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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

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
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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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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h

AOC: Trump should be having congressional leaders in the WH. Do you see that every day? No, you don't because they're playing golf and they're going to mar-a-lago and the Republicans in the house have been on vacation for weeks now

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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 1d

11/5/24, a cherubic FYR (Fine Young Republican) is giving a victorious president the high five. Wait. Looks like a different gesture? One with historic ramifications? What an unfair inference on the part of the hyperbolic left! Wait. Recorded discourse matches the interpreted signage?

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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 1d

Another fine FYR with a penchant for the spontaneous warbling of "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" in a karaoke beer garden.

halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 1d

11/5/24, a cherubic FYR (Fine Young Republican) is giving a victorious president the high five. Wait. Looks like a different gesture? One with historic ramifications? What an unfair inference on the part of the hyperbolic left! Wait. Recorded discourse matches the interpreted signage?

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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 1d

"Let 'em drink eggs!" Scott Bessent

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Coffee in the US is now 40% more expensive than before Trump.

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight — The Atlantic

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 1d

Explain the difference; no one can because there is none.

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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 1d

Explain the difference; no one can because there is none.

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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 1d

No comment on annotation required.

Leaked Young Republicans Chat Filled With Slurs and Praise for Hitler

A Telegram chat with Young Republicans leaders across the country was as disturbing as it gets.

newrepublic.com

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 1d

Leaked Young Republicans Chat Filled With Slurs and Praise for Hitler newrepublic.com/post/201769/...

Leaked Young Republicans Chat Filled With Slurs and Praise for Hitler

A Telegram chat with Young Republicans leaders across the country was as disturbing as it gets.

newrepublic.com

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING

The US State Department has revoked the visas of citizens from Argentina, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, and Paraguay for comments they made in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

- An Argentine national who said Charlie "devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric" and deserves to burn in hell.
- A South African national who mocked those grieving Charlie saying "they're hurt that the racist rally ended in attempted martyrdom"
-A Mexican national who said Charlie "died being a racist, he died being a misogynist" and stated that "there are people who deserve to die."
- A Brazilian national who said "Charlie Kirk was the reason for a Nazi rally where they marched in homage to him" and that he "DIED TOO LATE."
- A German national who celebrated Charlie's death + wrote
"when fascists die, democrats don't complain."
- A Paraguayan national who said "Charlie Kirk was a son of a b**** and he died by his own rules."

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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 1d

How the hell did he secure authorization to give $20 billion to Argentina without debate and Congressional consent? We have no money for farmers or rural hospitals, or Federal salaries, but can give cash to a nation skipping the US to do agricultural trading with China?

Live updates: Trump says upcoming Argentina elections will decide how 'generous' US will be

Trump is hosting Javier Milei after ordering some $20bn in aid to Argentina, stirring controversy at home

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strea3m.bsky.social @strea3m.bsky.social · 2d

😄😄Andy Borowitz strikes:

"...a review of [his activities] yields only three: sending co-workers home on an extended vacation, refusing to swear in a new co-worker, & praying for the Rapture"

Yeah, why is this 🤬liar still getting paid, he's not working (unless Official Lying is one of his jobs🙄)

Americans Mystified Why Nonessential Federal Employee Still Has Job

The still-employed man performs no identifiable function, Americans noted.

open.substack.com

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

I need a montage of famous cops in movies and TV shows flashing their badges and announcing their names, followed by a stream of masked ICE guys refusing to give theirs.

a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

ALT: a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 2d

"Could" is doing some heavy lifting in that sentence.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 2d

Notice how this critical data point has been airbrushed from coverage? You'd think the statistics were reversed.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 2d

So @maddow.msnbc.com is asking the hard questions about Trump’s financial relationship with the authoritarian president of Egypt. And his awarding $20 billion to Argentina. Why aren’t the Washington Post and NY Times on this? On front pages?

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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 2d

It would be useful if @MSNBC hosts - Wallace today bluntly called out the absence of Stephanopoulos-level pushback "elsewhere" - started naming in-house NBC names. Nowhere is Trump media sycophancy more pronounced than on the craven Meet the Press. And no Sunday reporter is more cowed than Welker.

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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 3d

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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 3d

"To be a Republican in 2025 is to be somebody who takes the side of the bully, the liar, the corrupt, someone in favor of mass immiseration done on your behalf in order to satisfy some need of identity, or fortune, or power, or position.” A. R. Moxon, October 12, 2025

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 5d

No, Speaker Johnson: The No Kings Rally on October 18 is not a “hate America” rally. Quite the contrary. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country.

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Diane @dianesf.bsky.social · 3d

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

tell me more about republicans being the pro-business party.

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

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