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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 17m

The two accused the House GOP of being "on vacation" in lieu of engaging in negotiations.

'Republicans Aren't In Town:' Bernie Sanders And AOC Slam House Absence During Shutdown

The two accused the House GOP of being "on vacation" in lieu of engaging in negotiations.

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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 1m

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Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups

The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.

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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 2m

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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 2m

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Trump okays CIA ops inside Venezuela & doesn't rule out killing tyrant

DONALD Trump has given the CIA the go-ahead to carry out covert operations inside Venezuela. The move is a major escalation against Nicolás Maduro’s regime. The authorization allows the CIA to take…

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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 4m

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Gavin Newsom Seeks Congressional Probe Of GOP “I Love Hitler” Texts, Slams VP Vance’s “Kids Do Stupid Things” Response And Says DOJ “Cannot Be Trusted”

California's Gavin Newsom called out JD Vance, the DOJ & the congressional GOP over pro-Nazis, pro-rape and racist remarks made by Young Republicans.

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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 5m

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 8m

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Today the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Louisiana v.

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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 8m

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A Court Tells Trump No (Again), While SecDef Clamps Down on the First Amendment

Today, a federal judge granted a motion for a temporary restraining order, enjoining the government from firing employees during the shutdown.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 13h

NEW: No Kings is this Saturday, and here are my tips for how to mitigate anxiety in large crowds. Feel free to share! youtu.be/nxpkVk9TGgQ?...

NO KINGS! Tips for Protesting with PTS and Anxiety

YouTube video by MSW Media

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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 10h

Pretty sure it's BILLION.
$20 BILLION.

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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 1d

Goldman Sachs predicts that American consumers will absorb 55% of tariffs, American companies 22%, foreign exporters 18% by lowering prices on goods, and 5% evaded.

However, there is NO evidence that foreign importers are lowering the price of goods

Americans are absorbing the entire cost

Goldman Sees US Consumers Paying More Than Half of Trump Tariffs

US consumers will likely shoulder 55% of tariff costs by the end of the year, with American companies taking on 22%, the Goldman analysts wrote in an Oct. 12 research note to clients. Foreign exporte...

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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 22h

Why did Trump go from China being a "moral disgrace" for enacting controls on rare earths to "Don't worry about China! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment" in just 2 days?

He was reacting to crypto tanking. Largest crypto crash EVER

Follow the $

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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 19h

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill to block the taxpayer-funded $20 B bailout of Argentina.

Trump has admitted the gift will not help America: “It’s not going to make a big difference for our country”

It WILL make a difference to billionaire hedge fund manager Rob Citrone, GOP crony

Elizabeth Warren Forces GOP To Defend Trump's Argentina Bailout

“For Trump, the leader of Argentina is more important than American families struggling with rising costs for health care,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Tuesday.

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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 10h

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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 19h

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill to block the taxpayer-funded $20 B bailout of Argentina.

Trump has admitted the gift will not help America: “It’s not going to make a big difference for our country”

It WILL make a difference to billionaire hedge fund manager Rob Citrone, GOP crony

Elizabeth Warren Forces GOP To Defend Trump's Argentina Bailout

“For Trump, the leader of Argentina is more important than American families struggling with rising costs for health care,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Tuesday.

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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 18h

Trump dismissed concerns of soybean farmers during a press conference: "It’s not gonna mean anything in the end”

In related news, Argentine president Milei said in a radio interview: “There will be an avalanche of dollars. We’ll have dollars pouring out of our ears.”

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Trump threatens to pull support for Argentina if its politics move leftward

President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw assistance from Argentina if its internal politics don't align with his interests in upcoming elections

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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 16h

Zero. Zilch. Nada. Zip.

That's how much fentanyl comes into the US from Venezuela.

The 27 people killed on the Caribbean by the Trump administration were flat out murdered.

There is NO legal justification for the killings

Is Venezuela Flooding the U.S. With Drugs? Here’s What to Know.

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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 12h

Trump, in his rambling speech to the UN, about China's use of wind energy: “They use coal, they use gas, they use almost anything, but they don’t like wind.”

The reality? ⬇️

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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 7d

During the 2024 campaign, Trump promised voters that he would cut electricity prices in half within 1 year.

He lied.

He is cutting low-cost sources of renewables while demand is skyrocketing.

That increases the cost of energy.

Because, you know, math.

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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 16h

There was a vote in the Senate which would have required congressional approval before any more illegal boat strikes in the Caribbean.

2 thoughts on the vote-

* Susan Collins is not serious about her opposition to Trump and his agenda

*Primary Fetterman

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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 17h

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 13h

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‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 10h

Can we
MAYBE
boycott these companies?

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Exclusive | Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The event is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

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Oh It's that one guy @ohitsthatone.bsky.social · 10h

They're not even trying to hide the racism anymore. Sexism is on the same trajectory.

But then, they keep crashing Grindr, go figure.

Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 10h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 1d

Is... anybody surprised?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 1d

Hilariously, they've arrested fewer people with criminal records than if they'd just picked up random folks off the street. Oh wait, they ARE picking up random folks off the street. Wow, they're terrible at this.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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