Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Yes, exactly, the purpose of the additional funding is to equip the IRS with the ability to go after rich tax cheats.
The purpose of GOP opposition to funding the tax police is to make it easier for rich criminals to rip off the public. It’s shocking and appalling.
Ryan Ellis @RyanLEllis
@mattyglesias Enrolled agent here. Someone who has seen a client’s field audit or two.
The IRS doesn’t go after the super rich with these audits. They go after the $500,000 - $1,000,000 self employed guy.
The audits are pure “gotcha” fishing expeditions against honest taxpayers.
2:37 PM · Jul 28, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Okay but the veterans have to understand — Democrats passed a bill to catch and punish rich tax cheats, so Rick Scott had no choice but to throw a fit and screw the vets. What else is the guy supposed to do?
Igor Bobic @igorbobic
Jon Stewart calling out Republicans by name for blocking veterans care bill yesterday, including McConnell, Toomey, Rick Scott.
“I’m used to the hypocrisy…I’m used to the lies.”
“The Senate is where accountability goes to die.”
3:44 PM · Jul 28, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It's amazing to me how conservatives just take up the rhetoric of dipshit police abolitionists, but just exclusively on behalf of tax cheats.
Jeff Lonsdale @JeffLonsdale
@mattyglesias You seem to think that these processes are smooth and costless for innocent people.
4:19 PM · Jul 28, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Useful reminder that the growth in the Hispanic population is going to do more to change the conceptual boundaries of whiteness than to change the fact that America is a majority-white country.
Variety @Variety
Netflix has dropped the official trailer from Andrew Dominik’s #Blonde, an NC-17 biopic starring Ana de Armas as Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe.
Watch it now: https://t.co/NrjelM1huG https://t.co/VlYvBnmaXw
4:32 PM · Jul 28, 2022
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Amal El-Mohtar@tithenai
Absolutely thrilled to see this list of beautiful books being brought together to be honoured in this way.
electricliterature.com
Announcing the Shortlist for the Inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction - Electric Literature
5:39 PM · Jul 28, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Oh God, not majority rule, anything but that
The Federalist @FDRLST
Democrats Are Dangerously Close To Changing Laws So Our President Is Elected By Popular Vote
https://t.co/d1smIjnT6q
9:19 PM · Jul 28, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Yep. I'm kinda glad that America's right wing came up with a name for their ideology.
Beyonce Stan Account, Obviously 👁 @csilverandgold
I think the point of the “Christian Nationalism” phrase is that it can be distinguished both from Christianity—which a great many reliable Democratic voters love quite a lot—and from nationalism, which most ppl just associate with patriotism. https://t.co/nyyB4RwkkL
9:33 PM · Jul 28, 2022
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TheOmniZaddy 🇺🇦@TheOmniZaddy
Did Sunrise get new management/leadership? They’re starting to sound sane.
Sunrise Movement 🌅 @sunrisemvmt
Let’s be clear: this bill isn’t the Green New Deal. It’s not even @POTUS’ Build Back Better. This is the Manchin Climate Plan.
And, with our democracy in decline, the strongest possible version of this bill must pass immediately. A 🧵 on why:
1:21 AM · Jul 29, 2022
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Maddow Blog@MaddowBlog
Unreal.
"Text messages for former President Donald Trump’s acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and acting deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli are missing for a key period leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol..."
washingtonpost.com
Jan. 6 texts missing for Trump Homeland Security’s Wolf and Cuccinelli
3:07 AM · Jul 29, 2022
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