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Hans Shillinger

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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This seems like something to which more attention should be paid www.newsweek.com/hidden-provi...
newsweek.com
'Hidden' provision in Trump's big bill could disarm US Supreme Court
The provision would bar courts from enforcing contempt citations for violations of injunctions or temporary restraining orders unless a bond has been paid.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
What the f&$k is wrong with these people? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Is Turning the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Into Something Very Different
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This is a gift to Musk and Starlink And a clear fuck you to those of us who live in broadband deserts
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...
csmonitor.com
They’ve watched democracies fail. They see it happening under Trump.
As Donald Trump fights the courts over Kilmar Abrego Garcia, targets law firms, and tests the rule of law, democracy experts warn they’ve seen this before.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
How is it that a guy this stupid is capable of taking down the world's oldest democracy? I just can't square it.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Good summary on the state of Trump's attack on the rule of law www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...
csmonitor.com
They’ve watched democracies fail. They see it happening under Trump.
As Donald Trump fights the courts over Kilmar Abrego Garcia, targets law firms, and tests the rule of law, democracy experts warn they’ve seen this before.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Screw the kids, we're gonna get it while we can? Where do Trump and his maga crazies think their kids and grandkids are gonna live? Get enough, buy a bunker. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/c...
nytimes.com
How Trump Has Undermined U.S. Climate Policy
President Trump has quickly transformed America’s approach to the environment, withholding funds and stretching the limits of presidential power.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Amalgamation and consolidation Fucking cocksuckers www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Email shows that Musk ally is moving to close office behind free tax filing program at IRS
Program is apparently being closed according to email from former Tesla engineer installed in GSA
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
there is so much wrong with this I don't know where to start www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
politico.com
Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’
The group, led by Blackwater veteran Erik Prince, has close Trump ties.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Oh good. A(nother) professional troll.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“I’m very concerned about the impact on the state of Maine, on everything from our national parks to biomedical research,” the Republican told CNN’s Manu Raju on Sunday. “So this is a big problem.” We're concerned about your concern, Senator www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
rollingstone.com
Republican Senator Calls Trump's Mass Firings a 'Big Problem'
Sen. Susan Collins said she is "concerned" how the firings, carried out by Donald Trump and Elon Musk, will affect her state.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Yes www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
It’s time for Americans to withhold their taxes | Judith Levine
The point is not to deprive the government of funds. It’s to expose the regime’s criminality
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“I thought we were supposed to be in a new era of meritocracy. Not the indiscriminate firing of people,” said one Republican congressional aide granted anonymity to speak candidly. Nope www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
politico.com
The private GOP panic over the slash-and-burn DOGE firings
White House aides are inundated with congressional calls as Republicans fret.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
So does delay. Musk and Doge will have full irreversible God mode access to a critical mass of the public's data by the time the public's opinion reaches anything close to meaningful pushback.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“Musk is a parasitic illegal immigrant. He wants to impose his freak experiments and play-act as God without any respect for the country’s history, values or traditions,” Mr. Bannon Chagrined to say it, but I agree www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
nytimes.com
Bannon Calls Musk a ‘Parasitic Illegal Immigrant’
Stephen Bannon, a top adviser during President Trump’s first term and a popular figure among his supporters, said Elon Musk wants to “play-act as God” as part of his push to overhaul the federal gover...
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Brazil is absolutely embarrassing the US www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
nytimes.com
Brazil Charges Bolsonaro With Plotting a Coup After 2022 Election Loss
Brazil’s attorney general accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of overseeing a scheme to try to hold on to power. The Supreme Court will decide whether he is arrested.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Tax holiday 4/15
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Were
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Nothing is too underhanded or petty for these guys
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
“In hopes of finding themselves,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Tuesday, “they’ve latched on to this new, shiny object called the rule of law.” It's called the Constitution you asshole www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
theatlantic.com
Why Isn’t Congress Doing Anything?
Republicans are just fine with Elon Musk gutting the government.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is what I expected of Trump. I didn't count on Elon. My TDS wasn't wrong tho
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests,” Trump said. “There are many, many years of leaves and broken trees, and they’re like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up.” 46% of land in CA is federal apnews.com/article/wild...
apnews.com
Trump wants states to clean up forests to stop wildfires. But his administration cut off funds
President Donald Trump’s administration is holding up money for wildfire mitigation projects funded through legislation championed by his Democratic predecessor.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
DOGE is destroying many of our institutions. Maybe they'll could leave the weather reporting alone? Fucking stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...
nytimes.com
NOAA Is Told to Make List of Climate-Related Grants, Setting Off Fears
Staff members search for spending on “climate science,” “climate crisis” and “pollution” as one of the world’s premier climate research agencies girds for cuts.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Dandy The feds own most of the land in California, much of which is ripe for wildfire. Message: we're on our own www.propublica.org/article/trum...
propublica.org
How Trump’s Federal Funding and Hiring Freezes Are Leaving America Vulnerable to Catastrophic Wildfire
Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from the president’s executive orders has limited wildfire training and postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation. It has also led some firefighters to...
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Apparently, white collar crime is an ok thing in America now
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
More of this Kim said. “But we are at a point where we are basically on the cusp of a constitutional crisis, seeing this administration taking steps that are so clearly illegal. And until we see a change in that behavior,..., nor should we assist in that.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Some Democrats vow to use leverage in government funding fight
At least one Democrat is saying explicitly that the party should fight back against Trump and Musk by refusing to help Republicans reach a government funding deal.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
You two clearly know how to get under his skin. Keep at it
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
CBS kisses Trump's ass while he's suing them for $20b www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...
cbsnews.com
CBS News poll — Trump has positive approval amid "energetic" opening weeks; seen as doing what he promised
Trump's deportation plans are popular, but Americans say there's not enough focus on lowering prices.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Getting paid by the Russians is a feature, not a bug
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Tax holiday on 4/15
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Dead link
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is FEDERAL land in Kevin Kiley's district. Can we have an honest effort to deal with ladder fuels? Please?
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Roseville, cited what he called “titanic policy blunders and staggering failures of political leadership that have caused such harm to California.” Read more at: www.sacbee.com/news/politic... www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
sacbee.com
Republicans rip California’s wildfire ‘overregulation’ while Gavin Newsom seeks help for victims
“We’re California. Everybody likes to bash us,” one Democratic congressman said.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
again with the hydraulic idiocy
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
But hardly surprising
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I attended the protest in Sacramento yesterday. What struck me was how small the crowd size was. For a state of 40 million people, a crowd of "hundreds" was less than I had hoped.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Except that he got his start in the US as an illegal immigrant.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Thank you Senator. Same for Kash please.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
More from Sac
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Stick to it
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Open to it if done a) legally/constitutionally and b) in the best interest of most Americans. For tax reductions for billionaires who already pay lower tax rates than the rest of us? No thanks.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
In the face of all that's going on, with so much of the project 2025 agenda already forced on us, keeping it's author from holding the levers of powers seems self evident. Get it done.
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Postal idiocy
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Geostrategic & ethical idiocy
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Like fish left in the sun
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
How did this even work? Every parcel already on its way from China (probably just a few) goes...where?
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
open.substack.com/pub/thomaszi...
open.substack.com
MAGA Feeding Frenzy Has Caused a Constitutional Crisis
The assault is coming from different angles: Project 2025. The feudal tech barons. The America First nativists. It’s not a single master plan – it’s comprehensive chaos
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Cocksuckers youtu.be/aMAYVd0fWQw?...
youtu.be
Amalgamation and Capital
YouTube video by Brooke Skylar Shields
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Hans Shillinger @digginsdweller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🤬
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