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I like to wander around the woods with my friends. Preserve our big dumb republic. This is a union household. Billionaires go best with fava beans.
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Every $1 spent on IRS audits of the very rich tax recovers $6.3 in revenue

A hot thread on the ZIRP zombies that are now destroying our federal government.

$200m !!!

It’s not just Space X. Musk was able to save Tesla because of a loan from the Dept of Energy. Here he is in 2013 filled with gratitude for the federal agency & the taxpayers who saved his business. From reporting by @puck.news. airmail.news/issues/2025-...

"Populism" is when the richest person in the world fires ordinary working Americans.

Guy who is worth 400 billion dollars: this government hoards too much wealth

This is a wild ride.

There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

💰PRO PUBLICA: “While Musk and his underlings demand budget cuts and layoffs across the federal government, funding for DOGE has soared to nearly $40 million…” www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Heres a story about how i became a part of the local lore of a subway restaurant in nova scotia bsky.app/profile/bren...

They only care when it happens to them or someone they know. Lather, rinse, repeat.

REMINDER: Cutting IRS spending is not a “cost-cutting” move. Cutting the IRS lowers revenue. It’s a move to protect the wealthy, like Elon Musk. Auditing the rich returns $12 for every $1 spent. www.nber.org/papers/w31376

Trump: I AM A KING! NYT: Trump displays a "fondness for regal themes"

New in PN: Unelected billionaire breaks laws to "restore" democracy "In reality, most of what Musk is up to is flatly illegal. Most egregiously, his deletion of entire depts & Trump’s refusal to spend as directed by Congress violates the Constitution. That’s why multiple courts have enjoined them."

This isn’t Chamberlain at Munich 1938, it’s Hitler-Stalin 1939.

The two men cutting flight safety never fly commercial.

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

rogan speaking to the issues that matter to the forgotten working class: killing wolves to make life easier for pretend ranchers who live outside of expensive resort towns

The relevant political cleavage is not policy, it is constitutional order. We can fight bitterly over every policy once we agree that the rules must endure in order to protect the republic

I will say again: The destruction of the CFPB—an agency that has brought in $20 billion over a little more than a decade despite having an annual budget that's less than what DOD has spent so far today—is the clearest sign none of this has anything to do with saving taxpayers money.

How many lazy do-nothing good-for-nothing veterans were shitcanned this week?

You guys have fucked up so bad you made Quebec patriotic

In response to Trump’s assertion, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” we say: The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Ever think about how most all the big political actors and dictators of the 20th century personally experienced the horrors of war and bloodshed? Meanwhile, we’re watching a U.S. coup carried out by men who have lived lives softer than that of your average inbred French Bulldog in a sweater.

Dismantling the protective structures of state, attacking the free press, violating the judiciary, targeting minorities & gathering wealth - all under the guise of “saving the country”. Fascism 101.