Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

When they go low, we go, uh, well, it's not entirely clear, but nobody likes it.

Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.

It is hard to picture a world in which Tim Schafer "accidentally" laid off specifically every person in his company who had led a Unionization effort or supported it. Very tough to imagine that being an accident, and kind of fatally sabotages Tim's "good guy" vibes.

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what ever happened to scheming viziers with nefarious plots and delusions of grandeur. we've strayed too far away from our roots.

This is awful. Put in a full-body straitjacket and then pulled up the air stairs by his wrists and ankles. The WRAP is regularly used on ICE flights to Africa.

This is something I've been saying for ages re: how centrists treat the left. If left-wing positions aren't popular enough to win elections, then left-wing voters can't lose an election for you. If left-wing voters can tip an election for you, their positions need to be accommodated.

Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.

I personally believe that political action is best achieved through means besides the use of violence against completely uninvolved civilians. But I have these views without knowing the horrors of imperialist bombs dropping on children in my neighborhood, and I don't push that on those who do.

"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.

Hope you all enjoyed your jokes about maskers a couple weeks ago, also, I’m sure unrelatedly, the right wingers are fantasizing about murdering us.

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

It’s time to call The Boston Globe’s viral lesbian bar story what it is: a thinly-veiled far-right smear campaign. Read my commentary for free, only on The Backbone News.

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