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Ron Loutzenhiser @rloutz.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine that.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Court filings reveal that states using the Trump administration’s untested citizenship verification system to purge voter rolls may be mistakenly flagging eligible voters at an alarming rate, risking the chance of voters being disenfranchised.

Trump’s Voter Citizenship Database Is ‘Flawed’ and Could Lead to Disenfranchisement, Election Administrator Warns

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Politico @politico.com · 15h

FAA warns of ‘surge’ in air traffic controllers calling out of work

The agency reported “widespread impacts” across the aviation system as the shutdown drags on.

dlvr.it

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 21h

The courts had to step in and tell Donald Trump to feed the people. Let that sink in.

He was perfectly fine letting millions of Americans go hungry—in the middle of a shutdown that Republicans created.

Do what the judge said, Donald. Release the funds and stop playing with folks’ livelihoods.

Federal judge orders Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits out of contingency fund

The ruling came one day before funding for SNAP, more commonly known as food stamps, was set to lapse.

www.nbcnews.com

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Ron Loutzenhiser @rloutz.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic! This is why I donate. If you can, please do! Give blood and save a life! #Vitalant

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 1d

my god, what a paragraph

(from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

One way to think about the tariffs is as a means for Trump (and his family) to establish leverage over other countries, which he can use to enrich himself and establish a separate base of power from Congress.

Scott Levy @scott-levy.bsky.social · 2d

$550 billion in Japanese funding.
Directed by the President.
Outside Congress’s control.

My new @justsecurity.org piece explains how the agreement bypasses the Appropriations Clause and violates the laws that safeguard Congress’s power of the purse.

www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump...

Trump’s Japan Deal and the Disappearing Appropriations Clause

The deal circumvents the Appropriations Clause and congressional safeguards, creating a system answerable only to the White House.

www.justsecurity.org

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

"I supported the For the People Act when the the Dems put it forward in 2021. Do you remember how many Republicans voted for that bill?"

"No on Prop 50" Chair: [silence]

"It was zero. Not a single Republican voted for independent redistricting commissions nationwide."

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Ron Loutzenhiser @rloutz.bsky.social · 3d

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Ron Loutzenhiser @rloutz.bsky.social · 3d

California is actually much more tax friendly to low and middle class than many (most?) red states. Looks like top 5 in progressive taxation.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder:

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 5d

Trump citing his MoCA test to question Crockett and AOC's IQ is like a man bragging he passed his eye exam while driving off a cliff.

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Ron Loutzenhiser @rloutz.bsky.social · 5d

Frankly, I am a bit surprised that the paintings aren’t all of him.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 6d

Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone?

Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.

They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 6d

1. Reagan’s speech is real

2. It’s public domain

3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians

4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check

5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 7d

Here's another video of Reagan where he argues against tariffs and protectionism.

Let's face it, Donald Trump doesn't know who Ronald Reagan was.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VKR...

President Reagan's Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade on August 31, 1985

YouTube video by Reagan Library

www.youtube.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to Trump and the GOP Congress - they now own the two longest government shutdowns in history.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 8d

“WAAAH!

Mommy, Canada was mean to me! I’m NOT TALKING to Ontario-and I’m gonna tariff them!”

Really-this may be one of the most pathetic things a president has ever done

Just imagine how he would react if, say, Canada posted an AI video of them flying over the White House and dumping sh*t on him

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8d

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 10d

Sending troops to San Francisco? Do it and we’ll sue.

We don’t bow to kings. We defend the Constitution.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13d

Q: Are you going to send federal troops and the National Guard to San Francisco?

Trump: "We're going to go to San Francisco...We're going to go to San Francisco and we're going to make it great...Don't forget, I can use the Insurrection Act."

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 10d

Demolishing American history for a grotesque, gilded vanity ballroom, paid for by opaque donors bribing the president.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10d

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.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 11d

No president should be able to do what trump is doing to the White House right now. He doesn’t own the place. WE do. It’s OUR house. We’re just letting him live there for four years. He can’t tear down walls and shit. It’s OUR house.

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