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Ancestry 1740 era Irish immigrants. Let’s do better. Try to save democracy. Work to save the planet. Fight disinformation. Read. Be kind. Delight at the complexity of aqour universe. Endurance.
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The man who doesn’t read and can’t handle a briefing furloughed the people guarding America’s most dangerous weapons.
So is Trump demolishing the entirety of the White House? Structurallly?
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NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
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This feels like it went under the radar a bit re public alarm - why are *ICE* stockpiling guided missiles? An agency that only operates domestically?
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.
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Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.
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It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.
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He’s spending millions for a ballroom while American soldiers go without pay…
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Under Mike Johnson, the House has conducted just 20 days of business in the last 16 weeks and refused to swear in Democrat Adelita Grijalva.

Don't forget what this is really about: keeping the release of the Epstein Files at bay.
A typical 60 yr old couple in Georgia making $80,000 will see a $25,000 price increase in their healthcare thanks to GOP Big, Brutal Tax Bill. @warnock.senate.gov
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Context: Graham Platner, the senate candidate for Maine was revealed to have a totenkopf tattoo (nazi SS symbol). bsky.app/profile/jane...
This whole time I’ve been talking about the Fetterman Particles radiating off this guy but it turns out they’re regular were regular ol’ Hitler Particles.
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Reporter: 47% of Americans say that they are not confident that they could find a good job right now. This is not just people who are unemployed, it's people that are looking to make lateral moves. The big issue is because wage gains are not keeping pace with the cost of inflation.
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The fact that a former president, in office from 2007 to 2012, will be imprisoned, let alone while still on appeal, has shaken France—and divided it
France puts a former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, behind bars
The first French ex-head of state to be jailed since Marshal Pétain
econ.st
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I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org.

Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...
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Women across the US are facing criminal charges for miscarrying—this is what "fetal personhood" looks like.
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Mike Johnson: "We're fighting for healthcare as well. Not just in word but in deed. We put in the one big beautiful bill, real reforms to Medicaid to make it work better."

(The bill in fact cuts nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid.)