Frasier Balzov
Frasier Balzov's JournalReason for a wealth tax set onto a graph.
I can accept that an anectodal or intuitive sense exists at a grassroots level that the rich are getting richer.
But here it is quantified by the Federal Reserve Board:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBST01134
I like Sara Rodriguez or Missy Hughes for Governor.
Their credentials outside of politics impress me.
Rodriguez polls way ahead of Hughes at this stage.
And Mandela Barnes polls higher than Rodriguez.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Rodriguez
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missy_Hughes
Disclosure: I don't reside in Wisconsin and can't vote in that primary.
Some of that generous ICE funding needs to be reprogrammed.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is funded through the end of fiscal year 2029 due to a massive infusion approved in July 2025 as part of Trump's big offensive omnibus (BOO).
The compromise to get TSA, FEMA and Coast Guard funded is to claw back some of that outrageously generous ICE money and reprogram it for those agencies.
Republicans know how to claw back funds. They did it to public broadcasting and foreign aid.
Now they need to do it in the case of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
And I think I understand why they cannot bear to let that happen, knowing what awaits them in November and the difficulty of fighting for future ICE funding when control of Congress changes hands.
It's a very tough spot for Republicans to be in. The people waiting in those long screening lines at the airport must surely see by now that it was Trump and his termites who hijacked the money.
Want to cultivate opposition to the SAVE Act?
Describe it as abolishing the secret ballot.
If it passes, everyone will know how you voted.
Donald Trump will be able to see how you voted and THROW YOUR VOTE OUT, commit retribution against you and revoke your citizenship.
This, of course, is a mis-characterization of what it proposes to do, but sounds too plausibly Trumpian to ignore. Especially when he denies it!
(It is also a Trump-style "people-are-saying" rumor with which to combat the legislation.)
U.N. Security Council live stream
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k17/k17mx2gk4iRunning late understandably?
Probably always delays bringing the world together in one auditorium on short notice.
How soon does Tehran look like Gaza?
From the coming civil war which destroys whatever remains after the joint Israel-US attacks?
Melania is NOT chairing the U.N. Security Council meeting today.
It's an emergency meeting at 3pm Eastern which will be live streamed on the United Nations' own channel.
Actress Catherine O'Hara has died at age 71.
I first remember her as a member of the cast of SCTV, but she has also been a regular in the stable of comedic actors in the films of Christopher Guest.
The nation's loyalties seem like 1776 all over again.
Cute historical rhyming for our 250th commemoration of the American Revolution.
Half the population loyal to the king or uncommitted for their own safety.
The other half ready to revolt.
Except the half who are ready to revolt aren't nearly as armed and furthermore are being urged "not to take the bait."
So the non-violent role models of Martin Luther King and Mohandas Gandhi are being offered.
Why were these role models successful? Did the tyrannies they face ultimately possess more of a moral conscience and sense of shame which undermined the tyrant's determination to crush rebellion?
Could American independence have been achieved non-violently? Could the abolition of black slavery in America have been achieved non-violently? Could the overthrow of religious rule in Iran be achieved non-violently? If my aunt had balls would she be my uncle?
You know what this bullet hole says to me?
It says that the agent who fired just didn't want the fleeing driver to get away.
NOTHING to do with fear of being run over.
https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/55/54/20/28754980/6/960x0.webp
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