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taxdayboy.bsky.social
• Retired career public employee who took his various State and Federal oaths of service seriously. • Dog lover without a dog. • I'll read a lot but probably post rarely.
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So Trump imposes blanket tariffs, and only when a CEO pays him $5 million will he offer a carveout. Anyone who thinks he’s “draining the swamp” is either complicit or a fool.

submitted 23 hours ago • 559 comments

Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w... I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments

Everything got so stupid so quickly.

submitted 2 days ago • 1184 comments

Musk says millions of dead people get Social Security. That's a lie. Here's the truth: 30,000 people die a year waiting for an understaffed Social Security to approve disability benefits. Musk's plan to cut Social Security's staff by 50% will make this tragic reality even worse.

submitted 2 days ago • 232 comments

NEW: former Putin adviser Illarionov says he learned of the Trump administration decision to cut off all military support to Ukraine on February 25th, before Zelenskyy's White House meeting on February 28t Zelenskyy's visit was then blamed retroactively in the March 4th announcement of the decision

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

Trump thanked John Roberts on his way out of the state of the union because he sees John Roberts more clearly than Roberts sees himself www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 4 days ago • 98 comments

US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine https://www.ft.com/content/c58fccea-00c4-4fad-bc0a-0185b7415579

submitted 4 days ago • 88 comments

Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking “track shipment” to see what happened to his new editorial page.

submitted 4 days ago • 501 comments

COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal: “Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine." @latenightercom.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 219 comments

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

submitted 5 days ago • 1206 comments

Maybe, just maybe, Americans don’t need to be paid money to hold political leaders accountable for bad policy decisions.

submitted 6 days ago • 1474 comments

Tariffs UP. Groceries UP. Exports DOWN. Stock market DOWN. Consumer confidence DOWN. Chance of a recession UP UP UP. After Trump left, it took Biden 4 years to rebuild the US economy. It’s taken Trump just 6 weeks to destroy it again.

submitted 5 days ago • 157 comments

Vance: There was a lack of respect. There was a certain sense of entitlement.

submitted 5 days ago • 519 comments

Fox and Newsmax are destroying this country! Folks need to start suing those fake news networks on behalf of their families. This is so sad. This dude talking to his dad who drank the Kool-Aid about Zelensky and the war. Whew!

submitted 5 days ago • 829 comments

Every accusation is an intention.

submitted 6 days ago • 493 comments

Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

submitted 8 days ago • 408 comments

If you're expressing "bewilderment" abt why Trump would betray US allies for Putin, you probably need to go back & read what Trump was up to when Mike Flynn investigation halted negotiations w/Kirill Dmitriev, who has picked up right where that left off. www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/02/r...

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

@lisalowy.bsky.social Hey buddy!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Who else AGREES with the very-vocal, very passionate heroine, Jasmine Crockett?! 🤚 We. Need. More. Of. This. ✨

submitted 12 days ago • 324 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 16 days ago • 2006 comments

For eight decades, alliances have formed the bedrock of American foreign, trade and cultural policy. But not any more. Europeans, but also America's Asian allies, need to accept this new world, and learn how to live in it. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 17 days ago • 92 comments

I didnt think it possible to respect @marcelias.bsky.social more than I already did. This is truth to utterly corrupt and corrosive power.

submitted 17 days ago • 20 comments

@samsteindc.bsky.social lays out all the ways that Trump is causing a brain drain. This is America's competitive advantage. Trump is just pissing it away. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...

submitted 18 days ago • 26 comments

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

submitted 18 days ago • 664 comments

Here is the ad Jeff Bezos didn’t want you to see and stopped WaPo from publishing. Repost it here and everywhere you can! …. #Resist

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

If you claim to be a leader but are too scared to lead, fine -- sit down and let someone else take your place. It is easy to be bold when there is no threat. Now is a time for courage. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

submitted 21 days ago • 1408 comments

A long must-read!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 21 days ago • 477 comments

Good point by @pkrugman.bsky.social. Musk keeps making up lies about "fraud" in the government because they literally have not found a single true example they can point to. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 24 days ago • 425 comments

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

submitted 24 days ago • 242 comments

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

submitted 24 days ago • 1458 comments

submitted 25 days ago • 34 comments

Hegseth got heckled by what appeared to be military family members in Germany. Yelling"DEI!" at him as he arrived at the headquarters. This is unheard of and shows how angry many are with the anti-DEI push that's led to book bannings in DOD schools. I break it down! Subscribe! youtu.be/c7ky05dmQ2g

submitted 26 days ago • 534 comments

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

submitted 29 days ago • 159 comments

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 35 days ago • 354 comments

For all federal employees: Before you are locked out of your systems, ensure you have copies of unclassified performance appraisals, awards & other relevant personnel docs. If you have access to your office, grab your more important personal items sooner rather than later.

submitted 36 days ago • 329 comments

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 36 days ago • 1822 comments