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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9m

The party of deep concern about antisemitism, folks

Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 1h

In 24 hours we have the politico story about the Kansas Young Republicans praising Hitler, the GOP congressional staffer call with a swastika in the background during a Zoom chat, and now this.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

One commenter replied, “based song choice,” which was liked by the Border Patrol account. Another commenter wrote, “if you know you know.”

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7m

We can’t pay air traffic controllers during the shutdown, making us less safe, but we can send $40 billion to bail out Argentina.

Make it make sense.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6m

Amen.

Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 12h

It’s important in all this to remember: official press conferences are a minuscule part of the job and exist to present one side and control questioning.

Much reporting, often the best reporting, happens without ever having to flash a press pass

Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 12h

Soliciting information from officials is a journalist's job.

The Pentagon's new press policy would make reporters "stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable," explains @npr.org's Tom Bowman.

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WhatRWeDoingHere @voteblue4vr.bsky.social · 6m

Remember that time he posted about his lunch receipt at a restaurant to complain about high prices under Biden?
He'd had two scotches, not rail, call scotch for LUNCH!

WhatRWeDoingHere @voteblue4vr.bsky.social · 9m

I live in a VERY red county in a purple state and there is a protest planned for our village.
Ezra and Brooks are not the arbiters of what a mass movement looks like. They are not cheerleaders for change. They're cynical pundits content with the sidelines.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 7h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 7h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1h

People logging back into Bluesky for the first time in a year

Homer crawling through the Supplicant door

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 36m

Twitter refugees finding the #birds feed

Better resolution: youtu.be/gJYQBvcWxao

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h

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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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 14h

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 9h

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.

reut.rs

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

On the record, I think sneering at these people that they’re somehow *bad* because they stayed on Twitter for this long is incredibly counterproductive

it’s great that more people have escaped the Mussolini Piss Hole and come to Bluesky actually, their numbers shall strengthen us

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

judging from what I’m seeing right now, a large-scale Twitter Exodus Event is 100% what’s happening

good!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

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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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2h

Solidarity is the only way

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

judging from what I’m seeing right now, a large-scale Twitter Exodus Event is 100% what’s happening

good!

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5h

This is pretty clearly torture

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 5h

Centrists : “Karl, Stop calling the Republican Party the American Nazi party it’s not accurate”

The republican party :

The Rooster
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A friend in DC had a Zoom call with Congressman Dave Taylor's office today...
Taylor's legislative correspondent, Angelo Elia, had what can only be described as an American swastika flag prominently displayed in his background.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 5h

(1) How is giving $40 billion to Argentina without congressional approval during a government shutdown legal (not that that matters anymore)? (2) How much of the $40 billion goes back to the Trump Family? (3) Trump has handed Argentina more money than the entire USAID budget.

Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 6h

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the bailout for Argentina, now doubled to $40 billion, is part of an effort to swing Latin America to the right

@jacobbogage.bsky.social @davidjlynch.bsky.social David Feliba report

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Bessent says bailout for Argentina will double to boost U.S. influence in region

The Trump administration is working to arrange private sector financing for Argentina that would double the total U.S. financial lifeline for the embattled Latin nation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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WhatRWeDoingHere @voteblue4vr.bsky.social · 5h

Wasn't that the same flag in this week's episode of Peacemaker?

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 6h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 6h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 6h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

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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