Ancestors

Written by Mother Bones on 2025-02-05 at 00:04

Via Daniel Nichanian

@taniel‬

Feb 4, 2025, 6:32 PM

"new reporting that Elon is instructing GSA, the agency that manages government worksites, to terminate the leases for all (!) federal offices nationwide."

https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-gsa-terminate-office-leases-f8faac5e2038722f705587c8dd21ab26

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Written by Mother Bones on 2025-02-05 at 00:20

Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin

@ecmclaughlin‬

Feb 4, 2025, 6:49 PM

"They are going to sell off government buildings for cash, just like other oligarchies."

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Written by Mother Bones on 2025-02-05 at 00:24

Via Rebecca Solnit

@RebeccaSolnit‬

Feb 4, 2025, 6:50 PM

"This may not sound shocking, but it is one of the most shocking parts of this coup: why would you shut down all the federal offices unless you're nihilists who've decided we don't need a government?"

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Written by Phoenix Gee on 2025-02-05 at 00:34

@L1vY

Well, an idea comes to mind... i think everyone should start thinking about their own personal form of tax withholding, starting now. It's tAx sEaSoN after all...

@RebeccaSolnit

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Toot

Written by Gulf of Gregly on 2025-02-05 at 01:04

@phoenixgee @L1vY @RebeccaSolnit I was just writing about that, and the problem therein — that you need a critical mass of people to participate in that, enough that it cripples the IRS trying to handle the sheer volume of disobedience; otherwise you just get a bunch of people who are royally screwed as the IRS destroys their lives.

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Descendants

Written by Phoenix Gee on 2025-02-05 at 01:15

@gregly @L1vY @RebeccaSolnit Just gotta start asking people "You really willingly continue paying... for THAT?"

But yeah i know what you mean. Unity isn't something that's easy to come by - yet.

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Written by Gulf of Gregly on 2025-02-05 at 01:19

@phoenixgee @L1vY @RebeccaSolnit The other problem is that many people — heck, including myself until a dumb miscalculation this year — get refunds in April, they don’t owe more. The taxes have already been paid.

The only way to do a true tax protest would be for everyone to file a new W-4 specifying no taxes withheld, which is, well, hard enough that most people are gonna have a lot of second thoughts and misgiving while in the process of doing it.

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Written by Phoenix Gee on 2025-02-05 at 01:35

@gregly @L1vY @RebeccaSolnit Yeah i was briefly looking at W-4 rules for no-withholding and that would only work if one didn't owe taxes the previous year. So no-go for me :(

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