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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/13/fetterman-staff-00344618
2 more Fetterman aides leave embattled senatorās office
The departures are the latest in a string of staff exits over the past year and a half.
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett discusses sending a message to 
, threats against members of Congress, and Elno/DOGE:
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Mike Johnson: āLook, Iāve been a little busy on reconciliation, so Iām not following all the twists and turns of the Qatar jet. My understanding is itās not a personal gift to the president ā¦ other nations give us gifts all the time ā¦ itās not my lane.ā
Video at link
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So heās resigned the Speakership? Because itās Congress that approves gifts, heās nominally the Speaker of the House; if itās not his lane then he must have resigned.
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If Sen. Lee gets his way and bans porn nationally, what will Speaker Johnson and his son have to talk about?
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Congresspeople and their families will be exempt from the enforcement, as per norm.
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Sneaky. Got this from a financial institutionās current articles. Lots of ways in which the new proposed Tax Bill claims to be helping average families but in fact is codifying higher in-pocket savings for the wealthiest tax payers, but this one little section sounds so reasonable that itāll probably be passed, putting MAGA on the books:
Savings Accounts for Minors
A new concept in the bill is the āmoney account for growth and advancementā provision, or MAGA accounts. This allows taxpayers to contribute up to $5,000 per year to a trust account for a minor. The assets are not taxed while they remain in the account. Distributions for qualified purposes (education, purchasing a primary residence, or paying back an SBA loan) are taxed upon withdrawal at capital gains rates for amounts in excess of basis. The bill also contains a pilot program where parents of children born between 2025 and 2029 can receive a refundable credit from the Treasury department for $1,000 per child deposited directly into a MAGA account for that child.
How many families have an extra $5K per child to drop into an account like this every year? But it sure looks nice, doesnāt it? And, an extra reward for those who have babies specifically in this Administrationās time period and can afford to silo at least $1K.
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Yeah, I donāt know many families that can swing that, year after year, even in my middle-class bubble. And it is also a worse deal than the 529 plans that most states offer for education, which are tax-free going in AND out. This would complete with those plans and probably weaken their investment power.
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I look at anything like this (because this will send the ketchup flying) as a d100 roll with a 1% chance of acute myocardial infarction or 2% chance of cerebrovascular accident. Itās low percentage, but if you roll enough times, youāll eventually get the number you need.
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Whatās next, skywriting? Iām imagining āSurrender Donaldā¦ā
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The way that they filmed that effect for the movie was super cool. They had a glass-bottomed table covered in a layer of milky liquid with a camera pointing up at it. Then they used a syringe of black liquid to spell out the āsmokeā letters from above. Ingenious!
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Iām surprised that the secret service would allow it. At least while Donnie is there.
They usually close the airspace when heās somewhere.
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Presumably with the cooperation of the erstwhile FAA, so he mightāve hoisted himself with his own petard.
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Honestly, there are a lot of things that are more illegal than genocide. International law doesnāt tend to be very robust after all
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On a scale of one to ten, this scores 14.1.
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