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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h

we have a way for guys like this to fund the military

it’s called “taxes” and clearly they should go up

"Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of Trump." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 19h

Jill Stein's social media usage spiking every 4 years is predictable but that absolutely massive spike at the start of 2016 needs to be put in the context of her attending that RT dinner in December 2015 and Russia's interference in the 2016 Election

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 19h

Their perennial presidential candidate has social media usage that spikes on a 4 year cycle

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kimcwashington.bsky.social @kimcwashington.bsky.social · 8h

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 9h

Ah.

“Mellon, the 77-year-old … who poured $30 million into 3 GOP super PACs in 5 months, wrote that black people were ‘even more belligerent’ after the expansion of social programs in the 1960s and 1970s and that Americans who rely on government assistance were ‘slaves of a new Master, Uncle Sam.’”

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kimcwashington.bsky.social @kimcwashington.bsky.social · 9h

a man in a brown jacket is pointing in front of a sign that says that 's true

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kimcwashington.bsky.social @kimcwashington.bsky.social · 9h

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kimcwashington.bsky.social @kimcwashington.bsky.social · 9h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

It really is incredible how much money Trump’s offspring have made off his presidency.

But I’m sure James Comer and House Oversight is looking into all of it exhaustively.

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kimcwashington.bsky.social @kimcwashington.bsky.social · 9h

Gorgeous!

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kimcwashington.bsky.social @kimcwashington.bsky.social · 10h

Sir

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kimcwashington.bsky.social @kimcwashington.bsky.social · 10h

Amen 🙏🏾

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Guillaume Babey (undead) @williambabey.bsky.social · 15h

I am totally surviving my birthday month! Norman and I could bond over our mommy issues!!

Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 1d

Are you “surviving” your birthday month?

I am, I’m not going camping 😂 #SpookySZN

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MrsBundrige @mrsbundrige.bsky.social · 11h

Black women were like “things are going to be devastatingly bad if this happens”.

The responses:

“Stop your hyperbolic nonsense! Congress will never allow.. I mean the Supreme Court must act…SURELY the Constitution will stand…..”

AND

“It doesn’t matter because they’re both the same”.

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kimcwashington.bsky.social @kimcwashington.bsky.social · 10h

No more auditions!

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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 10h

“Big Tent” advocates to Black people: Be nice to racists who make a habit of doubting Black humanity.

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kimcwashington.bsky.social @kimcwashington.bsky.social · 11h

They can all get 5 value meals from a fast food restaurant. It makes me crazy the lack of basic follow up from reporters.

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kimcwashington.bsky.social @kimcwashington.bsky.social · 11h

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Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 12h

It’s in our DNA 🧬 to make something shake 🫨.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

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kimcwashington.bsky.social @kimcwashington.bsky.social · 11h

Can we also point out that this is basically giving every service member $100? I need reporters to dig deeper and not get distracted by smoke and mirrors.

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No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 12h

But, to the point, the reaction many are having to Platner and the idea of an economic populism to "save the Democratic Party," as this conversation seems to believe, is that white men are what really matters. Everyone and everything else can be sacrificed. There is no coalition, just whiteness.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 1d

He's cozying up to M*GA and then he's going to attack a prominent Black woman next.

It's in the playbook.

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kimcwashington.bsky.social @kimcwashington.bsky.social · 12h

I think that it is a throwback to a different time to say that people like him are unwell. He’s perfectly healthy, he’s simply cruel. And yes, very dangerous.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 23h

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.

The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.

It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.

Until then, they're all to blame.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

It turns out that, all this time, Rob Schneider has been portraying characters who were *smarter* than he really is.

Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 1d

I was born at the children’s hospital in Washington DC

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