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Sonia

@blackstarblues.bsky.social

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Hobbies include crochet, learning to knit, watching K-Dramas, C-Dramas, & J-Dramas. Who would have guessed it: never mentioning public healthcare and embracing fracking, the Cheneys & a year long slaughter in Gaza wouldn’t be a winning strategy.

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Sonia @blackstarblues.bsky.social · 1d

#Impeachment #ArticlesOfImpeachment

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"Trump has now pardoned or commuted the sentences of most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century...."

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With George Santos, Trump finds another convicted congressional Republican to reward

The president has now pardoned or commuted the sentences of most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

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Guy Pradel @pradaldi.bsky.social · 2h

I heard at least two groups of people since yesterday speaking about the incarceration of our former president, in the street and in a café, each time to laugh at him.

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C Ce Soir @ccesoir.bsky.social · 14h

« On est en train de discuter des livres que va lire Nicolas Sarkozy en prison ? Alors qu'il a été condamné pour "association de malfaiteurs". »

@fabricearfi.bsky.social Journaliste d’investigation

La suite :
⏰ 22h50 sur france·tv
➡️https://bit.ly/SarkozyEnPrisonHonneurDeshonneur
🎧en podcast

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Sonia @blackstarblues.bsky.social · 2h

Worse still, elected leaders shrug like it's normal.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 8h

The President took a shit on Americans, then demolished the White House in the span of less than a week and the talking head establishment just shrugs like this is a normal state of affairs.

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 8h

As bad as it is today, it's only going to get worse if he is allowed to go on, unchecked.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 16h

Democrats are still voting to support Trump nominees

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 17h

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Sonia @blackstarblues.bsky.social · 6h

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 7h

The DOJ settling with Trump for a quarter of a billion dollars for investigating his crimes will truly be the icing on the cake on this trash timeline.

Sonia @blackstarblues.bsky.social · 6h

Even Lankford doesn't believe it was a hoax.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20h

ABC’s Jonathan Karl is releasing his FOURTH book on Trump and making the media rounds for it now, if you wonder what mainstream journalists are doing and what the financial incentives are for how they operate.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

YES!!! Arizona isn’t playing.
Mike Johnson thinks he can hold democracy hostage, but Adelita Grijalva is done waiting for permission to get to work for her constituents.

Also: RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

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FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 23h

Nicolas Sarkozy est en prison, une première historique

L'ancien président Nicolas Sarkozy a été incarcéré mardi à la prison parisienne de la Santé, près d'un mois après sa condamnation pour association de malfaiteurs dans le procès libyen, une détention inédite dans l'histoire de la République.

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FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 21h

Du 16e arrondissement de Paris à la Santé : le jour où Nicolas Sarkozy est allé en prison

Avant son incarcération à la prison parisienne de la Santé, les partisans de Nicolas Sarkozy sont venus le soutenir mardi au lever du jour lors d’un rassemblement près de son domicile dans le 16e arrondissement. D’autres ont tenté, en vain, de l’apercevoir à son arrivée à la Santé. Beaucoup dénoncent une "injustice", d’autres estiment que cette mise sous écrou historique est "méritée". Reportage.

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Sonia @blackstarblues.bsky.social · 1d

'Excrement' is a perfectly TV safe word that's right there.

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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 1d

He gave $40B to a foreign dictator, millions for Noem’s jets, he’s trashing the White House for a ballroom and we’re just trying to survive. There should’ve been more than 7 million in the streets on No Kings Day. Come at me but you know I’m right.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

I am posting this 2021 article for no particular reason

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When former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled the country following the 2014 Maidan revolution, Ukrainian citizens who stormed his Mezhyhirya mansion discovered a palace of cartoonish opulence with guilded bathrooms, a private zoo, and a floating restaurant in the shape of a pirate ship. A good illustration of this extravagance is the $11 million he allegedly paid for a chandelier and his seven tablecloths worth a staggering $13,000.

This private opulence was all paid for with public money. Embezzlement in the Yanukovych era is said to have taken the form of theft, corruption in public procurement, rigged energy prices, and misuse of carbon-emissions allowances.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Ben Meiselas calls on those with standing to act: seek an injunction to halt Trump’s White House ballroom. Argue fraud—Trump claimed he’d pay and not alter the structure—and use the damage to the East Wing as the emergency basis. Demand discovery now.

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Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · 1d

So, which media outlet is digging into the White House general contractor's background and supply chains?

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Sonia @blackstarblues.bsky.social · 1d

Is this the same as the Bonwit Teller facade?

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 1d

Minit-thread: Bears repeating daily at this point: There were no immigration laws at all until white people on the West Coat began to fear the dreaded Yellow Peril of Chinese immigration in the 1880s. That's right. While these people were building railroads across mountain and plain...

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Sonia @blackstarblues.bsky.social · 1d

"Well meaning" is what they think of themselves!

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

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Blind man handcuffed, dragged by federal agents at ICE facility, he says

Quinn Haberl, a blind protester, says federal agents at Portland's ICE facility dragged and handcuffed him twice. Both incidents were on video.