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@dpl@muenchen.social
2025-04-17 10:24:03

Die Nasen #Merz #Spahn predigen den #TrickleDown und wir schauen zu, oder was?!

Was Merz in den ersten Wochen plant
Noch nicht im Amt, aber schon unter Druck: Auf Friedrich Merz warten große Aufgaben, wenn er Kanzler werden sollte. Nun hat er über seine Pläne für die ersten Wochen gesprochen und ein Ziel für den Sommer formuliert.

@livia@sciences.social
2025-02-01 08:53:40

#todayilearned that the US census page went down with others. [1]
PSA: Now is a good time to pull some local copies of datasets and knowledge bases.
Spinning up a small homelab for stuff like #kiwix and backups is easy with

Federal Webpages Go Dark as Trump Administration Removes Public Data
Census.gov went down late Friday, as did the FAA's website, and health datasets from the CDC and other sites.

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-04-01 13:45:58

"The Tax Foundation is a veteran anti-tax campaign organization from the United States. It has been around since 1937 when it was founded by top brass from companies such as Standard Oil and General Motors. Close links to some of the biggest corporations in the US has been a constant feature of the organization, as has its political aim of bringing down taxes"
#lobbying

Opaque US anti-tax foundation to advise EU Commission | Corporate Europe Observatory
A US think tank that recently opened a Brussels office to lobby for aggressively lower taxes is received with open arms by the Commission. But who is behind the organisation, and who funds it? The Transparency Register fails to reveal dark money flows – in the Tax Foundation’s case from US right-wing libertarian sources – and as such clearly needs a make-over.