Fine then, let companies bribe the sick fuck all they want. These bribes are NOT business expenses, but personal gifts.
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I believe the liberal indoctrination took the form of brainwashing. As a young woman in business school, it was a liberal statement that I, and the first few other minority students and profs were allowed in the room at all.
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Good thing they’re coming from “business leaders” and not from the states or foreign leaders - otherwise someone would have to re-kindle the Emoluments controversy from Trumpigula I.
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My work in these two countries is now done - anybody else need some help with local elections? 
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Respectfully, we don’t need to see this anymore. In the past two days t’s been posted more than enough.
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Justice can be sweet : - )
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First, workforce cuts weaken enforcement capacity . . . The bottom line: A starving IRS is a feast for wealthy tax evaders. Most of the 600 billion dollars in taxes owed but not paid—the “tax gap”—is due to underreporting of income by high-income taxpayers.
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The assumption being Horowitz has a soul. I know, I know - should not…
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Bacon’s was one of the first districts Bernie S went to on his first tour of swing and red states, I think. I know a lot of people showed up to that event and Sanders certainly urged them to urge Bacon to consider Trump actions and policies carefully in terms of their ramifications for the nation and for his constituents…
.It’d be nice to think that his constituents spoke up and he did some listening and decided he did have to say a little something…If true, that should help his constituents feel a little more empowered and maybe push him a little further next time. Baby steps. But we have to depend on baby steps here, I think.
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A Great Dane and a Terrier are at the vet’s office, and the Terrier is nervous and pacing around.
The Dane asks “what’s up little guy”
The Terrier says “well, the master left me in his new car and I swear I saw a rat in there. I tore it apart, but alas, no rat. It doesn’t look good for me”. “How about you big guy?”
The Dane replies “well, the masters wife was in the shower and came out with a towel around her. She was on her hands and knees exercising when the towel fell off… I just followed my instincts and…”
The terrier says “wow, so this is your last day too?”
To which the Dane replies “no, she just brought me in to have my nails trimmed”
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The same for journalists when the “conservative movement” was positioning reporters as the liberal, mainstream media back in the 70s and 80s – ultimately Palinized as lamestream media. The reporter’s sin was favoring a free press, essentially free thought.
Republicans don’t like that as a Party.
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I think the basis for this claim lies largely in the great curricular changes of the last fifty years. The introduction of many new programs, like Africana Studies, Women’s Studies, which became Women’s and Gender Studies, and, more recently, Arabic Studies. (My college is voting at the next faculty meeting on formally instituting a Native People’s Program, or some such name.) Literature courses (English, Comp Lit, and the foreign languages) in African-American literature, post-colonial literature, queer literature, ecological/nature writing, and many “-ism” approaches. Literature courses in “critical theory” were gaining popularity in Horowitz’s early years of attacking universities. The Art History curriculum where I taught starting almost 50 years ago has changed radically. Once, nearly the entire curriculum focused on European and American art. No longer. And many an “ism” provides the approach in part or all of a course. History departments’ curricula bear only a passing resemblance to their curricula of 50 years ago. Some courses in some of the sciences (esp. Biology and Geology) are geared to issues about climate change and other ecological challenges. Let’s not forget Econ, where courses often explore questions directly relevant to gender, race, and ecological challenges. And so on and so on. You can visit college and university .edu sites and get access to course offerings.
Yes, a college curriculum creates a framework – inevitably. At many colleges today, that framework reflects what a David Horowitz would call a liberal bias. Is that the same as “indoctrination”? Why assume that competing points of view are not presented in these courses, that students aren’t encouraged by their teachers to challenge the material, to challenge one another, to challenge the teacher?
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Might I suggest taking a good dump and maybe saying a few words before flushing?
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Cardinal Dolan is not amused.
https://bsky.app/profile/jackjenkins.me/post/3lobnrsptz22y
Oh wow.
Note: This response (below, which is real) to Trump’s tweet depicting himself as pope is from the New York State Catholic Bishops, who represent the collective bishops of the state.
Among them is Cardinal Dolan of NYC, who Trump appointed to his new religious liberty commission this week.
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NPR is apparently not afraid of Trump’s threats. This is the lead story on the web site, a fascinating/horrifying look at what Palantir is dong to help establish the police state:
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Well, people can always surprise you by what they do when they figure no one will notice! – Nevertheless it doesn’t sound to me like McGovern’s brand of behavior in public places or Podhoretz’s brand of thinking, and I have had some knowledge of both of them (and of Midge) going back into the 60s and forward. That said, I’d be fascinated to find evidence that it was all true!
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Maybe Ted Cruz has an opinion.
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At the risk of affecting human emotional and intellectual development at scale (In case there is truly some Universal Plan), I’ve always thought that solving such matters was the object of debate. It’s become clear to me that, at minimum, Congress requires the services of a Social and Psychiatric Sciences Advisory Committee.
Prior to the incursion of DOGE, I’d thought that much of our national, defense, and state budgets could be analyzed and evaluated by AI as the launching pad for the review of appropriations for necessary human services, defense, environment, progress initiatives, and development prior to legislative debate with the assumption that some of the budget could become fully automated as a buffer to politicization. I don’t think either AI, or we, are there yet.
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READ: Will increase our debt, but will make the wealthy richer.
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Would that mean that I could be prosecuted for choosing the hummus produced in a country other than Israel?
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