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weather geohell @fruitbasketnews.bsky.social · 5h

I guess they've really been doing this for a while though. Half-assing their lower court arguments. Submitting arrogant nonsense that contradicts their public statements. Phoning in insultingly stupid lies to questions from judges. and SCOTUS hasn't been bothered. Now they're too lazy to even bother

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weather geohell @fruitbasketnews.bsky.social · 5h

Haha I mean I hope this sort of laziness bites them in the ass at some point.

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 5h

This is how authoritarianism cements itself in power and crushes opposition, all while the eggheads debate if it's fascism or something else.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING via WSJ

The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.

Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK

The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people familiar with the matter.
A senior IRS official involved in the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said.
The undertaking aims to install allies of President Trump at the IRS criminal-investigative division, or IRS-CI, to exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations, officials said. The proposed changes could open the door to politically motivated probes and are being driven by Gary Shapley, an adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING via WSJ

The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.

Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK

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weather geohell @fruitbasketnews.bsky.social · 5h

Why waste your time arguing with the lower courts when you're doing a smash and grab that SCOTUS will indirectly bless without comment?

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weather geohell @fruitbasketnews.bsky.social · 5h

Just rule without commenting or writing a word

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weather geohell @fruitbasketnews.bsky.social · 6h

Find someone who loves you as much as Israel loves ethnically cleansing

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 7h

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich vows “there will be Jewish settlements in Gaza” during an address at a Simhat Torah event in the southern border city of Sderot.

Smotrich: ‘There will be Jewish settlements in Gaza’

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www.timesofisrael.com

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weather geohell @fruitbasketnews.bsky.social · 7h

I also burst out laughing at the end of "There will be blood"

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weather geohell @fruitbasketnews.bsky.social · 7h

Not to say it was a bad movie. I'd give it a B or B+. A few moments that worked superficially as episodic drama + TONS of really funny stuff. my thing about Paul Thomas Anderson movies is that I tend to laugh really hard in the theater when no one else is laughing. The Master is a great example

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weather geohell @fruitbasketnews.bsky.social · 7h

Lots of forgettable "radicals" shouting cartoonist cliches and then being forgotten by the plot. probably the most overrated movie in a generation

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weather geohell @fruitbasketnews.bsky.social · 7h

One Battle After Another? A mildly disappointing movie. The political stuff was infantile & way too many jokes fell flat. But Sean Penn as a rage monster, staggering around saying insane things? Amazing. As was the car chase. I'm sure SOMEONE filmed 1 like that before, but MY GOD that was cool

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weather geohell @fruitbasketnews.bsky.social · 8h

weather geohell @fruitbasketnews.bsky.social · 18h

this 13-year-old boy VIOLENTLY assaulted Our Brave ICE Agents (at a rate of 2500%) by saying "don't kidnap me"

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Nate Tice @natetice.bsky.social · 18h

me trying to corral my 3 year old before bedtime

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 1d

My grandpa when I wear his stolen watch over to his house

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Skip, the Online Raccoon @badposter.lol · 1d

screenshot of a yearbook

Michael Haddad
Interests: sports, robotics
Goal: none
Favorite Memory:
shovel

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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weather geohell @fruitbasketnews.bsky.social · 1d

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

i respect that JD Vance is defending this stuff. kind of sad that he's still managing to act indignant about it though. just say you like it!!!

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weather geohell @fruitbasketnews.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. The constant whining, crying, and feigned victimhood is a practiced skill that - like tobacco chewing - eventually takes hold as a permanent, odious character trait

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