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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/05/2026

One of the reasons this isn’t a legal settlement is that a settlement of this nature requires transparency. This slush fund does the opposite by allowing for confidentiality.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

NEW: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) offered amendment to block Trump’s newly-established $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded pot of money from "making any payments to convicted child predators" Multiple pardoned Jan 6 rioters have been accused of child abuse Amendment was blocked

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

From the reporter who scooped the news that Treasury's GC was quitting, IRS wrote a 25-page memo about why Trump's IRS lawsuit was dogshit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/a...

I.R.S. officials prepared a 25-page memorandum outlining what they saw as flaws in Mr. Trump’s suit and advising the Justice Department to move to dismiss it, according to two people familiar with the memo. That memo was provided to Treasury officials in April, and it is unclear if they passed it along to its intended recipients at the Justice Department, according to the people, who spoke anonymously to discuss internal government deliberations.

No lawyers from the Justice Department ever appeared in court to respond to the suit or disputed any of Mr. Trump’s claims, which demanded at least $10 billion from the I.R.S. for not doing enough to prevent the leak of his tax information. The Justice Department instead made to a highly unusual deal in the case. In exchange for Mr. Trump dropping the suit, the Trump administration created the $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund for people who say they were wrongly targeted by the federal government.

The existence of the internal memo, which has not been previously reported, shows that the Trump administration disregarded readily available defenses to a lawsuit filed by the president against an agency he controls. While the Justice Department has said that Mr. Trump will not receive money from the new fund, critics have slammed the arrangement as a corrupt attempt at paying Mr. Trump’s political supporters, including, potentially, those who were convicted and later pardoned for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/05/2026

REED: How many taxpayers' returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach? BLANCHE: Excuse me? REED: 405,427. One of them was Donald Trump, correct? BLANCHE: Donald Trump and his family. REED: And Donald Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

It’s Election Day, ‘Bama (hoping this guy will be my next governor)

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

NYT just confirmed: In the one-page document signed by Todd Blanche and quietly posted on DOJ's website, officials vowed not to pursue any matters — including those involving Trump's tax returns — that are currently pending. tinyurl.com/ycy9xpfz

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Dana in Colorado 🦋 @danancolorado.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The entire country has been a victim of trump’s weaponization of OUR courts and OUR legal system. You can be damn sure I’ll be applying for my mental health care costs

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/05/2026

Q: Trump's financial disclosures show a lot of stock trades in companies he has promoted-- JD VANCE: This is a hell of a question Q: How can you argue you are cleaning up corruption when the president is doing this? VANCE: C'mon man. Have a little bit of objectivity in how you ask these questions

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/05/2026

So once applications open for the $1.7B slush fund, we're all going to apply and break their portal, right?

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

NEW: Sen Michael Bennet (D) says he will not appoint Gov Jared Polis to the Senate if Bennet is elected Governor. Bennet calls Polis' clemency for Tina Peters "disqualifying"

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/05/2026

NEW: The judge has weighed in on the $1.7 slush fund. I promised an update when she did. Please share widely.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The decisions made by state supreme courts touch every part of our lives. And that’s especially important when voting rights and basic freedoms are being challenged. Today voters in Georgia can stand up for fairness and integrity by electing Miracle Rankin and Jen Jordan to Georgia’s Supreme Court.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is exactly the way. Find some awful Jan6 story from your state, your CD, and start talking relentlessly about it, asking people if they want to pay that criminal.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/05/2026

BREAKING: It took eight tries, but the Senate has voted 50-47 to advance a resolution to limit Trump’s war on Iran. Bill Cassidy flipped after losing his primary, joining Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul in voting with Democrats. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote against.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/05/2026

Shapiro: Somehow, he can’t find the money to pay for healthcare, but he can steal from you to pay off the criminals who stormed the Capitol.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

During a Judiciary hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin moved to subpoena individuals involved in the Trump slush fund: Todd Blanche Associate AG Stanley Woodward Scott Bessent IRS Chief Frank Bisignano Treasury General Counsel Brian Morrissey Jim Jordan said a vote would be held at the end of the hearing.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/05/2026

Time to file a resolution to dissolve the fund.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/05/2026

Comey wants the pretrial motions deadline moved from June 5th to July 28th in the seashells case because "Mr. Comey expects to file multiple motions on constitutional grounds seeking dismissal of the indictment."

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/05/2026

He's not planning on leaving. That's what the ballroom bunker equipped with drones is for. It's why he's calling for Thune to fire the parliamentarian who's refusing to allow the $1B for the ballroom in the reconciliation bill. It's why he's paying the insurrectionists with his slush fund.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/05/2026

"You could double my taxes and it's not gonna help that teacher in queens." That's because double zero is still zero.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/05/2026

My question is who stopped the IRS from filing an answer to Trump’s $10B lawsuit allowing him to drop it unilaterally.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A tweet @macfarlanenews.bsky.social has not yet copied over here is a real testament to how toxic the Terrorist Slush Fund is. Clay Higgins literally wrote a sentencing recommendation for one of the worst cop assailants, Ryan Nichols. And even he is dodging?

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Asked Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) if he supports the $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded pot of $$ for convicted crooks, Higgins said he'd want to have "conversation" about it

"Difficult conversations" are what Congress is for, Higgins says

Lots of Republicans want Congress involved
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Dana in Colorado 🦋 @danancolorado.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Every now and then, cause for celebration!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/05/2026

Fitzpatrick is a republican, FYI. Keep calling your reps.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The Biden Administration also wronged me, and I will now apply to Trump's "slush fund" and demand millions of dollars. I recommend that every American flood the system. Thanks @muellershewrote.com for the tip. I am no longer a silent victim!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Post. The. Complaint.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Two officers who defended the Capitol against the Jan 6 rioters just sued to block Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund. Check out their standing argument, it's pretty interesting:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2026

RAJU: Would you be okay if J6 rioters, the ones who were convicted of attacking police, had access to taxpayer dollars in the $1.8 billion settlement fund? MIKE JOHNSON: We don't know any of the details of that settlement fund. I'll defer to what the acting AG said. I'm not going to comment on it

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

THIS 👇 ONE.......

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 31/01/2026

⚡️Russian officials call for 'more powerful weapons' to attack Ukraine as temperatures drop. Russian State Duma deputies urged Moscow to use "more powerful weapons" to attack Ukraine, its Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said on Jan. 30, amid increasingly cold temperatures.

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Russian officials call for 'more powerful weapons' to attack Ukraine as temperatures drop

Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin's threat comes a few days after Ukrainian, Russian, and U.S. officials held the latest round of peace talks in Abu Dhabi on Jan. 23-24.

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Dana in Colorado 🦋 @danancolorado.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Are people talking about this whilst waiting in a queue? Loudly enough for nearby Fox viewers to hear?

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Saint Sherman - The Ultimate Patriot @claypotter.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

More proof that Project 2025 is still active and everybody is staying on script.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Beyond parody. Who is this guy?

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. No matter what.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/05/2026

Oh my.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Always a good time meeting with folks in Lorain!

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

oh my holy bananas where do they find these people www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/p...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...

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Dee @dlawson382.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

🛑 STOP GAMBLING ADVERTISING DURING LIVE SPORTS GAMES #WNBA #NBA #NFL #MLB #SOCCER #NHL #WCBB #MCBB #NCAAW #NCAA #SEC #ACC

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18/05/2026

During this tumultuous time for democracy in our country, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is putting his faith in the American people. “Whose constitution is it? It doesn’t belong to the Supreme Court. It doesn’t belong to the federal judiciary. It belongs to us.”

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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 18/05/2026

The felon's plan to pay off J6 thugs is not just corruption, it is buying their action to go to the mat for him during & after the Nov election. If Dems win, thugs lose their payday. This isn't to reward them for the past, it's to pay them in advance for future violence.

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Dana in Colorado 🦋 @danancolorado.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“ tensions over soaking the rich”???? Those GERBers who are wallowing in money and don’t pay their tax share ? Personally, I’d like to oversoak the lot of them! (Greedy Elite Rich Bastards)

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