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  ritchey mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 13h
  These people are such absolute black holes of non-personhood that it actually is beyond belief
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    ProPublica propublica.org · 13h
    We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. This is how he did it (published 2021):
    

    The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

    ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...

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  ritchey mariannaritchey.bsky.social · Feb 4
  To paraphrase a brilliant student I know: a society that allows genocide to be profitable is a society that makes genocide inevitable
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    Patrick Howell O’Neill patrickhowelloneill.com · Feb 4
    New: How ICE’s top contractor, one of America’s biggest private prison operators, monetizes virtually everything ICE does including bounties on immigrants, rapidly expanding detention centers, and intensive surveillance. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
    

    ICE Bounty Hunting Push Aided by Geo Group’s Surveillance Work

    A private prison operator that’s profited by detaining immigrants in the US is rapidly shifting to offer surveillance tools, capitalizing on the government’s deportation push by selling human-tracking...

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  ritchey mariannaritchey.bsky.social · Feb 4
  DANG
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    Arizona Right Watch azrww.bsky.social · Feb 4
    Replying to Arizona Right Watch
    Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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  ritchey mariannaritchey.bsky.social · Feb 4
  The semester starting has placed an untenable barrier between me and the amount of Subnautica I need to be playing
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  ritchey mariannaritchey.bsky.social · Feb 2
  YESSS HAHAHA YESSSS
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    Hadas Weiss hadas.bsky.social · Feb 2
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    for reference
    
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  ritchey mariannaritchey.bsky.social · Feb 1
  I recommend watching “Tornado,” a beautiful film about a teenaged Japanese samurai girl in medieval Scotland. Whatever you picture when you hear that description is not what it is
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  ritchey mariannaritchey.bsky.social · Feb 1
  I guess it’s 19th century scotland, not medieval. Very different! Still great
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