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Split Size Shoe Orders and Tariffs – Beating The Tax On My Feet

The Icarian Posted on April 15, 2025 by adminApril 18, 2025

Split Size Shoe Orders and Tariffs — Beating The Tax On My Feet I am here today to sing the praises of Seattle-based upscale department store Nordstrom. Now, I’m not the kind to heap praise on any corporation. But praise … Continue reading →

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Previously

  • Miller And Goebbels: A One-Sided Love Story October 29, 2025
  • The Coming Subprime Car Loan Collapse October 17, 2025
  • Martial Law Would End America As We Know It October 16, 2025
  • Honoré de Balzac – The Human Comedy: Books That Killed Their Authors #8 September 9, 2025
  • Lammas or Lughnasadh? Let The Harvest Begin July 31, 2025
  • Flag Day 2025 June 15, 2025
  • Moron Trade And Tariffs – Economic Sabotage Or Just Stupid? May 4, 2025
  • My Global Normcore Men’s Clothing – Countries Of Origin May 2, 2025
  • What’s Going On With Shipping? Better Watch Sal April 30, 2025
  • Split Size Shoe Orders and Tariffs – Beating The Tax On My Feet April 15, 2025
  • 56 Hours In The Emergency Room – Suffering On A Mass Scale April 4, 2025
  • Truman Capote – Answered Prayers: Books That Killed Their Authors #7 February 2, 2025
  • The Last Weekend Of The United States January 18, 2025
  • Design For Disaster – The 1961 Bel Air Conflagration January 17, 2025
  • Franz Kafka – A Hunger Artist: Books That Killed Their Authors #6 January 6, 2025
  • The Twilight Zone Of Our Democracy – The Brand Is Upon Us December 5, 2024
  • Halloween Came From An Irish Hole In The Ground October 27, 2024
  • Who Was FDR’s FIRST Vice President? No Googling September 5, 2024
  • The Guano Islands Act August 18, 2024
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Books That Killed Their Authors #5 August 15, 2024
  • The 1934 Business Plot To Overthrow The U.S. Government August 12, 2024
  • The Index of Forbidden Books – The Original Banned Book List August 8, 2024
  • Jane Austen – Persuasion and Sanditon: Books That Killed Their Authors #4 August 5, 2024
  • When Your Emotional Support Animal Needs Your Emotional Support July 16, 2024
  • What If The Internet Had Never Been Invented? June 3, 2024

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From the archives. https://open.substack.com/pub/theicarian/p/a-christmas-carol-was-a-business

14 December 2025 @ 6:13 pm

The Katie Miller Podcast: an aggressively vibeless curriculum for the Maga mom
The wife of the tRUmp adviser aims to entice conservative women into Maga – but like much of the rest of the movement, her sales pitch is fundamentally lacking
“We have this entire tRUmp administration that is callous,” Schreiber said. “It is helpful for members of the Trump administration, particularly women, to try to soften the callous nature of what the policies are and who the men are.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/13/katie-miller-podcast-review

13 December 2025 @ 9:13 pm

This is the county where I live. the city of San Diego just paid out $30 million for a cop who shot a kid.San Diego is giving Philly a run for its corruption money.
Two girls, 9 and 11, awarded $31.5m after sister’s California torture death
Arabella McCormack, 11, died after being tortured and starved by adoptive family and police and church failed to intervene
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/13/adopted-girl-torture-death-california-settlement

13 December 2025 @ 6:15 pm

But human trafficking an all manner of misinformation and Russian accounts are A-OK with Anything for A Buck Zuck:
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/11/meta-shuts-down-global-accounts-linked-to-abortion-advice-and-queer-content

11 December 2025 @ 4:20 pm

https://open.substack.com/pub/theicarian/p/goodbye-gmail

11 December 2025 @ 4:06 pm

This is real. This is what The Fascist does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Marie_Johnson

11 December 2025 @ 4:54 am

On Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on KOSA, the so-called Kids Online Safety Act, which easily passed the Senate last year. The bill claims to protect children from sexually explicit online content, but reproductive rights and civil liberties advocates warn that Republicans would likely use it to block abortion information—for everyone. https://jessica.substack.com/p/texas-florida-mifepristone

11 December 2025 @ 4:20 am

11 December 2025 @ 1:37 am

What you need and don't need, according to The Fascist:- The one thing you always need: Steel. - Things you don’t need: Pencils. - How many pencils every child can get under the China policy: 37. - How many pencils they need: One or two. - How many pencils you need: Zero (see above). - How many dolls you don’t need: 37. - How many dolls is nice: Two or three.

10 December 2025 @ 8:25 pm

Yesterday Democrat Eric Gisler won the GA HD-121 special election flipping the seat from red to blue
Tuesday evening, Gisler had 50.85% of the vote, according to unofficial results from the Secretary of State’s office. Republican candidate Mack “Dutch” Guest IV was nearly 200 votes behind, with 49.15% of the vote.
Just last year, Gisler lost this district by 22 points. The district was Trump +12 in 2024.

10 December 2025 @ 5:35 pm

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