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JoeCGiles

@joecgiles.bsky.social

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If we can find a way out of oligarchy, the first priority should be taxing billionaires at Eisenhower rates. Decades of US tax policy insufficiently taxing the wealthiest Americans has become a threat to democracy worldwide. Northern CA.

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JoeCGiles @joecgiles.bsky.social · Nov 7

At least when dinosaurs went extinct it wasn't a handful of greedy dinosaurs that made it happen.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10h

“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.”

If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond.

Pay attention and act!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h

👇👇

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 9h

🚨Jim Carrey’s fresh out of fucks, and we are here for it!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9h

😡😡😡😡

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9h

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

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

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

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JoeCGiles @joecgiles.bsky.social · 8h

It took them buying a shitty Trump watch to figure out he's nothing but a scammer?

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CloudStrife @sstrife.bsky.social · 13h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

It should be a litmus test for Democratic presidential primary candidates whether they will restore the White House and DC public properties to exactly the way they were before the Palm Beach lounge lizard decided to turn it into Mar-a-Lago meets 1936 Nuremberg.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 11h

First responders and reservoir managers in California are flying blind during storm season because Donald Trump thought it was a good idea to take a chainsaw to federal forecasting services.

We're doing all we can to fill those gaps and protect communities from winter floods.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

Just a deep, dark cesspool of corruption like we’ve never seen before in US history at every single agency and level of government. Republicans in Congress continue to ignore all of it and if people still care about having a Republic they will vote them out as soon as they can.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13h

Democrats should make a criminal referral to DOJ and start describing what Trump is doing as criminal.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 11h

This pugnacious Muslim is my leader.
He is what New York needs. One of the very, very few men in America who dare to stand up to Donald.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 14h

Zohran Mamdani uses his appearance on Fox News to "speak directly to the president," since "he might be watching right now."

Mamdani looks straight into the Fox camera as he says this >>>

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina.

Elon Musk does too.

Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.

There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.

One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

“.. Journalists from the undersigned defense trade publications will not sign this new policy.”

Military Times
Defense News
Aviation Week
Breaking Defense
Defense Daily
Defense One
Inside Defense
USNI News.

@militarytimes.bsky.social
www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

“.. Pentagon reporters in Arlington, Virginia walk out of the building carrying their belongings after turning in their press badges. Reporters from nearly every major news organization would not sign new rules viewed as an infringement on First Amendment rights ..”

@gettyimages.com

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JoeCGiles @joecgiles.bsky.social · 12h

2030.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/s...

Salesforce stock jumps after company offers rosy forecast for 2030

Salesforce is counting on Agentforce artificial intelligence software to expand its pull in more revenue from customers.

www.cnbc.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

BROWN UNIV.: “.. the compact by its nature and by various provisions would restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance, critically compromising our ability to fulfill our mission.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21h

This deserves more attention. North Carolina wiped out $6.5 Billion in medical debt for 2.5 million residents. Less than 1/3 of what we paid to bail out Argentina.
www.carolinajournal.com/nc-program-w...

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JoeCGiles @joecgiles.bsky.social · 13h

Bessent's buddies won't recoup losses from that.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 13h

We won't allow politicians to dilute the power of Black voters in Louisiana or anywhere else.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22h

A 20 year old black woman was just sitting in DC and EVERY agency possible shows up to arrest her!

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JoeCGiles @joecgiles.bsky.social · 13h

"The Supreme Court might not let me continue to do this particular illegal shit, so I'm considering leaning on them."
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/t...

Trump says he might attend Supreme Court tariff case arguments

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JoeCGiles @joecgiles.bsky.social · 13h

What could go wrong?
www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/min...

Statement from Senator Warren on OCC Approval of Trump Billionaire Allies' New Bank Erebor | United States Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

The Official website of The United States Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

www.banking.senate.gov

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18h

Dear media,
1/ ICE consistently lies about its violence toward people in Chicago, with its initial accounts later disproven.
2/ When protesters shout at ICE agents to get out of their neighborhood and ICE tear-gasses them and throws them to the ground, that's not a "clash" – that's ICE violence.

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