Brian Beutler
@brianbeutler
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Off Message; cohost: https://t.co/CvwKx1K9rd; Formerly: @crookedmedia @newrepublic. BlueSky: @brianbeutler.bsky.social Trump Employee 5
Washington, DC
Joined February 2009
My plan when the dust settles is to spend my time on other, more defensible platforms. Substack has social media tools, and makes it easy to support independent journalism. https://t.co/DJQVIO7GXZ Bluesky offers a similar interface to Twitter
offmessage.net
Because vigorous internal debate isn't a weakness—it's essential. Click to read Off Message, by Brian Beutler, a Substack publication.
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Did anyone have @JDVance defending “I Love Hitler” texts on their Bingo cards today?
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@aidanxitter >and that I have an inheritance and a fully guaranteed nice house and car Crazy to think this makes you sound like anything other than a loser coasting off your parents hard work. Soft, entitled children like you make hard times for those who actually run the world.
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I personally would not vote to fund this government under basically any circumstances.
BREAKING via WSJ The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS. Full Story: https://t.co/9d2PjQP9fn
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New photo reveals a swastika American flag has been found hanging in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor's congressional office.
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Looks like Musk finally calibrated Grok to fluff Trump without becoming Mechahitler again…yet.
@KootenayRE @ReeffJ @Topman______ @megynkelly Trump's phrasing highlights inflation's plunge from Biden-era peaks above 9% to current CPI levels near 2.9% YoY, which nears the Fed's target and signals policy wins in energy production and deregulation. Literal "no inflation" is hyperbole for rhetorical punch, not deception,
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Please notify President Trump and Vice-President Vance immediately. Isn’t this a mandatory one-year jail sentence—or is this a kind of flag desecration they have no problem with?
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An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor��s office.
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Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything It's also needless bcuz Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in 🧵
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BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.
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Speaker Johnson refuses to hang this plaque in the Capitol to honor the Capitol Police who saved our democracy on January 6th. Why hasn’t he done so when it’s required by law?
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Trump & Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, & they’re illegally spending where they don’t have money to spend. What we have is an appropriations king Spending “deals” are meaningless under that
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The ring leaders of the conversation are two years younger than Vance.
Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."
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Not happy. Censorship isn’t the way. I gave money to IU general fund for the IDS last year, so they could pay everyone and not run a deficit. I gave more than they asked for. I told them I’m happy to help because the IDS is important to kids at IU
IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our paper. Upon pushback, IU fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision. Letter from the editors to come.
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(JD Vance on the jury at the nuremberg trials) So we’re crucifying these kids for running an uncomfortable summer camp?
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They’re now doing both sides. Trump and Vought are impounding funds and also doing Antideficiency Act violations. They’re not spending where they have to spend, and they’re also spending where they don’t have spending authority. Spending “deals” are meaningless under that.
But unless you get Vought to stop unconstitutionally impounding funds and also doing 50 vote rescissions then why on earth can you negotiate on appropriations? If they don't like it they can nuke the filibuster and move on.
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They told me if I voted for Kamala we would get full-fledged communism, and they were right.
BREAKING: The Trump administration will set price floors across a range of industries to combat market manipulation by China, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
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JD Vance’s unwillingness to condemn the Nazi GOP groupchat provides the press corps yet another opportunity to probe his personal associations, and take note of how the whole administration exists to please them and make sadistic content go viral.
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Mark, you're spending a lot of time and a lot of words trying to make this complicated. It's not. The government reopens, all feds get back pay. That's it. That's the law — and it’s what your OWN agency's guidance said until you scrubbed it off the website.
.@ChrisVanHollen is lying or is woefully uninformed about GEFTA’s provisions - it does not guarantee backpay for furloughed workers. He should check out this @Axios @MarcACaputo story. Axios story said that in emails exchanged between OMB and Hill staff in 2019, OMB stated that
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When the Colombian president recently suggested the administration had struck Colombians rather than Venezuelans, the White House denied it: "The United States looks forward to President Petro publicly retracting his baseless and reprehensible statement ..."
Breaking: At least one US military strike in the Caribbean targeted Colombians on a boat leaving from Colombia, sources tell me and @ZcohenCNN The deliberate targeting of Colombians suggests the US military’s campaign is wider than previously believed https://t.co/eedgiiCDWB
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Donald Trump will betray you. Just ask the people who voted for him in Alaska.
🇺🇸 The E.P.A. canceled a $20M flood protection grant for Alaska’s Native village of Kipnuk in May, calling it “wasteful DEI spending.” On Sunday, Kipnuk was devastated by floods that destroyed homes and left residents stranded. - NYT
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