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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 56m

This is wrong for so many reasons. He is not owed a dime.
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Trump says he'd have final say on money he seeks over past federal investigations into his conduct

President Donald Trump says the federal government owes him “a lot of money” for prior Justice Department investigations into his actions and insists that any decision on a payout would “have to go ac...

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 57m

Hegseth is changing the rules for how information comes out of the Pentagon because he is planning something he knows Congress and the American people won't tolerate. Suppression of information is never good.
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Hegseth changes policy on how Pentagon officials communicate with Congress

Leaders at the Pentagon have significantly altered how military officials will speak with Congress after a pair of new memos issued last week.

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 21h

He is right about their reason

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 21h

I live in a Southern state and when I see the racist rednecks that live around here, the exact type of people that probably want to go work for ICE, I'm fairly certain I could outrun all of them.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23h

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Also Epstein

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 21h

You are giving him way too much credit. He is an idiot, but he's a useful idiot to the Heritage Foundation and their cruelty

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 21h

With the State Fair of Texas, I think it's a combination of affordability and people avoiding travel to an authoritarian state.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t an administration.

It’s a crime syndicate.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 21h

Much like Trump and Leavitt, the ease with which they lie is a sign of a mental defect or disease. They are all sociopaths

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h

What’s next after No Kings Day? What should we do now? How do we use our collective power? I have a dozen simple ideas for next steps. And I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-can-we-do-now

What Can We Do Now?

What comes next, after No Kings 2.0

robertreich.substack.com

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 21h

And for good measure, boycott every business owned by any of the oligarchs that are working with Trump

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 21h

Use the power of economics. Boycott every business that advertises on Fox News and any other right-wing media outlet to hit those propaganda machines in the pocketbook.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21h

Shadow President: Project 2025 Architect Russell Vought Is Using Shutdown to Gut Federal Agencies

Shadow President: How Russell Vought Is Using Shutdown to Gut Federal Agencies

We look at the influence of Trump’s top budget adviser and the architect of Project 2025, Russell Vought, over the Trump administration’s policies and Trump himself. Vought is “the driving force behin...

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 21h

Vought and Stephen Miller have become the "deep state" and are evil to their core.

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 21h

These amateurs that Trump keeps appointing two important positions are just embarrassingly stupid

Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 1d

Lawfare's Anna Bower revealed on Monday that President Trump's newly-appointed prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindsey Halligan, reached out to her on Signal and repeatedly melted down, accusing her of false reporting and bias.

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Trump prosecutor melts down at reporter in text chat — then demands it all be 'off record'

Lawfare's Anna Bower revealed on Monday that President Donald Trump's newly-appointed prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindsey Halligan, reached out to her on Signal and repeatedly melt...

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 21h

And they say the left is responsible for political violence. Just lies

Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 21h

Court documents obtained by CBS News said Christopher Moynihan was arrested Sunday after saying in text messages that he planned to "eliminate" Jeffries when the top House Democrat spoke at an event in New York City on Monday.

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Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week

A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 21h

Everyone needs to find reliable sources of information because the mainstream media is failing us and right-wing media is brainwashing a big chunk of America.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22h

It’s beyond pathetic. The mainstream media, on the whole, is comprised of feckless cowards and shameless hypocrites.

GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 21h

Republicans in Congress are absolute cowards that are failing to perform their role of serving as a check on an out of control president. The Press are also, for the most part, failing to do their job of reporting the facts to the American people.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Scalise: "Some of the most radical elements that you saw at the Hate America Rally we showed yesterday. Many people that were holding signs calling for the death of the president. That's who Democrats in the Senate are most afraid of."

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 22h

These asshats have every incentive to keep lying because Fox News will air those lies without any fact-checking. That allows them to continue brainwashing the idiots that watch that garbage

GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 1d

Greg Abbott is hoping to replace Trump as the MAGA favorite once the orange idiot dies. To do so, he is forgetting everything he ever did as a Supreme Court Justice in Texas or as the state's attorney general and, instead, is going full-fascist.
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Abbott: ‘Texas is targeting professors’ over ‘leftist ideologies’

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Sunday that his state is targeting professors pushing “leftist ideologies” as he shared news of the latest college educator allegedly fired over their be…

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 1d

I have little hope that trade talks will be productive with the orange idiot in charge

The Economist @economist.com · 1d

Name-calling, gaslighting, stonewalling, over-generalising: trade talks between China and America bear the hallmarks of a toxically dysfunctional relationship. Hopes for more than another fragile truce are slim

The toxic tragedy of US-China trade talks

The sides lack seasoned interlocutors and it shows

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 1d

There is little hope for any significant progress on trade talks when we have an immature, stupid narcissist in charge on our side

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GC from TX @gcoxtx.bsky.social · 1d

Good for Newsome

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