Food for thought: Trickle-down economics got us here. I know a lot of people may not know or remember this, but before Ronald Reagan, the rich paid a 70% tax on anything over $1,000,000 in today's money. Today, the rich pay close to $0 and often $0 through tax loopholes. That 70% rate acted as a behavioral whip. Wealthy company owners knew that if they paid themselves massive cash salaries, the government would take 70%. So instead, they often chose to reinvest that money back into their businesses and workers. That allowed companies to offer high-quality medical benefits, excellent vacation packages, fully funded retirement plans, and stable wages. When you hear the older generation pretend they didn't live in a different America, that is disingenuous. That structural reinvestment is why people from the 50s to the 80s enjoyed a significantly better quality of life. The middle class carried a lighter tax burden relative to what they received, allowing them to live comfortably on a single income, own a home, a car, and feed their families. Today, those tax cuts and loopholes contribute to our inability to afford basic human rights such as proper education, food, and healthcare for people in need. I know the rich like to argue against paying their fair share. They also like to claim they are self-made, but in reality most got rich off the backs of underpaid people, our resources, our infrastructure, and government subsidies mostly paid for with the taxes of everyday people. I am not advocating for a 70% tax rate. Though I want you to think about what the deficit and our country would look like if everyone paid their fair share. The rich can easily afford an increase that ends up looking like a rounding error for them and makes the country a better place. I cite NYC as my example.

The visuals and vibes in Puerto Rico just hit different.

Platforms are getting consolidated on the right.

The European mind understands it perfectly. This is what imperial decadence looks like: public institutions converted into branded spectacle, civic memory replaced by adrenaline theater, and the People’s House turned into a content backdrop for regime propaganda. The joke is not that Europe cannot comprehend it. The joke is that America no longer recognizes what it is becoming.

Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?

"This Sunday night’s UFC spectacle on the South Lawn...captures something about this moment in our history. It's vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump." open.substack.com/pub/thebul…

zzzzz 😴

WTF! How does asking for 2024 presidential election numbers run up against hard-coded safety rules? Google just replaced Google Search with this: Gemini. For context, I was trying to find the number of votes in swing states from 2024 as part of a thought for the upcoming midterms.

IT'S OVER The New York Times just dropped the BOMBSHELL Trump raped kids with Epstein, and his administration engaged in a cover up to protect him

More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.

US energy chief says not aware of US taking oil out of Iran reut.rs/4vebaDy reut.rs/4vebaDy

This is what my state just voted for. There are no words.

How many can say this: New Yorker, February 2026: $4.05 billion in family take from ventures that exist because he’s president. Forbes: his net worth went from $3.9 billion to $7.3 billion by September 2025. Nearly doubled in eight months. Wall Street Journal: $4 billion in proceeds and paper wealth from ventures launched since his re-election. House Oversight Democrats’ wealth tracker: $5.1 billion in new family money. Bloomberg: crypto alone added $1.4 billion in a single year. One-fifth of the family fortune now sits in digital assets that didn’t exist the first time he ran. All that work is really paying off.

The Reflecting Pool on the National Mall has been refilled following President Trump’s renovations. The project ultimately took six weeks and cost more than $10 million, far more than Trump initially projected. wapo.st/4uspV4H

Crazy how the Republican Party is just openly pro-corruption now.

lmfaooooo it did not come through like this on the TV broadcast, that is BRUTAL

President Donald Trump was hailed with a chorus of boos while attending Game 3 of the NBA finals in New York City. time.com/article/2026/06/08/…

President Obama did not walk out of our 2012 satellite interview. He was visibly frustrated when I repeated my Benghazi question after he ducked it. And his team did try to tell us our time was up. But I kept asking questions and he didn't walk out.