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Pink Piranha Jan 18, 2023

Sarah “Slut Era” Kite 🪁Jan 17, 2023

when you’re a kaiju at work and you dissociate for a sec

Pink Piranha Jan 18, 2023

Alex Wagner Tonight Jan 17, 2023

"What makes the debt ceiling qualitatively different is that this isn’t a policy dispute. What Republicans are doing is manufacturing a hostage crisis, effectively telling Democrats that the GOP is prepared to harm Americans on purpose unless their demands are met. For all intents and purposes, it is a Republican extortion scheme."
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/democrats-respond-gop-calls-debt-ceiling-negotiations-no-rcna65944
#news #politics

Democrats respond to GOP calls for debt ceiling negotiations: No

“In exchange for not crashing the United States economy, you get nothing,” one Democratic senator said. “You don’t get a cookie."

MSNBC

Pink Piranha Dec 20, 2022

I'm going to start dabbling in oil painting. Excited to see where this leads.

Pink Piranha Dec 20, 2022

Robert Reich Dec 19, 2022

If the GOP is really the party of “family values,” why won't Republicans in Congress restore the expanded child tax credit?

RT @[email protected]

Confirmed, per source familiar: The final omnibus package will drop the child tax credit due to staunch GOP resistance to consider a limited expansion in the lame-duck.

R&D tax provisions also dropped
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/09/2022/ctc-deal-dead
https://twitter.com/LACaldwellDC/status/1604932411711709184?s=20&t=9PlXUZ69pkkDiPKyvbR2RQ

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/josephzeballos/status/1604947642097831937

Last-minute Democratic push to expand the Child Tax Credit is all but dead, sources say | Semafor

Republicans are balking at a potential trade for business tax cuts.

Pink Piranha Dec 16, 2022

Robert Reich Dec 2, 2022

We're in the Second Gilded Age just like the first—when America's wealth was in the hands of a few, conspicuous consumption existed alongside homelessness & hunger, monopolies destroyed competition, money corrupted politics, and government sided with railroad barons over workers.

Pink Piranha Dec 16, 2022

So, his NFTs - is it money laundering or did he just buy them all himself. You know, like how his wife bought her NFT awhile back.