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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 15h

Tesla is sitting on nearly a billion dollars of unsold Cybertrucks. Now Elon's using the imaginary value of SpaceX and xAI to bail out Tesla... While asking Tesla investors for a blank check to "invest" in xAI. The entire empire is a giant scam. #teslatakedown www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1...

Cybertruck sales are so bad Musk is selling them to ... himself

You wanna see a dead body? Third-quarter sales numbers for Tesla’s misbegotten Cybertruck are in, and it is definitely spooky season for tech titan Elon Musk, who moved only 5,385 of the hideous ...

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

ICYMI — PELOSI: “Shut up. I did not refuse the National Guard. The President didn’t send it. Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you’re a serious journalist?”

(The unserious questioner is Alison Steinberg, who works for Mike Lindell — the my pillow guy)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Kaine: "We should not be allowing the president to create a secret enemies list and make the unilateral decision about whether to kill people without sharing that information at least with the Armed Service and Intel committees. So this is very troubling."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h

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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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 17h

Mike Johnson is covering up for pedophiles. I won't stop saying it.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

“A diorama of power dynamics”?
The New York Times headline writers need to stop dropping acid during the workweek.

Oval Office becomes a diorama of power dynamics as Trump goes after rivals

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 8h

AOC is what every Republican say they admire - up from serving tables to serving the people. ♥️

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Stewart Tan @sstan99.bsky.social · 14h

“Alternate reality” seems to be an accurate description of the entire administration

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 16h

Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18h

Maybe Mike meant "stood on" Capitol Police?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

This is the same Speaker who has repeatedly refused to put up the congressionally-mandated plaque honoring the Capitol Police members who were viciously assaulted by MAGA goons on January 6th.

We've seen your deeds, you oily liar.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Formula 1 @f1tv.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: George Russell and Kimi Antonelli confirmed to race for Mercedes in 2026 🚨

#F1

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Kristin Wilson 📎 @kristin-wilson.bsky.social · 18h

Would seem to me that a Congressman beating his girlfriend and having a judge order a restraining order against him is "really serious..."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

Topics Mike Johnson thinks are serious:

- Super Bowl halftime entertainer
- getting a Nobel Prize for Trump
- terrifying naked bike riders

Topics he thinks are not serious:

- Epstein Files
- domestic violence
- being able to keep the govt open
- the neutering of Congress

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19h

My memory is quite the opposite. “No kings” has actually worked out really well for the American economy for centuries.

It’s the arrival of a would-be king that has shut everything down.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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Stewart Tan @sstan99.bsky.social · 19h

Seems pointless. After the regime has moved on, the patio / golden trimmings will come down and it will be as if it didn’t happen

Stewart Tan @sstan99.bsky.social · 19h

I think they lost interest once they found out the identity / political leanings of the shooter

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 20h

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Stewart Tan @sstan99.bsky.social · 20h

Yep, Dear Leader views everything from a single lens (how it helps/hurts his pocket book).

As long as he gets to golf on the taxpayers dime, all good (for him)

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Stewart Tan @sstan99.bsky.social · 20h

I was… more than a year old… hehehe

I remember reading somewhere it was relatively recent but had to google it to find the year.

Hanging in there (like everyone 😬)

Maybe I’ll post more music stuff tonight 😃

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