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Dave Hageman 🎃 🍁 👻 @davehageman.bsky.social · 45m

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Dave Hageman 🎃 🍁 👻 @davehageman.bsky.social · 1h

The amount of people on local news Facebook responding to reports on the protests with “your side lost! 🤣🤣🤣🤣” is astronomical. It’s nothing more than a football game to them and if the Stillers (or Crimson Tide, or whoever) beats their rival that’s enough for them.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve increasingly seen Trump supporters claim that they voted for him to see him “own” the left on social media—which IMO is a form of coping that shows he has done nothing to materially improve their lives (he’s actually made them worse, but they won’t admit that)

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 4h

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4h

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Trump calls Colombian President Petro an ‘illegal drug dealer’ and announces an end to US aid to the country.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

When someone uses this emoji 🤣 they are more mad than they have ever been in their entire life

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 22h

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18h

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

19thnews @19thnews.org · 18h

Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.

Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country

On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.

19thnews.org

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting.

Now the official line is crumbling. 1/

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newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.

As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?

newrepublic.com

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Dave Hageman 🎃 🍁 👻 @davehageman.bsky.social · 1d

Saw some folks doing a Segway tour of the Acropolis recently and the dichotomy was jarring.

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Dave Hageman 🎃 🍁 👻 @davehageman.bsky.social · 1d

There’s obviously tons of terrible shit happening but I’m pleasantly surprised that the Great American Undoing leans more toward Idiocracy than Hunger Games.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

Volodymyr Zelenskyy gets a question from former Biggest Loser trainer Cara Castronuova, a Jan. 6 defendant advocate who now works for the MyPillow Guy's network.

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Dave Hageman 🎃 🍁 👻 @davehageman.bsky.social · 2d

Bobcat Goldthwaite

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 2d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 3d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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Dave Hageman 🎃 🍁 👻 @davehageman.bsky.social · 2d

Mitches be trippin’

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Dave Hageman 🎃 🍁 👻 @davehageman.bsky.social · 2d

Mitches be trippin’

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 3d

83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE

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Dave Hageman 🎃 🍁 👻 @davehageman.bsky.social · 3d

His attitude toward the VRA is just “this textbook is making my child ashamed to be white!” on a larger scale.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

Vic Mensa, an American rapper born and raised in Chicago, breaks down ICE raids and the politics of division.

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Dave Hageman 🎃 🍁 👻 @davehageman.bsky.social · 3d

I just got back from there—you should totes take a sunset cruise around the caldera!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Dave Hageman 🎃 🍁 👻 @davehageman.bsky.social · 3d

You’d have to find one first.

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 3d

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

Dave Hageman 🎃 🍁 👻 @davehageman.bsky.social · 3d

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like

Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'

a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'

so the funding disappeared??

and people are dying??

Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 3d

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

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

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3d

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:

This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

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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Dave Hageman 🎃 🍁 👻 @davehageman.bsky.social · 4d

“Ooh, I’m so cool and edgy! Ooh, I’m a tool of the fascist government! Look at me I’m such a rebel!”

Fucking losers.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

The not-so secret language of fascist fashion

Today’s rightwingers want their message to go mainstream, so it’s coming to a store near you

www.theguardian.com

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 4d

your paycheck is a gift from the divine king, this is the american way and we love our wise and benevolent king and to insist otherwise is unamerican and possibly material support for terrorism

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 4d

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Dave Hageman 🎃 🍁 👻 @davehageman.bsky.social · 4d

Shottier. Complete enshotification.

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