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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 14d

He’s bailing out Argentina for $20 billion while their farmers take over the formerly US share of the soybean market in China. Just brilliant.🙄

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Bessent: "It's unfortunate that Chinese leadership has decided to use American soybean farmers as a hostage or pawn in the trade negotiations. American farmers overwhelmingly voted for President Trump ... you should expect news on Tuesday on substantial support for our farmers."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

Open enrollment for ACA plans began yesterday in Idaho.

One couple got notice that their monthly premium next year would jump from $51 to $2,232 as subsidies expire.

25,000 Idahoans are expected to be priced out of coverage.

This is what's at stake in Trump's shutdown.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 1d

The forces of white Christian nationalism are ascendant all over and our newsroom leaders are not only refusing to call it out, they are acquiescing.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 9h

Her quotes from this town hall are like an old dunk contest highlight reel.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h

AOC: Trump should be having congressional leaders in the WH. Do you see that every day? No, you don't because they're playing golf and they're going to mar-a-lago and the Republicans in the house have been on vacation for weeks now

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Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social · 7h

Let’s not look away because when America gets a cold the Black community get’s pneumonia because we pretend that we are a neutral and fair society!

theonyximpact.bsky.social @theonyximpact.bsky.social · 9h

The harm is real: Black workers pushed out of jobs, HBCUs stripped of resources, Black mothers and fathers denied healthcare, and neighborhoods left without protection from floods, asthma, or poisoned water.

📖 Read the full Blackout Report now.
#BlackoutReport #OnyxImpact

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16h

Trust the unqualified, incompetent, self-serving & profiteering idiots instead?

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 23h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 23h

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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Irwin Redlener @irwinredlener.bsky.social · 19h

*We have largest measles outbreak (inc. 3 deaths) since declared eliminated in 2000
*Deliberation misinformation, i.e., outright lies, from HHS undermining vaccine confidence
*Massive cutbacks in critical research and CDC staff are & will be endangering lives
* Lies abound re. Tylenol & autism

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blakemk @blakemmmk.bsky.social · 18h

It's insane. We have many questions. Including, has what they are proposing to do ever have been done before? We are used to the military exercises - the bases alert people ahead of time. Tonight was the first any of us starting hearing about this which seems much more than the standard. And $$$

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22h

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:

This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 20h

The media reported endlessly on any two dozen people who attended a Tea Party rally in 2009 anywhere. 100s of thousands or millions in the street gets a blip on local news. It's the media. Period.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 20h

It's not protecting consumers because he helped gut it.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

This guy was a clerk for Justice Gorsuch. Anyone want to argue this is not a racist (and damn stupid) taunt?

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

Centrists : “Karl, Stop calling the Republican Party the American Nazi party it’s not accurate”

The republican party :

The Rooster
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A friend in DC had a Zoom call with Congressman Dave Taylor's office today...
Taylor's legislative correspondent, Angelo Elia, had what can only be described as an American swastika flag prominently displayed in his background.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 1d

"No Kings" is the literal foundational truth of this republic. It's the cornerstone on which the country was founded, it's the reason for the American revolution.

We're literally standing for this foundational truth.

Don't let them get away with their Orwellian doublethink.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.

Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

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blakemk @blakemmmk.bsky.social · 1d

Just going to quote myself

One thing about all of this is that everyone gets to see how awful CBP has always been. It's been clear to those of us near the southern border especially for years.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · May 29

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."

My report:

State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’

The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2d

Democrats need to put the same extended media consuming outrage into the Young Republican Nazi chats as Republicans mustered for Biden going for ice cream.

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blakemk @blakemmmk.bsky.social · 1d

I don't want to give them an 'excuse' of being too immature to know better by calling them boys.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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