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Lily

@lilyscott.bsky.social

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I curate followers, If I think you're following me to promote your money making scheme I'll block you. I'm not motivated by earning followers, it's not why I'm here. I swear, a life lived in constant neuropathic pain = swearing. It's a medical aid.

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Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · May 11

Everything the GOP says is propaganda.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Apr 2

The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.

One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

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Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 2h

The letter said if they didn't receive "acceptable proof" by the deadline my health insurance is cancelled. WTF. 3 weeks to mail proof and if they don't like the proof I'm SOL.

My IVIG treatments are every 2 weeks. 20k, Basically a home down payment every month without insurance.

Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 2h

What they require as proof is insane.
Must be a bill for the property in my name in the past 30 days. Normally my name isn't on that kind of stuff. My husband handles it. Luckily we had a contractor working this week and he was able to "bill me".

Evil stupid this shit. Autoimmune chronic illness.

Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 2h

I just got notice my BCBS plan doesn't exist anymore. I've not even had it a full year yet. I have to contact them to find out what will be available to me. They also sent me a letter saying they believed I moved and lost eligibility. Gave me three weeks to prove I still live in the home I own.

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Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 2h

Is he moving to Florida or Texas?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h

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Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 2h

ICE is not actually ICE. They are Christian Nationalists preparing for a fight to prevent anyone who is not a CN from taking office.

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 7h

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 2h

The second needs to do it so we get two birds with one event

Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 2h

Why is no one with money suing him?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

(CBS News) - A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...

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Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 2h

It doesn't have to be true for their voters. It just has to be published the requisite time for them to see it. It's like every other dishonest post published. They just want the rabbits base to see it one time.

Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 2h

Trump is taxing the rich billionaire group to get his ballroom. They are paying a "contact/contract" tax to Trump. He just call it "private donations".
Billionaires are not opposed to paying the wealth tax.

-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 1d

are people seriously unable to rotate "the ACA is exponentially better than the nightmare we had before it" and "the ACA fell far short of what should be considered an adequate healthcare system for a country with this level of wealth" simultaneously?

what the hell are we doing here, y'all

Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 2h

I think the ballroom could be redecorated and turned into a black history museum with lots of details on how slavery built the USA.

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Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 2h

Info: Anglo-Saxon
thethegns.blogspot.com/2020/05/calm...

Calm down about the Pipe Lady

A photo of an Anglo-Saxon skeleton skewered by a pipe has gone viral. But it’s not the scandal you’re looking for. Can we all please calm...

thethegns.blogspot.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9h

WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 5h

Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.

During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.

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Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 2h

Cheap price really. Disappointing

Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 17h

Nope there's actually a section in the 1966 preservation act that specifically exempts the white house and grounds from the Act's provisions.

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oscar wilde women do 🇯🇲 @adrierising.bsky.social · 1d

the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change

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Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 17h

Just like using Kenny Loggins music. Trump does what he wants without permission or even care. Rush to abuse because he's never held responsible and never has to face any punishment.

Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 17h

Based on what legislation?

Everything I've read said there's nothing stopping him.
The whitehouse and lands are exempt from the 1966 preservation act. Section 107 says it specifically.

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Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 19h

Yep

Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 20h

So many people on here are totally uneducated about the Whitehouse and property, regulations & history. So much construction has gone on. The Truman photos of the Whitehouse with no interior at all are fascinating.

People need to Google and read about it.

Yes Trump's project is unnecessary waste

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so fucked up.
substack.com/@logicallyjc...

The People’s House Is Becoming a Party House

The East Wing of the White House is being torn down to make room for a ballroom.

substack.com

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Lily @lilyscott.bsky.social · 20h

All Trump's Billionaires who want lucrative government contracts are pouring money into it.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...

Who's paying for the White House ballroom and what's in it for them

President Trump has so far raised $200 million for a new White House ballroom from some of the nation's biggest companies.

www.cbsnews.com

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