From Friday: Trump is trying to prevent discovery into the numbers of applicants for Mar-a-Lago membership between 2020 and 2026 and how much accepted new members paid during those times. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Republicans blocked this on day #2 of Trump's presidency and it took going to court to get a federal judge to release the funds

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Late to this Bloomberg piece on Marc Andreessen. This is one of the key things. Andreessen is *angry* about how he has been treated, when any objective observer might note he has benefited enormously from the institutions he now purports to detest. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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to clarify, alt history is hard, it's not clear that even a united social democrat + communist bloc had the juice to stop hitler, but it is nevertheless true that the party that brought hitler to power was a right wing party, and the party that wouldn't compromise a communist one

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I believe that should be a progressive property tax system, just like there is a progressive income tax system. Quite a lot of gentrification is built on partitioned heirs unable to pay the property taxes.

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