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Meowdelyn🏳️‍⚧️ @meowdelyn.bsky.social · 1h

I yearn to be proven wrong on this by the teeming masses of liberals who seem to exist to tell people that anyone engaging with our poltiical reality is wrong and evil.

Please, please, please, let me be wrong about this. You can be as smug as you'd like if i'm wrong about this.

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Meowdelyn🏳️‍⚧️ @meowdelyn.bsky.social · 1h

Laws are not self-enforcing, they require someone to enact and enforce them.

And there does not appear to be any force in american politics that is simultaneously capable & willing to enforce Americas laws on anyone running the GOP.

So no, it's not illegal, not in any way that matters.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

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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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 14h

I feel like you could only ever be shocked about that republican group chat leak if you were never on the receiving end of their hate. It's only a surprise if you didn't have them up in your replies, telling you the myriad ways they were going to execute you.

You don't get it unless you get it.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2h

I am convinced that Microsoft is run by people who do not interact with digital devices. Somebody holds up a computer and uses it for Satya Nadella, he just sits and scratches his chin and says “make it do more”

Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 11h

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

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Devilish Mirry 😈 @devilishmirry.xyz · 2d

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 10h

literary analysis is dead becuz u legit get people like "this character is a bad character because they made a decision or a mistake that resulted in a problem that must be repaired within the narrative" like yes Jennifer that's called conflict and its integral to every story that exists ever.

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Meowdelyn🏳️‍⚧️ @meowdelyn.bsky.social · 10h

And I know that's fucking terrifying. But it's the hand we've been dealt. So we either play cards smartly, effectively, and to win.

Or we all lose to these nazi bags of pedophile garbage.

Meowdelyn🏳️‍⚧️ @meowdelyn.bsky.social · 10h

Our supreme court will either not exist or be radically reformed in the next few years. Our constitution and all the rights specified within will be replaced, if not in whole then piecemeal as to make no real difference.

Change is here, like it or not. We can't go back, only forward.

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Meowdelyn🏳️‍⚧️ @meowdelyn.bsky.social · 10h

This isn't some kind of call for revolution btw. It's an admonishment that like it or not, Revolution is being thrust upon us. And not one of sudden violence and immediate change, but a creeping slow rotting. A collapse.

Our choice is only in what will replace the old order of things.

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Meowdelyn🏳️‍⚧️ @meowdelyn.bsky.social · 10h

Either way, 2025 marks the end of the American project. Though, for better or worse remains to be seen.

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Meowdelyn🏳️‍⚧️ @meowdelyn.bsky.social · 10h

Whatever comes out of this fucked-up nazi experiment is going to have zero relation to the united states beyond the aesthetics. The United states as you knew it, is dead.

Either we reform our government from the top down to the lowest org, or the nazi's are going to do it for us.

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Meowdelyn🏳️‍⚧️ @meowdelyn.bsky.social · 10h

The most rational, level-headed, compassionate & empathetic republican is a raging nazi pedophile and needs to be treated as such by society if society is to survive.

At a MINIMUM THE GOP should be expelled permanently from american politics and it's leadership jailed for treason. Minimum.

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Meowdelyn🏳️‍⚧️ @meowdelyn.bsky.social · 10h

When I say "we need to destroy, dismantle & prosecute the entire GOP apparatus, from the top of the federal level to the lowest local org" I'm talking about stuff like this.

The GOP doesn't have a nazi problem, they ARE a nazi problem.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 11h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Meowdelyn🏳️‍⚧️ @meowdelyn.bsky.social · 10h

Oh no, conservatives LOOOOOOVE brown people, just not as people... and only the women, in very specific hyper-fetishized ways.

They'd be cool with this but not with katara being played by a woman of color in a live action. They're stunningly consistent once you realize they're gross demons.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 11h

pussyronin on tumblr: "yeah im four years on elfstrogen i can commune with the forest pretty well but my ear points are still coming in. One of my buddys is on tuskosterone for becomi an orc"

wizardbreasts: "3 years spironolactgnome

ohh i am so small and under a mushroom"

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 11h

wint @dril
its actually beautiful how half the posters here think its open mic night and the other half think theyre at some sort of permanent funeral

(Curators note: this was actually about twitter, not bluesky)

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 12h

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

When all of this is finally over, I hope the people who ordered and carried out these extrajudicial assassinations are given the due process they don't believe in before they're punished for murder.

www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Donald Trump's Venezuela Military Strikes Hit a Colombian Ship: Report

At least one Colombian ship has been struck by US Military amid escalations in the Caribbean.

www.newsweek.com

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 13h

Scary Nights - Gator Days

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Meowdelyn🏳️‍⚧️ @meowdelyn.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, the nazi's share gas chamber memes in the group chat with the other nazi's? Oh cool, thanks I might never have known if not for this article about it.

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Meowdelyn🏳️‍⚧️ @meowdelyn.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, that about sums up how I feel about it too.

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 15h

haven’t read that young republican politico piece yet. i think mostly because it doesn’t appear to contain any novel information for me. like yeah if you flip over a log you see lots of nasty worms?? shrug

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 20h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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