Karen Astor
@jlsk.bsky.social
❤️Mom of two dogs ❤️Lifelong learning ⚠️🚫Robots ⚠️🚫Crypto ⚠️🚫Apple Gift Cards ⚠️🚫Pornography ⚠️🚫=Blocked
"Grandfather knot clock” by Australian woodworker George Andrew, who handcrafted this piece using Radiata pine and plywood, shaping the dramatic curves using a bandsaw, an angle grinder, and lots of hand sanding. www.woodreview.com.au/photocompent...
How long until they cave and put money in his pocket? Or at least hold a black tie dinner in his honor?
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18h agoBREAKING NYT: The Trump Justice Department is investigating whether the major television networks — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox — violated federal antitrust laws when the group briefly suspended their pooled coverage of Trump, according to six people with knowledge of the department's action.
Grocery store prices in rural Alaska right now. Most goods here come by barge or plane, so life here has always cost more. But this? This is as bad as it's ever been. This is what the price-hiking war in Iran is costing Alaskans. Dan Sullivan has now voted for it 14 times.
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
With Trump’s latest betrayal of Ukraine, MAGA Republicans who continue to defend Trump when he licks Putin’s balls can all go fuck themselves. Trump is a feckless, pathetic traitor — and he has the blood of innocent Ukrainian children on his hands.
Billionaire David Reuben claiming he quit Britain for Monaco over potential wealth taxes—when records show he already moved years ago—exposes the myth of the "super-rich exodus." Threats to flee are just economic blackmail to block fair taxation.
‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
theguardian.com
Guess which other narcissistic, mentally unstable authoritarian leader called for an arch and a ballroom to be built as grand monuments to his glory. I'm sure it's just a coincidence . . .
Anyone who dances like this doesn't need a ballroom—he needs a padded cell.
Don't look at me like that, you overachievers are sweating it out on the red track, while I, am already the master of this oasis.
Faux News enlists another bully for the pulpit
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d agoThe Least Surprising News of the Day
The Trump Ten Years, Have Been Some Of The Darkest Years.......
How is it not news when the president nods off in public meetings and press conferences dozens of times? If you follow independent media, you see it and know about it. But why hasn’t CBS, NBC or ABC showed a montage of it on their evening news? They simply refuse to ever show it.
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
propublica.org
Cool autumn night and your mind is at ease, Neil Young's Harvest Moon is on the stereo
“Patient Zero” by Taylor Swift debuts at #1 on the Hot 100. It becomes her 16th No. 1 single.
