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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 9h

Reinhard Heydrich's Wild Ride (to Hell)

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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 9h

Remember the time he dry snitched on his own wife

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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 9h

www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/p... So they hit them with military strikes but now they're talking about releasing them? So are they dangerous drug traffickers or not?

US considering releasing survivors of Caribbean drug boat strike to their home countries | CNN Politics

The Trump administration is considering moving the two survivors of Thursday’s military strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean to their home countries and releasing them from US military c...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

there’s quite literally no purpose in continuing to pay taxes if they’re going to weaponize them against a majority of people paying them like this

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.

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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 11h

The Minnesota Twinks

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12h

I feel like George Santos exemplifies a lot of what’s broken in the “justice” system. He was a corrupt politician, he briefly experienced the horrors of inhumane prison conditions, then the corrupt president moved to yank him out—and his victims received none of what they were owed in the process

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

one thing about "big" right wing accounts joining over here is that it quickly becomes apparent they have no idea how to function online without a built in army of incel followers they can sic on people to harass

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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 11h

a man in a suit and tie is smiling and making a face .

Alt: The sensuous Mr. Bean

media.tenor.com

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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 11h

Or, hear me out, you could just go to Twitter if that's what you enjoy rather than trying to transform this place into something that already exists.

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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 2d

No no no, that was Shane Van Dyke, director of the hit film Titanic II www.imdb.com/title/tt1640...

Titanic II (Video 2010) ⭐ 1.7 | Action, Adventure, Drama

1h 30m | Not Rated

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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 2d

How about they fuck off

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

Hitlergate wasn't "kids"—it was 20- and 30-something GOP flacks.

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 2d

Are these people in the room with you now, David

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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome to BlueSky. Now get those fuckin' pants off, we're playing House of the Dead.

Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 2d

White House photographer Terry Richardson

Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 2d

Oh he was absolutely glued to some elf babe at Rivendell

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

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
U.S. Code
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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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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 3d

Bluesky = we have Weird Al
Twitter = we have Weird AI

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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 3d

Four Loko

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 3d

the admin that imprisoned and tried to deport a student over a pro-Palestinian op-ed, calling it anti-semitism, calls outrage over "I love Hitler" texts by young Republicans "pearl-clutching"

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 3d

Whatever eases your conscience, I guess.

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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 3d

The thought processes behind "Scarlett Johansson chatbot, let's make that" are alien to me

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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 3d

I thought Bradley P. Moss was a parody account based on a West Wing character.

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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 3d

One time I went to a Rolex forum to look up something about my Dad's watch and the first thread in their general discussion section was "What kind of Rolex does Jesse Watters wear?"

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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 3d

This is so boring and old.