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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."

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thetoyotajackson.bsky.social @thetoyotajackson.bsky.social · 51m

Tribeca Film Festival.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1h

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says:

Governments need “to rethink the welfare state – from food assistance to healthcare and unemployment benefits – as an essential tool to maintain the social fabric of society, rather than a cost to be reduced.”

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says

Exclusive: Poverty rapporteur says governments must rethink welfare state as essential to fabric of society

www.theguardian.com

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thetoyotajackson.bsky.social @thetoyotajackson.bsky.social · 54m

Oil. In Venezuela.

thetoyotajackson.bsky.social @thetoyotajackson.bsky.social · 54m

Venezuela is RICH in oil.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1h

I'm wondering whether Trump designed Cartel de los Soles bc the Intelligence Community had already publicly and repeatedly debunked Stephen Miller's lies that Maduro was tied to Tren de Aragua?

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

In February, the State Department designated Tren de Aragua, Mara Salvatrucha (known as MS-13) and several other groups as foreign terrorist organizations, saying that they constituted “a national-security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime.”
Two weeks ago, the Trump administration added the Venezuelan Cartel de los Soles, or Cartel of the Suns, to a list of specially designated global terrorist groups, asserting that it is headed by President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and other high-ranking officials in his administration.

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thetoyotajackson.bsky.social @thetoyotajackson.bsky.social · 56m

I'm thinking this may not be a shutdown.
This may well be a permanent closure. Trump and Johnson certainly show the body language of that, and the subtitle "Watcha gonna do about it?"
I'm sorry but it is and looks bad, very bad.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

Oh.

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thetoyotajackson.bsky.social @thetoyotajackson.bsky.social · 1h

Especially the idea of a replacement for that WH bunker to be built under there which ofcourse will become a place where no one can see what he does.
Pleasure Dome Mar bajo Tierra.

thetoyotajackson.bsky.social @thetoyotajackson.bsky.social · 1h

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thetoyotajackson.bsky.social @thetoyotajackson.bsky.social · 19h

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thetoyotajackson.bsky.social @thetoyotajackson.bsky.social · 19h

Of course it isn't.

thetoyotajackson.bsky.social @thetoyotajackson.bsky.social · 19h

OMG.
Er ist wieder da (He's back) and trying it again.

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thetoyotajackson.bsky.social @thetoyotajackson.bsky.social · 22h

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thetoyotajackson.bsky.social @thetoyotajackson.bsky.social · 22h

3. total clown car. I don't even want to know what EU politicians and their teams are saying to eachother about these people in need of interventions. Next time Trump talks about asylums we can realize that is because he's the main man at their selfcreated asylums.

thetoyotajackson.bsky.social @thetoyotajackson.bsky.social · 22h

2. SecDef Ginbreath, Bondi, Oz, Rubio, RFK jr, Graham, Kennedy, Nunes and all the non electeds: Kushner, Banneon, Miller, Roger Stone, I mean, come on, all stark raving mad, bonkers. These are NOT sane people. They're way beyond weird.Barbie porndoll Leavitt, Mike Johnson, I mean, total clown ..

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Russian interference case heads to Europe's 'Supreme Court'

Ex-MPs with @the-citizens.bsky.social take landmark case to Grand Chamber.

Case claims UK govt in breach of law for refusing to investigate foreign interference.
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www.thenational.scot/news/2556145...

UK Russian interference case heads to 'Europe's Supreme Court'

THREE former MPs have lodged a case with “Europe’s Supreme Court”, accusing the UK Government of failing in its duty to protect elections from…

www.thenational.scot

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

This case stems from the systemic failure & subsequent cover-up revealed by 2020 Russia Report. Boris Johnson refused to investigate but what is UK govt's excuse now??

Read about this 5-year campaign & why it's even more necessary than ever now.

substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Case We Shouldn’t Have Had to Bring

Why three ex-MPs are taking Britain to Europe’s “Supreme Court” to defend our elections

substack.com

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

It's pretty extraordinary timing in a case that has been running since 2020 & publication of Russia Report.

@carolinelucas.bsky.social @benbradshaw.bsky.social @alynsmith.bsky.social have persevered even tho they've now left parliament.

Why - even now - is UK govt refusing to investigate???

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thetoyotajackson.bsky.social @thetoyotajackson.bsky.social · 1d

Argh.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

The Argentine beef Fat Satan is forcing on us has a foot-and-mouth disease problem. It may be a switch from the measles to the upcoming polio.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

If you see an ICE agent, know that they’re governed by no laws, have no red lines, don’t follow the Constitution, and can’t be stopped.

They’re going to do whatever they feel like.

They are American Gestapo—literally. They’re the federal stormtroopers the right wing spent 100 years worrying about.

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thetoyotajackson.bsky.social @thetoyotajackson.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry to read that.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 1d

One for 🇬🇧 to have look at...

Dave Lee @davelee.me · 1d

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats in Maine trying to understand why it’s so hard to find a decent alternative to Susan Collins…

a man is sitting on a yellow swing in a park .

ALT: a man is sitting on a yellow swing in a park .

media.tenor.com

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