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Clara McK
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Retired Software Engineer 5th generation Californian Immigrant ancestors from Ukraine, UK #Angret #TeamTim
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Clara McK @cemck.bsky.social · 2h
Done ✅ 3 from my house
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h
Wow! It’s not even close. Food banks can’t keep up with the need…

Question: “How long is this sustainable.”

Food bank director: “It’s not… for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h
FACTS about SNAP:

-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h
BASH: “You’re not gonna bring anything up on the house floor even if the senate finds some sort of compromise?”

SPEAKER JOHNSON: “Yeah. Because they’re trying to play games and we’re not interested in doing that.”

(He then makes it clear these are Trump’s orders) #AmericanDuma
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h
In remarks to a private audience in 2023, Russell Vought, who is Trump’s budget chief and the intellectual force behind Trump’s unprecedented power grab, said he championed the term “invasion” because it “unlocked” extraordinary presidential powers.

(Published May)
By @mtredden.bsky.social
The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy
The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the f...
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Clara McK @cemck.bsky.social · 6h
Has no idea what he is saying
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h
Wow. Yes let’s see those files. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
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Serendipity @serendipityinfl.bsky.social · 1d
Holy hell..
CUBA just let MIKE Waltz have it for being rude, disrespectful and arrogant in front of the UN Assembly
"You are not on a signal chat or talking to the US House of Representatives"
Damnnnnn🫢🫣
(Waltz even talked over the point of order)
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h
The Trump administration mocks and dismisses protesters as "elderly hippies" but this underscores how truly terrified they are of the power of protesters.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h
“They think that they’re tough. They have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore. We are so much more hardcore than they are.”

--Stephen Miller speaking to Memphis police earlier this month.
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Clara McK @cemck.bsky.social · 9h
it just keeps getting worse, doesn't it?
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John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 10h
Former residents of Quarters 8 expressed frustration that Hegseth has taken the traditional residence of the Army's vice chief at Fort McNair. Other officials have followed suit and moved into homes reserved for admirals and generals in the DC area www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
Trump Officials Move Into Military Residences in D.C. Area
www.nytimes.com
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Clara McK @cemck.bsky.social · 9h
gift link
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Clara McK @cemck.bsky.social · 9h
Vegas grift incoming!

Trump considers bringing rare midterm political convention to Vegas www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
Trump considers bringing rare midterm political convention to Vegas
Donald Trump said it would be "quite the Event."
www.sfgate.com
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Clara McK @cemck.bsky.social · 11h
I wish we could skip to the part where these horrible people are gone
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Clara McK @cemck.bsky.social · 11h
She sounds like a toad
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 13h
The great journalists at @propublica.org did the hard work to compile a list of US citizens who have been detained by ICE.
Kristi Noem is a liar.
And a sadist (remember her CECOT glamor shots?)
And a fool.
And a puppy killer.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Clara McK @cemck.bsky.social · 11h
Fun fact - no one needs to know how you vote. Be a Republican if you want, vote Blue to get us out of this mess.
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Clara McK @cemck.bsky.social · 11h
Judge signals she will step in to aid SNAP

“If you don’t have money, you tighten your belt,” said Talwani, an appointee of former President Obama. “You are not going to make everyone drop dead because it’s a political game someplace.” “

thehill.com/regulation/c...
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Clara McK @cemck.bsky.social · 12h
Trump grift continues

Gift 🎁 link
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Trump and his 🤬 Russians! First Trump draws down troops in Europe, CPAC promotes Orban now this.

Comey & Mueller reports were fake?
Failure of the GOP by money-driven treason continues.

Gift article from The New York Times:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Sanctions Lifted on a Putin-Backed Autocrat After Lobbying by Trump Allies
www.nytimes.com
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h
California, we have the power to stop election rigging, right now!

Did you get your ballot in? I did and so did my entire family. Remind everyone you know. 👊🏽
#Prop50VoteYes
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Clara McK @cemck.bsky.social · 12h
Wishful drinking 🍷 on the part of GOP. They will not prevail. More of us than them and they’ve pissed off their supporters.
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Clara McK @cemck.bsky.social · 12h
Gift 🎁 link

Utah 🙄 is willing to give it a go. Sounds like they don’t want to fund it so hopefully it doesn’t happen.
onemoney.bsky.social Predictive Stupidity @onemoney.bsky.social · 13h
At the risk of offending Republican snowflakes, it must be said the Nazis also sent the homeless to concentration camps. Branded "asocials" the Nazis incarcerated the "work-shy", beggars, addicts, & sex workers, among others. Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
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Clara McK @cemck.bsky.social · 13h
Folks are going broke. These are small luxuries, completely expendable from a tight budget.
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Clara McK @cemck.bsky.social · 13h
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theglamourmachine.bsky.social TheGlamourMachine @theglamourmachine.bsky.social · 13h
How is this guy the only one other than Maxwell being held accountable for Epstein’s global sex trafficking operation? And wahhh! No longer titled and he has to give up his palace. #releasetheepsteinfiles

Prince Andrew to Be Stripped of His Royal Title www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
Prince Andrew to Be Stripped of His Royal Title
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