Max Moran

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it is important to remember, when Republicans blather on about “small government” and “fiscal responsibility” that what they mean is “rich people should not have to pay their taxes”

The IRS reported Wednesday that it has collected $1 billion in taxes and penalties owed by hundreds of wealthy households who accumulated past-due tax debts for years while IRS enforcement dwindled.

IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households’ back taxeswapo.st For years, the tax agency simply didn’t try collecting sizable debts owed by 1,600 filers with annual incomes of at least $1 million.

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We are ruled by the stupidest people. www.404media.co/ai-finds-tha...

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if it's not from the champagne region of france then it’s just called sparkling fascist tears

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I'd be shocked if data came back showing a new desire for Biden to step down is a top down phenomenon. Every relatively normal (non political junkie) Dem I talk to, every one, thinks the debate showed Biden needs to step aside. NY Times coverage is annoying, but the debate created this.

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right wing think tanks are making thinly veiled threats of political violence, the Supreme Court has neutralized the regulatory power of broad swaths of government, and the fate of the executive branch depends on whether the 81 year old atop it can learn to breakdance or something. Happy July 4th

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Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.

These guys are traitors to the republic just like their heroes Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee

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We won’t live to see the better world we fight for. But someone will. And I fight for them.

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So based on decisions from just this week, the President, as long has he has the gloss of officialdom, can basically do anything without legal restraint, whereas the President, acting via duly appointed agencies authorized by Congress, is more restrained than ever? What a coherent jurisprudence!

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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.

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I think a thing that's poorly understood about American history is that a lot of the progress made through the New Deal was driven by the political elite's fear of the Russian Revolution happening here and not by them having a sudden turn of heart after being visited by multiple ghosts or something.

Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?

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AI is the dream of people who do not understand dreams and become confused and angry when confronted by metaphor & subtext

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hahahahahahahahahaha 😂😂😂😭😭😭

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Cool at least there isn't an ongoing global crisis requiring tight and targeted regulation to achieve an enormously difficult goal within the next two decades that, if missed, is effectively irreversible on the scale of millennia

This is my sense of it as well. As with so many right wing projects,, the chaos will be fun and exciting to them for a while, but eventually things will get so baroque and absurd that they'll start slowly walking this back and maybe 10 years from now they'll make a new Chevron

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Lest we forget, the New Deal, w/its admin. agencies, was part of a compromise designed to prevent anti-capitalist revolution. Laws protecting civil rights are too. Now that the USSR is long gone, and there’s no threat of revolution, the capitalist class is dismantling the compromises.

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Pretty cool how we have a robust right to jury trial if you're some lawbreaking hedge fund or corporation trying to delay agency action, but if you try to sue one of them, there's an endless gantlet of federal statutes and procedural rules designed to throw your case out before you get to a jury.

Yikes SEC v Jarkesy is out. Court says 6-3 on party lines there needs to be a whole jury trial to impose civil penalties for securities fraud I covered oral argument for Balls & Strikes last year to explain why thats not great ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/sec-v... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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"While the dwindling of the Israeli left is a tragedy, the reality is that in some way there never was an Israeli left to begin with."

My Father and the Withering of Liberal Zionismnymag.com Was my family’s dream of a Jewish socialist utopia all a lie?

The New York Times, everyone.

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Should be national news: - Cop accused of grooming & raping 15 year old - Two other cops had sex with her in cop cars - She gets pregnant, found dead - Cop was last one to see her alive, in apt where she was found - Ruled suicide with no tests on DNA evidence - No criminal charges against anyone

sure seems like this cop who groomed and raped this child then impregnated and murdered her www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/24/m...

Death of Sandra Birchmore was a homicide, prominent pathologist says - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com The finding contradicts the 2021 conclusion of the state medical examiner, who ruled that Birchmore, a young woman who was allegedly groomed by three former Stoughton police officers, died of suicide.

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If you are for example the president of the Teamsters, this is why you don't speak at the RNC. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-repub...

What Republicans Plan to Do to Labor If They Winwww.hamiltonnolan.com Forget slogans. Here are the actual, awful policy proposals.

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please sign my petition to post the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition on the wall of every Louisiana classroom

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There's a Yiddish expression that translates to "if hard work were so great, the rich would have kept it for themselves."

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This is great let's make it 900,000

"Within weeks, the nation will deploy 9,000 people to begin restoring landscapes, erecting solar panels, and taking other steps to help guide the country toward a cleaner, greener future...More than 20,000 young people are expected to join during the program’s first year" grist.org/solutions/am...

The American Climate Corps officially kicks offgrist.org This month, 9,000 people will be deployed to restore landscapes and erect solar panels, helping guide the country toward a greener future.

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Under current law, you really couldn’t do much better than Biden’s FTC and NRLB. New Deal shit.

The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

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Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.

Under current law, you really couldn’t do much better than Biden’s FTC and NRLB. New Deal shit.

make a band less mild vampire century

make a band less mild ten thousand fuckin maniacs

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If you saw the Senate in another country, you'd think it was a preposterously undemocratic institution leedrutman.substack.com/p/wither-the...