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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 7h

This regime needs to back off and quit terrorizing people. The border is as secure as it's going to be, and if people are protesting and congregating, it's because of ICE and their bullying tactics. Why doesn't dear leader and the lame congress work on an immigration reform bill? That's helpful.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8h

As the intensity of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has risen, residents of Chicago are increasingly pushing back. Federal agents repeatedly have been observed releasing smoke bombs, tear gas and pepper balls to disperse residents who gather or capture videos.

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

Residents have begun forming volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal immigration agents. Others honk their horns or blow whistles when they see agents nearby.

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 7h

Ooh, creepy! And to think he is the supposed leader of the free world! YIKES. How embarrassing.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ITALIAN PM GIORGIA MELONI COULDN'T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH.

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not looking for a relationship; it goes no further than this.

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 11h

Figures. I guess they have nothing more prescient to focus on, do they? The Lee brothers need to stop demonizing LGBTQ people; they're citizens, too, and they have rights. Trans girls in sports are but a miniscule percentage, so I say, leave them alone. Focus on gun violence, for instance!

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 11h

Utah Supreme Court nominee John Nielsen and former Utah Supreme Court Justice Thomas Lee — Mike Lee’s brother — were hired to defend the state’s ban on trans girls in sports.

Gov. Cox taps ‘originalist’ for open Utah Supreme Court spot amid tension between Legislature and judiciary

Gov. Spencer Cox nominated District Judge John Nielsen, a self-described legal ‘originalist,’ to be the Utah Supreme Court's next justice.

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 11h

Vought is following his 2025 playbook and has apparently gotten close to 47% of his goals outlined in the project completed, while working on the other 53% as we speak. This country will NEVER be the same when they get through with it. Didn't voters understand that when they voted for it?

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11h

President Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen, giving his budget office rare authority to pick who gets paid or fired, which programs are cut or survive — in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.

Trump and budget chief Vought are making this a government shutdown unlike any other

President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen. The White House's budget office headed by Russ Vought is deciding who gets paid or fired in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 11h

Does anyone else find it ironic (and hypocritical) that they're talking about classified info in re to Bolton when dear leader took literally boxes and boxes of classified info home with him and which he stored in a bathroom? I think that was a bit more egregious than Bolton taking personal notes.

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CNN @cnn.com · 11h

EXCLUSIVE: Part of the Justice Department’s investigation of John Bolton centers around diary entry-like notes he was making to himself in an AOL email account when he was President Trump’s national security adviser, and whether they contained classified information, sources tell CNN.

DOJ investigation of John Bolton focuses on diary-like notes in his AOL email account | CNN Politics

Part of the Justice Department’s investigation of John Bolton centers around notes he was making to himself in an AOL email account — at times writing summaries of his activities like diary entries — ...

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe twice a day, but not for news. I mostly read and watch good news I trust. I don't get my facts from the Internet (or Fox, OAN, etc.) as I subscribe to lotsa magazines/newspapers. I don't like social media but on Bluesky I can find subjects other than politics that I'm interested in.

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Michael @michaelhawkins287.bsky.social · 18h

@ljoymills.bsky.social I’m an aerospace manufacturer involved in the aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft.

How often do you use other social media platforms?

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 11h

Seems that subject has taken the back burner. Once again...

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Derby Gisclair @derbygisclair.bsky.social · 18h

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 11h

I hate to say it, but I liked Sarah Huckabee Sanders (I change her name privately when I think of her) better! At least, you could rattle the woman and you knew she wasn't quiet a robot like Leavitt is. Leavitt is really unflappable.

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Jan Jeddeloh @janjeddeloh.bsky.social · 17h

I think Leavitt's more Chatty Cathy than Bullshit Barbie. You pull the string and she keeps saying the same thing.

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 18h

Kaitlan Collins busts Leavitt on layoffs blame: 'Wouldn't that be the president's call?'

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Good for Collins! Time someone stood up to Leavitt, our White House robotic talking Barbie.

Kaitlan Collins busts Leavitt on layoffs blame: 'Wouldn't that be the president's call?'

CNN's Kaitlan Collins called out White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt after she blamed Democrats for any government employee layoffs that might take place during the ongoing government shutdow...

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 18h

Why didn't Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? Let me count the ways

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I don't know about you, but I'm not losing sleep over this "slight." I'm losing sleep more over the state of the union, our democracy and economy, and the everlasting war in Ukraine.

Why didn't Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? Let me count the ways

I’ll admit to great relief that Donald Trump didn’t receive the Nobel Peace Prize, something for which he’d been shamelessly campaigning for months. I was firmly in the “anyone but Trump” camp but als...

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 18h

'Confused' Trump told to sit back down amid attempt to speak out of turn: report

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Is dear leader a little confused? He has been for years, but it's beginning to show more and more lately. And on the world stage.

'Confused' Trump told to sit back down amid attempt to speak out of turn: report

President Donald Trump seemed confused at the Israeli parliament on Monday, where he was slated to give a speech celebrating the release of the 20 surviving hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, re...

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 18h

Things are grim!

Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 18h

Born in Kansas, lived and worked in SF and San Diego for 35+ yrs, Oshkosh for 5 yrs and back in Lawrence, KS since 2013. And I miss the ocean every single day...and you?

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Michael @michaelhawkins287.bsky.social · 1d

@ljoymills.bsky.social hello thanks for the follow where are you from?

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 18h

'They disappeared my hair': Trump flips out over 'worst of all time' magazine photo

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He's more concerned about his appearance and thinning hair than he is about the hostages or the Palestinians starving and living in the ruins of Gaza. And nothing about Ukraine.

'They disappeared my hair': Trump flips out over 'worst of all time' magazine photo

In the middle of his victory tour overseas, where he is touting his success at getting Israeli hostages released as part of the Gaza ceasefire, Donald Trump took time off to rage about how a recent ma...

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with Garelick. Keaton was such an icon, both fashion-wise and in mannerisms, that her death came as quite a shock. She was only a few years older than me so it was like losing a sister. She left us far too soon. I will miss her.