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Jeff Smith

@ouijeff.bsky.social
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Political junkie. Tech enthusiast. Published Philosopher. Struggling human Here for engagement, enjoying the conversation. Follow for political views and mediocre comments!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
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Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income
This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/02/2025
The Treasury Department will make Tom Krause, a Silicon Valley executive with ties to DOGE, the head of the department that oversees the nation’s powerful payment systems after ousting the career civil servant who previously held the post.
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Treasury installs ally of Musk’s DOGE as head of payment system
Tom Krause, an ally of Elon Musk’s, is expected to take over the key position.
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I think it will be good to throw some bombs at this presser, Senator. Tell them how you will hold up every single piece of legislation that isn't blatantly left leaning Stall everything in committees. File so many lawsuits they won't be able to breathe under the weight of the paper
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rwspoet.bsky.social @rwspoet.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
THE SPIRIT OF JEFF SMITH - The Democratic Senate has held the FLOOR ALL NIGHT - THIS "MUSK" be JUST the BEGINNING or our CONSTITUTIONAL FORM of GOVERNMENT will Surely be "TRUMPED!
PHOTO FROM THE DEMOCRATIC FILIBUSTER CALLING OUR THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTIONS  TO UPEND RULE OF LAW
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leeia @hey-leia.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Holy shit it's catching on! Thank you for giving this the coverage it deserves! bsky.app/profile/ouij...
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
WE DID IT GUYS! #givemewafflehouseorgivemedeath
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This has the potential to do more damage to Trump than any of the stuff going on in DC with Elon. This is the perfect issue that Trump's low information voters can feel and understand. If Cracker Barrel has to do something similar, it could bring down the presidency.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Egg problems driving up prices at Waffle House and others could persist www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Egg problems driving up prices at Waffle House and others could persist
Waffle House became one of the first big chains to join smaller restaurants with surcharges for egg dishes. Economists don’t see near-term relief on egg prices.
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
George Conway too! This is the story that will break Trump! #GIVEMEWAFFLEHOUSEORGIVEMEDEATH
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It's catching on guys! Don't let up!
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ATLfan24 @atlfan2415.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Our country is scattered, smothered and covered in orange shit 😒
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I mean if this doesn't get low information voters out to vote, what will? Steal my data? Fine. Wreck Medicare and social security? Go for it. Make every plane trip a gamble? Bring it on. Mess with my Waffle House? FUCK YOU BILLIONAIRE BASTARDS! www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/f...
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Waffle House is placing a surcharge on every egg it sells | CNN Business
The soaring price of eggs has forced Waffle House to add a temporary surcharge on customers’ orders.
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Steve Pierson @bluesboysteve.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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Louisiana Families for Vaccines @lafamilies4vax.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
🗣🗣🗣Call to Action!!! Senator Cassidy needs to hear YOUR voice to protect science, health, and common sense. Ask Senator Cassidy to continue to stand in the gap to protect our children's future. 👉https://www.lafamiliesforvaccines.org/thank-you-cassidy
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
By his own criteria, isn't he disqualified then? Certainly not competent, and I would argue, not a man. At best 1/3 How can anyone respect a person like this. So small, so insecure.
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Maybe just print this out and take it to Marco Rubio, since he's in charge of USAID now.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"Trudeau and Trump reach a last minute deal whereby Trump agreed to put his own foot up his ass for a period of 30 days... Both parties seem pleased with the temporary truce." Get it together NYT....
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.
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BNO News @bnonews.com · 03/02/2025
X/Twitter has banned multiple accounts after posts went viral naming people who work with Elon Musk
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JRNYGirl @trhart66.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@raskin.house.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @repjasmine.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social "@" literally EVERY/ANYONE! ffs. DO something. anything.
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Democrats, you want to fundraise here is an idea that will make you millions: Go to OPM next time Musk's henchmen come by. Make a video of you confronting and stopping them. You'll get so much free media and your base will love it.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
New State Department appointee's message to Black Americans (including a Republican Senator, Trump appointee and former head of Heritage)
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@support.bsky.team Every once in a while, my posts will be getting a lot of engagement, and then they just disappear from the thread. All engagement stops and I can only find them if I go to them from my notifications. Any ideas or advice on how to fix? Example below
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Some breaking news for everyone. JP Morgan is flying in 1.875 MILLION POUNDS of gold. Seems like somebody is afraid of inflation kicking back in gear.
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Definitely makes way more sense than anything else. @godpod.bsky.social was this you?
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Why do people lie? To distract and lead you away from the truth. So it is no longer important to just jump on every lie Trump tells. That just lets him shape the narrative. Instead we must point out the lie, and then pivot to WHY he is saying it.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It’s hard to convey how bafflingly stupid this is, but the article makes an admirable effort.
Tulare County water managers were perplexed and frustrated, noting both physical and legal barriers that make it virtually impossible for Tulare County river water to be used for southern California fires.
First, it would have to be pumped at great expense across the San Joaquin Valley to get to the California Aqueduct and then travel hundreds of miles south.
Second, this isn't "loose" water free for the taking.
"Every drop belongs to someone," said
Kaweah River Watermaster Victor Hernandez.
"The reservoir may belong to the federal government, but the water is ours. If someone's playing political games with this water, it's wrong."
It was no game on Thursday when area water managers were given about an hour's notice that the Army Corps planned to release water up to "channel capacity," the top amount rivers can handle, immediately.
The Army Corps later agreed to more measured releases, alleviating a mad scramble to alert first responders and have crews on standby in case river banks were breached and levees overtopped, as happened during the 2023 floods.
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Perfect messaging. Acknowledge the shittiness of what he's saying and then pivot to WHY HE IS SAYING IT. We need to get coordinated on this shit. The story is not that Trump is an asshole or a Liar. That shit is old news. Focus on what he did to contribute to this disaster
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Man, I didn't know better I'd say these are some real Nazi Germany vibes. Sure am glad to have Elon with the ear of the government as well. Since he very convincingly told us all he's not a Nazi. I feel very safe right now.
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I'm honestly the most concerned that NPR got kicked out. They are some of the best non partisan news collectors out there. Not trying to be entertainment news. Just good solid reporting of facts.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I don't get the sense that U.S. journalists have a good sense of who to talk to when basic government functions are being ripped out. Gutting the administrative state is not a standard beat. A short thread with some starter suggestions for who to read/talk to. Please - people add more in replies!
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Nick Schwellenbach @schwellenbach.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Message to the whole #FBI workforce from Acting Director Brian Driscoll:
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
NBC NEWS NY TIMES NPR POLITICO Kicked out of the Pentagon media space. 3 of the 4 replacements are propaganda outlets, not news.
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
At the rate they're taking shit down, pretty soon any .gov website is just going to direct you to Trump's Truth Social account.
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
What a god damn socialist commie. Might as well call him Comrade Ronnie.
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Fuck, he's roasting us good. I hate that we deserve it. But I'm so refreshed to hear it. I'm feeling confused
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Shirene (she/her) @operasaurus.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Remember the good ‘ol days when all we had to worry about were murder hornets? 😅
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Edward Harrison @edwardnh.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is remarkable: "the FAA under Trump in 2019 launched a program to hire controllers using the very criteria he decried at his news conference." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... Has anyone picked up on this?
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Analysis | Trump launched air controller diversity program that he now decries
At a news conference, Trump read a list of conditions he called disqualifying, but his administration started such hiring in 2019.
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Dude is getting ratioed into the dirt. Hope you reconsider @golden.house.gov
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2025
Chris Murphy: "Why did he come out so quickly to attack women and Black people for ruining the FAA? He did that bc he is very vulnerable. He has some big questions to answer bc the FAA has been in chaos since he took over. Elon Musk, his co-president, forced out the FAA administrator ... "
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
These are broad ass tariffs. Not targeted or strategic. Do you really feel this is the best strategy for accomplishing your stated goals? Sure MAYBE it is a solution. But even if it were, it's not even approaching a good one Sort of like blowing up your whole house is the solution to killing a bug
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 31/01/2025
The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations. “We don’t have much, but what we do have is important.” New, from @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
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How One Immigrant Community Is Coping With the Threat of Deportation
The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations. “We don’t have much, but wh...
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Jeff Smith @ouijeff.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This is the way @democrats.org More messaging like this. Don't passively defend against his ridiculous DEI claims. Go on offense and set the narrative. Be coordinated and don't let him distract. Everyone knows he's an asshole. Don't let that be the story. The story is how he contributed to this.
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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Trump has no clue what caused this horrific tragedy but that doesn’t stop him from blaming his favorite boogeyman - people of color. He’d rather distract from his actions than mention that he slashed FAA and aviation safety personnel and boards.
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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 30/01/2025
Great thread. Please share widely.
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