If billionaires are so worried about a wealth tax, why can't they just get a second job?

Huh, I wonder why Linus Torvalds has suddenly become such a sloppusher.

Anyway entirely unrelated, but here's the top sponsors of the Linux Foundation, which employs Torvalds.

The War on Terror Approaches Its Final Form
#ICE executes the nonwhite while the White House and State Department look to declare the U.S. left a Foreign Terrorist Organization. We've been heading here since 9/11

https://www.forever-wars.com/the-war-on-terror-approaches-its-final-form/

I really like that Worse on Purpose includes lists of not monopolized to shit brands at the end of every post. Here’s one on pots and pans, dishes and knives

https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookware-got-worse-on-purpose

"Want" is the key verb here.

#GaslightNation #Zer0Billionaires #GangOfPredators

TIL: Teriyaki (the American dish) originated in Seattle (all these years I assumed it came from Los Angeles!) and the original teriyaki restaurant in Mill Creek, WA is now 50 years old.

* Junki Yoshida, of his eponymous teriyaki sauce fame, lived in the Seattle area around the same time Toshi Kasahara started his restaurant, but Yoshida created his sauce in the 1980s when he ran a karate dojo in Beaverton, OR.

https://leungalexander.com/american-teriyaki-sauce-history/

#seattle

A really good essay: https://www.advocate.com/opinion/ice-killed-american-dream

Salgado Araujo's death is much larger than a single immigration story. This moment demands something braver than sympathy for the latest family devastated by murder dressed up as immigration enforcement. It demands solidarity among communities that have too often been encouraged to believe they occupy different universes, because the infrastructure now used to identify, locate, and track immigrants is built from many of the same assumptions that make it easier to investigate abortion seekers, catalogue transgender people, monitor political activism, and assemble astonishingly detailed portraits of ordinary citizens from the digital residue of everyday life.

h/t @crazyeddie @ai6yr

#privacy #surveillance #ICEout #uspol

The Plot Against America

They're not hiding it anymore.

A network of billionaires is openly calling for the end of democracy—in their own words, in public, on the record.

https://theplotagainstamerica.com/

#US #USA #USPol #USpolitics #America #Democracy #Oligarchy #Thiel #Yarvin #Prince #Bannon #Miller #Trump #Musk #Vance #Roberts #Vought #Ellison #Karp #Sacks #Andreessen #Luckey #Lonsdale #Altman #Srinivasan #Zuckerberg #Kratsios

#Climatechange

My apologies Dan if you have seen this already, but it made me think of you.
https://quarterlifecrisis.co/collections/all

@ifixcoinops

An annotated simulation showing the movement and sonic consequences of a stylus in a vinyl groove.

https://frieve-a.github.io/sound_toolbox/vinyl_explained/vinyl_explained.html

The visual angle can be rotated to more clearly see what's happening.

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116914138856256964

the Ellisons’ #Oracle mafia are behind

- the killing of CBS tv and radio
- the #Paramount - #WarnerBrothers merger
- more than 30,000 laid-off tech workers since 2025
- the #Stargate capitalist welfare grift that includes #NVidia #OpenAI #Softbank
- the herpes-like spread of ecocidal data centers

if you’ve been waiting for a sign of the #AI implosion, this is the official beginning.

Oracle has its tentacles all over the #aislop push. now their stock is junk.

Fantastic

US judge voids Trump's settlement with IRS

A US judge on Monday voided #Trump's [totally illegal] #settlement with the #IRS ‌that gave him & his companies sweeping #tax protections & initially set up a nearly $1.8 billion government ​#SlushFund to pay victims of so-called ​government weaponization.

#law #judiciary #criminal #fraud #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6 #militia #MAGASlushFund
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-voids-trumps-settlement-with-irs-2026-07-13/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Wait, Lindsey Graham died?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgj25j6nmeo

🪦 🤡 RIP Bozo 🤡 🪦

#PACKWATCH 2026 LMAO.

#USPol

“The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects,” David McCraw, a lawyer for the Times, said in a statement.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-nyt-air-force-one-qatari-jet-e2c798a95a1e41077d2cae969774df91

I hate the fact that all printers today have fingerprinting tech that you can’t opt out of. It sucks. Surveillance sucks.

“Have you ever wondered why your printer is always out of yellow ink, even when you print only in black and white? There's a reason why this always happens. Your printer is a homing beacon for law enforcement– even offline.”

https://www.revoluciana.net/how-to-distribute-radical-stuff/

The Mayor of New York is NOT WRONG.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement was created under the Patriot Act, the massive set of authoritarian initiatives rammed down our throat on pretexts and outright lies which simultaneously, connectedly, led us into a series of wars of conquest — not only the domestic one. And it vastly expanded the regime of corruption & foreign influence, the oppression of real people, creating the prison and surveillance industries domestically, for example, and leading in a fairly straight line to creation of the Abraham Accord & its global genocide and colonialism. The limited scope of the ICE mission was as an ephemeral task force to disrupt presumed hijacker terror cells particularly on college campuses. It outlived its ostensible/fake purpose long before becoming a disruption army, abducting our neighbors, ransacking communities, and executing us with impunity. #Sturmabteilung #abolishice
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani renews call to abolish ICE after deadly Houston shooting
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5961237-mayor-mamdani-abolish-ice

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