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Ron Filipkowski

The Trump admin ignores a law on the books passed by Congress decades ago and says churches can now endorse candidates but other tax-exempt organizations still can’t. meidasnews.com/news/irs-say...

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 166. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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Dan Bongino made his first post of the day after the Epstein debacle. 8,900 replies in just over an hour from the angry MAGA faithful. It’s ugly.

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Alex Jones starts crying and says he’s going to throw up after learning about Trump’s cover up of the Epstein files.

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It’s been a long day for MAGA.

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TACO Trump.

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Bibi knows his mark. They all do. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 166. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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Devastating news.

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We went from 90 trade deals in 90 days to 90 sophomoric form letters.

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It’s about time we taught our mortal enemy Tunisia a lesson. Trump hits them with 25% tariff.

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Peter Navarro laying the groundwork to blame Fed Chair Powell for a slumping economy: “He doesn’t understand Trumpnomics. He doesn’t understand the supply side aspects of tax cuts and deregulation. And he doesn’t have clue about tariffs.”

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Another suicide in Russia.

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Alina Habba in Feb: “On Epstein, it’s incredibly disturbing. We have flight logs, info, names that will come out. There were so many names hidden who had not been held accountable. Now it’s time for accountability. I really believe with Kash and Pam there will be accountability.”

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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 165. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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Musk mocks Pam Bondi.

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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 165. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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www.kxan.com/investigatio...

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MAGA simultaneously making the argument that Elon is a traitor and will fail miserably with his 3rd party while also claiming it will only hurt Democrats is peak MAGA cope.

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MAGA, where stupidity and ignorance is a virtue.

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Republican congressional candidate in Georgia weighs in.

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We are finally starting to get some posts from Republicans after the deadly storm in Texas.

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Rural areas hit hardest by catastrophic storms are the same areas now in danger of losing their hospitals after Trump’s Medicaid cuts just passed.

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He represents Texas. And today he’s talking about a random dude who burned a flag. Because that’s what Texas elected officials should be focused on today.

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Still nothing from Trump about all the people who were killed in Texas yesterday.

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When experts warned for months that the NWS “is being destroyed” by Trump’s personnel cuts, Howard Lutnick assured Congress that forecasting won’t be affected. Now TX officials are blaming a faulty forecast by NWS for the deadly impact of a storm. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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When you have an entire political movement like MAGA who has sneering contempt for experts who have spent decades in a profession - like weather forecasters - and the need for govt to use those experts to save lives, the results of that too often are that many people die.

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After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.

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Cool, cool. While he was dancing there are dozens of missing people including children in a major natural disaster in Texas that he hasn’t said a word about. Party on.

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Congress abdicated its role as a separate and independent branch of government on January 20 while also relinquishing all oversight responsibility, so it’s entirely appropriate for Johnson to show that he has surrendered his gavel to the executive.

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Melania’s face as Trump rambles incoherently today.

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Trump’s pardons have cost crime victims $1.5 billion in restitution that they now will never see, mostly victims of fraud committed by his cronies. www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...

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Gold everywhere. Paintings of mug shots everywhere. A new cheesy Mar-a-Lago style ballroom. Now a UFC fight. The crass and classless ass continues to sully the understated grandeur and dignity of the people’s house to turn it into one of his failed Atlantic City casinos.

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There really should be a moratorium on all “Republican holdout” stories from this point forward. Write about the Tooth Fairy instead so we can learn the latest on something more plausible.

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It is completely obvious that if Trump was alive in July 4, 1776 he would have been a loyalist backing King George III while searching for every possible way to avoid serving in the war.

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Nice work to all the Senators who claim to be pro-Ukraine to confirm a Secretary of Defense with a long track record of making anti-Ukraine statements. What could go wrong? Plenty more in addition to what already has. www.nbcnews.com/news/militar...

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 164. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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I’m sure Trump’s new plan of allowing employers in certain industries to decide whether their workers will get deported or not will lead to lovely working conditions and fair wages.

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Indentured servitude making a comeback in the Golden Era.

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Trump once again using the US military as props for his partisan political theater.

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I think if Tim Burchett had held out for another hour he could’ve wrangled at least 2 more signed Trump hats for his vote.

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So someone like a construction worker or a cook on an hourly wage who pays full taxes on their income is still going to give 20% of their food bill to someone who won’t pay taxes on it? Maybe. Maybe not. I guess we will find out.

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Good thing Trump had that talk with Putin today about stopping the bombing. Putin answered with another FU to the Orange weakling.

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The Trump Effect

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 164. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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Trump said during the campaign he “knew exactly what to say to Putin” in one phone call to get him to end the war. He said he was going to do it his first day in office and the war would be over in 24 hours. But here we are. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Where’s the lie?

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Hegseth is always working.

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One of the most popular government programs in the history of government programs. The tax preparer service corporate lobby wins again.

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From the conservative CATO Institute.

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Fox Chief Political Analyst

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As I’ve said a few times now, with Trump’s war on career civil servants and replacing them with partisan hacks, and their penchant for lying about every number, the time will come when smart people are going to have to question the data coming out of Trump’s Labor & Commerce.

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You really have to have a special kind of contempt for the intellect of your supporters to expect them to believe this. They do though. But still.

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The House Fold Caucus exploded the national debt in exchange for signed merch in the Oval Office.

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If someone doesn’t ask Karoline Leavitt why she posted on social media that this bill includes no taxes on Social Security when she knows it is a lie and she intentionally lied to the American people, everyone in the room should lose their jobs.

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A press secretary who knowingly lies every day to the American people about obvious and irrefutable facts.

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Trump promised he’d deal with clean energy credits later. And his word is his bond.

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Some of these Republicans trying to vote no have grounds for a restraining order against Trump at this point for harassing and stalking phone calls.

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Get ready for the Clyde cave and flip.

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While most Dems have focused on the draconian cuts to vital programs for those most in need, I have focused on the epic fiscal irresponsibility of this bill caused by massive tax cuts and huge spending increases in defense and DHS. Both equally important. There’s a lot to hate.

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That’s a lot of years and a lot of votes.

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I’m totally confused by this analysis.

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Pretty much sums up his entire approach to legislating and life.

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I asked AI how closely Stephen Miller’s post today aligns with Nazi ideology in 1930s Germany. This is what I got.

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The former Chair of the House Freedom Caucus. The answer is because they are afraid of Donald Trump and don’t want to be Bob Good who lost his seat when Trump endorsed someone to run against him because he was mad at him.

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What he’s really saying here is what they are always really saying: Trump wants a “win”. He needs to declare victory & be able to lie about what’s in it & claim how great it is. So they either take the path of least resistance & vote for it, or do what’s right & face his wrath.

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He went full MAGA. Never go full MAGA.

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Coming up at 4 ET on Uncovered, the latest on the budget bill, some of the worst things in it, political fallout, Tillis out - is Roy Cooper running?, Musk v Trump, Dem leadership, Alligator Alcatraz and ICE, Trump Fragrance, Netanyahu, and lots more. www.youtube.com/live/UVKdwr1...

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Joe Neguse now wants to know why Mike Johnson continues to leave votes open indefinitely for hours every time they don’t have enough votes.

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So Mike Johnson is just going to hold the vote open for hours again so Trump can start threatening people. Standard operating procedure now in the House.

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Don’t worry, the debt won’t be that bad from this bill because the growth of the economy as a result of this and tariffs is going to be just like Trump Shuttle.

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“Conservatives” voting for $3-4 trillion of additional debt to plunge the US into debt slavery for at least a generation. What are they conserving?

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Time for the phony House Caving Caucus to end the performance art and vote for the biggest deficits in the history of human civilization and drive us closer to insolvency.

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They are a bunch of little bitches tho

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In the last 24 hours she has put out 18 different videos of herself. In most of them she’s in her pajamas in public places, except for one when she’s in body armor. I think it was 4 different outfits total.

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The Golden Age.

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The solution is more ketamine.

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Translation: Virtually every single member of the Trump family is scamming billions in the crypto market, and we don’t want to do anything that might impede their efforts. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Another funeral on Maria’s show as the latest economic numbers come in. It’s becoming a weekly feature of The Golden Age. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Trump says an economic boom is suddenly going to happen which will cause massive deficits in his bill to magically evaporate. Meanwhile, the economy heads in the opposite direction from even the current realistic projections. The debt may well be EVEN WORSE than CBO projects now.

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Supposedly no one cares, but they’re too afraid of Musk to go on the record because they don’t want him to know that they were the one who said they don’t care.

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He had 5 red sirens too.

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 163. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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In other words, they can always rely on the right-wingers who talk a big game on deficits and debt to cave claiming huge growth numbers far above estimates will magically materialize so we won’t go bankrupt. Exactly how Trump ran his casinos and Trump Airline.

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He’s been working with his Smile Coach again.

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I have a great ending to the sentence but I will exercise my right to remain silent.

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Gotta have a campaign hat that matches the outfit when you’re on national TV as DHS Secretary.

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Art of the deal is negotiating for 50% of a country’s mineral rights while allowing another country to seize the mines.

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Lisa Murkowski - the bill is terrible and will hurt a lot of people but thanks to the deal I made it will hurt Alaskans a little less than everyone else so I voted for it.

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She heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another with no name or corroboration.

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We’ve seen this story enough times with Spartz that we already know how it ends regardless of the plot twists.

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Often the mysterious variable fact-checkers can’t/don’t include in their formulas is a candidate saying one thing during a campaign and doing the exact opposite five minutes after they win.

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