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DelphiThe <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> appears to be beyond <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/meltdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meltdown</a>. It is the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dystopia</a> none but the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/insane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#insane</a> wants to <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/experience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#experience</a>. The <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/bravest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bravest</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> from a <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blog</a> I read this morning: "How much do the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxpayers</a> have to pay for a <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/country" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#country</a>?" <a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-6-2025?publication_id=20533&post_id=170334860&isFreemail=true&r=1pg7hv&triedRedirect=true" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-6-2025?publication_id=20533&post_id=170334860&isFreemail=true&r=1pg7hv&triedRedirect=true</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#republicans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Democrats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlligatorAlcatraz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlligatorAlcatraz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/detention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#detention</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/civilrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#civilrights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Nebraska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nebraska</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Florida</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#America</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HomelandSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HomelandSecurity</a>

beSpacificHow <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/mRNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mRNA</a> crackdown affects <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vaccine</a> making and future <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pandemics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pandemics</a>. The <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> administration is terminating <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/biodefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodefense</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> funding for mRNA projects, raising concerns about the nation’s ability to fight future <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pandemics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pandemics</a>. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publichealth</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medicine</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#healthcare</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pathogens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pathogens</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/flu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#flu</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/birdflu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#birdflu</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HHS</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxpayers</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RNA</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/variants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#variants</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08/06/rfk-jr-mrna-vaccine-criticism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08/06/rfk-jr-mrna-vaccine-criticism/</a>

OccuWorld"How much does it cost for fascism?""How much do taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?"<a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Expensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Expensive</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Taxpayers</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/HowMuch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HowMuch</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/FascistCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FascistCountry</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Fiscal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fiscal</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Question" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Question</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/RepMikeFlood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RepMikeFlood</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/TownHall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TownHall</a>

Liam O'Mara IV, PhDOne common lie I've seen lately is that the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undocumented" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#undocumented</a> pay no <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxes</a> and hence cost <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxpayers</a> money. This is blatantly false and needs to be challenged. They pay 100 billion in taxes each year, and in return are excluded from most taxpayer benefits.<a href="https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/</a>

NonilexThe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IRS</a> is building a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ComputerProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputerProgram</a> that would give <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deportation</a> officers unprecedented access to confidential <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tax</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#data</a>.ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an “on demand” process allowing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ICE</a> to obtain the home addresses of people it’s seeking to deport.Last month, in a previously undisclosed dispute, the acting general counsel at the IRS, Andrew De Mello, refused to turn over the addresses of 7.3M <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxpayers</a> sought by ICE.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a>

NonilexThe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IRS</a> Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Taxpayers</a>’ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Data</a> With <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ICE</a>ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DHS</a> in order to speed up the agency’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MassDeportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MassDeportation</a> efforts.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InfoSec</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immigration</a> <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations</a>

Austrian@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.usIt is the duty of intellectuals who serve the state to convince people of the benefits of taxation (and even of its voluntariness). But coercion, which is what taxation essentially is, is still coercion. There are those who produce goods (net <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxpayers</a>), and those who live off them (net <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taxconsumers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxconsumers</a>).

Trevor McLeod<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environmental</a> mess in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/britishcolumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#britishcolumbia</a> from pulp mills like the one in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/portalice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#portalice</a> and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TaxPayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxPayers</a> will probably be on the hook for the cleanup<a href="https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/14/Nightmare-Mess-Closed-Pulp-Mill" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/14/Nightmare-Mess-Closed-Pulp-Mill</a>

LilMikeSF<a href="https://c.im/tags/Federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Federal</a> charges against key participants involved in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Oakland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oakland</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Waste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Waste</a> processing proposal at old <a href="https://c.im/tags/Army" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Army</a> base not helping progress of project amidst detritus, disputes, bureaucratic bogus biz bs, and constant contractual crapEssentially article reveals "<a href="https://c.im/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#California</a> Waste Solutions" is not necessarily providing solutions, but local govt is pretty good at waste?While city and developer feud, both fail to follow thru and serve <a href="https://c.im/tags/WestOakland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WestOakland</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Community</a>, as residents, <a href="https://c.im/tags/ratepayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ratepayers</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxpayers</a> suffer during decades delayed deferred dreams of improved <a href="https://c.im/tags/recycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#recycling</a> facility that just seems to <a href="https://c.im/tags/recycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#recycle</a> hopes and turn them into more cockroach attracting stink. <a href="https://oaklandside.org/2025/07/11/california-waste-solutions-fbi-oakland-army-base/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://oaklandside.org/2025/07/11/california-waste-solutions-fbi-oakland-army-base/</a>

Joseph Lim :mastodon:🧐"galling is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#government</a>'s refusal to use PaoTang app, dev'ed by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Krungthai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Krungthai</a> Bk under prev admin of Prayut. Te app is a proven platform tt has handled numerous govt schemes, incl'g te "We <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TravelTogether" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TravelTogether</a>" campaign.. Tis backward, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/partisan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#partisan</a> decision-making is both <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wasteful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wasteful</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/counterproductive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#counterproductive</a>. Why shld <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxpayers</a> foot te bill to build new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ineffective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ineffective</a> apps? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Thailand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thailand</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Travel</a> Co-pay <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fiasco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fiasco</a> .. reflects a broader <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dysfunction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dysfunction</a> tt places <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politicalimage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politicalimage</a> above <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publicinterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publicinterest</a>" <a href="https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3064278/travel-scheme-farce" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3064278/travel-scheme-farce</a>

EconomyPowell’s $2.5B Fed revamp denial exposes his privileged arroganceIs Jerome Powell a liar or a fool? The august chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Chair told… <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Economy</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#congress</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/editorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#editorial</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FederalReserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalReserve</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FederalReserveSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalReserveSystem</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/hearings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hearings</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JeromePowell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JeromePowell</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/opinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opinion</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Senate</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Taxpayers</a> <a href="https://www.europesays.com/2210122/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/2210122/</a>

Richard Michael Blaber<a href="https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/this-bill-opens-the-door-to-scandal-abuse-and-injustice-disabled-activists-say-after-assisted-dying-bill-vote/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/this-bill-opens-the-door-to-scandal-abuse-and-injustice-disabled-activists-say-after-assisted-dying-bill-vote/</a>. It ought to be called the "Aktion-T4" Bill. Its philosophy is that chronically <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sick</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disabled</a> people are a "burden" on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#society</a> & the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxpayers</a>, & should be disposed of as soon as convenient. It is intrinsically eugenic in its thinking. Why spend time, effort & money caring for people, & risk losing your inheritance, when you can force them to commit suicide?

DoomsdaysCWThis from 2021. And yes, it's still sitting there. The alternatives? Desecrating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YuccaMountain</a>? Polluting the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreatLakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatLakes</a>? Or maybe burying it underneath Congress? But until we figure out how to transport and permanently store nuclear waste, it is being stored on site. And not just in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Maine</a> -- everywhere there was a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerPlant</a>! Armed Guards Protect Tons Of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> That Maine Can’t Get Rid OfBy Abigail Curtis, BDN Published July 19, 2021"In the summertime, the picturesque village of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WiscassetME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WiscassetME</a> is infamous for its long lines of people hungry to try a lobster roll at Red’s Eats and cars that crawl through town on the often-clogged <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USRouteOne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USRouteOne</a>."But just a few miles south of downtown is a different kind of roadblock: 550 metric tons of nuclear waste stored on a coastal peninsula at the now-decommissioned <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineYankee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaineYankee</a> atomic energy plant that have nowhere to go."The change in presidential administrations means another chance for the federal government to make good on its promise to remove the waste, so the site can be closed for good. The Biden administration’s Department of Energy seems to be picking up where the Obama administration left off, creating a process for communities to volunteer to host the waste." 'What worries me is that there really isn’t any national leadership right now on this stuff. There isn’t an agency that has a mission and has developed a strategy, that has goals and is willing to act on it,' Don Hudson, the chairman of the Maine Yankee Community Advisory Panel, said. 'We’re currently in this limbo.'"That’s a problem because the waste — 1,400 spent nuclear fuel rods housed in 60 cement and steel canisters, plus four canisters of irradiated steel removed from the nuclear reactor when it was taken down — is safe for now, but can’t stay in Wiscasset forever."The situation in Wiscasset underscores a thorny issue facing more than 100 communities across the U.S.: close to a hundred thousand tons of nuclear waste that has no place to go."Securing these remnants of nuclear energy generation is an ongoing task that requires armed guards around the clock and costs Maine Yankee’s owners some $10 million per year, which is being paid for with money from the government."After the government failed to remove the spent fuel, Maine Yankee and the other two decommissioned nuclear power plants in New England — Connecticut Yankee in East Hampton, Connecticut, and Yankee Atomic in Rowe, Massachusetts — took it to court. So far, they have been awarded a total of $575.5 million in damages during four rounds of litigation, money that has been paid out of the U.S. Judgment fund. A fifth round is happening now, and the lawsuits are likely to continue until the fuel is removed."All told, the country’s many abandoned nuclear facilities — including Maine Yankee — have cost the federal government billions of dollars, a sum that increases by about $2 million each day, according to Eric Howes, the spokesperson for Maine Yankee and two other decommissioned plants in New England." 'All the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxpayers</a> in the United States are paying for the government’s failure to meet its obligations,' he said."But as the years pass, it seems that fewer and fewer people even realize that there are tons of nuclear waste on the secured site behind a chain-link fence on Bailey Point. Hudson and others worry that for many, it’s too easy not to think about it, diminishing the drive to find a better solution." 'Nobody ever travels by it. Nobody ever sees it,' Hudson said. 'It’s the classic out of sight, out of mind.' "<a href="https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2021-07-19/armed-guards-protect-tons-of-nuclear-waste-that-maine-cant-get-rid-of" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2021-07-19/armed-guards-protect-tons-of-nuclear-waste-that-maine-cant-get-rid-of</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclearwaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclearwaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OceansAreLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNewNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a>

Joseph Lim :mastodon:<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bangkok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bangkok</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreenLine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreenLine</a> future in doubt: Will 20-baht fare survive? "Transferring ownership to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MRTA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MRTA</a> cld ensure te line operates profitably at a 20-baht fare for at least 30yrs, largely due to substantial revenue fr te project’s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/properties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#properties</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#advertising</a> space.. there’s a significant challenge: te Green Line currently carries a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/debt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#debt</a> of THB37.2bil fr <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/operational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#operational</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maintenance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#maintenance</a> costs" 🧐To prevent <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socializing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socializing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/graft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#graft</a> to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxpayers</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/commuters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#commuters</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/audit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#audit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/integrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#integrity</a> of tt debt? <a href="https://thethaiger.com/news/bangkok/bangkoks-green-line-future-in-doubt-will-20-baht-fare-survive" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thethaiger.com/news/bangkok/bangkoks-green-line-future-in-doubt-will-20-baht-fare-survive</a>

joe•iuculano :mastodon:Via <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ABC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ABC</a> @ 6:31pm ET on June 18, 2025American <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxpayers</a> will not be paying for the ongoing appeal of President <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a>'s $83 million defamation case, a federal appeals court determined on Wednesday.A panel of judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CourtOfAppeals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CourtOfAppeals</a> on Wednesday denied Trump's request to have <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JusticeDepartment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JusticeDepartment</a> lawyers argue in his appeal of columnist <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EJeanCarroll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EJeanCarroll</a>'s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/defamation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#defamation</a> case against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a>.<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-doj-represent-trump-appeal-jean-carroll/story?id=122989566" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-doj-represent-trump-appeal-jean-carroll/story?id=122989566</a>

Charming MalcontentThe family of that cop-beating insurrectionist whore <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AshliBabbitt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AshliBabbitt</a> were given FIVE MILLION DOLLARS of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Murrican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Murrican</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TaxPayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxPayers</a>' money by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpRegime</a> yet the families of the brave, honorable <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CapitolPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CapitolPolice</a> who paid the ultimate sacrifice were given nothing!

NonilexA new internal memo to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#House</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Judiciary</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Democrats</a> zeroes in on a new attack line: <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s nearly 1,600 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pardons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pardons</a> are expensive.Per the doc, Trump’s pardons are costing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crime</a> victims & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxpayers</a> potentially $1.3B.“Not only has…Trump issued an unprecedented number of pardons in his 2nd term, he has used his clemency powers to take an estimated $1.3B away from victims & survivors of crime, allowing perpetrators to keep profiting from their crimes—a sharp break w/established practice.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a>

beSpacific<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ICE</a> Is Already $1 Billion Over <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/budget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#budget</a> And Could Run Out Of Cash Next Month <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a>'s <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/bigbeautifulbill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bigbeautifulbill</a> would allocate $75 billion to the agency over the next five years. Should the president not get his way, he could declare a national <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/emergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#emergency</a> and redirect <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#money</a> from other governmental agencies. Such a scenario took place in 2020 after he <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/diverted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#diverted</a> almost $4 billion from the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pentagon</a> to fund <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/borderwall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#borderwall</a> construction. <a href="https://www.latintimes.com/ice-already-1-billion-overbudget-could-run-out-cash-next-month-585043" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.latintimes.com/ice-already-1-billion-overbudget-could-run-out-cash-next-month-585043</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#congress</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#maga</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/gop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gop</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxpayers</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economy</a> 3

Ultra Verified 🇺🇦American <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxpayers</a> (AKA SUCKERS) are footing the bill to pay <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/J6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#J6</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/terrorists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#terrorists</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/thugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thugs</a> who play <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DHS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ICE</a> Expensive Hi-Tech MallCop <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RepublicansSuck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RepublicansSuck</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RepublicansDidThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RepublicansDidThis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> Wanna talk about a waste of money? Look no further than the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republican</a> Party

Preston MacDougallDoes this new Trump negotiated ‘social contract’ also turn the tables on <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/VeteransDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VeteransDay</a> , so that instead of thanking veterans for their (federally funded) service, *veterans* and those in active duty thank <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/TaxPayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxPayers</a> - especially those wearing <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> hats - for paying their <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#military</a> salaries and funding the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MilitaryIndustrialComplex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MilitaryIndustrialComplex</a> ? 🤔

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