Eric Reese
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Eric Reese
@reeseer83.bsky.social
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The major opposing candidates called him a jihadist and Democratic leadership didn't make a peep about it!
Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.
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i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?

Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
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👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead.

IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained.

IRS Direct File: 2023-2025.

(Story from when the pilot launched.)
IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax-prep giants
The tax agency has quietly built its own prototype system for filing tax returns digitally and free of charge, according to current and former officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
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A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.

It is at redshift 0.039 (lookback time 549.7 million years) with coordinates (166.62773, 6.55940).

46 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.🔭
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Former Teen Vogue politics editor Allegra Kirkland pays homage to ... what ... OUUUUCH:

talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...
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Tech bros are like: “future”, “”progress””

Bro, progress is that everyone has their rights and basic needs guaranteed
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"I am openly defying a court order so I can starve children if Democrats don't let me take healthcare away from millions"

once again we are in 'too evil for a saturday morning cartoon' territory
Trump says the SNAP money that he’s been ordered by a court to release won’t be released until the government shutdown ends.
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Among the things that Dick Cheney gifted us:
"Pulling a Cheney": when the leader of a search committee ends up being picked for a job.
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FUCK HAHAHAHA
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."
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This is so bleak. Xania Monet is not a real person. This is an entirely ai generated artist with AI generated music that has millions of monthly listeners and music getting actual radio play and millions of listens.

It's digital blackface.
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Voting today. The pain of nonpartisan municipal elections is it's really hard to know who's decent and who's a MAGA looney toon.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again now:

Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.
So is the president, elected 33 years ago, who that president elected 25 years ago replaced.
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“24/7 feelings generator” may be the best description of the role of modern media I’ve ever heard.
Idk if there is even a way to get retired people hooked on a 24/7 feelings generator that isn't democracy destroying.
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Idk if there is even a way to get retired people hooked on a 24/7 feelings generator that isn't democracy destroying.
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it’s astounding how much misinformation about renewable energy is laundered by a media that claims to tell the truth about climate change
Transphobes really think men & women are different species.
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"Well unlike Donald Trump at least Dick Cheney never..."

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