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@risefromtheashes.bsky.social
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CA/PNW, aka some of the last bastions of democracy. Changed the banner and avi on Jan. 20, 2025.😭🤬
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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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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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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.
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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They should never know peace.
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And this is how I found out the Marines apparently tell took down all of their combatting extremism content from their website
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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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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.
Same bloodthirsty bitch who can’t define habeas corpus:
Fuck John Roberts.
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.🤷‍♀️
#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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I am posting this 2021 article for no particular reason

transparency.eu/corruption-o...
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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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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 🫠
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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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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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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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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?"