Bobby Braswell

@rbraswell.bsky.social

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In the Spring of 1864 Twain, while working as a beat reporter for the SF Morning Call, Twain witnessed the murder of a Chinese laborer by a mob that included cops. It radicalized him. He wrote it up, one of the first things he ever authored which he thought deserved to be called “literature”… 2/

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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we reject any evidence of the bamboozle. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” -Carl Sagan. (📷: Michael Okoniewski)

Carl Sagan wears a charcoal suit and earth tone tie.  He is smiling with his whole face, eyes crinkled at the edges.  His hair is iron-grey and he stands or sits in front of a greenery hedge.

THE PROBLEM: Most forms of energy are harming the environment THE SOLUTION: Switch to alternative forms of renewab... THE PROBLEM: Hold on, I have an idea, what if we made invisible valueless money that eats electricity THE SOLUTION: ...what? THE PROBLEM: Also I have this plagiarism machine

Since 2020, the five richest men on the planet have doubled their fortunes. During the same time period, nearly five billion people globally have become poorer. It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.

Americans worth more than $100 million sat on a whopping $8.5 trillion in untaxed profits in 2022, a report found — money that may never be taxed unless Congress closes a loophole shielding the investments of the ultrarich

The Ultrawealthy Have Made $8.5 Trillion — And None Of It’s Been Taxed: Report

Thanks to a tax code slanted toward billionaires and centimillionaires, the government is missing out on huge sums that could help fund critical programs.

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With new advances in technology, computers will be able to do tiresome and unrewarding work like painting, writing, and composing music, leaving human beings free to create shareholder value and protect inventory