Some quotes I found interesting

Billionaires’ effective tax rate is currently equivalent to 0.3% of their wealth, requiring them to pay a far lower rate than middle-class taxpayers.

Along with Milei, the Biden administration pushed back this year as the G20 weighed Zucman’s tax proposal. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told The Wall Street Journal in May that the “notion of some common global arrangement for taxing billionaires with proceeds redistributed in some way—we’re not supportive of a process to try to achieve that. That’s something we can’t sign on to.”

As Common Dreams reported Tuesday, the U.S. is one of eight countries that are contributing to an international loss of $492 billion in taxes each year as multinational corporations and ultrawealthy individuals underpay. The eight countries—which also include Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and the U.K.—oppose a United Nations tax convention.

I love this

Paywall

My friend got an interactive thingamajig. It’s connected to Wi-Fi, it has a camera that moves, it has a toy hanging off the top that’s connected to the camera, and it can dispense treats. It also has a microphone and a speaker, so you can talk to and hear the kitties. That seemed pretty neat

It was a bold choice to make him barefoot

Sadly relatable

Good things HSBC doesn’t have ties to corruption, including one of the largest scandals leading to a worldwide bubble burst worldwide

Money

Claiming independent doesn’t mean you won’t vote Democratic or Republican. There’s no “I” party

Anecdotal, but my father, a white 50+ Christian Midwestern man, has made it very clear he’s voting for Trump a third time. He’s Republican in every way except on paper, because he’s registered independent and identifies as such. So there’s that

Edit, Google turns up this as the first result. In fact, every poll and article I found at a cursory gland supported that. Where are you getting your information that most voters aren’t independent?

Careful spreading misinformation. This commenter linked the methodology. This is more serious than you’d think

The margin of error for the national survey is +/- 1.82 percentage points at the 95% level of confidence

Jesus Christ. The methodology actually sounds good. This is… So very, very troubling for our nation.

Or he’s such a bad doctor he can’t understand fractions?

Sleep on your other side and be amazed as the problem mirrors itself

To shreds you say

It wasn’t a terrible idea, but I’m not surprised that it failed

Chunks, obviously

You need double tides tildes for the cross out text to work

Sounds like this is primarily to punish companies for purchasing fake reviews. I’m a fan

There’s a reason they do it. For every time we hear about it, there are 100 stories that got buried using the same strategy