The latest in @propublica's #SecretIRSFiles reporting is a crossover episode, combining leaked tax-returns of America's ultrawealthy with campaign contribution data to reveal the incredible return on investment the rich reaped from Trump's #TaxScam.
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You may remember how Trump's "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" (AKA the "big, beautiful tax-cut") was a shambles of amendments and annotations, whose final draft was literally covered in hand-scribbled changes that handed millions to donors.
Canada's government is poised to pass a "harmful content" regulation. It's a worst-in-class mutation of a dangerous idea that's swept the globe, in which governments demand that hamfisted tech giants remove broad categories of speech - too swiftly for meaningful analysis.
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Many countries have proposed or passed rules on these lines: Australia, France, UK, Germany, India. They are all bad, but Canada's is literally the worst - as if Trudeau's Liberals sought out the most dangerous elements of each rule and combined them.
Los Angeles, 1948: Eschewing magic in a world where everyone practices witchcraft, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a certain cursed book. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/659176871…
Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
Los Angeles, 1948: Eschewing magic in a world where everyone practices witchcraft, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a certain cursed book. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/659176871…
Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
Los Angeles, 1948: Eschewing magic in a world where everyone practices witchcraft, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a certain cursed book. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/659176871…