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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 3h

Folks, that's no irony. It's the whole point.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

At the IRS, for example, staff reductions have fallen particularly heavily upon auditors and revenue agents, whose numbers were down by 31 percent in the first three months of this year. (It is no small irony that few government investments offer a higher rate of return than tax audits on upper-income filers, which can yield as much as $12 for every dollar spent.)

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 3h

Reminder this is all happening because Republicans refuse to let you have affordable health care.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

Air traffic control facilities across the United States are reportedly experiencing staff shortages amid Trump’s government shutdown.

These shortages are taking place in Nashville, Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, Washington, and more.

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8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade @mrstorage.bsky.social · 3h

Long time passing

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h

What happened to all those constitutional conservatives in Congress?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.”

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade @mrstorage.bsky.social · 3h

Works for me!

Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 4h

"I've been buying out of Canada
& getting prescription thru UK
& India. Same drugs, except

Cost Plus is rock bottom lower!!!

Saved over $10,000 dollars for
six months prescription
Wow! again

@costplusdrugs proving again, we are cheaper than other countries. Right here in the USA

8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade @mrstorage.bsky.social · 3h

Psychiatric exam

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8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade @mrstorage.bsky.social · 4h

The guy who couldn’t win an Emmy thinks he should get a Nobel Prize. If that’s not dementia I don’t know what is.

8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade @mrstorage.bsky.social · 4h

You always hurt the ones you grift.

8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade @mrstorage.bsky.social · 4h

Trump intends to fill a ballroom with these freaks.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13h

👀👀👀👀

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8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade @mrstorage.bsky.social · 4h

The brain drain, the talent drain, the essential services drain will take its toll on the economy and every other aspect of American life. Add to that the deterrence effect on future science and technology leaders and you’re looking at damage that will be with us for decades.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 5h

The president’s mental acuity is declining, Case Study #6283.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade @mrstorage.bsky.social · 5h

In all fairness, he started with a low IQ. But ask him about shaking down his base and he turns into Einstein.

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8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade @mrstorage.bsky.social · 5h

He’s beyond delusional. There will be countless studies about the willful indifference by his party of his dementia. Generational change has never been more urgent.

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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 10h

MAGA lawmakers regularly share its content. Elon called it "one of the best accounts on X." It's run by a Macedonian who has never set foot in America — and who illegally donated to a U.S. congressional campaign.

Great stuff from @jsweetli.bsky.social:

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

www.rollingstone.com

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8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade @mrstorage.bsky.social · 5h

Sounds like a done deal to me. SCROTUS does not believe in democracy.

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8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade @mrstorage.bsky.social · 5h

Nah, can’t be that

Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 7h

Jeffries: “Republicans acted with great urgency to swear in two right-wing members of congress to do in the American people… What is the delay with respect to Representative-elect. Grijalva? Anything to do with Republicans continuing effort to hide the Epstein files? Inquiring minds want to know.”

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11h

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade @mrstorage.bsky.social · 5h

It’s the only illegal occupation you can dance to.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 6h

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 7h

Fun trick: Every time Trump says ‘Antifa,’ swap in ‘MAGA’—suddenly, what he's saying becomes true.

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8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade @mrstorage.bsky.social · 5h

Or Chicago, or L.A. or any other Blue City

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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