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Nicole

@nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social

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New here and I'm terrible at this. Horses, cats, books, comic books, BDS, climate change, science; awkward, overthinking, & analytical. **Politics heavy atm, because WTF?!** 🇮🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 😷🖖🏻 Ⓥ No DMs/I'm not interested.

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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · Mar 15

They were in a rush to get to their paid vacay. Democracy shemocracy - so it goes.

Voting yes on cloture is the same as voting yes on the coup budget CR. They know that and are hoping voters don't so they can say they voted no on the CR. We know what they did and won't forget. This is their legacy.

Ain’t Complicit 🇺🇸 @charlene411.bsky.social · Mar 14

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1h

Reason, on all the shameless lying Tricia McLaughlin does.

reason.com/2025/10/22/h...

Homeland Security won't stop lying about who immigration enforcers are arresting

In case after case, Homeland Security's Public Affairs Office releases incorrect information about arrests carried out by federal immigration officers.

reason.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12h

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 2d

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

Wait! So Trump lied about the East Wing not being touched—and now about the ballroom price tag too?

The cost suddenly ballooned to $300 million.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Nailed it

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2d

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h

NOTE: This was an en banc request as to the "stay pending appeal" in the CA case that was denied, not the merits case.

The merits appeal was heard today — www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Yq... — and, if the panel sides with DOJ on the merits, another en banc review could be sought at that time.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 9h

NEW: The Ninth Circuit votes AGAINST an en banc rehearing of the case on the deployment of the California National Guard to LA, leaving the panel decision permitting the deployment intact. Eleven judges file a dissent. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Before: Mark J. Bennett, Eric D. Miller, and Jennifer Sung, Circuit Judges.
Statement by Judge Marsha S. Berzon; Dissent by Judge Ronald M. Gould.
A judge of this court sua sponte requested a vote on whether to rehear this
case en banc. A vote was taken, and the matter failed to receive a majority of the votes of the nonrecused active judges in favor of en banc consideration. See Fed.
R. App. P. 40. Rehearing en banc is DENIED. Judge Berzon's statement regarding the denial of rehearing en banc and Judge Gould's dissent from the
denial of rehearing en banc are filed concurrently herewith.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

Making Argentina Great Again. Indefensible.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 12h

"So we're just going to let them do this" should be the official 2025 U.S. slogan.

This regime, and I hope only this regime, deserves whatever retribution Venezuela, Tobago, Trinidad, and Colombia deem appropriate.

A violation of due process for anyone is a threat to everyone.

Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 16h

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean
Total reported killed: 34 people
Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL
September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View
September 15, 2025 3
“in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View
September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View
October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View
October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View
October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View
October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View
October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 21h

In case you missed it: a little noticed Florida state dashboard showed several instances of immigration enforcement arresting U.S. citizens. When the Miami New Times asked about it, most of those arrests disappeared from the dashboard and public view.

Officials Scrub Data Showing U.S. Citizens Swept Up in Immigration Arrests

Florida’s immigration crackdown dashboard reportedly showed the arrests of 21 U.S. citizens—until a local paper asked questions.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 13h

*By rough I'm referring to that awful cover up.

Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 13h

That's rough. It was a big black [nazi] blob on one of the most painful areas to get tattooed. Removal may have been a better (but excruciating & $$$) option. I won't defend nazi imagery, but oof.

Not kegbreth unless he has multiple white nationalist or nazi tats & a history of firing minorities.

Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 16h

That's true. I didn't really think about it at the time. "Dumbass ice cosplayer accidentally shoots marshal and the brown victim of his xenophobic rage while, stupidly, attempting to use a loaded gun to break a car window" is way more accurate.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22h

Why is Vought’s role as Trump’s budget director so key to the president’s plans?

“Every goddam thing in the executive branch goes through OMB,” a former official explained. The agency is the choke point for $7 trillion in federal spending.

What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President

Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...

www.propublica.org

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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 1d

The government has killed 32 people in 7 strikes with no evidence they were traffickers. The admiral leading the mission quit. If we had proof, they’d face a court, not a drone.

The law still applies, even to suspected drug traffickers, and right now, the Administration’s story isn’t adding up.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Like what you're doing, sir. Keep it up!

There was (is?) an issue with the visuals on the Sen. Merkley youtube page. People may have jumped off to AP or other page streaming your speech on Levitsky's How Democracies Die, Paul Revere, 47's corruption/coup, and ice/feds in Portland.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

The Eastwing before it got destroyed 😢

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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus had definite opinions about 'robbers' in the Temple at Jerusalem. So much so he flipped tables and benches of those making the "house of prayer for all nations" into a "den of robbers."
Matthew 21: 12-13 and Mark 11: 15-18

Or so I've heard.

These fools have me citing bible verses. 😆🧛🏻‍♀️

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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

No words, only frustration.

Senators Chris Coons (DE)
Dick Durbin (IL)
John Fetterman (PA)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
Martin Heinrich (NM)
Tim Kaine (VA)
Mark Kelly (AZ)
Amy Klobuchar (MN)
Jack Reed (RI)
Adam Schiff (CA)
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Peter Welch (VT)
Sheldon Whitehouse (RI)

+Angus King (ME-I)

papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 1d

13 Senate Democrats Vote to Advance Trump Nominee During Shutdown newrepublic.com/post/202072/... via @newrepublic.com

13 Senate Democrats Vote to Advance Trump Nominee During Shutdown

What are they thinking?

newrepublic.com

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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Senator Merkley (OR - D) is holding the Senate floor to protest trump's threats to democracy. He's been at it for about six hours so far.

www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

Merkley Holds Senate Floor to Protest Trump’s Threats to Democracy

YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley

www.youtube.com

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Michael Adzema @sillymickel.bsky.social · 1d

#TruthWarriors #MirthWarriors #WarRavagedPortland #HellscapeEugeneOR #NoKings #WWResistance #WWRevolution #WDC #WoundedDeerAndCentaurs #ApocalypseNO #CultureWarClassWar2022 #FBR #resist #resistance #BlueCrew #ProudBlue #BLM #OWS #StrongerTogether

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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the interview he did with KGW news, Portland. His cane and vest were obvious. He is 4'6", blind, and had a teddy bear. I hope he sues, and wins. #AbolishICE
youtu.be/-EipyVGQSZY?...

Blind man handcuffed, dragged by federal agents at ICE facility, he says

YouTube video by KGW News

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