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"At least two dozen countries worldwide have already made the sensible transition to some form of automatic tax filing, not necessarily just for low-income citizens, but in many cases for everyone. The UK, Japan, Australia, Denmark, Chile, and Portugal have implemented some version of an automated, digital tax system, and none of them have turned back."
How the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach – Canadian Dimension

How the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach
In the unfair fight for automatic tax filing, Canadians need to get behind the underdog. While many of us might welcome and benefit from this service, it’s our vulnerable friends and neighbours who need it the most. We must come together to join the chorus calling for this crucial tax reform—and be louder than those motivated by nothing more than greed.

The vast new ‘whaling ship’ that Japan hopes will revive a shrinking industry
In the new vessel, the whaling industry envisions an age of prosperity and rising demand, ultimately guaranteeing the future of the most controversial ingredient in Japan’s culinary repertoire
The new vessel’s range of 13,000km is fuelling suspicion that,
five years after Japan abandoned its controversial “scientific” hunts in the Southern Ocean and resumed commercial whaling along its own coastl…

On Greg Olear's Prevail podcast, Dahlia Lithwick talks about #SCOTUS - court packing, judicial mindsets, the Federalist Society, term limits, issues before the court, and more.
"No other constitutional democracy is in thrall to a court the way the United States is."

‎Prevail with Greg Olear: Feelingsball: The Leonard Leo Industrial Complex, SCOTUS Nihilism, and the Doctrine of Sad (with Dahlia Lithwick) on Apple Podcasts
‎Show Prevail with Greg Olear, Ep Feelingsball: The Leonard Leo Industrial Complex, SCOTUS Nihilism, and the Doctrine of Sad (with Dahlia Lithwick) - Mar 1, 2024

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Filing: The US DOE settles with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms and an industry group, and agrees to cancel its mandatory survey of energy use by crypto miners (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/280257/emerge

Is this why we smack ourselves on the forehead when we've been outstandingly stupid?
Enhanced mind-matter interactions following rTMS induced frontal lobe inhibition - #ScienceDirect
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Sources: The Center for Public Integrity is considering merging with a competitor or shutting down, after falling ~$2.5M short of its $6M budget goal for 2023 (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/busines

Center for Public Integrity Weighs Merger or Shutdown Amid Dire Financial Straits
The nonprofit had a budget shortfall of roughly $2.5 million last year amid a difficult market for fund-raising.

From LeadNow
RBC is Canada’s biggest bankroller of fossil fuels and the fifth largest in the world. And they’re not just fueling the climate crisis – they’re supporting projects that trample on Indigenous rights. RBC is a key backer of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline, which is being forced through Wet’suwet’en territory right now without consent.
And in addition to tar sands and pipelines, RBC has bankrolled some of the biggest weapons manufacturers in the world

Republicans, following Trump's initiative, have deliberately incited anger at national “elites,” heightened fears of foreign immigrant invasions (and “deviant” gender identities), and induced non-urban communities to become obsessed with the odious "swamp" of Washington politics.
What, exactly, is getting overlooked here?
The “rural rage” discourse that’s so often wheeled out but rarely unpacked should not be seen as the simple offshoot of political and economic ch…

Manufacturing discontent
How Dems can fight back against Republican resentment politics.