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Aline Carri-eerie @jedlight.bsky.social · 10h

They should be paying more taxes with all this $ lying around. Why do they get to pick & choose what they fund while the rest of us send in our $ just to have PBS cut so ICE can kidnap more people. Tax the rich!

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Owenzowen @owenzowen.bsky.social · 10h

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jim0novak.bsky.social @jim0novak.bsky.social · 11h

Our military is being paid by someone other than the government.

It’s a page right out of Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall”.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 11h

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14h

Absolutely outrageous!! 🤬

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 21h

“At this moment in time of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.”

It’s hard to wrap your mind around it because of how callous it is.

But that’s what White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt actually said. Out loud. To press. Proudly.

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 1d

All those 25-year-olds who refused to vote for Kamala Harris know they're about to get kicked off their parents' insurance, right?

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

‘It’s only gotten worse’: As ACA premiums are set to climb, some Americans opt to go uninsured

Enhanced subsidies for Obamacare have kept premiums affordable. Absent action from Congress, they will expire at the end of the year.

www.nbcnews.com

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 13h

Trump hit with another court block in bid to deploy troops to Portland

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit just temporarily paused a ruling from a split three-judge panel that would have allowed President Donald Trump to call up the National Guard in Portland, Oregon, against protesters at that city's Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.That means ...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18h

Very concerning, if true.

billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 1d

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14h

A friend recently told me that they didn’t think ICE would deploy tear gas in well to do neighborhoods with a high density of white people. I understood their thinking, but disagreed. Today, they gassed Lakeview. Nothing is off limits to these people.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 13h

A whole bunch of Americans died in a field in PA trying to stop Osama Bin Laden’s cronies from destroying the WH.

That asshole just destroyed the WH for him.

The terrorists must be so pleased.

TACO accomplished what Al Qaeda could not,

while all the mouth breathing “patriots” let him do it.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14h

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14h

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Citizen A Speaks @citizenaspeaks.bsky.social · 13h

Jesus.

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 13h

Trump news at a glance: Pentagon announces it is deploying US aircraft carrier to the Caribbean

www.theguardian.com

Trump news at a glance: Pentagon announces it is deploying US aircraft carrier to the Caribbean

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 13h

Americans still don't realize how bad it has gotten and how much worse it is going to get.

Immense destruction, pain and suffering, and we're not even at the tip of it.

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Aletheia S.R. @aletheia225.bsky.social · 17h

Private donors to the Pentagon and donors to the ballroom is a serious alarm.

That's not how this works.

Stop this now.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

Maybe we should all apply and then wash out of the academy.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Omg, this detail from CNN about the ICE hiring snafu is wild. This seems like an HR 101 level thing to get right.

They turned a hiring bonus into something much closer to an application bonus.

Seems like a great way to burn a ton of cash. Also? Here’s some waste for sure!

The signing bonus also prompted discussions internally because it’s not contingent on a key part of the hiring process, which is passing the academy, another source said. Even candidates who don’t pass the academy and are slotted for administrative jobs are still pocketing thousands of dollars.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 13h

Donald Trump's puppet DOJ has no business screwing around with next month's election.

Sending the feds into California polling places is a deliberate attempt to scare off voters and undermine a fair election.

We will not back down. Californians decide our future — no one else.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16h

Adil Ray, "Prince Andrew has given £12 million of his mum's money to someone he has never met before"

"Has renounced all his titles for something he didn't do"

"With the same person he's never met before"

"At the house of someone he was only friends with"

"To be polite"

#HIGNFY

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14h

UPDATE: The 8th Circuit has declined to rehear a case challenging Arkansas’ voter assistance restrictions. This means Section 208 of the VRA — which lets voters get help from someone of their choice — can't be enforced by private citizens in seven states.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Appeals Court Delivers Another Blow to Voting Rights Act