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Elected Republicans are coalescing around the talking point that CBO's tax cut estimates are complete fiction and that tax cuts pay for themselves. Well, CBO's 2018 and 2019 revenue estimates - which included the previous year's TCJA - were ... 99.5% accurate. 🧵

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Hamas did the crime, then persuaded credulous western media to fix blame on Israel for its own action

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Right, because the best way to revitalize American manufacturers is to...tax them to death on their input costs. Solid thinking. 🙄

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Naturally, Donald Trump is celebrating mediocrity

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Yes, she says, we need more tradespeople - but not her. She means the plebs, you see. She went to St. Anselm's College (softball scholarship) and majored in communications and minored in poli sci.

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Dispatch reporter Charles Hilu reports on the latest status of the House's reconciliation bill from the Hill:

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In an era that looked as if it might be defined by an American man of depraved cruelty, corruption & shame, what a magnificent thing the Catholic Church has done. The elevation of an American man of goodness, grace, humility, mercy & faith to the Throne of St. Peter is moving & momentous for us all.

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Another reminder that Twitter's MAGA voters - who consider themselves the gatekeepers of conservatism - elected a free-spending, regulating, big-government populist who sounds like Bernie Sanders deriding the excesses of growth-focused capitalism.

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I keep hearing some variation of "oh, these boys, everything was going against them, they reacted this way," and I'm amazed that none of them had fathers or uncles or older brothers. Amazing. A whole generation of fatherless boys.

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Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945. For Americans, the Second World War would rage for three more months, until VJ Day in August. But for Russians and those influenced by them, "Victory Day" falls in May. Trump follows the Russian practice, not the American.

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Canadian Voter: I think who I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump, because Trump is, I’m sorry to say, an asshole.

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NEW from me. In Politico Magazine, I walk through the contradictions of Trumponomics - such as tariffs both eliminating imports and taxing trillions from them. And balancing the budget by hiking spending and cutting taxes by trillions. Everything contradicts itself. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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1/Just back from 2 weeks in Asia. US engaged in the most far reaching attempt to restructure the global economy in a century and we have hit the omnishambles portion of the program: undermining US economic security and weaken US credibility in the world. fortune.com/article/trum...

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NEW from me: My debut article in @theatlantic.com summarizes why to care about deficits heading towards $4T over the decade, and a debt heading towards (at least!) 241% of GDP over three decades. A $200 trillion national debt will bury the financial markets. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

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To all those who say Trump has “single-handedly” wrecked the economy: He didn’t do it single-handedly. Congress could’ve stopped him anytime. The Republican-led Congress allowed him to wreck the economy.

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This is great.

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Watching MAGA diehards spitball theories to explain why an economic meltdown is Ackshually Good will be hilarious for us all, providing welcome entertainment in the grim months and years to come, Nick Catoggio writes:

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Trump: "We’re going to become so rich, you’re not gonna know where to spend all that money. I’m telling you—just watch!" MAGA 4,000 lost Dow points later: "Losing money means nothing... you won't miss any of it." Funny, and also Bolshevik rhetoric from so-called conservatives.

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Don’t blame just Trump for this. Blame every congressional Republican. They own this tariff disaster too. In fact, they own every stupid, ignorant, cruel, authoritarian, un-American thing Trump does. Cowards. Enablers. Accomplices.

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NEW from me at MSNBC. Trump's tariffs are calamitous, incoherent, economically-illiterate, historically-illiterate, anti-worker, anti-consumer, anti-poor, prioritize enemies over allies, and will slam the economy, raise prices, and provide little budget savings. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Today, there are people who say, "No way can Trump have a third term. It's flatly unconstitutional." Will they same the same in, oh, '27 and '28? Pardon my skepticism, but I have seen a wearing down, and a rolling over, before.

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National Socialism.

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I regret to inform you that it was Biden's fault that the National Security Advisor patched a journalist into the Trump Administration's war plans. Hunter Biden's, that is. I don't make the rules.

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Unlawful is unlawful.

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IRS predicts $500 billion in uncollected tax revenues this season, due mostly to DOGE-forced staffing cuts encouraging tax evasion. Sorry conservatives, this isn't "cut taxes to force equal spending cuts," its "keep spending and then blow up deficits by letting rich people evade their taxes."

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"It looks very strange. If Putin 'does not intend to continue fighting against Ukraine and wants peace,' then why is he demanding that we weaken our army?" - Zelenskyy. t.me/c/1377735387...

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This is the most accurate headline to capture what happened in DC today. Lots of vets were there—but it was not led by vets or exclusively focused on the mass firings. When that happens, it will be much, much larger. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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This is 100 percent true and 100 percent depressing.

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Why We Will ALWAYS Import Oil Mo Matter How Much We Increase Production. Please Share! youtu.be/LNSWRwYjyko?...

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Yes, the game went into OT, but… 🔥 Nikola Jokić becomes the first player in NBA history with a 30/20/20 game. H/T statmuse

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If Trump was president in 1940: “Britain, Germany has all the cards. Your Army fled like a dog in Dunkirk! You don’t have any cards and you need cards!! I just want peace and i don’t care who has the advantage! CARDS!”