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Tom Flynn @tomlasusa.bsky.social · 1d

$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$250M for a new White House ballroom
$150M for Trump's golf outings
$520M for National Guard deployments
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets

But sorry, Poors -- ain't no money to lower your healthcare bills.

#FDT

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David Mack @davidmack.bsky.social · 1d

That gagging stench is the latest ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, where three judges (two of them Trump judges) just cleared the way for Trump to deploy federalized National Guard units into Portland (and, one assumes, anywhere else). Motherfuckers. www.npr.org/2025/10/20/n...

9th Circuit rules that National Guard can deploy to Portland

The appeals court overturned the ruling of a lower court judge in Oregon, and clears the way for President Trump to deploy the National Guard to Portland.

www.npr.org

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 1d

“Are you telling me we can spend $40B on Argentina, $1B on Trump’s Qatar jet, $250M on Trump’s ballroom, $150M on Trump’s golf, $520M on Trump's National Guard deployments & $172M on Kristi Noem’s jets - but we can’t spend a penny on lowering our healthcare
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #EMSky

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Count Every Hero @counteveryhero.org · 1d

NEW: Today, nine frmr service secretaries + retired four-star admirals & generals filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court warning that deploying National Guard troops in Chicago would add to a dangerous trend of politicizing the military. bit.ly/4hkEZfy

Former Nat. Sec. leaders file brief before SCOTUS on Chicago

The brief was filed after the federal government asked the Court to stay a lower court’s order temporarily prohibiting the deployment of the Guard to Chicago.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

We almost made it 250 years.

Trump is at war with our nation's citizens.

Elections will be suspended; it's not a matter of if, but when.

At least we're getting a $200,000,000 ballroom.

That's a plus.

National Guard

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

The "factual background" begins with something irrelevant and erroneous. Dallas is not in Oregon, and the Dallas shooting wasn't connected to any ICE protest.

If that's enough for the President to federalize a different state's National Guard and deploy them elsewhere, then the power is limitless.

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tinaleeds.bsky.social @tinaleeds.bsky.social · 21h

ONLY #2TrumpJudges on the #9thCircuit Ruled that CA's Nat'l Guard can Invade Oregon... The #3rdJudgeRuledThatCA Nat'l Guard Can NOT go to OR. This Judge requested the
#FULL9thCircuitCourtToRULE On Trump's #UnConstitionalEO Violating Founders #PosseComitatusAct sending Nat'l Guard Into Other States.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

Trump says the government will send National Guard troops to San Francisco and may invoke the Insurrection Act to do so. It comes as President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow him to send National Guard troops to the Chicago area.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

Vermont’s Republican Governor Phil Scott blasted Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago and Portland, calling it unconstitutional. It follows Oklahoma’s GOP Governor Kevin Stitt criticizing the deployment of the Texas National Guard to Illinois.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump regime is going to continue to abuse its power by sending National Guard troops into our streets.

Although the Frog Army of Portland is undoubtedly well-prepared, we highly recommend reading up on how to interact with the Guard as it is different than engaging with ICE.

Learn more here:

Responding to Federal Occupying Forces

Click here for another version of this document optimized for readability and accessibility. Table of Contents (click to jump ahead) We the People are PISSED: statement/intro Situation Report: current...

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Bernie Brown @berniebrown.bsky.social · 1d

This is part of the "disruption" the 9th Circuit Court used to clear Epstein's buddy sending National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.

Trump desperately seeking "casus belli" trigger to justify invoking Insurrection Act to suspend next years elections and/or stop public release of Epstein Files.

MrBeanThePug65 @mrbeanthepug65.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so sorry Portland.
Just remember...
NEVER GIVE UP.

a group of people dressed up in costumes including a unicorn and a dinosaur

ALT: a group of people dressed up in costumes including a unicorn and a dinosaur

media.tenor.com

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SCOTUSblog @scotusblog.com · 23h

Supreme Court urged to leave ruling in place preventing Trump from deploying National Guard in Illinois

Lawyers representing the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago urged the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon to leave in place a ruling by a federal judge that prohibits […]

www.scotusblog.com

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Lawyers for Illinois and Chicago called on the Supreme Court to deny the administration’s “dramatic step of permitting deployment of National Guard troops over Illinois’s objection.” @wttw.bsky.social

Illinois Asks Supreme Court to Reject Trump’s Appeal of Order Blocking National Guard Deployment

Attorneys for the state of Illinois on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a request by the Trump administration to allow the immediate deployment of 700 National Guard troops into Chicago.

news.wttw.com

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 1d

National Guard deployment in DC is costing $1 million/day www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p...

They’re there each time I step out of the Metro, idling in groups with nothing to do

Meanwhile, around the corner, people are sleeping on the street, nowhere else to go, as Trump cuts funding for homeless people

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 23h

NEW: DOJ asks Judge Immergut to dissolve her second TRO, blocking the deployment of any state's National Guard troops to Oregon, arguing that the logic of today's Ninth Circuit panel decision requires it. (Puzzlingly, DOJ didn't appeal this second order.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Ninth Circuit's decision staying the first TRO is a significant change in law that plainly warrants dissolution of this Court's second TRO. By staying the first TRO, the Ninth Circuit held that defendants are likely to succeed on the merits of this case at least as to defendants' arguments on Section 12406(3), that the first TRO would likely cause defendants irreparable harm absent a stay, and that the balance of the equities and public interest disfavor such an injunction. See Order at 19-36
(citing Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418, 433-34 (2009)). This reasoning belies this Court's second TRO too. The Ninth Circuit recognized that "[t]he district court stated that it granted the second TRO based on the same legal reasoning it provided in its order issuing the first TRO." Order at 34. From that, the Ninth Circuit concluded that "Defendants are thus correct that the first TRO and the second
TRO rise or fall together on the merits of the issues raised in Defendants] motion for a stay pending
appeal [filed in the Ninth Circuit]." Id. Because binding Circuit precedent now holds that defendants, not plaintiffs, are likely to succeed on the merits of this case under the Section 12406(3) authority and that the equities and public interest militate against enjoining the federalization and deployment of
National Guardsmen in Oregon, this Court should dissolve its second TRO.

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TonyHQ @tonyhq1985.bsky.social · 23h

This is so wrong and unjust. The orange buffoon legal team is using peaceful protests as pretext for deploying National Guard into Blue cities, and courts at every level are caving in and folding.

Tod Jones @tfosteroaks.bsky.social · 23h

When the judicial system no longer relies on facts...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

Appeals Court Lifts Block on Trump’s Oregon Troop Deployment

www.nytimes.com

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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 23h

By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 22h

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... “I still urge the Trump administration to send all the national guard members home.”

Oregon governor urges Trump national guard ruling to be overturned

Tina Kotek calls for ‘en banc’ review after three-judge panel permits US president to send federal troops to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 23h

Dissenting Judge Graber, on 9th Cir, calls on public to "retain faith in judicial system" while she begs full court to overturn the panel ruling permitting federalization of National Guard in Portland. Full court asks for briefs on whether to rehear case en banc by Wed midnight

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 8d

Marco Rubio lowballed the president with his praise.

Trump Snaps at Little Marco for Not Sucking Up Hard Enough

Marco Rubio lowballed the president with his praise.

trib.al

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Al Lane @allane625.bsky.social · 2d

'Deep betrayal': Insiders reveal Marco Rubio condemned US informants in backroom deal

www.rawstory.com/marco-rubio-...

'Deep betrayal': Insiders reveal Marco Rubio condemned US informants in backroom deal

The Trump administration condemned “informants” under the protection of the United States government to be sent to El Salvador’s notoriously dangerous prison in a backroom deal back in March, insiders...

www.rawstory.com

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CinemaBrasil - ICCB @cinemabrasil.bsky.social · 3d

Marco Rubio se recusou a apertar mão de Mauro Vieira?
BoIsonaristas espalham fakenews, porque é disso que se alimentam.
Vejam que o que diz a inteligência artificial do Google.

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 3d

Garrett Graff reminds us: Trump won't last forever.

Whenever and however Donald Trump exits the stage, there just isn’t anyone who will step into the MAGA movement’s shoes — there are plenty of people who will try, from JD Vance to Marco Rubio to Ron DeSantis to Don Jr. to Ted Cruz, but the thing we’ve seen over and over across the last decade is that no one is Donald Trump. Vice President JD Vance, an incredibly awkward and unfunny Trump-lite who is widely despised by both sides, is most certainly not Donald Trump.

Trump has built in MAGA not a movement but a personality cult — a fragile coalition of anti-government extremists, white nationalists, conspiracists, disaffected people hurt by globalization, and a lot of low-information voters whose brains have been fried by right-wing media and social media algorithms.

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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 4d

How did Marco Rubio win White House support for Venezuela strikes? He flipped the script.

To convince isolationist MAGA leaders, Rubio reframed Maduro as not just a dictator, but also a nefarious drug kingpin who is fueling crime and overdoses on US streets.

www.latimes.com/world-nation...

How Rubio is winning over Trumpworld on striking Venezuela

U.S. military pressure on Venezuela is a major victory for Marco Rubio, who has swayed MAGA to his cause: toppling leftist Latin American authoritarians.

www.latimes.com

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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine thinking Putin’s approval is the measure of American diplomacy.

Screenshot of a social post by President Donald J. Trump that says: 'I have just concluded my telephone conversation with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, and it was a very productive one. President Putin congratulated me and the United States on the Great Accomplishment of Peace in the Middle East, something that, he said, has been dreamed of for centuries. I actually believe that the Success in the Middle East will help in our negotiation in attaining an end to the War with Russia/Ukraine. President Putin thanked the First Lady, Melania, for her involvement with children. He was very appreciative, and said that this will continue. We also spent a great deal of time talking about Trade between Russia and the United States when the War with Ukraine is over. At the conclusion of the call, we agreed that there will be a meeting of our High Level Advisors, next week. The United States’ initial meetings will be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, together with various other people, to be designated. A meeting location is to be determined. President Putin and I will then meet in an agreed upon location, Budapest, Hungary, to see if we can bring this “inglorious” War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end. President Zelenskyy and I will be meeting tomorrow, in the Oval Office, where we will discuss my conversation with President Putin, and much more. I believe great progress was made with today’s telephone conversation.'

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shelleycaro.bsky.social @shelleycaro.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck Marco Rubio …. That MF is a career politician and he isn’t stupid like the others he KNOWS exactly what he is doing … that makes him way worse than the others

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