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Alaskan adventurer, philosopher, writer, and former IT pro nate.borson.net

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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 19h
#Anchorage #AlaskaSky friends! Don't miss the amazing Zach Brown of Gustavus telling his inspiring story. October 15 2026 Doors open at 7:00, talk starts at 7:30 Heritage Theater at 49th State Brewing 717 W 3rd Ave #Climate #Storytelling #Tidelines
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 23/09/2026
Fortunately, Ohio Dan's is not the only name on the ballot. He isn't even the only Dan Sullivan on it! 😆 I will rank @marypeltola.com first, Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. second, Gerald L. Heikes third.
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 15/04/2026
"In the 1960s, the 400 richest Americans paid about 50% of their income in taxes across all levels of government. Today, they pay about 24%." Make America Great Again -- Tax the Rich! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #inequality #taxes #limitarianism #MAGA
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Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz
There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 25/03/2026
MAKE HISTORY THIS SATURDAY! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... for my #Gustavus friends nokings.org for everyone else! ✊😁❤️ #NoKings #March28 #AlaskaSky
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 01/03/2026
U.S. intelligence officers assessed that a threat from Iran was not “imminent.” Trump: “The… bombing… will continue… as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!” Trump: "War is peace." bit.ly/4l4nvWW #OperationEpsteinFury
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 28, 2026
Early this morning, the U.S.
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 02/02/2026
The challenge for @taxjustice.net , the Global Alliance for Tax Justice and the global movement spanning from #climate justice to #humanrights is to channel our collective efforts to seize the opportunity for international tax cooperation. bit.ly/3NSRTqQ #inequality #taxtherich #limitarianism
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The best of times, the worst of times (please give generously!)  - Tax Justice Network
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, ...
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 28/12/2025
Is Preparation Capitulation? whtwnd.com/nate.borson.... In which I respond to a conversation about whether to "assume competitive authoritarianism becomes the norm" and what to do about it #NoKings #Autocracy #Oligarchy
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Is Preparation Capitulation? | Nathan Borson
In this extremely interesting post, Anchor Light Publications consults artificial Intelligence about the origins and plans for the current US authoritarian takeover, and what to do about it. This is m...
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 06/11/2025
In ONE year, the top 10 US billionaires' wealth increased by an average of $69,800,000,000. Each. 🤬 The only thing anyone needs even ONE billion dollars for is to dominate others. It's the 1920s all over again. TAX THE RICH! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #inequality #limitarianism
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Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 19/10/2025
Setting the record straight. These are the domestic terrorists. And our president pardoned them. #NoKings
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 03/10/2025
I'm just back from an awesome Arizona Raft Adventures trip through Grand Canyon National Park. 😁🙏❤ After any #wilderness #adventure, it's hard to describe what it's like to those who weren't there, but I tried: medium.com/engage/how-w... #travel #GrandCanyon #raft #whitewater #Arizona
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How Was Your Trip?
How long do you have?
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 03/09/2025
The only thing that requires a billion dollars is the domination of others. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/all-the-th... #wealthtax #inequality #fairness #workersoverbillionaires
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All the Things That You Need a Billion Dollars to Buy Are Bad
One way to think about inequality.
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 18/08/2025
I once asked: "How many civilian Palestinian lives must be taken to 'avenge' each Israeli death?" Now I know one Israeli general's answer is 50. And it doesn't matter whether they are children. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... #Israel #Gaza #War #Peace #Justice
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Ex-Israeli intelligence chief said 50 Palestinians must die for every 7 October victim
‘It does not matter if they are children,’ said Aharon Haliva in recorded comments calling the death toll ‘necessary’
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 05/08/2025
What's next? Closing our northern border to smoke? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #climate #pollution #wildfire #MAGA
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Republicans complain to Canada over wildfire smoke despite supporting planet-heating bill
Lawmakers send letter railing against ‘suffocating’ smoke days after voting for Trump plan likely to boost pollution
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 02/08/2025
Fantastic read. “Today, people find it easier to imagine that we can build intelligence on silicon than we can do democracy at scale, or that we can escape arms races." www.theguardian.com/environment/... #equality #inequality #democracy #climate @theguardian.com
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‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 27/05/2025
Today's message to my Senators about the budget bill now before them. #Alaska #AlaskaSky #Inequality #Taxes
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Make America Great | Nathan Borson | WhiteWind blog
Dear Senators Sullivan and Murkowski, What makes America great? Is it robber barons bleeding the people dry in their endless pursuit of obscene wealth, a billionaire class that controls an ever-larger percentage of the nation's wealth, an electoral system where wealthy individuals and corporations...
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 18/05/2025
A $45+ Billion border wall, where "In five years, a camera by the river has never captured an image of a migrant crossing into the US, even though it’s one of the few parts of the valley with shade and water." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 🤬😖 I notice no one is saying Mexico will pay for it. 🙄
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Trump’s new border wall will threaten wildlife in an area where few people pass
The San Rafael valley in Arizona is home to bears, mountain lions and wolves – now their movement will be restricted
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 12/05/2025
Wow, MAGAs are counting on would-be-king Donald and his cabinet of billionaires like these to rein in waste, fraud, and abuse? 29 Jaw-Dropping Confessions From People Who Worked For The Ultra-Wealthy www.buzzfeed.com/hannahdobro/... #inequality #nokings #oligarchy
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People Who've Worked For The Ultra-Wealthy Are Airing Out Alllllllll Their Dirty Laundry
"He bought a $2 million plane on a whim one weekend because he was bored."
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 05/05/2025
Actually, America IS at war. Selfish billionaires are escalating the economic war they have waged against the other 99% of us since the 1980s. Translation: sacrifice "for our country" means "for the kleptocrats" who will receive the lion's share of $4T in proposed tax cuts. #inequality #oligarchy
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Michele Cornelius @mycena39.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Video of the protest march on our beach trail 5/3/25. Gustavus Alaska is standing up for our rights! A video of the beach action will be posted soon. #Protest #Protests #Gustavus #Alaska #Mayday #Mayday25 #Maydaystrong #50501Movement #InternationalWorkersDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnIO...
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Beach Trail Protest March Gustavus Alaska May 3rd 2025
YouTube video by Gene Cornelius
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 22/04/2025
Wow, so powerful! America the sorrowful, "Resentment for the weak and poor will be your undoing." Follow the money. It hasn't gone to the weak and poor. ✊ #Oligarchy #america #Anthem
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 20/04/2025
In case anyone thought Donald's support for COAL was for the MINERS... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #oligarchy
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Outrage as Trump’s coal expansion coupled with health cuts: ‘There won’t be anyone to work in the mines’
Agencies protecting coal miners from hazards such as ‘black lung’ among those gutted by government cuts
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 19/04/2025
Take action with me and @inequality.org: Tell Congress: Save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. actionnetwork.org/letters/ineq... #CFPB #DOGE #Oligarchy #Equality
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Tell Congress: Save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
On Thursday, President Trump fired nearly 90% of the employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the CFPB. Send a message to Congress: demand the CFPB be strengthened, not cut.
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 17/04/2025
USFWS and NOAA propose to redefine "harm" of endangered species to exclude habitat loss. If I take your home, your land, and your livelihood, I have harmed you! You might find another place and occupation, but threatened and endangered wildlife have nowhere to go. Comment: bit.ly/2025ESA #ESA
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 25/03/2025
Billionaire Mind Virus whtwnd.com/nate.borson.... Elon knows what's best for us; just ask him. #oligarchy #inequality #billionaire #ElonMusk #democracy
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Billionaire Mind Virus | Nathan Borson
I am the smartest entity in the known universe. You can tell because I am the richest ever. Because we have a rational economic system that rewards merit. Things could be better. Because I am smar...
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 21/03/2025
#UseTheForm ! Sullivan should hear about each and every impact on Alaskans from the billionaire takeover, on the form he supplies for the purpose. Apparently it's a paper form. 🙄 Sullivan's DC fax number is (202) 224-6501 www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... #AlaskaSky #Oligarchy #DOGE
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250320 Sullivan form
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 10/03/2025
#Alaskasky #politics From Hank Lentfer and John Sisk in Juneau Hold Alaska US Senator Dan Sullivan to his oath of office! Alaskans: BY TOMORROW (Tuesday March 11), please take 20 seconds to view the ad and sign the form: forms.gle/cG8gDBBRPQKg...
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Defend our Constitution
Are you an Alaskan resident who would like Senator Sullivan to uphold his oath to defend the Constitution? If so, add your name in the space below. Submitted names will be included in a full-page ad...
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 27/02/2025
2017: "We will slash taxes, and that will stimulate so much growth that revenues will increase!" The opposite happened, the debt ballooned by more than $8T under Trump I🙄. 2024: Double down with more voodoo economics! #WealthTax #Limitarianism #deficit #billionaires #taxtherich bit.ly/4bj2dQu
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Did the 2017 tax cut—the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—pay for itself?
William Gale disproves a popular mischaracterization of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 27/02/2025
New? coalition I can get behind! taxgreed.org i0.wp.com/taxgreed.org...
Image of Elon Musk in front of the White House with arms spread, text reading, "Greedy billionaires are gutting the U.S. government. Tax billionaires now."
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 22/02/2025
Sanders spoke tonight in Omaha (he starts 14 minutes into the recording). No news here (if you're paying attention), but encapsulating and inspiring. I especially loved his encouraging litany of past victories by working-class Americans over oligarchs. www.youtube.com/live/dRonB7G...
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FIGHTING OLIGARCHY (LIVE at 7:30PM ET)
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 19/02/2025
Your representative should hear what you think of House Republicans' plan to slash social programs, enrich billionaires, and raise the deficit. www.house.gov #inequality
Picture of healthcare protesters in wheelchairs with caption: "$880 billion potential cuts to Meicaid under House Republicans' budget proposal. Overall, the proposal would slash $2 trillion from social programs and cut taxes by $4.5 trillion, with the tax windfalls flowing overwhelmingly to the ultra-rich. Sources: House Budget Resolution, February 13, 2025
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 17/02/2025
#Alaskasky : Our one US Representative, Nick Begich, is holding his first telephone town hall tonight at 6:30. Do you have something to ask or say?? The event will be live on Facebook: www.facebook.com/RepNickBegich @standupalaska.bsky.social
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Redirecting...
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 15/02/2025
If King Donald and his minions think that gays like me will stand by while trans people are denied and dehumanized, they are mistaken. I oppose discrimination based on gender identity as well as sexual orientation. United against oligarchs! 🏳️‍🌈🟰🏳️‍⚧️✊ #LGBTQ+ #Solidarity www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/u...
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‘You can’t erase us’: Community rallies after ‘trans’ and ‘queer’ removed from Stonewall Monument website | CNN
After the words “transgender” and “queer” were removed from the National Park Service’s website for the Stonewall National Monument, a landmark of the LGBTQ pride movement in New York City, protesters...
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 15/02/2025
Vance: ‘Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.’ Legal scholars: "if the president can violate constitutional laws and disobey court orders then the name for that is a dictatorship." #dictatorship #authoritarianism #law #courts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The courts are a crucial bastion against Trump. What if he ignores their orders?
Experts warn ‘this isn’t normal’, as administration defies rulings and Vance expresses contempt for legal constraints
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 14/02/2025
What DOGE Stands For whtwnd.com/nate.borson....
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Dictatorial Oligarchy Guardians and Expansionists (DOGE) | Nathan Borson
De-Obfuscating DOGE Doublespeak As Anne Applebaum writes, "Government Efficiency" has nothing to do with Musk's mission. Nor is DOGE a government department, those being created by Congress. "Of" is ...
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 03/02/2025
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... #democracy #authoritarianism #dictatorship #politics
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The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 18/01/2025
Lawmakers "say China could use #TikTok to manipulate and control Americans by spreading propaganda and misinformation. The supreme court ultimately agreed." I guess it's OK for X (and many others) to do the same because they're American? 🤔 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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TikTok says it will ‘go dark’ in US on Sunday unless Biden acts
App used by 170m people in US will become unavailable unless outgoing president directs DoJ not to enforce law, company says
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 10/01/2025
The left-right dichotomy is a fallacy that preserves the status quo, perpetuating the transfer of wealth to the wealthiest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #limitarianism #wealthfax #inequality #solidarity
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Trouble in Trumpworld over H-1B visas makes for strange bedfellows
Program for skilled foreign workers pits Trump and Musk against Bannon – and progressive Bernie Sanders
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 01/01/2025
Aloha New Year from Kilauea www.nps.gov/media/webcam... Fountaining lava is as festive as any fireworks 🎆🌋
Glowing lava plume in foreground with fountaining lava in the background at twilight
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 30/12/2024
The news is not all bad! #Alaska Ballot Measure 1 raising the minimum wage and requiring paid leave was among the good news for advocats of #equality #limitarianism #solidarity inequality.org/article/10-i... #inequality
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10 Inequality Victories in 2024
Our year-end review of 10 of the most inspiring inequality wins, from union drives to fair taxes to consumer protection.
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 24/12/2024
Season's greetings to(and from) Charles Dickens. #limitarianism
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 18/12/2024
What did Santa say when he saw the enormous trees in the ancient forests on Washington's Olympic Peninsula? 🎅🎄😲 #dadjokes
Man stands at bottom of enormous Sitka spruce tree, among other trees.
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 16/12/2024
"Nothing in Mangione’s public postings match the claims by the right that Mangione was driven by left-leaning politics" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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The right believes the healthcare CEO shooting suspect is a ‘liberal wacko’. The truth is complicated
Fox News and rightwing pundits are railing against ‘Marxist brutality’, but the suspect’s beliefs were far from leftist
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DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 13/12/2024
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The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
A memo for my fellow filthy rich who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.
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Kate Kelly @katekelly.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It’s time for #ERANow
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 05/12/2024
For anyone wondering... medium.com/about-me-sto...
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About Me — Nathan Borson
Counting my privileges, wishing everyone had them
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𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・🫧 @lepapillonblue.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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Nathan Borson @nate.borson.net · 05/12/2024
This: www.theguardian.com/environment/... And the failure to support reduction in plastic production: www.theguardian.com/environment/... And unconditional support for this: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d... From the CURRENT administration speak to corporate capture of both major parties. 😡✊
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Fury as US argues against climate obligations at top UN court
US says current climate rules are satisfactory, prompting condemnation from activists and vulnerable countries
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Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
A new study from the #LSE reveals the brutal truth: 50 yrs of #US tax cuts, which promised to 'trickle down' and boost jobs and income for everyone, have only served one purpose—to enrich the wealthy. It's time to demand justice and build an economy that works for everyone! #Limitarianism #WealthTax
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50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries — but they did worsen income inequality.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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