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Scratch Post Historical News @scratchpost.news · Aug 17

They are in a long game and Trump just wants their approval. I wonder after seeing this article if Trump Moscow never happening has something to do with this pandering. And Putin knows this and can just string him along.

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Soviets Need Me, Says Trump (1987)

Trump’s 1987 claim that the Soviets courted him for Moscow luxury may explain why he’s still chasing Russia’s approval after never getting it.

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 2h

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midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · 2h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 2h

The Trump administration is planning to change the US refugee system to favor white people. At the same time, they’re in the Supreme Court fighting to gut the Voting Rights Act.

It’s no wonder young Republicans are sending racist messages. Racism is the official policy of the Republican Party.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 5h

It's going up to $40 billion.

USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 7h

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 12h

Russian propagandist Solovyev continues to entertain us. He went on X,saw my post and Polish FM Sikorski's comment,then started crying and screaming.He is still very upset about the villa in Italy that was taken away from him

By the way,Solovyev's 'media presence' is by now an artificial phenomenon

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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 10h

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10h

Insurance rates up $2000.

Food benefits cut off.

Farmers unable to sell their crops.

Skyrocketing national debt.

$40 billion to Argentina.

America First!

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1h

US judge halts shutdown layoffs as Trump threatens 10,000 jobs.

The shutdown has ground into its third week, with an estimated 1.4 million federal employees remaining at their posts unpaid or on enforced leave, also without pay

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 51m

“Not paying for a product you exploit to sell your product is theft; not paying for labour you employ is slavery. If your business model is theft and slavery, you’re not an industry. You’re a pirate.” @vanbadham.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham

Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back

www.theguardian.com

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NCSU Dem @ncsudem.bsky.social · 4h

Beating (raping, trafficking) women and children, and protecting the men who do from legal and reputational consequences is the part of the good ol’ days MaGop predators miss most.

Real men take what they want and keep their women in line. Just ask the Rapist in Chief.

Release the Epstein files!

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

NCSU Dem @ncsudem.bsky.social · 4h

Beating (raping, trafficking) women and children, and protecting the men who do from legal and reputational consequences is the part of the good ol’ days MaGop predators miss most.

Real men take what they want and keep their women in line. Just ask the Rapist in Chief.

Release the Epstein files!

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 12h

Tesla is sitting on nearly a billion dollars of unsold Cybertrucks. Now Elon's using the imaginary value of SpaceX and xAI to bail out Tesla... While asking Tesla investors for a blank check to "invest" in xAI. The entire empire is a giant scam. #teslatakedown www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1...

Cybertruck sales are so bad Musk is selling them to ... himself

You wanna see a dead body? Third-quarter sales numbers for Tesla’s misbegotten Cybertruck are in, and it is definitely spooky season for tech titan Elon Musk, who moved only 5,385 of the hideous ...

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 7h

“Operation Inflation” is offering free inflatable costumes to Portland ICE protesters.

Bravo and Brava!👩🏻‍🍳💋

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 7h

Feds use a dangerous tactic of ramming a car with their vehicle in order to stop it, then throw tear gas in a crowd, then detain a US citizen, who is a child, for hours without letting him make any calls

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 8h

"The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours “without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,” the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said."

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 7h

$40 billion could modernize water systems in every lead-poisoned town in the US and bring high-speed internet to rural America, but instead it's going towards bailing out Argentina

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

NEW: if you’re planning on taking I-5 to the No Kings rally, you might wanna leave now. In order to disrupt our protests, they’re shutting parts of it down. meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7h

LOL! 🎯

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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NCSU Dem @ncsudem.bsky.social · 7h

Beating, raping, and trafficking women and children, and protecting the men who do from legal or even reputational consequences is the part of the good ol’ days MaGop most yearns for. Just ask the country’s Rapist in Chief.

Release the Epstein files!

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 7h

GOP Rep. Cory Mills has been issued a restraining order after his ex-girlfriend alleged he had threatened to blackmail her using sexually explicit images and to commit violence against her future partners.

But the House speaker isn’t concerned about his party members' conduct. trib.al/XI39ubc

NCSU Dem @ncsudem.bsky.social · 7h

Beating, raping, and trafficking women and children, and protecting the men who do from legal or even reputational consequences is the part of the good ol’ days MaGop most yearns for. Just ask the country’s Rapist in Chief.

Release the Epstein files!

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 9h

This is 100% true. Your general knee - jerk libertarian bro doesn't like this. It's low priority for them because it's not happening to them or people they know, but they don't like it.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

We constantly talk about Dems' struggles to reach deeper into the culture and access people who ignore politics.

You know what issue is penetrating deep into the culture? ICE's masked raids and kidnappings! It's on Rogan and in country music. In the Manosphere!

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h

Sources tell MeidasTouch the White House will shut down portions of the I-5 for Vice President JD Vance’s Marine Corps spectacle during No Kings Protests, triggering chaos, gridlock, and outrage as troops go unpaid during the shutdown.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

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