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'No idea what’s going on': MAGA strategist rages at Trump over latest move

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 16m

Trump greenlit a Qatari facility on a U.S. Air Force base, and now MAGA world’s throwing chairs. Steve Bannon’s furious. Laura Loomer’s melting down. And Hegseth is in damage control mode.

Steve Bannon, former White House strategist and prominent MAGA figure, sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s administration after it approved a deal to allow Qatar to build a facility at a U.S.…

Trump is now working to secure one party rule--just like Mussolini and Hitler did

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 28m

Trump signed TWO secretive orders: one labels Antifa terrorists, the other lays groundwork to ban liberal orgs. And now he’s targeting ActBlue, Indivisible, and Soros. You thinking 1930s yet? 👀

History is screaming at us!

Obama takes aim at companies cutting deals with Trump: ‘We have capacity to take a stand’

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 43m

Obama took a flamethrower to the elite crowd cozying up to Trump—lawyers, college presidents, even Disney. Nobody gets a pass for selling out their values.🔥

Universities, law firms and businesses that have changed course should have stood by convictions, says ex-president

Pope Leo Addresses Reporters, Condemns Clickbait Journalism

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 52m

Pope Leo XIV met with global reporters and lit into clickbait, AI-driven news, and media monopolies. Says journalism should be a public good, not a content farm run by tech bros and hedge funds.

The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires.

The Republican war on the lives of their constituents - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 55m

I emailed Eppley Airfield in Omaha this morning to ask them not to air it.

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Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill slashes Medicaid by $1 trillion, helping rural hospitals collapse in red states. His base is watching their health care vanish, and GOP leaders couldn’t care less.

The impact of the closing of rural hospitals is literally life-of-death, and one of the central material impacts of Trump’s legislative centerpiece is to accelerate the process: Eric grew up in this...

No one has any idea how much the Trump regime is spending

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 1h

Trump claims we’re richer than ever. But $1T in "savings" is missing, watchdogs are fired, and no one can explain where the money went. Not even Elon Musk's budget-busting math can save this one 💸

To hear his administration tell it, the United States is in a golden age of prosperity thanks to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the Department of Government Efficiency’s spending cuts, and the…

'Confused' and 'befuddled' Trump told to sit back down because it wasn’t his turn to speak

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Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 1h

He flew across the world to deliver a speech—then forgot when it was his turn. Trump’s Israel trip turned into another “is he okay?” moment 😬

President Donald Trump seemed confused at the Israeli parliament Monday, where he was slated to give a speech celebrating the release of the 20 surviving hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023,…

Johnson: Trump will stop firing federal workers when the government reopens

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Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 2h

Trump fired thousands of federal workers and blamed the shutdown. His budget guy sounded the “layoff siren” and said the quiet part loud: they want civil servants in trauma 😵

Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday defended the administration’s Friday night firing of thousands of federal employees, contending that President Trump and Budget Director Russ Vought were compelled by…

Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits fro...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2h

The UAE bought $2B of Trump’s crypto — and gets computer chips

Saudi Arabia gave Kushner $2B for a new Trump Tower — and gets weapons

Qatar gives Trump a private jet and a $5.5B real estate deal — and gets US military protection

This is how bribes work.
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Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 2h

This isn’t about troops. It’s about power. Trump nuked Congress’s leverage in the shutdown by pulling $8B from military R&D to pay service members — sidestepping lawmakers and the law.

Pentagon to shift research dollars to pay troops during shutdown • Missouri Independent

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to send paychecks to active duty troops this week, despite Congress not passing legislation to allow it during the ongoing shutdown. House Speaker Mike…

Exclusive: Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs Shows What Functional Government Actually Looks Like

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 3h

Tax the FRIGGIN RICH.....

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Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 2h

While Trump’s cronies try to kill health care and trash voting rights, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is out here... passing budgets, raising wages, building housing, and telling the truth about what’s broken 👀

My latest interview with Gov. Hobbs

Check out Sean Duffy's nutty rant about protesters

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Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 2h

GOP shuts down the government and Sean Duffy blames... AOC, antifa, and protesters who haven’t even shown up yet 🤡✈️

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy stopped by Fox Business on Monday, sounding desperate to pin the blame for the Republicans’ disastrous shutdown on just about everyone. Duffy named Sen. Chuck…

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 2h

What a fragile ego.

'Planting manila folders': Eric Trump launches 'tin foil hat' theory against Jack Smith

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 2h

Eric Trump went “full tin foil hat” on Fox News — accusing Jack Smith of planting manila folders at Mar-a-Lago 📁😬
Even by Trump standards, this one’s a wild ride.

An "angry" Eric Trump launched a new conspiracy against former special counsel Jack Smith, one of his father's perceived enemies, according to The Daily Beast.President Donald Trump's second son…

The top 10 things Trump should consider doing if he wants a Nobel Peace Prize next year

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 3h

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Trump begged for a Nobel Peace Prize again. The committee gave it to someone who actually fights for democracy and peace. If Trump wants a shot next year, he might start by not invading cities or lying about fake wars.

The president begged for the honor but didn’t get it. If he wants to try again next year, there are a variety of steps he can and should take.

'Bombshell': Conservative legal scholar raises questions about core MAGA argument

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 3h

🚨Conservative legal titan torpedoes Trump’s favorite theory of unlimited power. And yes, SCOTUS is poised to go all in on it anyway.

Far-right supporters of President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement are aggressively promoting what is known as "unitary executive theory" of federal governance. The theory claims that presidents,…

They're calling it a 'Hate America' rally

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 3h

Trump’s allies are panicking over the “No Kings” rally — calling it a “hate-America” event before it even happens. Why? Because they’re terrified the country’s waking up to his authoritarian con.

You know Trump Republicans are worried when they slam a planned protest — more than a week before it occurs.Last Friday, Speaker Mike Johnson described this coming Saturday’s No Kings rally as the…

'Morally perverse': Inside the 'shocking' way Trump 'minions' are trying to rewrite history

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 3h

“That morally perverse switcheroo... belongs to an audacious mission to turn Jan. 6 on its head.”
— Frank Bruni on how Republicans are scrubbing Trump’s complicity and selling him as the victim

Attorney General Pam Bondi may have been a "repellant snit" at last week's Senate Judiciary Hearing, writes the New York Times' Frank Bruni, but more disturbing than that was the behavior of…

'Believe them': Trump admin sparks alarm with new threat

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 3h

Trump’s planning to send the military into American cities. The excuse? Crime’s “out of control.” The truth? He’s testing how far he can go with no guardrails left 🚨

Vice President JD Vance sparked alarm on Sunday when he said that President Donald Trump was considering invoking the Insurrection Act under the pretenses of combating violent crime in US…