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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 1h

"They use them well" .....

This guy should get a piece prize or something

#weapons
#military
#forprofitwar
#militaryindustrialcomplex
#gaza
#israel

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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 2h

Clean CR? LOL That's hilarious. About the same amount of hilarious as the notion of a Republican healthcare bill EVER happening. All these Republicans do is destroy and sow CHAOS ... And all for billionaire gain. Same old boring story. They are lame. You don't have to be woke, just don't be asleep.

Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 2h

They are making this country unrecognizable.

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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 2h

More Republican attacks on American history

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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 2h

He is destroying everything he touches.

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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 2h

#pambondi bathroom MELTDOWN after the #CongressionalOversight hearing.

#ag
#attorneygeneral
#DOJ
#COC
#CongressionalOversightCommittee
#TrumpCabinet
#TrumpJUNKdrawer
#rejectrepublicans
#nokingsoct18

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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 12h

4,000-year-old skull found along Indiana riverbank: Coroner - ABC News share.google/TxTFscnMY98j...

4,000-year-old skull found along Indiana riverbank: Coroner

A human skull that dates back to 2300 B.C has been discovered in Indiana, according to the Fayette County Coroner's Office.

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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 12h

It takes a crook to catch a crook. I'm this case wire fraud Donnie and his book cookers are founding a way to seize 15 billion in crypto. Question is.... Who has it now?

What do ya bet that info will not be made available to the public... LOL

CNN @cnn.com · 13h

Federal prosecutors seized $15 billion in cryptocurrency from an investment scheme known as “pig butchering” that they allege emanated from forced labor camps in Cambodia.

Feds seize $15 billion in crypto from ‘pig butchering’ scheme involving forced labor camps | CNN Politics

Federal prosecutors seized $15 billion in cryptocurrency from an investment scheme known as “pig butchering” that they allege emanated from forced labor camps in Cambodia.

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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 12h

Why isn't the price of gas lower then?

Reuters @reuters.com · 13h

Oil drops as investors weigh a supply surplus outlook and US-China trade tensions reut.rs/4nRtj6N

Oil drops as investors weigh a supply surplus outlook and US-China trade tensions

Oil prices fell in early trade on Wednesday, extending losses from the previous session, as investors weighed the International Energy Agency's warning of a supply surplus in 2026 and U.S.-China trade tensions that could hurt demand.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 13h

Oil drops as investors weigh a supply surplus outlook and US-China trade tensions reut.rs/4nRtj6N

Oil drops as investors weigh a supply surplus outlook and US-China trade tensions

Oil prices fell in early trade on Wednesday, extending losses from the previous session, as investors weighed the International Energy Agency's warning of a supply surplus in 2026 and U.S.-China trade tensions that could hurt demand.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

A judge issued a protective order against a Republican congressman from Florida on Tuesday, forbidding him to contact a former girlfriend who in court proceedings said he had threatened her with revenge porn after she broke up with him.

Woman Is Granted a Protective Order Against Representative Cory Mills

Representative Cory Mills’s former girlfriend, Lindsey Langston, the reigning Miss United States, told a judge that he had threatened to release sexually explicit videos of her.

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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 12h

America needs a new #underground railroad until we can get a different Congress in charge

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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 12h

Venezuela is meeting forced to defend itself. Where is due process? Where is the evidence?

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CNN @cnn.com · 12h

The US military conducted yet another strike on a boat alleged to be trafficking drugs off the coast of Venezuela, killing six people on board, President Donald Trump announced.

Six killed after US strikes another boat off coast of Venezuela | CNN Politics

The US military conducted yet another strike on a boat alleged to be trafficking drugs off the coast of Venezuela, killing six people on board, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.

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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 12h

A year of reporting by INVW has uncovered the unjust reality for the roughly 1,300 women currently in Idaho prisons: Once behind bars, they’re kept there by mostly male guards who can harass, grope, and sexually assault them with confidence that it will be kept quiet.

In Idaho women’s prisons, guards get away with sexual abuse and victims are blamed – RANGE Media

A yearlong investigation finds rampant sexual abuse by guards, systemic cover-ups, and punishment for victims

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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 12h

Arizona attorney general threatens legal action against Mike Johnson for failing to seat Adelita Grijalva - Live Updates - POLITICO share.google/UJeRYaJiQYtK...

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.

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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 14h

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Follow this band!!!

Make Me Buy A Gun

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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 1d

This is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law." That's what Trump-appointed judge Karin Immergut wrote in her order rejecting the administration's claims it needed to send troops to Portland.

#portlandoregon

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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder who wrote that for him. He believes in it so strongly. He realized that he liked the words he was reading and had to pause to comment. LOL

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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 2d

How about AI-generated Coups?

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"Trump is criminalizing Americans’ ability to challenge their leaders..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump Disgraces American Justice

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Merritt @firehawk46064.bsky.social · 2d

We're gonna need a new Congress.

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alt-dea @alt-dea.altgov.info · 2d

"The legislative branch can nullify an executive order by passing a law that contradicts or overrides the directive. A law passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the president will supersede a conflicting executive order. "

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Alt Acadia National Park @altacadia.bsky.social · 2d

Comment time!
The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to rescind the Conservation and Landscape Health Rule. We have until November 10 to tell them that our public lands need MORE protection, not less.

www.regulations.gov/document/BLM...

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www.regulations.gov

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