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The White House Correspondent's Dinner #ABlueView Your thoughts on the event and its political repercussions?

Donald Trump Doing His Part to Lower Prices

If a 250th Birthday Party Takes Place on a Mall and No One is Around to See it, Does it Make Trump a Loser? #ABlueView Yes.

Rare Glimpse Into Corp Tax Dodging #ABlueView "A compliance report released by Microsoft [provides] a rare look into how tech giants shift profits out of the countries where they have many employees [& sales] and into low-tax havens that help them cut their tax bills by billions of $." "Microsoft said it had generated almost 40% of its pretax income in tax-friendly Ireland, where it employed about 3% of its global work force. In higher-tax Germany, the largest economy in Europe, Microsoft earned barely half of 1% of its global profits. Big Tech books "a disproportionate amount of earnings in Ireland, whose porous tax laws [permit companies] to avoid billions of dollars of taxes by transferring income into island havens like Bermuda & Grand Cayman"

Happy July 4th—American Revolution Day, Part II #ABlueView "American Patriots Won the First Battles ... In 1776 *and* 2026"

NYT: "Crypto Brought Trump a Huge Windfall, Even as Many Investors Lost Big" #ABlueView "President Trump and his family reaped vast financial rewards from a memecoin that generated losses for hundreds of thousands of investors."

Inflation Surge at the 4th of July Cookout #ABlueView The July 4th cookout "bill will be 9.4% higher than last year’s holiday cookout... The jump in beef prices... is more than 17% higher year over year... Tomatoes and lettuce have climbed 32% and 24.9% year over year" "“It’s not just the rise in prices. Prices have increased, quality has decreased, and the amounts have decreased"

The SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Decision