When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
The people in Hungary are showing that they have enough of Orban.
it really is just stunningly on the nose that the opening salvo to Trump’s supposed war
of liberation in Iran began with bombing a girl’s school.
if you put that in fiction people would dismiss it as being too maudlin and heavy-handed, and yet this kind of thing just keeps actually happening.
"In the 90s, tariffs rose by 30–35% annually, and we are gradually returning to this situation,"
Konstantin Krokhin, chairman of the Housing Union 3/3
ZBB: Interesting contrast to the increase in dollar billionaires in RU 🇷🇺 which now own $493 billion combined.
"This is the first statistically significant evidence of an acceleration of global warming"
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Time for Norway to wake up and smell the coffee? www.nrk.no/urix/folkeav...
HUGE payrolls miss, wow
Feb Payrolls -92k vs +55k est/+130k prev
2m net revision -69k
Unemplomyent 4.4% vs 4.3% est/4.3% prev
Avg hourly earn YoY +3.8% vs +3.7% est+/3.7% prev
Jan Retail sales MoM -0.2% vs -0.3% est/0.0% prev
Control group est MoM +0.3% vs+0.3% est/-0.1% prev
Of course they are
❗️Russia is giving Iran information to attack US forces in the Middle East - Washington Post, citing three officials.
Since Saturday, Russia has provided Iran with locations of America's military assets, including warships and aircraft, sources told WP.
Veldig interessant analyse av Russlands økonomi.
www.finansavisen.no/makro/2026/0...
South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign
I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.
Welcome home!🇺🇦
200 Ukrainians have returned from Russian captivity.
Among those returning are defenders of Mariupol, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia.
The defenders of Mariupol spent nearly four years in captivity.
Ukraina støtten må økes betydelig!
NUPI-rapporten vår fra i høst har slått an hos A. Kubilius, EUs forsvarskommissær. Budskapet er enkelt: Det er lurt å øke støtten til Ukraina nå. Alternativet vil fort bli mye dyrere og mye farligere for Europa. 2026 er et mulighetsvindu, og russisk økonomi har nå problemer.
x.com/KubiliusA/st...
NUPI-rapporten fra i høst har slått an hos Kubilius, EUs forsvarskommissær. Budskapet er enkelt. Det er mye å vinne på å styrke Ukraina nå. 2026 er et mulighetsvindu. Alternativet - å la Russland vinne - blir fort veldig mye dyrere og farligere.
x.com/KubiliusA/st...
Ifølge en nå avdød kollega skyldes det gamle forbudet mot å servere brennevin på søndager at man ville legge til rette for mer salg av portvin, for at Norge skulle kunne selge mer tørrfisk til Portugal. vink.aftenposten.no/artikkel/3pE...
1/
As The Third Gulf War spills over, European countries need to remember that we already have a major war in Europe.
Ukraine still needs to be sustained, preferably more than now.
Russia needs to be "handled" in the short, medium- and long term perspectives
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
Zelensky offered to send Ukraine’s best experts in shooting down Iranian drones to the Middle East if leaders there convince Putin to agree to a ceasefire in Russia’s war on Ukraine, - Bloomberg
For anyone familiar with Eastern European history, Orbán’s manufactured international crisis coupled with his efforts to generate public hysteria look a lot like an aspiring dictator preparing the ground for a false flag operation.
Putin shows a masterclass in "strategic partnership"
French nukes: It's hard to overstate how much of a sea change it is that countries such as the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Germany are open to talking with France about nuclear deterrence. We have been getting used to it — but it's a major, major shift.
The myth of JD Vance as a serious intellectual steward of some sort of right-populist anti-elite noninterventionist ethos keeps collapsing.
These new details from NYT are really something:
Russia had negative net gains in Ukraine in February, for the first time since 2023
Russia targets Ukrainian civilians on purpose
The EU and Switzerland signed an electricity agreement on Monday intended to eventually integrate the landlocked country into the bloc’s internal market against a backdrop of growing geopolitical turmoil. montelnews.com/news/0634c27...
A major Ukrainian strike on Russia and it's not getting any attention. We are getting used to Ukraine hammering Russia now but this is only the beginning.
Gas prices in Europe have surged by nearly 50% following the suspension of liquefied natural gas production in Qatar.
