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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6h

Color me shocked.

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longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 3h

What is true is that $20 billion of taxpayer money is going to a wack job, Milei and what is that paying for, exactly?

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longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 15h

'Twas a great time to be alive.

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longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 19h

No apologies, I find this ignorant and disgusting.

longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 19h

And COLA announcement soon. Will it be Trump's 0% or the far too low agreed upon 2.8%.

longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 20h

Okay now.
Reading a Cathy Young repost on a George Conway post truly, literally, would not have been something I'd have done for most of the past two decades expecting at least one ally. Still tiptoeing with one of them, tho.

longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 21h

You of all people, @warren.senate.gov, know that the '26 COLA numbers are soon to be released, they called BLS people back to fudge the numbers, and even if at 2.8 that is at least 2.8 points less than absolutely needed by seniors. We know prices are up, don't tell us. Increase the COLA.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 1d

For 7 straight years since being required the Pentagon
has not passed an audit.
DHS should be forced to account for its $175 billion
of the people's money.
Both are piggy banks for investors, contracts for donors
and of course, retribution.

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longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 1d

Emmer approves of the lying.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

Balaji (a close associate of Thiel & Andreessen) leads the “network state” movement, which encourages tech elites to build their own “countries” by acquiring physical territory w/in host countries & building “parallel institutions” to replace existing ones in media, education, finance, & science 1/

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longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 1d

August:
Interior Dept Approves Coal Mine Expansion in Montana

October:
Utilities don't want it.

US rejects bid to buy 167M tons of coal on public lands for less than a penny per ton
abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...

US rejects bid to buy 167M tons of coal on public lands for less than a penny per ton

Federal officials have rejected a company’s bid to acquire 167 million tons of coal on public lands in Montana for less than a penny per ton

abcnews.go.com

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longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 1d

Hungary would be most welcome.

longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 1d

Someday perhaps Gabbard's sentence will be to play video games with Assad in Russia 24/7.

longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 1d

So much being "restructured" for private equity. For Musk, for Bezos, for Thiel. The Trump Family Mafia.

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longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 1d

They had been sent back to the country with one of the deadliest land-migration routes in the world – the Darién Gap – which they had already passed through on their way up to the U.S. border from South America.

What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?
nymag.com/intelligence...

What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?

Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.

nymag.com

longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 1d

Do we even know what this Trump Family Mafia deal entails?

longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 1d

Wondering if Corey's pals' PR firms getting the DHS contracts will get dinged for not showing Noem's face enough?

longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 1d

Israel paying this bill or US?

longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 1d

Who is auditing how this 20 bil is spent?
Closer to home, who is auditing DHS. The people running that place have major histories of graft and have $175 bil of our money.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

Farmers grow what they grow because of farm policy.

We don’t need all the soy and corn that we grow, but those are the commodities that receive subsidies and markets.

If we want something better, if we want to heal the Earth and grow food, now is the time to do it.

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longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 1d

Bureau of Labor Statistics employees being called back to configure the '26 COLA. Trump says there is no inflation so does his special staff go with no increase or the still way too small increase of 2.8% being bandied about? Medicare Part B payments going up, groceries...seniors can't keep this up.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 2d

Timeline cleanse:

This guy hanging out with his pet kittens

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longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 1d

They put an extraordinary amount of money into dissolving the public and academic space of feminism for decades. The women you see in this admin are part of the payoff. Just a piece of the damage.

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