Western View of Greek Culture

YouTube video by Farya Faraji & World Musicians

youtube.com

The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.

elderly council of wizards mandates child gential inspections.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF IDAHO, WEST VIRGINIA LAWS BANNING TRANSGENDER ATHLETES FROM PARTICIPATING ON FEMALE SPORTS TEAMS

Picking the right door as a young Black person can be a matter of life or death. A lower-stakes example: I tell people who are nervous about canvassing their neighborhood to start with the people who have signs indicating similar values. Gestures matter if they help us find each other.

Louisa@louisathelast.bsky.social · last mo.

Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.