#civics 099

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Is Somebody Doing Something?!

Yes. Let me break it down for you.

What it says on the tin, plus some simple explanations of who has the power to do what.

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That Civics 099 tag was a really good idea, huh. I'm not an expert either, but some of the comments I'm seeing on shit, man.

They were barely teaching government classes by the time I got to high school, but either these people just straight up slept through it or those classes don't exist anymore, I'm not sure which.

It's no wonder the MAGAts are trying to take down PBS, though.

Can't have any free (publicly funded, gasp!) educational programming out there, people might get organized and learn how to do something more useful than screeching online about how horrible everything is.

Nope. Can't have that.

Anyway, I'm going to keep collecting explainers and other useful breakdown stuff under #Civics 099, because I could use the refresher and other people might find it useful in targeting their efforts.

Edit: The tag "how to help" might also be of interest, and anything about Donnie himself is tagged "His Fraudulency".

(Musk's is "Extended Stench")

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Detaching the debunk from the post that was leading with misinfo:

IRS Free File HAS NOT been "deleted"

He can't do that. DOGE isn't even a real department; those have to be established by Congress.

A lot of what this administration is doing and will probably continue to do is say they've done something that they don't actually have the power to do, and then hope people will act like it's true.

Don't believe them. Learn what powers these fucks actually have and don't let them talk themselves up.

Elon Musk creates confusion about IRS' Direct File — but the free tax program is still available

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk posted on his social media site that he has “deleted” 18F, a government agency that worked on technology pr