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Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 5h

How can I be expected to get any work done when I cannot stop laughing at the internets?

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Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 1h

Bank credit problems have started several recessions historically. www.axios.com/2025/10/20/w...

Why credit risks are jarring Wall Street

With investors already on edge, any additional credit hiccups could prompt a new round of selling.

www.axios.com

Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 1h

This is absurd - $172 million for two jets for Noam to travel around in.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

ICE Barbie gets her dream jets—on taxpayers’ dime

The government is still shut down because congressional Republicans say there isn’t enough money to help Americans afford their health insurance premiums. But don't worry, there are hundreds of ...

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Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 2h

We know why we demonstrated. Paul Krugman notes why the leading Republican descriptions of us were so absurd. Is the MAGA crowd buying such nonsense?

Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 8h

What kind of a god behaves like that? Prayer is operant conditioning. The occasional random answer motivates continuance. It wasn't the father almighty who lifted her nighty, but Roger the lodger by god.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

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Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 8h

Statistical murder is still negligent homicide, knowingly allowing people to die. My No Kings sign:

Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 12h

Yes. Half that is too high. Eat more chikin.

Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 12h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...

Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States

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Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 1d

He is too stupid to realize it is symbolic of what he has been doing it since Jan. 20 and it is devastating.

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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 2d

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Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 1d

If Christian nationalists try to diss you for being a liberal, tell them, "Jesus was a liberal". jackasstheology.com/2019/07/11/j...

Jesus was a Liberal! (written by a Conservative)

In conservative Christians circles, a clear shot across the bow is calling someone LIBERAL. It’s a warning, like a mother giving her rambunctious child the stink eye. Watch out, or real consequence…

jackasstheology.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Again, it all should have been stopped the instant he started openly monetizing his hotel blocks from the White House & sending his children to represent the United States Of America at international meetings. But we decided none of the laws, rules, or norms apply this One Special Boy 🤷‍♂️

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Fight for Progress @fightforprogress.org · 2d

A new Navigator Research report reveals that Americans overwhelmingly oppose government shutdowns that jeopardize health care. Seventy-three percent are concerned about losing coverage, and 75% fear rising costs. The shutdown debate is now a referendum on health care.

Government Shutdown: Fighting for Health Care - Navigator

Polling report on the most concerning consequences of the government shutdown and how to talk about health care costs in relation to the budget.

navigatorresearch.org

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Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 1d

The Republicans who enabled the Dictator were mostly absent from the No Kings protests. Think any of them are having second thoughts? My sign. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 1d

An interesting question is how much of the slash and burn policies are being done by Vought and Miller without the Dictator's knowledge. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The king of the shutdown

As the head of the White House’s budget office, Russ Vought has assembled an army of program-cutters and veteran Washington hands.

www.politico.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine thinking they ever cared about debt, fraud, waste, abuse, or anything of the sort. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

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Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 2d

I just returned from a great NO KING's rally in Winston-Salem, NC, in a District that went 58%for the Dictator last year. People were lined up 7 deep on both sides of the street for many blocks. Almost all of the signs were personalized, many with clever themes. A small sign of hope.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 2d

While people have been telling me the same stories for years about how expensive everything is and that they are waiting for technology xyz. This thing is producing freedom energy for years now. Just do it.

PV roof with different angles with some facade panels for the low winter sun.

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Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 2d

The Dictator prosecutes people who investigated his crimes and pardons or commutes sentences crooks and liars like himself -- latest case, Santos.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 2d

The sensible people in US government will soon be all gone. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Prosecutor Who Rejected Trump’s Pressure to Charge James Is Fired

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Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 2d

Andy Borowitz satire:

Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 3d

Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of our country.

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Leon Robertson @profleonaz.bsky.social · 3d

Skinny Brains

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DeniseG @denisegutzmer.bsky.social · 3d

Key US nuclear agency to send 80% of workforce home as shutdown drags on

The National Nuclear Security Administration which maintains America’s nuclear arsenal will be sending home 80% of its workforce as the government shutdown drags through its 17th day.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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