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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 49m

You said it.

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 50m

They will do what is in their best interest and what they’ve always done. Use the American taxpayers as their personal piggy bank.

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 52m

I see no one with the brains or balls to do so.

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1h

You said it.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1h

Who's going to stop him?

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1h

Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency
Far-right extremists giving presidents almost unlimited power to implement policies that will hurt everyday Americans and strip them of fundamental rights.
www.americanprogress.org/article/proj...

Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency

Far-right extremists have a plan to shatter democracy’s guardrails, giving presidents almost unlimited power to implement policies that will hurt everyday Americans and strip them of fundamental right...

www.americanprogress.org

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1h

Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency
Far-right extremists giving presidents almost unlimited power to implement policies that will hurt everyday Americans and strip them of fundamental rights.
www.americanprogress.org/article/proj...

Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency

Far-right extremists have a plan to shatter democracy’s guardrails, giving presidents almost unlimited power to implement policies that will hurt everyday Americans and strip them of fundamental right...

www.americanprogress.org

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1h

Bingo.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1h

Nor I.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1h

Worth the listen
Maddow Blog | Maddow on her new documentary exploring the life and legacy of a Civil Rights Icon.
youtu.be/MFV5Kge1tt0?...

Maddow on her new documentary exploring the life and legacy of a Civil Rights Icon

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1h

America’s national debt is spiraling higher by the second.the debt sits at over $37.8 trillion, and there are $1.2 trillion in interest payments to service the borrowing. JPMorgan CEO Jaimie Dimon and Fed chairman Jerome Powell have both expressed concerns about it.
finance.yahoo.com/news/america...

America is ‘going broke slowly’ says J.P. Morgan, as national debt balloons and tariff revenue looks shaky

The risk is “that we move from going broke slowly to going broke quickly,” Kelly says.

finance.yahoo.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 2h

You said it.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 2h

We all know where America first 🇺🇸 came from...

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 2h

“During Trump’s first term his political rivals spent years pushing a bogus conspiracy theory that he was controlled by Vladimir Putin”

Whilst in reality Israel was the State pulling his strings!

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-keep...

Trump Keeps Admitting That He Is Bought And Owned By The World's Richest Israeli

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 2h

This is the next anti-Trump frontier for the Democratic opposition. And conversations are quietly underway among House Democrats over what they will do to limit ICE if they win the majority in next year’s midterm elections.
TAKE YOUR ANGER TO THE BALLOT BOX ☑️

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 2h

Doggies 🐕

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 2h

Truly stunning. I never imagined while studying history that it would ever come to this horror show. But here we are, Nazi Germany. These Gestapo thugs must be stopped, or it will get worse than anyone can imagine.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 2h

More corrupt than could have ever been imagined by our forefathers. They are turning over in their Graves. Unfuckingbelievable.

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 2h

You said it.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 4h

Republicans respond to data showing 10M will soon lose Medicaid coverage. So this is how the gop is going to give tax breaks to the richest 1%.
Evil greedy bastards.
www.thecentersquare.com/national/art...

Republicans respond to data showing 10M will soon lose Medicaid coverage

(The Center Square) – Democrats are sounding the alarm over a new analysis showing that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will cause millions of Medicaid recipients to lose their

www.thecentersquare.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 4h

Modeling Was the Machine. Epstein Was Just the Middleman
Glamour wasn’t a cover — it was the system. This is how elite sex trafficking operated in plain sight.
thegoodage.medium.com/modeling-was...

Modeling Was the Machine. Epstein Was Just the Middleman

Glamour wasn’t a cover — it was the system. This is how elite sex trafficking operated in plain sight

thegoodage.medium.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 4h

This means you MAGA.
A study in the Annals of Internal Journal of Medicine:: Medicaid cuts could result in over 16,600 preventable deaths each yearr-hospitals in underserved areas, Medicaid funding is a critical lifeline. Cuts could lead to closures, leaving communities without access to care

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 4h

John Roberts Defies the Supreme Court. He is proving to be a loyal soldier in Trumpy's Army of War. I guess in-Justice Roberts being paid untold millions in crypto retirement money is being rewarded bigly.
newrepublic.com/article/2001... via
@newrepublic

John Roberts Defies the Supreme Court

If the chief justice was once a judicial institutionalist, he has become all too eager to cast norms and precedent aside in matters that benefit Trump.

newrepublic.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 4h

The chief justice of the US has painted himself as a modern institutionalist over the past 20 years. Experts say he’s emboldening Trump’s drive toward authoritarianism. He is destroying our country.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America

The chief justice of the US has painted himself as a modern institutionalist over the past 20 years. Experts say he’s emboldening Trump’s drive toward authoritarianism

www.theguardian.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 4h

Project 2025 Aims to Strip Away Our Freedom to Vote
Published: Sep 3, 2024
Project 2025 could drastically alter the state of elections, voting rights, and democracy in America.
www.commoncause.org/articles/pro...

Project 2025 Aims to Strip Away Our Freedom to Vote

Project 2025 could drastically alter the state of elections, voting rights, and democracy in America.

www.commoncause.org

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