Post by Jacob Bogage / Redsky

What about Louis DeJoy leaving the USPS so suddenly and quietly? What’s the story behind that?

aug 9, 2025, 4:52 pm • 3 1 • view

They got some equally nefarious character in there now, but I think because everything else is so awful, no one is talking about him. I don't even remember the guy's name.

aug 9, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view

His work was done. He sauntered out the door to return to the private sector and reap the profits of his efforts.

aug 9, 2025, 5:07 pm • 4 1 • view

From the president who famously keeps his taxes secret

aug 9, 2025, 4:38 pm • 29 0 • view

… because doing so is a crime.

aug 9, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view

Billy Wide

aug 9, 2025, 7:05 pm • 2 0 • view

Trump’s biggest problem? He’s immune from prosecution. No one else is. lol @weissmann.substack.com @marcelias.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social

aug 9, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view

The Trump Administration are fighting itself.

aug 9, 2025, 4:35 pm • 1 0 • view

That's surprising coming from a guy who voted to overturn the results of a free and fair election.

aug 9, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view

I thought they didn’t work but took our jobs.

aug 9, 2025, 7:16 pm • 6 0 • view

I heard the same.

aug 9, 2025, 7:22 pm • 1 0 • view

Wait a minute… Wasn’t Billy Long Trump’s own appointee?

aug 9, 2025, 6:50 pm • 1 0 • view

I’m pretty sure Billy Long had no clue what his department was doing… That dude is the ultimate no show on the job. Still, it is illegal for the IRS to share this data so there are still good people at the IRS.

aug 9, 2025, 4:55 pm • 12 2 • view

“Undocumented immigrants pay tens of billions of dollars in taxes each year…” Some of those taxes help the Social Security Trust Fund & they pay Medicare taxes too. They can receive neither of those benefits. Still “conservatives” morons want to deport them.

aug 10, 2025, 12:43 am • 2 2 • view

When I read about Long’s banishment to Iceland yesterday I wondered what he’d done. So he actually didn’t want to break privacy laws. Cool! Iceland is a beautiful place btw. Why does the DHS need EITC info to locate people?

aug 10, 2025, 12:42 am • 2 2 • view

Did the dictator admit undocumented immigrants pay taxes???

aug 10, 2025, 1:31 am • 1 0 • view

Maybe he actually stood up to Donnie while the republicans continue to kiss his ass.

aug 9, 2025, 11:54 pm • 0 0 • view

Trump and his minions have no right to that data. It goes against everything. Especially since Trump won’t publish his.

aug 9, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view

As the WH screams, "Fake news! Hoax! Failing leftist paper nobody reads." Jeff Bezos is going to get a call on his honeymoon.

aug 9, 2025, 10:48 pm • 0 0 • view

So he refused to go to jail to facilitate a criminal act? Did you make that clear, or fail at your job again?

aug 9, 2025, 5:15 pm • 0 0 • view

TRUMP ADMIN: We need immigrant tax data to betray the 14th amendment and the sacred trust placed in us as government officials. BILLY LONG: Okay, I'm down, just give me a couple of weeks to prepare the data and make sure it's accurate. TRUMP ADMIN: "Accurate"? Not today, Wokey.

aug 10, 2025, 1:22 am • 2 1 • view

We really are living in the Upside Down when Billy Long is fired over principles.

aug 9, 2025, 7:02 pm • 3 0 • view

It's not a "clash" though, it's Trump BREAKING THE LAW. JFC, why are all the worthless degenerates at the Post not willing to say it!?

aug 9, 2025, 4:47 pm • 53 1 • view

Wait! How are illegal immigrants paying taxes? 🤔

aug 9, 2025, 5:22 pm • 1 0 • view

📌

aug 9, 2025, 5:57 pm • 0 0 • view

I can't believe Billy Long, a caricature, is the "good guy"* here. *Lots of salt grains to throw in to make this palatable.

aug 9, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0 • view

It all would’ve worked out if Big Balls didn’t have a teen girl kick his little balls.

aug 9, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view

You mean this inbred MAGA Republican 🤡 was doing the right thing so Grandpa🟠💩🤡 fired him ❓That just doesn't track.

aug 9, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view

Looks like they’re getting ready for 2026

aug 9, 2025, 7:21 pm • 1 0 • view

This is starting to take hold, as some people are starting to have second thoughts on throwing in with Trump’s and Heritage Foundation’s criminality. That secret JD Vance meeting that got blown up was probably about figuring out who was going all in on a cover up. If Dems had a leader, he/she 1/

aug 9, 2025, 7:11 pm • 2 0 • view

could announce a promise that all this will be investigated and prosecuted, and there will be no “forgive and forget” when Trump is out of power. 2/2

aug 9, 2025, 7:11 pm • 3 0 • view

You mean to tell me immigrants pay taxes and deporting them deprives us of tax revenue AND hard working labour?

aug 9, 2025, 5:29 pm • 22 2 • view

Took you a while.....

aug 9, 2025, 6:32 pm • 2 0 • view

Those fuckheads are trying to get taxpayer information, now Bitch Bessent will try to do what Long could/would not. MORE ILLEGAL ACTIONS THAT NOBODY WANTS TO DO SHIT ABOUT. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU DEMOCRATS?

aug 9, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view

I knew there had to be something that Long was refusing to do.

aug 9, 2025, 7:05 pm • 1 0 • view

If there's any person who needs to achieve a presidential fitness award.....

aug 9, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view

Needs more xenophobia.

aug 9, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view

I’m confused. How can immigrants have tax information? We have been told they pay taxes!

aug 9, 2025, 5:34 pm • 1 0 • view

Wut?

aug 9, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view

Dont

aug 9, 2025, 5:45 pm • 1 0 • view

They pay taxes, just ineligible for the benefits of paying taxes.

aug 9, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view

@alt-irs.altgov.info

aug 10, 2025, 12:14 am • 0 0 • view

So the WH wanted him to break the law and he said no? Boy, when Billy Effin' Long is the least corrupt guy in the room...

aug 11, 2025, 2:29 pm • 0 0 • view

Quelle surprise!

aug 9, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view

I don’t know why people think this story implies Long took a principled stand. More likely that he had no idea what he was doing at IRS and did not have the ability to enforce the WH’s agenda.

aug 9, 2025, 6:20 pm • 5 0 • view

I think it's more likely he listened to his lawyers. Trump could've given him a pardon for any criminal charges, but there are significant civil penalties for illegal sharing of taxpayer data, and those don't go away.

aug 9, 2025, 9:47 pm • 3 0 • view

This guy literally looks like Jabba the Hutt Amirite?

aug 9, 2025, 7:56 pm • 0 0 • view

Who knew Billy Long would have a moment of consciousness.

aug 9, 2025, 4:45 pm • 5 0 • view

I'm sure it's the first Billy Long heard of it.

aug 9, 2025, 5:11 pm • 2 0 • view

From the story, a lesser-known fact: "Undocumented immigrants pay tens of billions of dollars in taxes each year, which the ITINs help facilitate."

aug 9, 2025, 5:32 pm • 8 0 • view

I believe what you meant to say is they clashed over whether to follow the law. The dispute is Cheeto wants everyone to break the law and Long said no.

aug 9, 2025, 5:41 pm • 4 0 • view

That last part is what shocked me.

aug 9, 2025, 6:50 pm • 1 0 • view

I guess he’s free to go back to hazard county now.

aug 9, 2025, 4:30 pm • 57 1 • view

Seems like he'll be an ambassador to Iceland. This whole admin appears to just fail up

aug 9, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view

aug 9, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view

But he doesn't want to ... he just got away from them Duke boys.

aug 9, 2025, 5:10 pm • 12 0 • view

Works for me, let him be Kentucky’s problem. He already did his part to screw up Missouri.

aug 9, 2025, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view

It’s not a clash if one side is illegally asking for something.

aug 9, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view

You mean Billy Long stood up for the law and justice? That is difficult to believe.

aug 9, 2025, 6:14 pm • 3 0 • view

Now we know why he was no longer wanted. He wasn’t loyal enough.

aug 9, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view

Not willing to take the potential fall for his lord and master.

aug 9, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 0 • view

🎯

aug 9, 2025, 4:54 pm • 0 0 • view

If they are paying taxes, why are they being targeted?

aug 9, 2025, 4:38 pm • 10 0 • view

Immigrants of every status pay taxes like the rest of us non-1%ers. Those without legal status don't get anything for paying their taxes, contrary to eons of GOP lies.

aug 9, 2025, 4:52 pm • 20 2 • view

Boss hog over here

aug 9, 2025, 6:19 pm • 2 0 • view

I have a hard time believing that BL refused provide anything DonTheCon asked him for.

aug 9, 2025, 5:09 pm • 1 0 • view

I was joking but Billy Long did get fired for doing something ethical. bsky.app/profile/tmul...

aug 9, 2025, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view

So Stephen Miller fired him right?

aug 9, 2025, 5:11 pm • 0 0 • view

If only I could ever read an article by the Post that didn't include the forever unchanging number of 11 million undocumented people. It's BS, it comes from bad data at Pew, and it never changes. When Trump is gone in 4 years the claim there's 11 million undocumented people will remain.

aug 9, 2025, 6:25 pm • 10 3 • view

What’s the true number and where is it found?

aug 9, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view

(Also looks like he's about to undergo explosive decompression in the pic, but not surprised that this would be his normal look.)

aug 9, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view

That Long apparently wouldn't do something that the Republican administration told him to, is a major tell (considering that his reputation has always been "go along to get along.")

aug 9, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view

Has anyone calculated how much faster we will exhaust the social security and Medicare trust funds no that status immigrants who pay taxes into them are now being deported?

aug 9, 2025, 8:42 pm • 3 0 • view

Don't worry. HHS and RFK Jr. are doing a great job of making sure nobody lives long enough to collect them anyway.

aug 9, 2025, 9:49 pm • 3 0 • view

Republicans want social security and Medicare to collapse. Cherry on top of other cherries on top with such draconian measures with immigration. They pour billions into it for sure.

aug 9, 2025, 8:47 pm • 1 0 • view

Will really be hitting rural areas and his voters first.

aug 9, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view

It would be a shame if someone at the IRS "accidentally" deleted all the immigrant tax files.

aug 9, 2025, 5:23 pm • 1 0 • view

One by one those who speak truth to power are falling. We need to raise hell.

aug 9, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view

Who would have thought *this* guy had any scruples?

aug 9, 2025, 4:28 pm • 126 1 • view

i know - but clearly even HE was not okay with it......tells us all we need to know really.

aug 9, 2025, 7:25 pm • 3 0 • view

Never would I ever have expected Billy Long to have more spine and attention to law than the likes of Sen Dr Bill Cassidy.

aug 9, 2025, 5:03 pm • 60 2 • view

He's just not completely certain it won't end with his own life in prison sentence. Otherwise he'd be all about it.

aug 10, 2025, 3:11 am • 2 0 • view

True. But still surprising.

aug 10, 2025, 5:34 am • 1 0 • view

Well, he did drown out Laura Loomer once by pretending to be calling an auction. That's it...that's all I've got.

aug 9, 2025, 5:24 pm • 3 0 • view

Like…LOOK AT HIM

aug 9, 2025, 11:37 pm • 1 0 • view

It's more that the guy is smart enough to know that handing over that information would be pretty fucking illegal and he doesn't want to face the very possible consequences.

aug 9, 2025, 8:25 pm • 3 0 • view

The White House tried to get him to break the law. Why are you framing this as some kind of disagreement and not the flagrant criminality it is?

aug 9, 2025, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view

If you don’t do crimes for him, he will throw you under the bus and if you do do crimes for him, he will also throw you under the bus.

aug 9, 2025, 4:39 pm • 96 3 • view

The Trump touch doctrine.

aug 9, 2025, 5:23 pm • 1 0 • view

Yep. And yet some people keep lining up to be a human speed bump for him. Insanity

aug 9, 2025, 5:49 pm • 17 1 • view

Truth 👆👆👆

aug 9, 2025, 5:06 pm • 0 0 • view

Imagine that a literal cartoon character like Billy Long isn’t corrupt enough for Donald Trump.

aug 10, 2025, 6:48 am • 0 0 • view

Clash? You mean, refused to break the law.

aug 9, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view

Long got it in the neck for this

aug 9, 2025, 5:35 pm • 2 0 • view

If he actually had a neck

aug 9, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view

So in other words the dispute as to if they should violate the law. Why not actually state what is happening?

aug 9, 2025, 7:53 pm • 1 0 • view

now nominated to be ambassador to Iceland...

aug 10, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view

⑧⑥ ④⑦

aug 9, 2025, 5:59 pm • 0 0 • view

I know we should fat shame, but this asshole has big BOSS HOGG vibes

aug 9, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view

Come to the side of justice, Billy

aug 9, 2025, 7:46 pm • 0 0 • view

Everything Trump touches dies.

aug 9, 2025, 6:54 pm • 1 0 • view

I think she meant “goose step”

The Trump administration is working in lockstep to eliminate information silos and to prevent illegal aliens from taking advantage of benefits meant for hardworking American taxpayers,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement.

aug 9, 2025, 4:44 pm • 24 3 • view

Sure every agency can have access to your immigration status, your tax records, your health records, and anything else, but if we try to get any data on guns well then you've gone too far

aug 9, 2025, 5:25 pm • 14 1 • view

Yeah, the feds don't need basically any of that, except maybe the tax records, and I'm not sure about that.

aug 10, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view

Trump said the dog eating infestation animals don’t pay taxes. Why look at IRS data if they aren’t working and paying taxes?

aug 9, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view

This doesn’t sound like a ”clash” to me. The White House Trumpers wanted to break the law. It’s not like this is unusual behavior for them. They do it all the time. Why would they be given benefit of the doubt here by The Post?

aug 9, 2025, 7:10 pm • 1 0 • view

It’s not a dispute, you sandwiching fraud, it’s a crime attempt.

aug 9, 2025, 7:14 pm • 3 0 • view

I think the headline you were looking for was "IRS Commissioner fired for refusing to break the law for Trump over sharing immigrants' tax payer data."

aug 9, 2025, 5:02 pm • 58 7 • view

you could add the word "Again" to the end of that.

aug 9, 2025, 5:03 pm • 25 1 • view

Why immigrants’ tax data? If they’re filing & paying taxes, there’s nothing to see Besides, Drumpfuck has no authority to infiltrate taxpayer info, but especially since he refused to release his own tax returns If you want copies of your returns, you have to sign consent forms & pay fees 🖕🏼him

aug 10, 2025, 3:41 pm • 1 0 • view

My understanding was that they are really looking for personal contact/location tracking info. (? I could be wrong... but that was the impression I got from speed reading over an article!)

aug 10, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view

You’re probably right but nothing on any tax filing indicates whether or not one is an immigrant And if immigrants are filing & paying taxes they aren’t criminals This is intended to be a purge of any person who isn’t 50 shades of white & it’s despicable in a country built by immigrants

aug 10, 2025, 7:24 pm • 1 0 • view

docs.google.com/document/u/1... These guys get to crime a lot. Any particular reason?

aug 9, 2025, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view

He should share Trump’s tax data.

aug 9, 2025, 7:02 pm • 2 0 • view

This means we are close to seeing Trump's tax returns?

aug 9, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view

This admin is so evil that it makes Billy Long look like a good guy.

aug 9, 2025, 4:31 pm • 289 10 • view

It is an easy bet that Billy Long was informed by counsel that he could and likely would be held personally accountable if those laws were violated.

aug 9, 2025, 5:50 pm • 13 0 • view

He’s like “what, no I came here to support tax evasion!”

aug 9, 2025, 5:04 pm • 108 3 • view

Billy Long leading the internal resistance to Trump’s authoritarian consolidation of power was NOT on my bingo card.

aug 9, 2025, 4:58 pm • 15 0 • view

It was on mines, albeit as a bingo option not a certainty. I’m confident he’s a right wing kook of an old sort, but I’ve had a soft spot for him since he drowned out Laura Loomer in a hearing with auction chant.

aug 10, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view

Who would've thought a kkk grand wizard lookin swine would've been the most principled person in the entire trump admin?

aug 9, 2025, 4:58 pm • 16 0 • view

Does anyone have any balls? Or are they all locked in a cupboard. This guy can go on all the networks and say Trump is trying to break the law. But he won't.

aug 9, 2025, 6:46 pm • 0 0 • view

At least he tried to stand up to do the right thing.

aug 9, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view

Billy Long has no problem with blatantly committing crimes. My guess is that he's too dumb to transfer the data himself and he couldn't get his people to do it for him.

aug 9, 2025, 7:24 pm • 1 0 • view