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Kysaku Natsume 🇲🇽🇯🇵🇺🇦 @kysakunatsume.bsky.social · 12d

Ukrainians are fighting for every country’s children too, protecting our loved ones. They more than deserve our help.

Again I sent €313 to @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social fundraiser, in memoriam of @LivFaustDieJung; still trying to be worthy of your praise, my friend.

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 13d

In just three weeks, the campaign in support of the 14th USF Regiment has reached €53,050 of €66,000.

📌 Campaign: help99.co/patches/special-kherson-cat-14th-nafo-campaign

Continued support is key to delivering the remaining equipment so the regiment can carry out its mission with full capability.

Special Kherson Cat 14th NAFO Campaign

The one and only Special Kherson Cat is back on the move — with trucks to deliver and drones to launch.

help99.co

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 9h

Let me turn my phone off cause this type of shit here...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

AOC: The problem is that the Trump administration, they think that destroying our health care, making sure that housing is too expensive to live in, that jacking up the cost of our groceries—they think all of this is about hurting Democrats. What they are doing is hurting Americans

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

Mockler: I have spent all my formative years watching the President talk about the opposition party like they should not exist. His claim to fame in politics was saying that Obama was not born in America.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

I give them 1-star reviews on their taste, judgment, and critical thinking skills.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10h

Solidarity is the only way

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

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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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11h

ABOLISH ICE and EXPAND THE SUPREME COURT should be mainstream Democratic promises and talking points.

But timidity and civility will rule the day and screw the rest of us and this country in the end.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Sanders: They have refused to negotiate. And anyone thinks that tomorrow they'll suddenly start negotiating. I think, is smoking what is illegal in many states

AOC: And should be legal in more.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

AOC: When one party wants the votes of another party. You negotiate, you come to a compromise and you pass a bill. That is schoolhouse rock. And that is how things should be

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Rachael the Hobbit @rachael-the-hobbit.bsky.social · 11h

The Romanovs and the Bourbon monarchs had some nice ballrooms too

Wait, what?! @whyisthat.bsky.social · 12h

I sent this to the President.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

“On any given week, the administrator of CMS could speak for a few minutes before a shirtless Russell Brand calls in from what appears to be a bathtub, or a former member of The Pussycat Dolls argues that the COVID-19 vaccine destroyed her ability to dance.”

www.notus.org/health-scien...

'Fluoride Disconnects One from God': Inside the Weekly Call With RFK Jr.'s MAHA Hype Squad

A growing weekly call gives insight into RFK Jr.'s biggest allies, showcasing how a fringe movement now holds legitimate power.

www.notus.org

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19h

Fifteen Democratic governors formed a public health alliance to counter federal agency turmoil under the Trump administration. The alliance aims to monitor disease outbreaks, establish policy guidance and buy vaccines.

Democratic governors form state public health alliance to counter RFK Jr.

The Governors Public Health Alliance would counter federal health agencies under President Donald Trump as an independent hub to monitor diseases and prepare for emergencies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

newrepublic.com

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Kysaku Natsume 🇲🇽🇯🇵🇺🇦 @kysakunatsume.bsky.social · 10h

He is not wrong, but unaware of that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "We're dominating China. We're dominating with AI, which seems to be the new big thing. That's the new internet, that's the new whatever."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: Are we in for a sustained trade war with China?

TRUMP: Well, you're in one now

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 1d

Turned in the badge today.

My colleagues and I will stay on the beat, but in a new way. The work continues.

Danlamothe.30

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

WSJ: “.. the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said ..”

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

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 19h

Republican officials and leaders need to stop having secret group chats that someone later exposes. This happened again, and the creepy crawlies under this particular rock were, in a word, insane. My write up and mini-rant in today’s piece, link in the replies.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17h

God doesn’t need any “saving” by the like of you, Eric.

Tweet by Aaron Rupar showing a quote from Eric Trump on “The Benny Show.” Eric Trump says: “We’re saving Christianity. We’ve saving God. We’ve saving the family unit. We’re saving this nation... You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell... We have a return to people going to church.” Below is a screenshot from the show with Benny Johnson and Eric Trump speaking side by side.

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Kysaku Natsume 🇲🇽🇯🇵🇺🇦 @kysakunatsume.bsky.social · 11h

Or Milei have exceptional ass kissing abilities.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 17h

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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Another $20 billion. That is the face you make when you heist the US taxpayers for $40 billion two weeks before your midterm elections from the most corrupt America Last regime in history.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h

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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