Earlier this month, Charles Littlejohn began serving a five-year prison sentence for the crime of making public the tax returns of Donald Trump and thousands of other wealthy Americans.

Littlejohn is the reason the public knows the effective tax rates of rich Americans, which is lower than the tax rate paid by everyone else.

Littlejohn is, in short, a hero.

Under sentencing guidelines, the maximum penalty for the crime of disclosing tax returns is 10 months. The federal judge who sentenced him—a Biden appointee—gave him six times the maximum sentence.

If you ever wonder why Biden has been so reluctant to address Trump’s many, many crimes, Littlejohn’s case serves as a clear answer: preserving the status quo, including the secrecy and prerogatives of the ultra-rich, is by far more important than addressing the crimes of one of those ultra-rich, even one who attempted a coup.

Our elites would rather take the risk of Donald Trump blowing up their system than knowingly help plebeians like Littlejohn threaten the whole edifice.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

This voxel displacement technique for "modern retro" rendering looks so incredible, really inspiring:

https://blog.danielschroeder.me/2024/05/voxel-displacement-modernizing-retro-3d/

#gamedev #graphics

ChatGPT is a menace, suggesting using glue to keep cheese on a pizza.

Everyone knows you should use staples.

Tilly why do you do trans tuesdays exhibit 1379

this is about a cis person listening to my podcast to better know and support their trans friend

if we can help people understand, maybe we can change things 🩷

Saw a "Divorce Your Republican Husband" bumper sticker!
😂
Someone should make one that adds (while you still can).

#TrafficThoughts

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okay, it's going to be okay

thank you so much everyone

I should have the water back tomorrow

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oh goddess no

they cut off my water

I'm about $350 behind

it has to be paid for them to cut the water back on

please, if anyone can help me get my water back

please

I'm a disabled non-binary person (ADHD and bipolar), my partners are both disabled as well (anxiety and depression, as well as my wife having fibromyalgia)

I'm working as much as I can, but my job doesn't pay a living wage

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/tsbarnes

#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #transmutualaid #transcrowdfund #help #bills #water #disabled #fibromyalgia #autism #adhd

👍🏻 Via Kyle Griffin:

Rep. Jamie Raskin & Sen. Richard Blumenthal have intro’d legislation to enforce the Constitution's explicit language banning foreign #emoluments by prohibiting the President, VP, Cabinet officials and Members of Congress from accepting payments from foreign governments without first obtaining the consent of Congress. 

Officials would be prohibited from accepting foreign payments without Congressional approval during the entire time in office and for two years after leaving.

In the Algebraicist by Ian M. Banks some aliens come to earth in early human history and take a bunch of humans and human DNA and set them up all over the galaxy— get them up to speed on tech and those humans and the aliens just leave Earth alone to develop “naturally” — so when humans on earth eventually explore the galaxy some of the aliens they meet are just other humans. (this is just a minor plot point if you can imagine)

So if this happened are *you* mad? Or no?