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Death will not release you!𓅽 @7leaguebootdisk.bsky.social · 4h

Cover for Putin, she's repeating his lies about why the children were abducted, and ignored that 35,000 are gone.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING via WSJ

The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.

Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK

The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people familiar with the matter.
A senior IRS official involved in the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said.
The undertaking aims to install allies of President Trump at the IRS criminal-investigative division, or IRS-CI, to exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations, officials said. The proposed changes could open the door to politically motivated probes and are being driven by Gary Shapley, an adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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Andrew Stobie @pgdj.bsky.social · 10h

If I may plug
@kagi.com
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Death will not release you!𓅽 @7leaguebootdisk.bsky.social · 4h

Duckduckgo user for years, but it's degraded, not as bad as Google, but still bad, I happily pay for @kagi.com and love it, search that works again!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

"Why doesn't Chicago want us to zip-tie more naked children in the middle of the night and shove them, screaming, into vans? So ungrateful for refusing our kind, helpful offer to help!"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 19h

if there were actually a singular protest tactic that defeated fascists - whether it was frivolity or militancy - we would not be in the current mess. throwing cold water on a tactic that is generating neutral-to-positive attention from the mainstream press is unbelievably stupid.

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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.social · 5h

robin just called you a bitch governor

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 5h

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is calling California Gov. Gavin Newsom “too scared” to sign a bill that would have put additional regulations on artificial intelligence, specifically involving children.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Calls Out Gavin Newsom for Vetoing AI Regulation Bill: “Too Scared to Sign It”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is calling California Gov. Gavin Newsom “too scared” to sign a bill that would have put additional regulations on artificial intelligence, specifically involving children.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 8h

Kalief Browder spent 700 days in solitary confinement for allegedly stealing a backpack. These people break federal laws knowing they’ll never suffer any consequences.

NPR @npr.org · 9h

In a Department of Homeland Security video, Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown. Law and ethics experts say it violates the Hatch Act, but there are rarely serious consequences. n.pr/3JdV22f

Legal experts say Kristi Noem's airport video breaks the law. Penalties are unlikely

In a Department of Homeland Security video, Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown. Law and ethics experts say it violates the Hatch Act, but there are rarely serious consequences.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 7h

These guys destroyed USAID (budget $28bn) causing a potential 14m preventable deaths by 2030 because the deficit but can find $40bn to bail out their buddies who stand to lose money in an Argentinian crash.

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Jake: Drinks with no ice @brehlol.bsky.social · 5h

They are gonna push this narrative so hard when the time comes that they realize it's human rights trial time, and I need America to be serious for once in their life

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 6h

Promise me that yall aren't going to platform the eventual "repentent ICE agent" stories that will come out...

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 6h

They’re going after ActBlue
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/big-tal...

Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in...

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(s po o ky) d ud e s ro c k @dudesrock.bsky.social · 5h

I like how Israel commits all these crimes and tortures Sweden's most famous activist and their prime minister just goes like, "Duh."

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 7h

Hit the like button if you are hitting the streets for the #NoKings protest.

I am even though my Mom just passed this afternoon because she would want me to. One of the last things she said to me if she was well enough she would be out & she said he’s a dickhead.✊

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 5h

#OtD 16 Oct 1854 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland. Moving to London, he became an advocate of libertarian socialism and an early inspiration for what would become a movement for LGBT+ rights. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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Death will not release you!𓅽 @7leaguebootdisk.bsky.social · 5h

This would be fascism.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 5h

It’s probably the Democrats’ fault, in his lifetime they’ve only enacted Medicaid, Medicare, and the ACA. They didn’t even bother to put universal healthcare into their platform until 1972, the man was already nearly an adult by then!

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10h

Whatever you think about CFPB, it was created by Congress (as part of the Dodd-Frank Act) and can only be abolished by Congress, not by the President acting as a dictator.

Reuters @reuters.com · 16h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 6h

He’s just a young lad of 65 how could he possibly be expected to know anything about the Republican Party’s views on healthcare

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 6h

what did he think trump was gonna do, exactly. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Longtime Florida insurance agent Alan Reynolds, 65, predicts many of his customers will allow their policies to lapse when the price hikes become clear. An independent who leans conservative, Reynolds, of Port St. Lucie, called the Affordable Care Act flawed but said he favors the continuation of the enhanced subsidies “and not pulling the rug out from under people.”

His family is also affected. The loss of his wife’s subsidy means she is likely to pay about $1,200 or more each month, up from about $500 in 2024, he said. “I voted for Trump,” Reynolds said. “I didn’t expect this.”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 5h

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Death will not release you!𓅽 @7leaguebootdisk.bsky.social · 5h

No shit

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 8h

Things are going well over on X, the town square, the place a whole lot of influential people in media and politics believe fairly reflects the views of most Americans.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 9h

musk personally allowed a nazi pedo doxxing cult to publish a bunch of leftists banking information, I think?

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼 @kingofvagabonds.bsky.social · 1d

He also looks 40 in all of those high school clips which really reinforces that point Roald Dahl made about evil being visibly obvious.

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