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robertmcmillan.bsky.social @robertmcmillan.bsky.social · 4h

AGENTS TACKLE US CITIZEN AFTER EAST SIDE OPERATION LEADS TO CRASH, SPILLS INTO WALGREENS: VIDEO
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Agents tackle US citizen after East Side operation leads to crash, spills into Walgreens: VIDEO

Federal agents deployed tear gas into a crowd of people protesting two immigration-related arrests, exposing 13 CPD officers.

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robertmcmillan.bsky.social @robertmcmillan.bsky.social · 5h

Antideficiency Act

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robertmcmillan.bsky.social @robertmcmillan.bsky.social · 5h

Overview

This act prohibits federal agencies from obligating or expending federal funds in advance or in excess of an appropriation, and from accepting voluntary services

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 13h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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robertmcmillan.bsky.social @robertmcmillan.bsky.social · 5h

No Donald , that’s no your money.
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The 'Color of Money': Understanding its Impact on Government Spending and the Anti-Deficiency Act

YouTube video by The Bureaucrat

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h

What's your rewrite? "President Trump on Wednesday issued a document claiming he could grant himself powers not granted to him to snatch up federal funds the Constitution grants Congress jurisdiction over, in a move sure to meet with legal challenges."

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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robertmcmillan.bsky.social @robertmcmillan.bsky.social · 5h

The "color of money" in the federal budget refers to the different categories of funds that are restricted by law to specific purposes, such as procurement, research and development (R&D), or operations and maintenance (O&M).

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h

This is also helpful.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 13h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 16h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 16h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 12h

You know, to paraphrase @kenwhite.bsky.social , if you joke about some things, it’s kind of like ‘ironically’ fucking a goat.

Sure, you may say it’s for irony or performance art or to be provocative or whatever, but at the end of the day, you’re still balls deep in a goat.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Crazy how these guys just keep showing up everywhere

ICE Agent in skull mask Broadview Illinois

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

Leaked image of the memorandum

a piece of paper being held up reads
"I can do what I want.

Don"

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 12h

The hoods are all the way off over on the hellsite

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 6h

Commentary: A wide majority of Jewish Americans say President Trump is exploiting antisemitism in disingenuous fashion — that it’s a thinly veiled disguise to justify his assault on higher education, as revealed by a national survey.

Professors: Most Jewish Americans believe Donald Trump is exploiting antisemitism to assault universities

A wide majority of Jewish Americans say Trump is exploiting antisemitism in disingenuous fashion, as revealed by a national survey.

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 5h

Jack Ciattarelli campaigning with DOGE architect Vivek Ramaswamy

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

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robertmcmillan.bsky.social @robertmcmillan.bsky.social · 6h

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Nazikeule im Dritten Reich | Browser Ballett

YouTube video by Browser Ballett

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

Hilarious. Trump is sabotaging this guy daily right before the election with his policy pronouncements and all he can do is plead with voters not to notice he’s a Trump ally. I’m sure NJ voters can REALLY count on Jack to stand up to Trump!

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 7h

Nothing is more indicative of the general idiocy and ignorance of Americans than having them think Republicans are more likely to halt corruption.

I mean seriously, you have to be an imbecile with your head in the sand who follows no legitimate news whatsoever to think that. Astoundingly stupid.

David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 7h

In the last poll before the 2016 election, Trump was losing to Dems on every issue other than anti-corruption — and he won the election.

In 2025, the latest poll shows Republicans leading Dems on who voters trust to halt corruption.

This is an emergency for Democrats ahead of the midterm election.

It’s The Corruption, Stupid

Democrats have a chance to revive their party and save American democracy. Will they take it?

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 7h

Republicans hate this idea. They prefer ending democracy and illegally implementing permanent, one-party rule over any form of compromise or letting Americans choose what they want.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

AOC: When one party wants the votes of another party. You negotiate, you come to a compromise and you pass a bill. That is schoolhouse rock. And that is how things should be

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 1d

that app he shares with his son must’ve been pinging like a radar gun at the indy 500

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 9h

"It's a mistake to think that MAGA's obsession with Epstein stems from concern about child sex abuse. ... For them, this saga is about exposing elites, particularly Democrats—not about delivering justice to victims."

🔥🔥 from @lutzfernandez.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net on the Epstein madness.

MAGA’s Epstein Fixation Isn’t About Justice, It’s About Revenge

House Republicans care less about delivering justice to this sexual predator's underage victims and more about punishing their political enemies

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