IRS begins worker furloughs, suspends most tax operations - Bloomberg Law
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๐ The tide is slowly shifting
Souls are fighting back โคต๏ธ๐ฅ
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Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!
Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned
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a man in a suit and tie is talking on a telephone and making a funny face .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking on a telephone and making a funny face .
Jack Smith didn't "tap" anyone's phone. He got phone records of potential insurrection suspects via lawful grand jury subpoenas. Just so happens some of those suspected of participating in January 6th were republican members of congress. If you don't want you phone records subpoenaed...
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โIโm just trying to find any clues, ideas, see where they took him, why they took him. And whatโs the whole purpose for this?โ
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Your pop quiz for today:
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Global tax avoider Glencore gets a $600 million dollar handout of taxpayer money via state and federal governments to prop up the Mt Isa copper refinery. It's yet another case of privatise the profits and socialise the losses. What equity are the taxpayers getting in return? Let me guess....
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What are in the Epstein files that is worth keeping the government shutdown?
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YES YES YES YES YES YES ON PROP 50, A TEMPORARY, DEMOCRATIC COUNTER TO TRUMP REQUESTED EXTREME GERRYMANDERING IN TEXAS
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This is clearly assault. ๐ก ICE is RABID.
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Catching up on what happened while I was in court and then writing, and this is among the notable developments. โ>
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Little bit of traffic in war ravaged Portland. Look at all those fires. Literally burning to the ground. Sad.
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thank you brett kavanaugh!
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'A cost of climate change': Why the price of electricity is outpacing inflation
NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Robinson Meyer of the climate and energy site Heatmap News why electricity bills are rising faster than inflation.
Electric bills are rising twice as fast as inflation. The grid is aging, extreme weather keeps breaking it, and rebuilding safely costs more. These are the hidden costs of climate change. The answer is not denial. It is investing in a stronger, cleaner, more resilient grid.
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I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?
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This photo of red troops from Texas invading Illinois over a fake emergency is raising some significant questions for those who watched the televised address Pete Kegstand gave to hundreds of generals, admirals and commanders recently, a speech that already lives in infamy as the "No Fatties Speech"
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New Jersey Senator Andy Kim knows how to recognize a mob boss. So glad we worked so hard to get him elected.
He's working for us. He's communicating to us. He's working to get the corruption out of our government.
Listen to his video. #DemVoice1
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But with the United States, we have elected a president who would rather ignore the problems that we all want solutions to, and he's now a dictator, which America that I know doesn't support Dictators.
Our president is the enemy of their own people, and it's a fact.
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'Fanning the flames': 3 ex-GOP governors slam Trump's 'infuriating' use of National Guard
Three former Republican governors are speaking out forcefully against President Donald Trumpโs plan to federalize the National Guard in Democratic-led cities, calling the move a โconstitutional dilemmaโ that raises serious questions about executive overreach.
In an NBC report published Tuesday, former Ohio Gov. John Kasich used the phrase in warning against what he sees as an increasingly confrontational approach from Trump.
โI would say: โHere are my problems. What can you do to help me? Work with me. Donโt just shove stuff down my throat,โโ Kasich said, per the report.
"I think itโs a real constitutional dilemma that is unprecedented and it will have to be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court," former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) told NBC.
The remarks come as Trump pushes to send troops into cities like Chicago and Portland under the stated goal of protecting federal agents and curbing violent crime โ a plan that has triggered legal challenges and political backlash from Democratic governors.
Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman described the strategy as not only counterproductive but dangerous in his remarks to NBC.
โThis is infuriating,โ said Whitman, who left the Republican Party in 2022. โIt is stoking resentment and fanning the flames. But as a governor there is nothing you can do to really stop the president from federalizing the guard.โ
Trump has floated the possibility of invoking the Insurrection Act โ a rarely used law that allows the president to deploy U.S. military forces for domestic law enforcement.
At a Monday press conference, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) accused Trump of deliberately inflaming tensions to justify that move.
โThe Trump administration is following a playbook: Cause chaos, create fear and confusion,โ he said, citing what he described as heavy-handed federal responses to protests.Illinois filed a lawsuit on Monday to block the deployment of troops to Chicago, but a judge has yet to rule on the request, setting a hearing for later in the week.
The report also mentioned former governors like Kasich and Whitman, who are long-standing Trump critics. They say theyโre not surprised by his latest actions, or by the silence from many current Republican leaders.
While some GOP governors have publicly backed Trumpโs moves, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R), others have remained quiet.
Abbott went a step further, announcing on social media that he had โfully authorizedโ Trump to deploy 400 Texas National Guard troops to other states, saying, โNo Guard can match the training, skill, and expertise of the Texas National Guard.โ
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No one in Canada will ever love you again โ they know theyโre living right above the madhouse.
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Sanctimonious Richard โDa Nang Dickโ Blumenthal, perhaps the biggest โjokeโ in the United States Senate, is at it again! โDickโ lied until the midpoint of his political career, convincing everyone, in particular the Fake News Media, that he was a great โWar Heroโ who lived on the precipice of death in the jungles of Vietnam. He would talk about his life in the military in almost every speech, in particular the death defying dangers he faced in his many years โfight for freedomโ while in Vietnam. He stated that โthe battles were violent and long, but there was no going backโ - And then it happened, Blumenthal was found out to be a FRAUD. The soldiers in his so-called โplatoonโ came forward and said that they had no idea who this guy was. He was revealed, broke down and admitted, tears flowing from his eyes, that he LIED, a Whopper, one that lasted 20 year. This guy shouldnโt even be in the U.S. Senate. It should be investigated, and Justice should be sought. Right now there is a Congressman sitting in prison for lying about his past during a campaign. Well, those lies were nothing compared to those of Richard โDa Nang Dickโ Blumenthal, perhaps the greatest phony in the history of the United States Senate. He should be allowed to speak no longer!
Trump posts that Sen. Blumenthal โshould be allowed to speak no longerโ
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Update from the war zone in Portland.
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Boebert & Burchett are complaining that George Santos is having a difficult time with prison.
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