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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h

This Is Fascism

Amy Hanauer @amyhanauer.bsky.social · 5h

We call this inequality-increasing, revenue-depleting tax cut to the rich BS for a reason. But your state can push back. Send this to your governor!

Quite Some BS: Expanded ‘QSBS’ Giveaway in Trump Tax Law Threatens State Revenues and Enriches the Wealthy

States should decouple from the federal Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) exemption.

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Amy Hanauer @amyhanauer.bsky.social · 5h

Accompanied by intentional choice by Trump and his Congress make tax code worse for black taxpayers

Trump Tax Law Erases Economic, Racial Progress in the Tax Code

President Trump’s massive tax-and-spending bill continues the administration’s assault on racial and economic justice by prioritizing tax breaks for the top 1% while neglecting the economic well-being...

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Amy Hanauer @amyhanauer.bsky.social · 5h

Black unemployment surging and this time it’s an active malevolent policy choice

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 3d

This retired librarian’s monthly health care premium is going from $441 to over $1,100.

It’s outrageous. It’s immoral.

I’m going to keep fighting for Ken to have health care he can actually afford.

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Amy Hanauer @amyhanauer.bsky.social · 2d

Feel hopeless bc Congress and the President don’t care about families in your community? Send this report to your mayor and city council members!

The Potential of Local Child Tax Credits to Reduce Child Poverty

Local governments have a critical role to play in reducing child poverty. Local Child Tax Credits could provide large tax cuts to families at the bottom of the income scale, lessening the overall regr...

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Amy Hanauer @amyhanauer.bsky.social · 2d

Ka-ching. Thousands in tax cuts to some members of Congress because of the law they voted for.

Some Members of Congress Will Cash in from New Tax Law

Many lawmakers who were vocal supporters of this bill will see direct personal benefits while most of their constituents benefit little or will be worse off.

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Amy Hanauer @amyhanauer.bsky.social · 2d

Trump may pretend to be many things but what he really wants is to cut corporate taxes. New corporate tax breaks are already slashing revenue for the things we need.

Well, That Was Fast: Trump Tax Law’s New Corporate Breaks are Already Worsening the Deficit

Corporate income taxes for the fiscal year that ended in September are $77 billion lower than in the previous year, a 15 percent drop.

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 5d

My constituents want me to get to work but House Republicans are more concerned about protecting the Epstein files.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Elected but Not Seated, Grijalva Waits to Sign Epstein Petition

www.nytimes.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 9d

Trump: we will do project 2025
Harris: he will do project 2025
Public: oh that’s bad
Trump: I’m not gonna do it have never heard of it
Harris: he’s still gonna do it
Media: no one can predict the future 77 pinocchios

Parker Butler @parkerbutler.bsky.social · 9d

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

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Martha Albertson Fineman @mlafineman.bsky.social · 9d

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10d

The French have occupied Tesla's HQ in France to protest against the ultra rich and their tax dodging.

Be more French.

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Amy Hanauer @amyhanauer.bsky.social · 12d

THIS is how it’s done. Go New Mexico. Go @ambersra.bsky.social

Free Child Care for All Is Impossible? Don’t Tell New Mexico.

The only state with such a program didn’t get there overnight. Years of action at the state Capitol and the ballot box set the stage. It’s a lesson for lawmakers in other states facing the fiscal chal...

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ITEP @itep.org · 16d

The new Trump tax law could throw state tax systems out of balance.

Our webinar will explore how states can chart their own course.

Learn more on our homepage, or sign up here:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Manny Crespín @mannycrespin.bsky.social · 17d

🔃🚨 BREAKING: House Democrats now have the votes to force a vote to release the Epstein files.

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Random Man James @jamesds.bsky.social · 20d

Release the files now

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 19d

obviously they're in the pocket of big advil

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19d

The most important thing to know about Trump’s acetaminophen announcement is that the GOP is still hiding the Epstein files

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20d

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 19d

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 21d

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 21d

Get. Off. Twitter.

Brett @23brett.bsky.social · 21d

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 24d

Trump take job
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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 24d

Steve Moore (!): Trump aims to bolster U.S. manufacturing—in part through steel and aluminum tariffs. But ...Trump’s order to raise the tax on imported aluminum to 50% will almost certainly cost far more manufacturing jobs than it will save. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

Opinion | Trump’s Tariffs on Aluminum Kill U.S. Factory Jobs

They’re costly for companies that use the metal to make things—including recyclers.

www.wsj.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Mar 20

Tariff take job.
www.startribune.com/iron-range-l...

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