You should be able to easily file your taxes for free with the IRS.
Not only did Trump kill Direct File, the IRS's free tax filing program, but this week, Republicans BLOCKED my bill that would make the program law of the land.
That's what you call selling out to TurboTax.
Reminder: the Court STOPPED the Obama Administration's effort to curb greenhouse gases, clean the air, STALL CLIMATE CHANGE & ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER.
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This morning, I was reminded that the First Five Years of Sub Pop were HEAVY.
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"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get."
~ Tracy Chapman
Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht
#Booksky
Pete Hegseth has fired 9 generals in the last 15 months after America had only fired 11 total in the prior *160 years*, so miss me with these supposed DoD leaks claiming the USAF is "rejecting" war-crime targets proposed by Hegseth
Anyone saying no to him will be fired in short order
When Tracy Chapman got her first big paycheck, she didn’t buy a car.
Or jewelry.
Or a vacation.
She bought her mom a house.
Paid off her student loans.
Helped her sister Aneta go to school.
That’s what success looks like when your roots run deep.
The same Republicans that gave Trump $200 million to renovate the Kennedy Center in the Big, Ugly Bill said it was too expensive to extend the ACA tax credits.
Apparently, there's an unlimited budget for Trump vanity projects and zero dollars for your health care.
The fix is in.
Ghislaine Maxwell, transferred to a club med prison after Trump's lawyer met with her (and she likely spilled what she knows about Trump), is now being waited on "hand and foot" by guards and is getting her commutation application ready with help from the warden.
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The 2025 Code of Federal Regulations Annual Color!!
PURPLE
Why aren't the Dems redistricting or attempting to re-redistrict in their state legislatures?
Sounds about right, and it's time to radically re-think the Bar exam, IMHO. www.abajournal.com/web/article/...
The United States, even when it’s governed humanely, lacks a truly universal health care system. So let’s not kid ourselves when we claim to be a decent society while we dispense health care according to merit.
https://trib.al/B7bLfnK
Norms are out the window -- and they should have been when people started disappearing.
This is precisely what Northerners said in the late 1850s after southern congressmen protecting slavery threatened their northern colleagues for many years.
Northerners made it clear that they wanted their members of Congress to fight back.
Hard.
A few came to the Capitol with guns.
Just noticed that Justice Jackson wrote a 14-page dissent on the agency reorganization! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
The last 50 years have been a sickening catastrophe for the working class and have created another class of people who really do think they’re better than everyone else.
There is an obvious cure.
https://trib.al/1yyoOL9
Sounds about right.
Allergists Recommend Allergy Sufferers Retreat Underground To Form Pollen-Free, Cave-Dwelling Society
Allergists Recommend Allergy Sufferers Retreat Underground To Form Pollen-Free, Cave-Dwelling Society theonion.com/allergi...
Things at the heart of being American:
Free & fair elections where WE get to decide who gets power.
The right to protest & talk back to power.
Faith in a fair chance before the law (due process)
The promise of citizenship: the ultimate pact of trust
A shared set of laws that rules us all.
I ran across this Christian Identity tract in the papers of Walter Huss, the chair of the OR GOP who was criticized by his fellow Republicans for saying he wanted Christians to run the government. It was obvious how antisemitic that was in 1978. How things have changed.
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This is the sort of procedural hardball I've been wanting to see, and that Senate Democrats in particular should be doing way more of.
🕗 The microfiche livestream runs until 8pm PT tonight—then switches over to silent films & NASA images from Internet Archive collections. 🚀🎞️
Scanning resumes tomorrow during normal hours:
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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
“The administration is no longer pretending that it is standing up for Jewish students,” Rose Horowitch writes. “The project has been revealed for what it is: an effort to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.”
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein also barred any further removals without due process of alleged Tren de Aragua members held in his district.
