“You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort,
but you cannot choose both.”
– BRENÉ BROWN
Actors’ Equity Lobbies Congress To Pass Performing Artist Tax Parity Act
"The bill, if passed, would allow more performing artists to deduct essential work expenses from their taxes by updating what's called the Qualified Performing Artist (QPA) deduction." - Broadway News
The ideal coffeehouse is lively but not noisy — a site of serendipitous, informed exchange. Social-media networks should take notes ideal cafes »
Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly 2022
Notes on FBI/Twitter Story: Link to Text Version of Twitter Files Thread Matt Taibbi, TK News. The thread. Taibbi
Artful orbituaries
The Economic Consequences of War
On the economic effects of wars, drawing on a novel database of nearly 400 wars over the past two centuries.
Why The Age of American Progress Ended The Atlantic. A lot going on in this one.
Twitter Aided the Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign Lee Fang, Intercept
Equating Rhetoric With Violence to Blame Political Opponents for Mass Murder SpreesGlenn Greenwald
Musk Will Resign as Twitter CEO and Focus on Engineering Bloomberg. But remember: Who Cares Whether Elon Musk Is CEO of Twitter? He OWNS It. Intercept
The Night of the Pen Knives – The Olaf Scholz Plot Exposed as Putz, Not Putsch
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Thomas Haldenwang, the internal security chief Scholz accepted from Angela Merkel, have pulled off a media coup in the style of the first German minister of propaganda.
The Rise Of Celebrity Book Clubs (Reese Witherspoon Is The New Oprah)
Articles of Note
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New Books
It's all fun and games — until those games become the 21st century’s most advanced form of beahavioral control »
Essays & Opinions
Old age is full of physical and emotional burdens. But for some artists, it's a period of creative liberation old age »
Why The New York Times Best Seller Lists Drive The Publishing Business Insane
FTX’s Bankman-Fried donated about $40M this political cycle. Here’s who benefitted Washington Post
Bahamian authorities were tipped off by top Bankman-Fried associate Financial Times
‘It’s not fit for humanity’: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Bahamas jail is infested with rats and maggots and inmates at high risk of TB get bedsores from lying on the ground – while kids are detained with adult prisoners Daily Mail (Li). Included video of prison. Article notes SBF might be housed in the remand center rather than the general population
Sam Bankman-Fried Got What He WantedAtlantic
Read the full memo the CEO of Binance sent to staffers after the exchange was hit by more than $1 billion of withdrawals in a day amid the FTX fiasco Business Insider
US Senators Warren, Marshall Introduce Digital Assets Anti-Money Laundering Bill Coindesk
U.S. authorities charge 8 social media influencers in securities fraud scheme Reuters
*Summary-of-trump-taxes-released:
Axios: “House Ways and Means Committee Democrats voted Tuesday to release to the public several years worth of Donal Trump’s tax returns in the days ahead, ending the long-running battle over the documents’ secrecy. “Lawmakers said it would take some time to first redact sensitive information from the documents, such as Trump’s Social Security number and address,” Brian Faler and Benjamin Guggenheim write. The panel released a summary of the returns late Tuesday and issued a report claiming that the IRS did not audit Trump’s returns as required until Democrats pressed them.”
- Read the Ways and Means Committee report
- Read the Joint Committee on Taxation summary of Trump’s returns.”
- WSJ: Donald and Melania Trump Reported Negative Income In Four Years From 2015 Through 2020… “The Trumps paid some form of taxes every year, but paid $750 or less in income taxes in three of the six years.”
