One of those organizations is trying very hard to force its religion on the American people through public policy and the other is the Vatican.

The lack of understanding of how taxes work in the US is too damn high. Everyone gets a $16k standard deduction, which means that no one even owes federal income taxes until they earn more than that. We then have brackets. The first bracket is 10% up to $12k and 12% up to about $50k. If your income is $45k, you pay taxes on $29k after the standard deduction, and your rate is 10% on the first $12k and 12% on the next $17k. That's $1200 + $2040 = $3240. $3240 is 7.2% of $45,000. Payroll taxes add another $3400, bringing the total federal taxes owed to $6640 or 14.7%. (Or if self-employed you pay 15% more instead of 7.5% more, because policymakers only pretend they like small businesses and entrepreneurs) Another thing many don't seem to understand is how brackets work. If you're in the 24% bracket and you get kicked into the 32% bracket by earning an extra ten bucks, only that $10 is taxed at 32%. It's not that your tax rate on everything goes to 32%. Also, if you're whining about how much your hard work is taxed when you think it's 50% but it's actually 14%, and you don't give a shit about the multibillionaire living off loaned income that's taxed at 0%, you've got your priorities all wrong, and your anger should be directed at the top 0.1%, not those around you.

Quincy Williams making some good plays--#Jets

Rodgers just made an unreal throw for a TD. #TNF

BREAKINGNEWS: @HawleyMO needs to apologize to Jack Smith. Jack Smith was appointed November 18th, 2022. The search warrant was August 8th, 2022. Josh claims Smith raided Melania underwear drawers. He wasn't even appointed yet. 🚨

Diversion tactic #3

Diversion #2

This is the distraction from Schmitting the bed yesterday rather than admit bad behavior/faith and apologize.

Outside the school context, the overwhelmingly dominant mode of teaching people things is to use Direct Instruction — you literally show them what to do and make them practice it — but education theorists insist this is bad. slowboring.com/p/math-needs-…

Oh man the influencer instruction emails went out BEFORE the testimony 😂☠️

Eric Schmitt's false accusation was utterly reckless. The text messages he posted referred to "Row 1." The Atlanta Hawks' arena does not have numbered rows. Then Schmitt told HuffPo - after the hearing! - that he wasn't sure if Smith was lying because the Hawks' game was "the only NBA game or men’s college basketball game that night at 7:30." But the Iowa-Maryland game (where Smith was) started at 8 pm, not 7:30, so the 7:30 thing was a total red herring. Schmitt publicly accused a former special prosecutor of perjuring himself before Congress, without having done even a modicum of fact-checking to ensure the accusation was true. Embarrassing and disqualifying.

What is despicable about the Eric Schmitt fiasco is not the confusion between Hawkeyes and Hawks. That is hilarious. It is that he accused Smith of perjury, called him a scumbag, and tried to shutdown the embarrassing truth as it was coming out. It was a cynical smear effort.

You can see Smith on camera at the game in Maryland, I think Schmitt should really consider apologizing for accusing him of perjury with no basis rather than continuing down this road.

Turns out that one bad day in a rainstorm against Brian Flores does not mean that Ben Johnson forgot how to do this.

Since there is always a high volume of often valid criticism about Glenn's game management, it is equally important to point out when he does a good job with it. It was the right call to go for 2 down 14 points in the fourth quarter and it is logically consistent with what they did vs Bengals last year in a game they won and he correctly was aggressive going for it with 4 minutes left on 4th and 6 in field goal range and it netted a TD to GW to tie game. The issues before the half in this game were more on two more timely offensive penalties than anything else, most specifically the Parham hold.

Broncos win off a terrible DPI vs Rams. #NFL brutal.

Helmet to helmet in the most crucial point and It’s not called. Ridiculous