Elon Musk is so pathetic. And a nazi.
'WTF!? Elon Musk BANNED Rick from Twitter (We're Still Not Calling it "X")'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ImCSwqRaPE #Elon #ElonMusk #Musk #Tesla #Swasticar #EveryoneHatesElon #ElonNazi #MuskNazi #LincolnProject #Rick #Twitter #arrestMusk #deportMusk
What's next on my eBook purchase wishlist
Rick knows about music and I want to bring my Bass Skills up, playing as an insturment builder is great. Learning how a simple musician plays is also important
Donald Trump posted he would
"get #SALT back."
That's a strong indication he wants to 
let those in high-tax states deduct more than $10,000 from their federal taxes
— a limit he championed in his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Republicans in blue states, especially in New York, have made repealing the SALT cap a calling card
and have been willing to challenge their Republican colleagues on it.
Trump's new position might make it easier for them to return to Congress.
State of the play:
The $10,000 SALT cap expires at the end of 2025.
If Trump — or Harris — does nothing, wealthy taxpayers in high-tax states will be able to deduct an unlimited amount from their federal returns, lowering the overall tax bill.
The bottom line:
Removing the $10,000 SALT cap would cost an estimated $1.2 trillion over a decade, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
An estimated 92% of the benefit would go to the top 10% of earners, according to CRFB.
Trump's surprise post on SALT deductions Tuesday has forced Senate Republicans into a pickle: contradict their party's leader or their old positions.
For Republican leaders, it's a taste of what's to come if Trump wins back the White House.
They'll have to harmonize their own positions
— in real time
— with a president who is constantly changing his.
Zoom in:
"We'll take a look at all the suggestions," Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), who is running for leader, told reporters, noting it "got litigated extensively in 2017."
"I don't think we ought to be subsidizing state taxes," Sen. #Rick #Scott (R-Fla.) told Axios repeatedly, adding Republicans need to win the House, Senate and White House first before there's a real discussion on what to do about SALT.
"I personally, at this point in time, believe we should extend the TCJA SALT provisions," said Sen. #Mike #Crapo (R-Idaho), the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee. "But like I said, everything's up for negotiations."
The other side:
The new Trump idea does have support from Majority Leader #Chuck #Schumer (D-N.Y.) who said he has "always been for eliminating the cap on SALT."
Schumer called the Trump tax bill "a nasty piece of legislation," which was "aimed at the blue states."
Traveler and TV travel guide #Rick #Steves announced on Wednesday that he has cancer.
In a social media post, Steves said that he has been diagnosed with #prostate #cancer and plans to have prostate surgery in late September.
“There is a clear path forward to getting healthy,” Steves said, adding:
“I have great trust in my doctor and in Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. And I have lots more to be thankful for … including the support of friends and loved ones and a strong faith that I’m in good hands.”
Until the surgery, Steves said that his doctor has approved him traveling to France to film for his travel TV show for the next few weeks.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/aug/22/rick-steves-cancer-diagnosis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Funding for many of NOAA’s programs could plummet in 2025,
and the agency already suffers from occasional telecommunications breakdowns, including a recent alert-system outage amid flooding in the Midwest.
It is also subject to political pressures: In 2019, the agency backed then-President Trump’s false claim
(accompanied by a seemingly Sharpie-altered map)
that Hurricane Dorian was headed for Alabama
Privatizing the weather is not a new conservative aim.
Nearly two decades ago, when the National Weather Service updated its website to be more user-friendly,
#Barry #Myers, then executive vice president of #AccuWeather, complained to the press that
“we work very hard every day competing with other companies, and we also have to compete with the government.”
In 2005, after meeting with a representative from AccuWeather, then-Senator #Rick #Santorum introduced a bill calling for the NWS to cease competition with the private sector, and reserve its forecasts for commercial providers.
The bill never made it out of committee. But in 2017, #Trump picked #Myers to lead NOAA.
(Myers withdrew his nomination after waiting two years for Senate confirmation.)
I just got HUGE news,
and I want you to be the first to hear:
𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮! 
Earning this major national endorsement doesn't just prove that our grassroots movement has what it takes to flip Florida blue
— it proves that the work we're doing to restore reproductive rights at home, and across the country, is possible.
Thanks to the support of people like you,
a new poll shows me in a statistical #tie with #Rick #Scott!
But the only way we'll keep this momentum going is with strong
— and sustained
— grassroots support.
𝗦𝗼 𝗜'𝗺 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴:
𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 #𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻?
𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲, 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵
𝗮𝘀 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝟭𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹:
https://secure.ngpvan.com/Svp2AfVXL0ucBXHcKEXlxQ2
Thank you so much,
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Florida Senate candidate seeks to channel abortion outrage
A round table on abortion rights, hosted by 
Florida’s Democratic Senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, has only just begun,
and already she finds herself comforting a woman in tears with a very personal story to tell.
The woman is from Colombia, and speaks softly in Spanish as she tells the intimate gathering of the Miami-Dade Hispanic Democratic Caucus about the distressing decision her daughter had to make to terminate a pregnancy after learning the fetus was not developing.
“In Colombia, which tends to be a very conservative country, she was glad supportive medical professionals were there for her daughter in the decision, and grateful she had access to good-quality healthcare for it,” said Mucarsel-Powell.
“It was traumatic and painful, but at least they could rely on that healthcare.
I’m just seeing outrage, from men and women, that
here, families are faced with having to live in a state where you will not be able to get that care, 
because most women don’t even know they’re pregnant at six weeks.”
She was referring to the ruling by Florida’s supreme court earlier this month that will allow a six-week abortion ban, with few exceptions for rape or incest, to take effect on 1 May.
It will end the state’s position as a bulwark of access to the procedure in the south-eastern US.
Yet it has also acted as rocket fuel to the campaign of Mucarsel-Powell, an Ecuador-born former congresswoman and mother of two daughters.
She seized on the issue to launch a statewide Freedom Tour championing the protection of abortion rights
and exposing the “unapologetic and proud” support for the ban on the part of her opponent in November, the incumbent Republican senator #Rick #Scott.
The Florida Supreme Court just crushed abortion rights. But it also created a tool to fight back
The addition of the abortion rights #ballot #measure to the November election has dramatically changed the political calculus in Florida overnight.
Long the home of a growing sunbelt Republican base and an uncommonly weak state Democratic party, Florida has been considered a shoo-in for #Donald #Trump, who won the state by three points in 2020.
But abortion ballot measures have proven a persistent electoral winner, with measures to preserve or expand access to the procedure winning every time they have been put to voters since Dobbs
– including in heavily Republican districts such as Kansas, Kentucky and Ohio, as well as in swing states like Michigan.
And the salience of #abortion to an #election has been an excellent predictor of Democratic success since #Dobbs,
with the 2022 midterms and subsequent special elections all delivering Democratic victories whenever the abortion question is at the front of voters’ minds.
In Florida, the new ballot measure may not just influence the presidential election, but the re-election bid of the Republican senator #Rick #Scott
– a one-time governor and fierce abortion rights opponent who has said that he would have signed the six-week ban if he were still in the governor’s mansion.
That stance has come under harsh criticism in Florida, where even the comparatively less strict 15-week ban has had horrible human costs.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/03/florida-abortion-rights-constitution?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
If Debbie wins in Florida, Democrats will likely maintain our Senate majority.
If we lose, our Senate majority is all but doomed.
Polls show that this race is already neck and neck, but #Rick #Scott is already shelling out millions to retake the lead.
Debbie can’t pull ahead without you:
Please, will you rush a donation midnight to flip Florida blue and save our Senate majority?
Choose an amount:
Your contribution will benefit #Debbie #Mucarsel-#Powell.
The moment when you think, is this ripcording, where is this going, then blam, it goes. Great second half shredder #rick #aztecrotonda
I just had an idea for a #RickAndMorty alternate universe bit, where they use the #PortalGun to visit a universe where #Morty is a #mortar and #Rick is a #peslte.
They get in an argument over the names of this antiquated #apothecary tool's parts (which part should have been named the mortar and which the pestle), which then turns into an actual fight over their respective names and bodies in this universe.
Meanwhile, a gigantic alien pharmacist uses the two of them to grind up some anti-flatulence tablets, then uses #OrsonScottCard (who lives in this universe as a credit card) to cut the resulting powder into two long lines, snorts them, and lets out a long, ecstatic sigh of relief.
At this last part, Rick and Morty stop fighting and stare up at the alien pharmacist in utter confusion/horror for several seconds, eyes wide and mouths agape. Finally, Morty says "I won't tell anyone if you won't," Rick replies, "Deal," and then zaps them into the next universe with the portal gun.
