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figjam456.bsky.social @figjam456.bsky.social · 1h

For a long while I've been thinking that Donald Trump has been the Guinness Book record holder for lying.
But Vance is so very much faster and smoother. Vance's lies never seem to trip up his tongue. Decades of practice? What a guy.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1h

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figjam456.bsky.social @figjam456.bsky.social · 2h

Donald Trump Plots Major IRS Overhaul to Ramp Up Probes of His Enemies share.google/6Ic2QiucKEvQ...

Trump Plots Major Agency Overhaul to Ramp Up Probes of His Enemies

The IRS crime unit is being reshaped as an instrument of presidential payback.

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figjam456.bsky.social @figjam456.bsky.social · 12h

The Prince of Peace raced back from the Middle East to get on with his ethnic cleansing plans at home.

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People - The New York Times share.google/SFfsmJhgYJ9b...

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figjam456.bsky.social @figjam456.bsky.social · 13h

There's the ear.
You can hardly tell where the bullet hit.

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figjam456.bsky.social @figjam456.bsky.social · 15h

"puritanical pixie" (Mrs. Betty Bowers) - perfect!

figjam456.bsky.social @figjam456.bsky.social · 16h

Does the phrase "trump library" make you laugh?

Also funny how people surely seem to like giving presents to Donald Trump.
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Judge halts transfer of $67M parcel of land for Trump’s presidential library

A local historian sued Miami Dade College and its board of trustees last week over the potential transfer

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figjam456.bsky.social @figjam456.bsky.social · 17h

Please stop putting cash into these machines.
Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.

figjam456.bsky.social @figjam456.bsky.social · 17h

Love it

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figjam456.bsky.social @figjam456.bsky.social · 17h

Federal firings could reach 10,000 during shutdown, Vought says share.google/2yYqfYcsTTNR...

Federal firings could reach 10,000 during shutdown, Vought says

That's more than twice as many terminations as the White House said it was conducting.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 20h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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figjam456.bsky.social @figjam456.bsky.social · 20h

There are many liars congealing in the age of trump & lying proudly to the maga cult every day now. Some liars are better than others, and I see new ones stepping up to the plate all the time. But none are as good as Vance. None. He's smoother than smooth.

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Lawrence: Did Trump 'czar' Tom Homan take $50,000 from the FBI? JD Vance's answer is, 'I don't know'

Vice President JD Vance became the latest Republican to lie about government health care policy and the latest Republican to struggle defending a member of the Trump administration. MSNBC’s Lawrence O...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23h

We are living in one of the stupidest times in history.

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figjam456.bsky.social @figjam456.bsky.social · 20h

Wow, look at that guy, breathing and s******* and everything.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"Miller slipped up because even he knows it is an outrageous thing for Trump to claim absolute, unreviewable power to send active-duty military troops into American cities based only on his delusions."

Stephen Miller's radically bogus idea of "plenary authority"

This is not how the Constitution works.

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figjam456.bsky.social @figjam456.bsky.social · 20h

It's all about priorities.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

I see that this small-minded puritanical pixie is laser-focused on getting the government reopened and the troops paid.

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figjam456.bsky.social @figjam456.bsky.social · 20h

The participating governors are from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington, as well as the U.S. territory of Guam.
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Democratic governors launch multistate public health alliance to counter Trump, RFK Jr. • Stateline

In a clear rebuke of recent federal health policy, 15 Democratic governors announced today they’ve formed a public health alliance that breaks with guidance from the Trump administration and U.S. Heal...

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figjam456.bsky.social @figjam456.bsky.social · 20h

Noem has called the costumed protesters "antifa terrorists."
Somebody doesn't know how to have fun.

'Operation Inflation' injects joyful vibe to Portland ICE protests share.google/X9xjtWGyC5Kg...