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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 2h

I know. They lied and lied about their intentions.

Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 2h

The Republicans refused to even consider the ACA unless there was built-in profit for Insurance companies. Obama let them have it, not for votes, but to keep them from using procedural blocks.

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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 2h

Of course they are. His transportation is paid his security is paid. The security's transportation is paid, their food and accommodations are paid for (and since Trump owns the venue, that goes into Trump's pocket) Every time he goes golfing, it costs the US about $3 million.

Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 12h

Isn't that racism?

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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 12h

That is not how budget authorization works. But we're talking about a man who saw nothing wrong with using his corporate budget to pay personal expenses, his entire life.

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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 22h

It's even funnier that they think their crypto cash will have any value afterwards.

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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 22h

A slave-owner?

Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 22h

An atheist?

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As within, so without @tippedbeaker.bsky.social · 1d

The treatment we allow the government to impose on one of us is the treatment we allow the government to impose on ourselves.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-13-yea...

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes threatened legal action against Mike Johnson for failing to seat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva.

"Arizona's right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate."

Arizona attorney general threatens legal action against Mike Johnson for failing to seat Adelita Grijalva

The Democrat accused Johnson of playing “political games” by delaying the swearing-in ceremony.

www.politico.com

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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 1d

No, they are grabbing children off the streets, and making them disappear. We can only assume that ICE is trafficking those kids.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d

Is she talking about the young children missing because her goon squad dragged them naked & crying from their apartment complex or the 15-yr old girl they tackled & threw into an unmarked van the other day?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pam Bondi repeatedly claims that finding one missing child "makes it all worthwhile" when it comes to military occupations of American cities and adds that "Pritzker should be begging Donald Trump to come in."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 1d

Because Trump gets off on watching videos of blowing up boats, and killing people. Probably Miller and Rubio do too.

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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 2d

Because the manufacturers use different inactive media to carry the same active drug. But the "inactive" media affect how your body absorbs the drug. So some generics work and some don't.

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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 2d

He makes more than that. You also have to absorb all the pre-press production and publicity costs.

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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 2d

Roger Stone still has Nixon's face tattooed on his back. Why would anyone pay him the slightest attention?

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 2d

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 2d

Circling back, please rent Cabaret and watch it, too. A truly stunning book to go along with the music.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 3d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 3d

They're all working for ICE now.

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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 4d

"She forced me to beat her! She wouldn't do what I told her. It's her own fault!"

Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 4d

Hey, does Barron have a laptop?

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 4d

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 4d

And it's ICE.