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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 18h

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 4h

Donald Trump is reportedly demanding that the DOJ pay him $230 million in damages related to the criminal cases it brought against him in 2023.

This is a particularly outrageous government ethics issue—even for Trump. Let’s break it down 🧵

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23h

Heck, if you really need to link this back to kitchen-table-kitchen-table-kitchen-table, it's easy to do: While Trump is driving costs through the roof with his unhinged tariff spree and other reckless, failed policies, he's looting $230 million from the US Treasury and sticking it in his pocket.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23h

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 1d

They should never know peace.

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U.S. IMMIGRATION AND
CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT
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$115,500
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U.S. IMMIGRATION AND
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U.S. IMMIGRATION AND
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 1d

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Jay🦇🦇🦇 @jdbatts79.bsky.social · 1d

And this is how I found out the Marines apparently tell took down all of their combatting extremism content from their website

Extremism Stand Down page on Marines site with link to training slides

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

the conversation we should be having is that AI is developing and will certainly displace many workers, and we should develop government programs to even out the losses and gains between workers and capitalists. but instead we argue about whether a trans person was on netflix

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information.

(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org

Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public

We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not...

www.propublica.org

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 1d

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 1d

Same bloodthirsty bitch who can’t define habeas corpus:

Screenshot of AP article entitled

Kristi Noem says habeas corpus lets Trump remove people from this country'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, testifies before a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hea Read More
BY MEG KINNARD
Updated 5:23 AM PDT, May 21, 2025

apnews.com

risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck John Roberts.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

The East Wing held things Trump doesn't care about, like:

The Office of the First Lady

The Office of the White House Social Secretary

The Visitors Foyer and East Colonnade

The Family Theater

Presidential Emergency Operations Center

Apparently these things are as important as a ballroom.🤷‍♀️

2021-Free until now 🇺🇦 💙 🍂🦇🎃🐈‍⬛ @patricia-ann.bsky.social · 1d

#DonaldTheDestroyer

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom 👀😐🇺🇸

“He had claimed construction wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

Officials have separately said that the ballroom would replace the East Wing.”

wapo.st/4hqBNiU

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

I am posting this 2021 article for no particular reason

transparency.eu/corruption-o...

When former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled the country following the 2014 Maidan revolution, Ukrainian citizens who stormed his Mezhyhirya mansion discovered a palace of cartoonish opulence with guilded bathrooms, a private zoo, and a floating restaurant in the shape of a pirate ship. A good illustration of this extravagance is the $11 million he allegedly paid for a chandelier and his seven tablecloths worth a staggering $13,000.

This private opulence was all paid for with public money. Embezzlement in the Yanukovych era is said to have taken the form of theft, corruption in public procurement, rigged energy prices, and misuse of carbon-emissions allowances.

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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 1d

Companies involved; demo is by ACECO:

bsky.app/profile/clan...

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Clark Construction, AECOM and McCrery Architects.

brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks again. Here’s a link:

www.constructiondive.com/news/clark-w...

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Clark Construction, AECOM and McCrery Architects.

brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks again. Here’s a link:

www.constructiondive.com/news/clark-w...

Clark nabs $200M White House ballroom project

The Bethesda, Maryland-based contractor will lead the construction team that includes AECOM and McCrery Architects, with work beginning in September.

www.constructiondive.com

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 1d

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

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John Ross @johnrossmd.bsky.social · 2d

Pertussis (whooping cough) cases have exploded in the US in the past 2 years. Get your Tdap if you’re due (every 10 years for adults)

BTW, as of this morning, it looks like all the case counts for 2024-25 have been scrubbed from the CDC website 🫠

As of early September, CDC officials have documented more than 20,000 whooping cough cases across the U.S. this year, compared with 19,302 during the same period of time last year.

Altogether in 2024, there were 35,435 documented cases of whooping cough across the U.S., including 655 in Colorado. That was a huge jump over the 7063 cases in all of 2023. Large states, including New York and California, logged high numbers of pertussis infections in 2024. So did some less-populated states like Idaho, Washington and Oregon, each of which reported more than 1,000 cases of whooping cough.

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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 1d

Screenshot of Olivia Spencer in The Help, holding the infamous “chocolate” pie.

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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 1d

GFY

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.

Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 1d

“Young lady”? Ok, Death’s-Door.

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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 2d

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.

Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s a list of companies to file complaints with and boycott for running ICE advertisements.

ICE recruitment ads appearing on Spotify, HBO Max and other streaming services

DHS says the ad blitz has led to more than 175,000 applications and 18,000 tentative job offers

www.independent.co.uk

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is hiring dozens of health workers as lawsuits, deaths in custody mount www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

ICE is hiring dozens of health workers as lawsuits, deaths in custody mount

Nearly as many migrants have died in detention so far this year than over the four years of the Biden administration.

www.politico.com

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AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦 @amplifyukraine.eu · 2d

USA refuses to join G7 plan to use frozen Russian assets #Ukraine

USA refuses to join G7 plan to use frozen Russian assets

en.interfax.com.ua

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Bubba's Dad @bubsdad.bsky.social · 2d

Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 2d

Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), who represents a state where a mass shooting took place this month that left 3 dead and 5 injured after a gunman used an AR-style rifle to gun them down, is currently fundraising with the question, "Should the AR-15 be the National Gun of America?"

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