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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 4h

This is really bad! Esp since he's gonna toss parts of the IRM that protect tax payers!!!

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups

The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.

www.wsj.com

Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 1d

If you are trying to file your taxes today and you're worried you are missing a document, go to your Document Tab in your IRS Tax Account. It should have everything (but it won't have state withholding!) If you don't have an IRS account, having one is a decent idea.

Screenshot of the IRS account. On the bottom right, under Records and Statuses Information Return Documents are hightlighted. This is to go for the next step.

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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 1d

😂
the burn

i personally don't love the Lestat but thats me. Tom Cruise's was good enough for a while and now we have Sam Reid, who is much better (and a million times better Louis with Jacob Anderson)

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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 1d

I keep thinking about how ahistorical the US is becoming and how that relates to historical romance being sidelined. Esp as historical romance was starting to make more space for writers of color. Suddenly trad pub decided it wasn't worth it anymore!

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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 1d

For real! The soundtrack was killer but the rest of the film was pretty awful. It didn't know what it wanted to be, but Aaliyah understood Akasha.

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Pixies a/k/a Map Nerd @mcburnellauthor.bsky.social · 2d

⚔️talk to ghosts!
⚔️kill rebels!
⚔️fight assassins wearing other people's faces!
⚔️break free from mind control!
⚔️accidentally create a monster!

#SFF 🪐📚
books2read.com/Bells-Begin-...

8) Background is a photo of a snowy trees. Cover of a book called Bells Begin to Ring depicting a man kneeling and hunched forward in a posture conveying pain on a sandy beach at night, by MC Burnell. Text reads: DRUMS IN THE DEEP. Bells Begin to Ring, The Tipping World Vol. 8. All the world’s mages dance on the bitter scapegoat’s strings. A block of text: "She sat in the strange glow of the wish-lights, pondering questions whose answers couldn’t possibly matter while the world burned. What held her here was what held all of them: a conviction that she had uncovered, in this spooky subterranean space, a connection she had been searching for all her life without ever being able to articulate it. Every other people had a legend telling where they came from. Everyone but mages. Here, at last, a link to the past and the people who created them."

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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 1d

MOBY DICK!

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 1d

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 2d

An excellent resource by @itep.org

itep.org/tax-guide/

ITEP Guide to State & Local Taxes

The ITEP Guide to State & Local Taxes offers citizens, advocates, journalists, and policymakers a detailed primer on state and local tax policy. The guide explains a wide range of tax concepts and spe...

itep.org

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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 2d

Only 51?!?!

Daaaaaamn

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Speaker Mike Johnson just said he's completely fine with ICE agents shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and roughing up journalists.

I'm sure he'll tell us soon about how it's the Democrats who are waging a war on religion and free speech though.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

lastly, a common rebuttal to contaminant reporting is that there are unavoidable levels of lead in lots of foods. some context:

taking just one serving of one of the powders we tested would expose you to 45% more lead than the average american gets from everything they eat/drink in a day combined

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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 2d

ooof scary!

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 2d

the lacroix cherry lime tastes like robitussin.

blech!

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 3d

lots of hugs

a raccoon is standing in the grass with its arms outstretched and says " sending you a big hug " .

ALT: a raccoon is standing in the grass with its arms outstretched and says " sending you a big hug " .

media.tenor.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3d

Good Place:

Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 3d

aahhh my husband's first (and lasting) crush

🩸Spooky Sara🩸 @pashion.bsky.social · 3d

good morning

A photo of Elisabeth Sladen playing Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who she is wearing a sweater and bright yellow rain coat while leaning against a wall with a funny look on her face

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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 3d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand.

- cottage cheese
-Love Actually
- Toto's Africa

Lux in the Bronx @rlux.nyc · 3d

- offal
- Gone With The Wind
- Bohemian Rhapsody

jules | #LongLiveOFMD @blandbeard.bsky.social · 4d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand.

- liver
- lawrence of arabia
- karma chameleon

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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing like turning on Pluto TV and seeing Patti LuPone in an old episode of Law & Order (and she's portraying a Gloria Allred type character)

(also when I was younger, watching this at grandma's, I was on the side of the cops/DA. And now I'm the other side. Growing up)

Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 4d

I LOVE THIS

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 5d

I really hope this man wins.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 5d

bad news for them, the trump admin has made cuts to food banks

states can't pick it up and neither can charitable orgs

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 5d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 5d

oooh jesus christ

what a special kind of white nonsense is this

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 5d

But you shouldn't be too surprised when they say stuff like this:

"You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today."

I don’t want to take any guidance at all from the secular society around us. And the reason I don’t is they killed 60 million babies. I don’t want to hear any more lectures from these people about slavery. You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today.

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