hirosandwich
@hirosandwich.bsky.social
2025 = 0 / 5 stars.
Would not recommend
Dumping all social media except BlueSky and lemmy.
Highly recommended
Would not recommend
Dumping all social media except BlueSky and lemmy.
Highly recommended
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The IRS is reportedly not offering its Direct File program next year. Here’s a look back at how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free:
(Published 2019)
(Published 2019)
Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
www.propublica.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The IRS is reportedly not offering its Direct File program next year. Here’s a look back at how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free:
(Published 2019)
(Published 2019)
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Thanks to everyone who came to our office to donate blood and join the bone marrow registry this Halloween!
We gave away over 100 hot dogs, 15 pounds of candy, signed up 50 people for the bone marrow registry, and collected 28 units of blood —which is more blood than in three people’s bodies!
We gave away over 100 hot dogs, 15 pounds of candy, signed up 50 people for the bone marrow registry, and collected 28 units of blood —which is more blood than in three people’s bodies!
October 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Thanks to everyone who came to our office to donate blood and join the bone marrow registry this Halloween!
We gave away over 100 hot dogs, 15 pounds of candy, signed up 50 people for the bone marrow registry, and collected 28 units of blood —which is more blood than in three people’s bodies!
We gave away over 100 hot dogs, 15 pounds of candy, signed up 50 people for the bone marrow registry, and collected 28 units of blood —which is more blood than in three people’s bodies!
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Gomez: He’ll use these troops all over the country unless we put a check on his power. Winning the House is just the first step, because once we do, we’ll be dealing with a trapped wild animal…
October 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Gomez: He’ll use these troops all over the country unless we put a check on his power. Winning the House is just the first step, because once we do, we’ll be dealing with a trapped wild animal…
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Well said Lisa Nandy!
Reform have no real answers to anything.
They just create fear, distrust and chaos!
www.instagram.com/reel/DQc5Aot...
Reform have no real answers to anything.
They just create fear, distrust and chaos!
www.instagram.com/reel/DQc5Aot...
October 31, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Well said Lisa Nandy!
Reform have no real answers to anything.
They just create fear, distrust and chaos!
www.instagram.com/reel/DQc5Aot...
Reform have no real answers to anything.
They just create fear, distrust and chaos!
www.instagram.com/reel/DQc5Aot...
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Federal food assistance known as SNAP benefits will run out on Saturday due to the government shutdown. It will impact more than 40 million Americans, many of them working mothers.
Here are some of the stories they are sharing.
Here are some of the stories they are sharing.
October 31, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Federal food assistance known as SNAP benefits will run out on Saturday due to the government shutdown. It will impact more than 40 million Americans, many of them working mothers.
Here are some of the stories they are sharing.
Here are some of the stories they are sharing.
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I’m speechless, I am without speech
October 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I’m speechless, I am without speech
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A plainclothes goon pretends to be a customer at a Brighton park barber shop. After returning with others, they abduct a man.
October 31, 2025 at 2:11 AM
A plainclothes goon pretends to be a customer at a Brighton park barber shop. After returning with others, they abduct a man.
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FACTS about SNAP:
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
FACTS about SNAP:
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
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My office has received deeply troubling reports that a beloved member of the Staunton community, local business owner, father, and resident of over 20 years, was detained by ICE after dropping his children off at school. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My office has received deeply troubling reports that a beloved member of the Staunton community, local business owner, father, and resident of over 20 years, was detained by ICE after dropping his children off at school. 🧵
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Recall when we had a president who was a decent human being? Seems so remote and novel now.
October 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Recall when we had a president who was a decent human being? Seems so remote and novel now.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
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A government office worker who helps seniors and the disabled with social security benefits shared her emotional response to the government shutdown. Essential government workers like her haven't been paid in four weeks. The pressure of it all has led to panic attacks: "We don't deserve this."
October 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A government office worker who helps seniors and the disabled with social security benefits shared her emotional response to the government shutdown. Essential government workers like her haven't been paid in four weeks. The pressure of it all has led to panic attacks: "We don't deserve this."
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Not a word from the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt on Tucker hosting Fuentes. Amazing.
I just checked his Twitter feed and plenty on Mamdani and even Norway (!) but not a word about a top conservative podcaster hosting an infamous Holocaust denier.
Greenblatt is beyond parody at this point.
I just checked his Twitter feed and plenty on Mamdani and even Norway (!) but not a word about a top conservative podcaster hosting an infamous Holocaust denier.
Greenblatt is beyond parody at this point.
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Not a word from the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt on Tucker hosting Fuentes. Amazing.
I just checked his Twitter feed and plenty on Mamdani and even Norway (!) but not a word about a top conservative podcaster hosting an infamous Holocaust denier.
Greenblatt is beyond parody at this point.
I just checked his Twitter feed and plenty on Mamdani and even Norway (!) but not a word about a top conservative podcaster hosting an infamous Holocaust denier.
Greenblatt is beyond parody at this point.
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Leaked document. Yikes, things are about to get much worse. It looks like we’re on the verge of becoming a military state across the country. Step out of line, and the man come and take you away.
October 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Leaked document. Yikes, things are about to get much worse. It looks like we’re on the verge of becoming a military state across the country. Step out of line, and the man come and take you away.
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On October 30, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois, ICE GOONS Backs into a U.S. citizen’s car and subsequently arrests her for documenting their actions.
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 AM
On October 30, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois, ICE GOONS Backs into a U.S. citizen’s car and subsequently arrests her for documenting their actions.
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Undocumented people aren't eligible for food stamps, yet I guarantee that if you arrived at their door hungry, they would share their food with you.
October 31, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Undocumented people aren't eligible for food stamps, yet I guarantee that if you arrived at their door hungry, they would share their food with you.
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ICE shoots 24-year-old U.S. Citizen in Ontario, CA Reporting
By @eltragon.bsky.social and Aisha Wallace-Palomares
By @eltragon.bsky.social and Aisha Wallace-Palomares
October 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
ICE shoots 24-year-old U.S. Citizen in Ontario, CA Reporting
By @eltragon.bsky.social and Aisha Wallace-Palomares
By @eltragon.bsky.social and Aisha Wallace-Palomares
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Vladeck: Even if you accept the predicate that these drug cartels are foreign terrorist organizations, that still doesn’t get you anywhere close to legal authority to use military force. They’re trying to blur and sort of collapse the distinction between two regimes we have…
October 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Vladeck: Even if you accept the predicate that these drug cartels are foreign terrorist organizations, that still doesn’t get you anywhere close to legal authority to use military force. They’re trying to blur and sort of collapse the distinction between two regimes we have…
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‘We can’t use food emergency funds to pay for this food emergency because that money is only supposed to be used to pay for food emergencies…”
#RadioFreeAmerica
www.msn.com/en-us/health...
#RadioFreeAmerica
www.msn.com/en-us/health...
MSN
www.msn.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 AM
‘We can’t use food emergency funds to pay for this food emergency because that money is only supposed to be used to pay for food emergencies…”
#RadioFreeAmerica
www.msn.com/en-us/health...
#RadioFreeAmerica
www.msn.com/en-us/health...
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ICE gets paid...
But no money for SNAP/Food assistance or other federal employees...
As government shutdown persists, ICE agents are among the still-paid employees receiving ‘super checks’ including lost pay and overtime...
fortune.com/2025/10/22/g...
But no money for SNAP/Food assistance or other federal employees...
As government shutdown persists, ICE agents are among the still-paid employees receiving ‘super checks’ including lost pay and overtime...
fortune.com/2025/10/22/g...
As government shutdown persists, ICE agents are among the still-paid employees receiving ‘super checks’ including lost pay and overtime | Fortune
Public finance expert Linda Bilmes says the “arbitrariness” of who gets paid and who doesn’t during shutdowns exposes the “dysfunction” of the budget approval process.
fortune.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 AM
ICE gets paid...
But no money for SNAP/Food assistance or other federal employees...
As government shutdown persists, ICE agents are among the still-paid employees receiving ‘super checks’ including lost pay and overtime...
fortune.com/2025/10/22/g...
But no money for SNAP/Food assistance or other federal employees...
As government shutdown persists, ICE agents are among the still-paid employees receiving ‘super checks’ including lost pay and overtime...
fortune.com/2025/10/22/g...
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The largest war ship in the world has been moved to the Caribbean, along with other ships, bombers, amphibious vehicles and more.
That’s a lot of firepower to stop small vessels carrying drugs.
It looks a lot more like preparation for war.
Congress needs to get involved before it’s too late.
That’s a lot of firepower to stop small vessels carrying drugs.
It looks a lot more like preparation for war.
Congress needs to get involved before it’s too late.
October 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The largest war ship in the world has been moved to the Caribbean, along with other ships, bombers, amphibious vehicles and more.
That’s a lot of firepower to stop small vessels carrying drugs.
It looks a lot more like preparation for war.
Congress needs to get involved before it’s too late.
That’s a lot of firepower to stop small vessels carrying drugs.
It looks a lot more like preparation for war.
Congress needs to get involved before it’s too late.
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In Gaza, Israel’s military launched several airstrikes on the southern city of Khan Younis this morning — even after it announced a “resumption” of the ceasefire agreement. The bombings followed a wave of Israeli attacks a day earlier that killed at least 104 Palestinians, including 46 children.
October 31, 2025 at 12:06 AM
In Gaza, Israel’s military launched several airstrikes on the southern city of Khan Younis this morning — even after it announced a “resumption” of the ceasefire agreement. The bombings followed a wave of Israeli attacks a day earlier that killed at least 104 Palestinians, including 46 children.