The goddamn Trump Administration

They do, but if no one is left who knows how to implement the garnishment, how to determine if someone owes taxes, or even how to make a cup of coffee in the break room, the potential repercussions are a little less likely.

(Although on the other hand, they can always find someone to sic on “the poors.”)

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When Belle (or Beau) is concerned, I’m concerned.

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The IRS will be turned into another cudgel to keep the middle class and the poor in line. The rich will be let off the hook, particularly if they declare their allegiance to the correct party. Just look at the fact that they took free file offline and no doubt any agents looking into the taxes of rich real estate developers will be sacked.

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Could go in Sportsball thread, but think this has more to do with Dump

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MAGA will say, “Sure, that was bad, but it still would have been worse under Kamala.”

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Source please?

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I’m not sure why you say that? Free File still available.

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Better use it quick, though. Elon Musk has just announced that he’s killing it.

From: Pluralistic: Musk steals a billion dollars from low-income Americans and sends it to Intuit (11 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

So , maybe I was mistaken that he actually killed it, but it seems to be in his crosshairs

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Yeah, I think that’s what Cory was getting at. (I did read that when you posted it in the other thread a few days ago.)

But just to be sure folks know, Free File is still up and available. I’m planning to use it again this year. In fact I got an email, as usual, inviting me to use it again this year, from the “partner site” that I’ve used for the last several years.

(Is it okay to just put the IRS link here? I feel sort of nervous to… like, could it attract unwanted attention to this site??)

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Yes, it’s called Colossus.

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I do hope this either isn’t real or doesn’t mean what I think it means.

The physics package is the nuclear explosive module inside the bomb casing, missile warhead, or artillery shell, etc., which delivers the weapon to its target. While photographs of weapon casings are common, photographs of the physics package are quite rare, even for the oldest and crudest nuclear weapons.

Source, footnote #1.

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My local Facebook group is the worst kind of hell.



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Oh definitely no worries then! /s

As unfunny as naming a surveillance system “Skynet”…

Paging Margaret Atwood, Aisle One…

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ETA:
From that thread

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Damn. “Storm front” indeed.

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The defense editor for the Economist says…

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I guess the Trump regime thinks it’s in our vital national interests to destabilize the world, fracture the economy, break vital alliances and make new and more enemies on all sides.

Who needs Five Eyes. Everyone knows where the enemy is now.

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