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Hard to believe this guy has trouble with employment statistics

DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.

SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists.
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It's corruption all the way down.

Underrated tweet.

Detainees have sometimes been given flavorless meat that is so finely ground that it is almost liquefied, he told NBC News from the Golden State Annex detention facility in California. “It looks like little, small pebbles, and that will be the ounces that they give you,” he said, referring to meat portions he has had in meals. Jennifer Norris, a directing attorney at the Immigrant Defenders Law Center with clients at multiple California detention centers, said it has gotten several complaints from clients in other facilities about the food being “inedible” and in one case “moldy.” The complaints come as some centers reach capacity with recent arrests, she said. A woman named Rubimar, who asked that she and her husband, Jose, be identified by their first names only because he was deported Wednesday and fears fallout in Venezuela as a result of talking to the media, said Jose was detained by ICE in El Paso, Texas, for about three months and had complained about a lack of food there. “He tells me many are given two spoonfuls of rice and that many are still hungry,” Rubimar said in an interview before Jose was deported to Venezuela.

Detainees in ICE facilities report being served flavorless, almost liquefied meat; food that is moldy; and in some cases only two spoonfuls of rice total.

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"you can't get into college identifying as white" is one of the funniest things I've ever heard.

Office of the Attorney General Washington, A. O. 20530 July 14, 2025 MEMORANDUM FOR ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES FROM: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL PU SUBJECT: IMPLEMENTATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 14,224: DESIGNATING ENGLISH AS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA I. INTRODUCTION As President Trump recognized in his Executive Order No. 14,224, 90 Fed. Reg. 11363 (Mar. 6, 2025) (Executive Order 14,224), it is in America's best interest for the federal government to have one official language: English.' A shared language binds Americans together, transcending different backgrounds to create a common foundation for public discourse, government operations, and civic life, while leaving ample room for the vibrant linguistic diversity that thrives in private and community spheres. This policy streamlines federal processes ensuring forms, notices, websites, and advisories are consistent, clear, and cost-effective thus reducing administrative burdens and enhancing operational efficiency

DOJ directing government that application forms and processes must only be in English, on the grounds that it reduces administrative burdens.
I wrote the book Administrative Burdens w @pamherd.bsky.social and this policy does the opposite www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...

3D TVs an VR goggles felt this way

kind of Ordo amoris according to Vatican II (from Orm Rush’s 2019 book)

“Homeland” is one of the most fascist words imaginable. Anyone talking with a straight face about “the homeland” is a guaranteed psycho. Obama should have torn down DHS 20 years ago based on the name alone.

Photograph of Newton Knight

We need a lot more men like Newt Knight, Captain of the “Jones County Scouts” and leader of the 1863-1865 Jones Co., Mississippi Unionist insurrection against the Confederate slaver rebellion

I’m glad you said “when” not “if.” That’s the spirit

When we do our big Reconstruction II, I think we should consider rearranging things so that elections occur at the beginning of the calendar year and inaugurations happen very soon after. There's too much confusion caused by the person winning the 2020 election not actually being in office in 2020.

“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” (Thoreau)

Cyberdyne > xAI

Gimme that old-time T-1000 instead

George Jeffreys, Lord Chancellor under James II.

Nice constitution you got there. Shame if some judges wrecked it to please the executive.

ACNA to Try Bishop on Mishandling Abuse Charges - The Living Church According to three bishops who brought charges against him, the bishop did not initiate an investigation into allegations for nearly two years after hearing of a 9-year-old’s abuse.

New for @livingchurch.bsky.social: The trial of Bp. Stewart Ruch III begins today. He is the second ACNA bishop to be tried and will face charges involving alleged mishandling of sexual abuse disclosures & habitual promotion of abusive ministers in his diocese.
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The Trump administration clearly doesn’t care whether you live or die, but also I never thought I’d see the day when Republicans started telling people what they can and cannot eat.

"Comrade Commissar! Why are we using potatoes instead of real grenades?!"

For those legitimately and understandably upset by this, take some solace in the fact that apparently the husband was sent to the front after three weeks of training, rather than given the promised cushy welding job back in the Rodina

YouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose

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YouTube video by Ruined Roast "Hymn to the Supreme Being" - French Republican Poem/Song from the French Revolution (1794)

This would be lovely for an ordination hymn

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This is a prayer luncheon for faith leaders where Trump is telling this story of an ugly billionaire whose trophy wife might leave him if he didn’t get his tax cuts.

Why Greg Abbott refuses to release his emails with Elon Musk The governor’s office said some of the correspondence with the billionaire and his companies contains “intimate” information that isn’t of “legitimate concern to the public.”

“Gov. Greg Abbott doesn’t want to reveal months of communications with Elon Musk, arguing in part that they are of a private nature, not of public interest and potentially embarrassing.”

I would simply not send intimate information to Elon on my government emails.

Gas, it’s an old-fashioned word, but a very beautiful word

Wait till DHS finds out about Embassy Row in DC