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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 10h

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"No Kings Day" is probably the biggest single day protest in US history. Republicans already made fools of themselves criticizing the protesters.
#NoKingsDay #NoKings #protesters #Trump #Republicans #demonstrations #FirstAmendment #agegroups

Patriot Games on "No Kings Day"

Nobody owns the word "patriot." You can use it when you live up to it.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 15h

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Once again the parent company of a news organization makes changes to make Donald Trump happy. NBC News turns out to be no different than ABC or CBS.
#NBC #Trump #MSNBC #ABC #CBS #news #DEI #minorities #FirstAmendment #discrimination

NBC News caves to anti-DEI pressure

It comes as pieces of Comcast are being spun off into a new company called Versant.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 18h

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Parts of Virginia Giuffre's new book have already caused prince Andrew to give up additional titles. A first-hand account of Epstein and Maxwell's sex trafficking.
#NobodysGirl #VirginiaGiuffre #Giuffre #Maxwell #Epstein #Trump #PrinceAndrew #Epsteinfiles

Virginia Giuffre gets revenge on Epstein and Maxwell from beyond the grave

Her book, "Nobody's Girl" is out on October 21st.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 20h

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After 3 months, Trump commuted Santos' 7-year prison term. Trump must have forgotten Santos' alter ego, Kitara Ravache. Trump just helped a drag queen.
#Trump #Santos #GeorgeSantos #commutation #KitaraRavache #dragqueen #identitytheft #fraud

Trump takes time to free George Santos and write about it

The government is shut down, but Trump was thinking about him while dissing Dick Blumenthal.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 1d

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It's still one more misuse of public funds to pay for what Trump wants. Cruelty and detention for immigrants. The payment from FEMA should never have happened.
#AlligatorAlcatraz #FEMA #Trump #DeportationDepot #DeSantis #Florida #ICE

FEMA pays $608m for Alligator Alcatraz while states get nothing for disasters

How does FEMA paying for an ICE detention camp make sense?

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 1d

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It just shows that the Republicans are not serious people. Donald Trump and the White House post silly videos and pictures while the shut down goes on.
#sombrero #meme #Republicans #Trump #socialmedia #shutdown #Jeffries #Schumer #WhiteHouse #Leavitt

White House sombrero meme replaces "Let's Go Brandon"

Trump started it first with a clip with Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 1d

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It was really no big thing, but AOC and Bernie Sanders telling the truth about the shutdown made the White House create an article of lies.
#AOC #BernieSanders #WhiteHouse #article #Republicans #fear #propaganda #Trump #CNN #TownHall

AOC and Bernie Sanders scare Republicans and Trump at CNN Town Hall

An article appeared on WhiteHouse.gov showing how afraid the GOP is about the truth.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 1d

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It's a vindictive prosecution along with James Comey and Leticia James, but this indictment has some meat to it, unless it's all made up.
#Bolton #JohnBolton #Trump #book #classifiedinformation #emails #SCIF #vindictiveprosecution #indictment

John Bolton's indictment dissected

This is a speaking indictment 26 pages long. John Bolton still says bring it on.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 2d

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Notice that he's pointing at himself. JD Vance is so morally bankrupt he can't condemn racist hate speech. "Young boys" aren't 40 years old.
#Vance #JDVance #YoungRepublicans #Telegramchat #whataboutism #morallybankrupt #racist #hatespeech

JD Vance is a failure as a human being defending racist Young Republicans

What does it take for Vance to condemn people other than Democrats?

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 2d

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Hamas is fighting clans and gangs, trying to reassert control of Gaza. That wasn't part Trump's peace plan.
#Trump #warning #Hamas #Palestinians #Israel #Gaza #peaceplan #war #collaborators #gangs

Trump warns Hamas that Israeli war could continue

In a Truth Social post, Trump told Hamas to stop killing Palestinians.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 2d

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The ballroom, it turns out, was just the beginning of Trump's big plans. There's also the new Independence Arch that he showed off at the dinner for donors to the ballroom.
#Trump #ballroom #IndependenceArch #donors #bribes #Germania #WhiteHouse #thankyou

Trump saves himself $200m - already got enough bribes to pay for the ballroom

As soon as Trump said he would pay for it out of his own pocket, I knew that he would never pay a penny for the ballroom himself.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 3d

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Hegseth doesn't tolerate out of shape soldiers, freedom of the press, or those personnel who haven't heard his speech at Quantico. My way or the highway.
#Hegseth #DeptofWar #NationalGuard #speech #generals #admirals #PentagonPress #propaganda #PR

The Pete Hegseth War Department Show

Press credentials, making everyone watch or read his speech, and fat soldiers.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 3d

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Trump's fetish about fossil fuels is destroying the future that needs renewable energy to feed the grid. China has the right idea, while Trump has the wrong idea.
#Trump #renewableenergy #solarpower #China #Esmerelda7 #Tibet #fossilfuels #permitting

China builds a 162 sq. mi. solar farm while Trump cancels the US' biggest

Talking to Trump about solar energy is like expecting Donald to understand long words.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 3d

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Once again, the Department of Justice abuses its power by strong arming Apple and Google to remove ICE tracking apps. Now they're removing apps without anyone asking.
#ICE #Trump #Bondi #DOJ #ICEBlock #RedDot #EyesUp #Coqui #DeICER #icetracking

Google and Apple obey in advance on ICE tracking apps

Apple catered on ICEBlock, Google removed DeICER and Coqui.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 3d

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Donald Trump seems to have delusions of grandeur. He thinks he has solved wars that never happened. It's either a cognitive decline or he's bipolar.
#Trump #wars #hallucination #bipolar #delusions #TruthSocial #Israel #Hamas

Donald Trump hallucinates about stopping wars again

Trump is up to 8 now. He's already added on Israel and Hamas.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 4d

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These extrajudicial killings are piling up. This makes a total of 27 people murdered. Donald Trump wondered about getting to heaven the other day. Well...

Trump kills 6 more in a boat off of Venezuela

The boat was in international waters, violating the UNCLOS again.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 4d

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There's a long way to go for real peace to occur just in Gaza. There are already some cracks in the deal. Let's hope they don't widen.
#Israel #Gaza #Hamas #peacedeal #ceasefire #Netanyahu #Trump #ceremonial

The signed Gaza agreement is only aspirational

Four countries signed it, but Israel wasn't one of them.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 4d

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Hegseth wants news organizations to have the Pentagon review any news before it's released. Everyone is refusing to sign the agreement.
#trump #Pentagon #reporters #newsmedia ##newsagreement #censorship #firstamendment #unclassified #pressbadges

News media and reporters refuse new Pentagon pledge

The agreement cripples the ability to report without Pentagon approval.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 4d

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He's so vain. He's already used worse pictures of himself like the Georgia mugshot. Nobody would have made a big thing of it before, but they will now.
#Trump #TIME #coverpic #whine #complaint #vain

TIME Magazine made Trump look bad - wrong pic

He's so vain, but he uses worse pictures of himself like the Georgia mugshot.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 4d

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It's an insider trading scam orchestrated by Scott Bessent and blessed by Donald Trump. Money magically appears for Argentina during the shutdown.
#Trump #Bessent #Argentina #militarypay #bailout #doppelganger #tariffmoney #woke #climatechange

Trump can't pay the troops but gives $20B to Argentina

President Javier Milei is a terrible leader, but Trump likes him.

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Bill Addis @paidprotester.bsky.social · 5d

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Ice is trying to do everything it can to cause violence so they can respond with more violence. A lawsuit is now preventing ICE from using weapons against peaceful protesters.
#ICE #Broadview #protesters #teargas #pepperball #Noem #ACLU #reporters #clergy