silence7

Many thanks to those who called to get this tax out of the budget. It's still really problematic in a lot of ways, including:

• Mass deportation funding
• Sharp cuts to Medicaid
• End to subsidies for wind, solar, batteries, and electric vehicles
• Huge cuts to basic research including climate science
• Massive giveaway for billionaires

but it's now a tiny bit less bad than it was when intorduced at midnight between Friday and Saturday

Edit: I note that the NYT took down the live update about this due to not meeting their rules about anonymous sourcing, and then posted it again once it was better sourced

Such credits have historically been largely fraudulent.

The best thing to do to limit it right now is for Congress to reject the massive increase in funding for deportation that's tucked into the budget bill. If you're an American, give your senators and rep a call.

Brent Efron’s “boring” Tinder date wanted to hear all about his work at the Environmental Protection Agency, so Mr. Efron talked. If only he’d seen the hidden camera.

If you want to do something about it, call your rep and your senators — people got the provisions to sell off public land removed, so other changes are possible too

If you want to actually try and do something about it, call your rep and your senators — people got the provisions to sell off public land removed, so other changes are possible too

If you want to actually try and do something about it, call your rep and your senators — people got the provisions to sell off public land removed, so other changes are possible too

A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

If you want to actually try and do something about it, call your rep and your senators — people got the provisions to sell off public land removed, so other changes are possible too