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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve been on SNAP. People will starve to death if this happens

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 6h

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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panawhatever.bsky.social @panawhatever.bsky.social · 6h

Since when can The President just cut $40 million dollar checks?

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Jane Fleming Kleeb 🇺🇸thank you Pres. Biden @janekleeb.bsky.social · 7h

Trump did this. 4 steaks. $109.

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 6h

They’re doing it again.
Silencing Black voters by rigging the maps.

We need every Blue state fighting back like California.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 16h

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Federal agents raided Family Night at La Catedral Arena in Wilder, Idaho. A community racetrack packed with families, food, and music. They came under the guise of “illegal betting.” What they unleashed was terror: children zip-tied, parents separated, and chaos erupting across a crowd of 1,000.

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 6h

F*ckers

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 16h

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Federal agents raided Family Night at La Catedral Arena in Wilder, Idaho. A community racetrack packed with families, food, and music. They came under the guise of “illegal betting.” What they unleashed was terror: children zip-tied, parents separated, and chaos erupting across a crowd of 1,000.

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panawhatever.bsky.social @panawhatever.bsky.social · 6h

He’s a fucking Billionaire who is not only running scams out of the White House, which he is destroying, his kids are using his office to line their pockets, but now we have to just swallow the fact that he’s directly stealing tax dollars?!?!?!?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?

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The Astute Galoot ™️ 🏴‍☠️ @theastutegaloot.bsky.social · 11h

Ah, the repubes are once again clearing Trump of the Epstein probe for those files that “don’t exist,” so…

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jbvdr.bsky.social @jbvdr.bsky.social · 12h

I couldn’t agree more. I was hardened by the no kings protests at 7 million is minuscule compared to what we need. We need 2 million in DC all at once. And may be prepared to be teargassed by or worse.

Michael Adzema @sillymickel.bsky.social · 1d

#TruthWarriors

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

The destruction of the East Wing really bums me out in a way that I wasn't expecting.

I guess some of it is about the destruction of history. But I think it's mostly about the feeling of helplessness. There's nothing we can do to stop him.

Nobody is coming to save us. And it's going to get worse.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11h

In what constitutional universe is "the President is telling the Justice Department to pay him $230 million" not an abuse of power?

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panawhatever.bsky.social @panawhatever.bsky.social · 11h

So Trump, the sitting President, asks for $230 million dollars….
From the Department that is currently lead by people who rely on him for their livelihoods, and who, at literally every step of the way, fall all over themselves to show the depraved depths of their loyalty….
So, stealing.

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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 13h

Trump–Putin meeting in Hungary CANCELLED — The Telegraph

Talks hit a deadlock after Lavrov told Rubio that Russia won’t agree to freezing the front line.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15h

🚨 A January 6 rioter pardoned by Donald Trump has been ARRESTED for allegedly THREATENING TO ASSASSINATE Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. 1/

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Eric Rosen @erosen1.bsky.social · 15h

The cost of the ballroom being built at the White House should be less than the projected $250 million because Trump will stiff all the contractors.

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panawhatever.bsky.social @panawhatever.bsky.social · 12h

Exactly, it hurts a little, but we can all hurt them more. I grew up dirt poor, I know I can get by on very little money. I’ve always said, it’s so funny that rich people look down on poor people because I could live the rest of my life in your shoes and you couldn’t survive a week in mine.

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Canada Crescenta Democratic Club @ccdemclub.bsky.social · 14h

Mike Johnson lives in a Faraday Cage of silence. He "is not aware" of major events.

An unplugged Speaker of the House cannot effectively govern.
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panawhatever.bsky.social @panawhatever.bsky.social · 14h

But I’m sure they’ll only send us “the good stuff”…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

CNBC: Is importing beef from Argentina a possibility?

BROOKE ROLLINS: Yes, the president has said he's in discussions with Argentina. It will not be very much. Argentina is also facing a foot and mouth disease issue.

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Blue Dot... Red State @pmatsey.bsky.social · 1d

Well, Well, Well Senator Jim Banks got owned by Gov. Newsom 🤣
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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 1d

Whomp

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Beyer: I don’t like to do ad hominem attacks, but I’ve served with four different speakers. This is the fifth one—by far the weakest speaker, I think, in American history.

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panawhatever.bsky.social @panawhatever.bsky.social · 14h

Start by cancelling your least used subscriptions, close out old bank accounts, duplicate credit cards. Next stop buying extras, goodies, treats. Work your way up to the big choices.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 16h

It.Is.The.Only.Way.
Congress isn't stopping him(do we even have a congress anymore?), the Senate isn't stopping him, the courts aren't stopping him. Call it whatever you want, I don't care, but the only way forward is to Shut it the Fuck Down.
Turn the money off.
Shut it down.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 15h

Firing live artillery shells over an American highway was needlessly reckless.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Folks. I'm going to suggest that the interim United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is... not very bright.

Signal chat:

Ok, I was just wondering for planning purposes, but that's fine. I thought you said I was welcome to reach out to you about what other outlets are reporting. 15m

Why do you report on what other outlets are reporting? If I was you, I'd develop sources myself and out compete all of them! 12m

Well, I guess I'm a bit confused. You got in touch with me yesterday and told me I was welcome to reach out to you with questions. You obviously know better than anyone what's going on in this case. What was the purpose of reaching out to me, if not to open a line of communication? Was it just to insult my reporting? 4m

No it was for you to correct it, which you refused to do. You don't report fairly. 3m

I am more than happy to correct it, but you still haven't told me what's incorrect! What precisely is wrong with the tweet?

Signal chat:

By the way everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.
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I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. You don't get to say that in retrospect. 24 min

Yes I do. Off record. 23m

I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story? 7m

It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story. 6m

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