> Last-Minute Tax Breaks Allow Racetracks to Keep Sales Taxes https://kypolicy.org/hb-757-sales-tax-subsidies-horse-industry/

Because #priorities, man. And while the #RealOwners get a tax break on their horsies, "new two-year state budget that makes painful cuts to agencies serving our least powerful neighbors, including foster children and hungry seniors."

Because fuck the children and elderly, that's why.

#KentuckyProud #poverty #hunger #FoodInsecurity #elderly #children #gambling 🎲 #HorseRacing 🏇🏻

Last-Minute Tax Breaks Allow Racetracks to Keep Sales Taxes - Kentucky Center for Economic Policy

Under new legislation, Kentucky’s horse industry would receive millions in sales tax subsidies for races run in Louisville and Lexington.

Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
Meadowland Village residents have 3 months to move ahead of a proposed data center

Residents of a Mason County mobile home park have three months to vacate their homes as a Fortune 50 company proposes building a data center on nearby land.

LEX 18 News - Lexington, KY (WLEX)

And speaking of Kentuckians getting what they vote for. Thing is the #KentuckyHuckster knows the right places to deliver the pork to get the dumbasses happy enough to send him back to office.

> Sen. Mitch McConnell speaks at Fort Knox, shows support of Iran war https://fox56news.com/news/kentucky/sen-mitch-mcconnell-speaks-at-fort-knox-shows-support-of-iran-war/

#KentuckyProud #YouGetWhatYouVoteFor #GOP #PartyOfStupid #corruption #RealOwners

> Top tax frustrations for Americans: Feeling that some wealthy people, corporations don’t pay fair share https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/06/top-tax-frustrations-for-americans-feeling-that-some-wealthy-people-corporations-dont-pay-fair-share/

My brethren in the path, that is not just a feeling, it is a fact. And yet you keep voting for the same #assholes who keep enabling under the delusion you're a temporarily inconvenienced millionaire.

#BadEconomy #ThisIsAmerica #RealOwners #corruption

What bothers Americans most about taxes? Feeling that some corporations, wealthy people don’t pay their fair share

61% of adults say that the feeling that some wealthy people don’t pay their fair share bothers them a lot. 60% say this about some some corporations.

Pew Research Center

> Pluralistic: Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages (06 Apr 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/06/empiricism-washing/

Just when you think employers can't be bigger #assholes, all enabled by the #RealOwners and the politicians they own.

#BadEconomy #surveillance #privacy #corruption (c)

Pluralistic: Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages (06 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

> Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/12/nx-s1-5737287/solar-panels-utilities-energy-saving

Of course they are because they are the #RealOwners and they got lawmakers in their pockets. Neither the companies nor the "elected" officials care a fig about the rest of us.

#BadEconomy #corruption #ThisIsAmerica #energy #solar

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/116220799976193967

Meanwhile, in the shit hole country known as the US this will never happen because #priorities, ,man, and right now those are #warfare and lining the pockets of the #RealOwners

Unlocked: https://archive.ph/z3Zhi

#AmericanEmpire

The Ellisons Taking Over Warner is Pants on Fire Stuff, but Team Progressive Just Whines https://cepr.net/publications/the-ellisons-taking-over-warner-is-pants-on-fire-stuff-but-team-progressive-just-whines/

FTA: "And this is where progressives are far behind the curve. The fact that the Ellisons can put right-wing hacks like Bari Weiss in charge of the news that people see between the campaign ads is a far greater threat to democracy than the 30-second campaign ads that the rich can buy in abundance. "

#media #RepublicanLite #useless #RealOwners #ThisIsAmerica #corruption

The Ellisons Taking Over Warner is Pants on Fire Stuff, but Team Progressive Just Whines

Overturning Citizens United won’t stop billionaire influence. Media ownership and unlimited spending shape elections more than campaign ads.

CEPR

> Trump endorses self-described ‘Nazi-ish’ Texas Republican as Peter Thiel backs his bid for Congress https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/jace-yarbrough-extremist-texas-candidate

Of course he does, only the best from TX to Congress.

#GOP #PartyOfStupid #TexasFriendly #bigotry #RealOwners

Trump endorses self-described 'Nazi-ish' Texas Republican

Jace Yarbrough is running in the GOP primary for Texas's 32nd Congressional District.

Advocate.com