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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

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reversekarma.bsky.social @reversekarma.bsky.social · 1h

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 1h

10 years suspended and six months in jail for a lifetime of trauma. I was raped by my abuser at 4 years old. 53 now, do you see now maga? You're protecting the wrong ones. You wanna bitch about all women being good, a slut, or whore...who placed us in that category? I was labeled fast at 4.

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Diane @dianesf.bsky.social · 10h

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📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 3h

Funding Sleight of Hand By instructing OMB and DoD to “adjust accounts” later, the administration is essentially creating a temporary off-book loan — which Congress has never approved. This violates the spirit, if not the letter, of federal budget law.

📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 3h

Use of Defunct Department Title The U.S. hasn’t had a “Secretary of War” since the National Security Act of 1947 created the Department of Defense. May signal either an ideological statement (a return to “wartime governance”) possibly laying groundwork for expanded wartime executive powers.

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📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 3h

Article I vs. Article II Powers Congress controls the purse strings (Art. I, §9, Cl. 7). The President is using Commander-in-Chief powers (Art. II) to justify overriding congressional appropriations authority — a direct challenge to the separation of powers.

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📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 3h

Violation of the Antideficiency Act Federal law strictly prohibits spending money without congressional appropriation. The President can’t unilaterally decide to repurpose existing funds to pay military salaries, even with “logical relationship” language — unless Congress has already authorized it.

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📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 3h

Look i want the military paid but by invoking his Commander-in-Chief authority to override Congress’s power of the purse, Trump is setting a precedent that the executive branch can fund the military without congressional approval — something no president in modern history has done.

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📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 3h

A constitutional provocation asserting presidential war powers over congressional spending power.
A dangerous precedent merging financial and military control under the executive.
A propaganda move casting the president as the military’s direct benefactor, bypassing civilian legislative oversight

📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 3h

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Military gets paid, but at the cost of civilian oversight.

Federal civilian workers (DoD civilians, contractors) remain unpaid.

Congress’s authority over spending — the core of democratic accountability — is undermined.

National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-8

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF WAR THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET SUBJECT: Use of

www.whitehouse.gov

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📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 3h

slower disaster relief, fewer USDA or HUD personnel, and fewer support staff for veterans and the elderly.

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📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 3h

Fewer watchdogs inside government able to call out corruption or abuse.

More power for DHS and law enforcement while cutting jobs in education, health, and environmental safety.

Poor and rural communities will feel the brunt first

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📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 3h

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
What This Means for Ordinary People

Longer delays and worse service at agencies like the VA, SSA, IRS, and FEMA.

More political control over which programs get staff and funding.

Ensuring Continued Accountability in Federal Hiring

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Background.

www.whitehouse.gov

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📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 3h

Kids in a chat room huh. Kids in a fucking chat room j.d? Isn't the starting age of this program 22 up to 40? But kids. Now to my old ass yes they are stupid racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, pro sexual assault, Nazi kids in a chat room. But then again I know that January 6th wasn't a tourist trip.

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 6h

These are some of the leaked messages Young Republicans were sending in group chats.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 5h

😳ICE using tear gas on neighborhood in Chicago🇺🇸

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 5h

Justice JACKSON standing up for voting rights. 🔥

Louisiana: Plaintiffs said 'we want another majority-black district.'

Jackson: No. They said 'we aren't receiving equal electoral opportunity because our votes are being diluted.'

Louisiana: Same thing.

Jackson: No, it’s not.

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📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 4h

Oh god that mess. That's when i broke up with conservative anything. 2003.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

BREAKING: President Donald Trump’s administration for now must stop firing workers during the government shutdown, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered.

Judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from firing workers during the government shutdown

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing workers during the government shutdown. U.S.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 4h

🚨IRS, FBI, Federal Marshals, MPD, DEA, ICE, HLS, and ATF here to “investigate” this woman. Suspicious for being black? The regime has made their white supremacism clear. The time for us to reject it is NOW!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Jeffries: "The effort to mischaracterize the rallies that are gonna take place all across the country is part of the continued right-wing disinformation machine that is failing to persuade the American people."

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📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 4h

Well most nazi's retire to Argentina so there's that.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 5h

What the fuck are we doing?

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📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 4h

An I hate America rally. Do not let this prick say what America is supposed to mean to you. We have fought too long and too fucking hard to come out of the 50s, and we will not go back.

📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 4h

Using the playbook on genocide using the poor and migrant populations as political foter to see exactly what Americans will let slide. The no kings rally is showing them that we collectively have had enough and it scares the fuck out of them. That's the only reason they need maga to think this is

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📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 4h

The food deserts alone are no help but theses fucking tariffs are going to kill hard working Americans. We are not wealthy by any means ( just had to hustle for a note) but I have seen the actual situations going on in America. Ive seen the things ppl will do to feed their kids. Trump is

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📎✊💙🏒🤘Suzie @layianna.bsky.social · 4h

$150 for coffee, puppy pads, lunch meat, 1 box of snack cakes and pringles for granddaughters lunches for school (brings a second for a friend in need) and dinner which is chicken carbonara (going to start clucking soon)so fresh chicken everything else in pantry. How are the ppl making this work?

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