May 2, 2025

Friday

Tax-Exempt Ironic Generation Gap

This is another great photo-centric post from Adam Chandler, this one focusing on photos he took during an evening walk in DC. I made a brief post on Tuesday of this week about how much I liked his earlier One Day in DC post. Beautiful and inspiring stuff.

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“It’s unfortunate that my office had to resort to federal court just to get USDA to comply with the law and its own regulations,” Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said in a statement. “But we are pleased that the lawsuit has now been resolved and that Maine will continue to receive funds as directed by Congress to feed children and vulnerable adults.”

Add another page to the resistance playbook.

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“Rubin says the letter mentioned that the journal has tax-exempt status.”

“‘It does feel like there’s a threatening tone to the letter and it is trying to intimidate us,’ Rubin says.

Trump has long been fond of claiming others have “weaponized” parts of government in their efforts to defeat him, including the entire Department of Justice. With these letters to medical journals and the higher profile threats to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status, which he has underscored, it’s becoming clear that Trump is weaponizing tax-exempt status in his attacks on science and higher education. It’s starting to make his Executive Order on Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government look disingenuous and even ironic.

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Gen Z parents are more likely than millennial or Gen X parents to say that children’s reading is “more a subject to learn than a fun thing to do”. HarperCollins said that parents in this age group grew up with technology themselves, so may think “fun comes more from digital entertainment than from books”.

We’re still learning the downstream effects of omnipresent computers – smartphones and tablets, etc. I’m glad to be on the backside of this generational divide.

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