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"Musk disclosed on Wednesday that he had sold another $3.6 billion worth of Tesla stock ... Musk has now sold $23 billion worth of Tesla stock this year, much of it after he pledged in April to stop selling shares to finance his Twitter deal." nytimes.com/2022/12/15/bus…

WTF?! This is absolutely insane. Aaron Rupar has been suspended from Twitter.

Ugh. As I've written I want this place to survive and thrive and work but the exit music feels like it's getting louder and louder.

What?

🚨 I realize I'm not a well-known journalist or anything, but it looks like Musk has decided to launch a Thursday Night Massacre of Twitter accounts, so here you go again just in case: Blog: ACASignups.net Mastodon: mastodon.social/@charlesgaba Post: post.news/charlesgaba

The link Twitter provided Aaron to appeal is broken.

1.) The funding has already been provided. It cannot be “repealed” nor rescinded 2.) The IRS did not “hire 87,000 new agents.” The funding enables them to hire that many agents over the course of TEN YEARS; including agents who retire or leave in that time 3.) The GOP is useless

Ironically, TRUMP’S declared candidacy was to hold off GARLAND from criminal prosecution. Instead, TRUMP forced GARLAND to appoint a real prosecutor, Jack Smith to end this National Nightmare for America with multiple indictments of TRUMP. #TrumpPrisonBy2024 👇🇺🇸

"Jim Jordan is potentially under investigation by the DOJ. He is now about to become the chairman of the Judiciary Committee which has direct oversight of the Department of Justice; there's something incredibly wrong with that."—Tara Setmayer, GOP strategist

ANALYSIS - rescinding IRS funding will increase the deficit by 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 $𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻, encourage tax cheating, and cut the tax enforcement budget well below what President Trump wanted. crfb.org/blogs/irs-fund…

First CBO score of the new Congress is here. Says that the GOP IRS funding bill would reduce spending by $71.5B and reduce revenue by $185.8B. Net deficit increase of $114B. cbo.gov/system/files/2…

washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

Wow. House Republicans’ first bill of the new Congress tonight is a bill to protect wealthy tax cheats AND would add $114 BILLION to the deficit.

Congress just approved the rules package, which gave the keys to the most extremist hands in Congress; it is now official: Kevin McCarthy is the weakest Speaker in history. He's totally controlled by people like MTG, Jim Jordan, and Matt Gaetz. He's a #SpeakerInNameOnly