Notices by Live, Laugh, Punch More Nazis (20002ist@thepit.social), page 2

Social Security Administration just blasted out emails to *all* registrants falsely claiming that the new Cruelty & Plutocracy Bill provides tax relief for Social Security benefits. It’s a fucking lie.

There’s a new per-person $6,000 deduction, starting in 2025, for those 65+, but

1) it applies generally to income *regardless of whether you receive Social Security benefits*

2) there’s a 6% phase-out for anyone w/AGI > $75K ($150K for married couples)

3) IT. ENDS. AFTER. 2028. How convenient.

In the category of Legal Silver Linings, today SCOTUS *once again* reversed the RWNJ-dominated Fifth Circuit (federal appeals court for thanks/LA/MS).

The case has to do with an advisory panel making recommendations to HHS about preventive health care. A unanimous, completely deranged 5th Cir panel held that the task force members had to be confirmed by the Senate (rather than appointed) because they exercise “unreviewable” authority. That’s a load of horseshit. /1

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-316_869d.pdf

When you’re definitely in a bad part of the country.

“You know,” he said, “I’m not, like, a psychopathic ax murderer.”

Naturally, a Trump-appointed judge figures prominently in all this. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/us/white-supremacist-university-of-florida-paper.html

Christ, this is a generational calamity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/health/south-africa-medical-research-trump.html

@jalefkowit @cwebber

@mattblaze Dumb Q: if you’re gonna go pirate, why use HF instead of a lower frequency with better(?) propagation and reduced power demands?

Disclaimer: I understand very little about radio except that putting your head in the waveguide is generally inadvisable.

@mattblaze Eurozone, too.

@fedward Exactly. My usual MO—work through the easiest groups (without submitting) & then submit the remaining 4 words even if I haven’t figured out the theme—worked perfectly today because everything except purple was obvious.

@kims I do not want or need an explanation because the real problem is the stupidly cavalier handling. On exceptional occasions I have held that much cash but I had the basic goddam sense to take it directly, DO NOT PASS GO, home or to the bank as the situation required. Throwing it into a bag, taking a frolic & detour for dinner & drinks, and *not watching said bag like a hawk* is the act of an entitled moron.

Seems to be a lot of it about in DC these days.

@carrideen @kims We have a winner.

@kims Now try to convince me that Wes Anderson and Wes Craven are not the same person.

@kims

@kims

JK: You’re a paleoanthropologist descended from Louis Leakey.

@kims Suggestion for what NOT to serve JK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock-a-leekie

@kims 1234.56

@SteveBellovin @thetnholler.bsky.social On that subject, I highly recommend this very readable book: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/books/review-how-to-hide-empire-daniel-immerwahr.html

@kims Jeff Goldblum. That is all.

@GottaLaff Human Wypipo Report

@GottaLaff From Brad Karl’s firm bio: “In 2023, Brad co-chaired a New York State Bar Association Task Force on Advancing Diversity, which released a 90-page report detailing how law schools, law firms, corporations and courts can maintain their diversity in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision barring race-conscious university admissions policies.” https://www.paulweiss.com/professionals/partners-and-counsel/brad-s-karp

Might want to, uh, tidy that up now that he’s openly abjured DEI in kissing Trump’s rosy pink ring.