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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 13h

"Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Opinion | The Rise of the Inflatable Chicken Resistance

www.nytimes.com

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 9h

Many are obsessed with Virginia naming names in her memoir.
What if I told you… we already know them—she already said them in court
and nothing ever happened…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

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Heather Mac @trvlinjunkie.bsky.social · 1d

Lying sack of shit!

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 8h

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA"

* article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement operation in LA, reports say

A U.S. Marshal was shot while assisting an immigration enforcement operation, according to several reports.

www.kktv.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

There it is. Sua sponte.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

Sua sponte call for en banc less than two hours after the 9th Cir decision to let loose the National Guard into Portland

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skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 12h

Try being less sensitive 🤷‍♀️

skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 13h

Hint Freedom- my background is successful project management and really don’t need your feedback.. I would rather spend time looking for real solutions which the original post brings nothing to the table except try to get votes by slamming Walz..🤷‍♀️

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skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 13h

That wasn’t my intention- it was to get you to look deeper into the real issues that are much greater than just the tax cuts… And sadly most just blame them for all of it and don’t look any further.. I like when someone provides more information for me to look at that gives me even more knowledge

skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 13h

Try not being so sensitive about someone that adds additional information.. And don’t do it just for you but to encourage others to dig further..

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skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 14h

Suggestion look up Mr Global on here who is a oil/gas expert and points out that the BBB was a win for the oil industry gutting competition from the renewable energy sector that will also cause out electric bills to rise .. was facilitated by the GOP getting rid of the 40 yr oil export ban in 2015

skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 14h

I believe we have plenty of intelligent people in here yet most don’t dig deep enough to understand the real issues of which taxes is just one.. Make sense.. Let’s look for real solutions for a change

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skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 14h

Actually I do disagree with your comment since it doesn’t get to the real heart of the problem which is way bigger than just the tax cuts that everyone points to … That is part of the issue but not the only one and unless we understand the big picture we will keep making bad policy

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skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 14h

Actually it does since the GOP is always in favor of the corporations not the people today… As someone who lives in a red state and pays attention they write very few laws to help the workers and voters and promote corporate America instead while lying about it..

skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 14h

Agree with you on the need to get Blackrock and others out of being able to buy up all industries.. Just pointing out that you and others need more real facts on why we are here today and the impact to be able to really convince the non educated voter who most have zero clue about how it all works

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skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 14h

Go look up the 60 minutes segment on the DOD where they point out how we overpay thanks to corporate mergers & acquisitions… The DOD is the only government agency that has Failed 5 independent audits….. because of those buy outs in their industry and control of the market

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skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 14h

Not just happening in the rental industry but all of them.. Why the Biden DOJ was enforcing our Antitrust laws - neither party has done so in the last 25 years which along with the tax cuts have created that wealth inequality and has reduced completion through corporate mergers & acquisitions

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skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 14h

Go learn some history of all of this and let’s not forget that the historical tax tables also do not reflect the extra tax deductions that the wealthy get to lower those tax rates even lower

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skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 14h

That started with Reagan and has continued under each GOP administration, Freedom…
1980 top ind tax 70%- today 37%
1980 top Corp tax 46% - today 21%
Bush/ Trump alone added 10.7 trillion to our National debt with their tax cuts - then added an UNBUDGETED 14.5 trillion for Afganistan/ Iraq/ COVID

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15h

We’ve received a lot of questions about Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing.

Here’s how the process is supposed to work:

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skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 14h

We already have from his first administration and too bad no one read them/ especially Miles Taylor’s book Blowout that warned what was coming when he was re-elected.. You might remember him as ‘Anonymous’ from his first administration.. Or Cassidy Hutchinson & John Bolton…🤷‍♀️

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 15h

I grew up hearing my dad, a historian, talk about the civil rights history of my hometown. But recently he told me a mind-blowing story I had never heard before: how Martin Luther King, Jr. was very nearly killed by a local crank in 1964.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-time-t...

The Time That Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Almost Assassinated in St. Augustine, Florida

A little known incident that could have changed history.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 14h

The current members of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) are nonpartisan. Minnesota law requires that no more than three commissioners belong to the same political party, and at least one must be from outside the seven-county metropolitan area. 🤷‍♀️

skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 14h

The current members of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) are nonpartisan. Minnesota law requires that no more than three commissioners belong to the same political party, and at least one must be from outside the seven-county metropolitan area

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