Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

I don't mind that "Massachusetts" is hard to spell, I am however a little indignant that people there never came up with a decent song to teach us all how to spell it. If Mississippi can do it, you can do it, Masechussets.

Not to be an alarmist, but this is fucking terrifying. https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/florida-bill-would-require-bloggers-who-write-about-governor-to-register-with-the-state/

Seen at a local library. Can't believe it's come to this

if you want to make a list or host a panel that includes the whole spectrum of people who aren't men, that's totally cool! just for god's sake don't call it "women in [x]"

and PLEASE avoid those "clever" terms like women*, i am begging you

p.s. maybe no one's told you this but you are totally free and welcome to highlight exceptional people who aren't men all 12 months of the year!

Good policy is not partisan.

Repealing a grocery tax puts more food on every person's table, continuing to tax groceries takes food off of every person's table.

The effects of the policy are the same regardless of political party.

The path forward for our country is to get back to discussions of policy and away from arguments over political party.

As Frederick Douglass said, “I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.”

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We don't fight partisan battles or engage in culture wars, we just work to improve human flourishing by maximizing individual self determination.

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"We don’t need more hyperventilating about TikTok: we need strong privacy and transparency laws, and antitrust action to break up the companies getting rich off their data empires"

@team https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/02/resistance-tiktok-ban-is-growing-washington/

The Supreme Court is all but certain to invalidate Biden's student debt forgiveness plan. And they're legally correct to. Whether you think the plan was good policy or not, the president has constitutionally limited powers—which is good, because you don't want a presidency without limited powers—and his plan obviously went beyond them. If you want to forgive student debt, Congress needs to do it.

"So, doing some quick math, has Thiel been contributing to his Roth IRA for 714,285 years and some months? He is a noted life-extension and cryogenics enthusiast, but the numbers don’t seem to add up.

As it turns out, the trick is much simpler and doesn’t involve time travel or liquid nitrogen."

It just requires special access -- access you and I don't have.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/roth-iras-have-transformed-into-big-tax-shelters-for-the-wealthy

#tax #lawfedi #law @law

Another development on the rapid detection of #methane plumes: NASA's EMIT instrument on the ISS is now also providing near-real-time detection of big plumes, available here:

https://earth.jpl.nasa.gov/emit/data/data-portal/Greenhouse-Gases/

What can it see? Well, look at this big burp from a landfill in the Kansas City suburbs from earlier this month.

EMIT was offline from Sept-Dec due to a fix needed on the ISS, but the portal should be ongoing now.

These portals should be a boon to local #climate reporters.

I dunno, "fellow liberal," you seem to have made a good case that the threat from DeSantis is not exaggerated at all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/opinion/desantis-trump-president-comparison.html