But first . . .

IF CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE, SHOULDN’T THEY HAVE TO PAY TAXES, TOO?

A study of 706 large, profitable U.S. companies that made, between them, $1.88 trillion, showed that 114 of them paid no federal taxes in 2025.  As a whole, they paid a rate of 10.4% — “less than half the official corporate rate, which Trump and congressional Republicans already slashed from 35% to 21% in 2017.”

Americans For Tax Fairness asks that you send a message to Congress demanding repeal of Trump’s tax cuts for large profitable corporations . . . makes it easy to do . . . and then, of course, asks you to chip in if you can.

As it stands now, the rich are getting richer, health care is becoming less affordable, children are losing food assistance, and the deficit is running around $2 trillion — in a year, Trump tells us, the economy is doing great!  So what would it balloon to in a recession?

OPRT / PRKR

First suggested here around $4.30, OPRT touched $10 yesterday.  The hoped-for upward trajectory new management would bring seems to be playing out.  Two or three years from now, those of us who bought it with money we can truly afford to lose, may see it earning $3 or $4 a share and selling at 10 or 12 times those earnings . . . so I’m in no rush to sell even though it’s risen nicely.

PRKR, by contrast, first suggested in the Pleistocene at a buck or so, has fallen catastrophically.  I’m by now inured to the possibility that it will just gradually evaporate, like Lake Poopó.  But its patent infringement claims strike me as so strong (long ago, a jury was persuaded to award $174 million, later all-but-inexplicably vacated by a judge) . . . and the pockets of the defendants so deep . . . that, well, you just never know.  I bought a little more yesterday at 7 cents.

And now . . .

MAKING POLITICS SEXY AGAN

Earlier this month I posted links to Bondage Photos Weren’t Part of the Campaign Plan, from the New York Times, and Why Are So Many Anti-LGBTQ Republicans Interested in Queer Sex?, from Uncloseted Media.

(Did you know that red states record more Google searches for trans porn than blue states?)

Well, yesterday Uncloseted Media dropped this interview with the candidate, Chris Gallant, running to flip NY-1 blue.

Perhaps what one does with consenting adults in the “pursuit of happiness,” as Thomas Jefferson put it in our founding document, has no bearing on how well one can fly Blackhawk helicopters, control air traffic at JFK, run into burning buildings — all of which Chris has done with distinction — or serve his fellow Long Islanders in Congress.  We may soon see.

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