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Writer/editor. Opinionated. Equal Rights for all + Due Process, DEI #ReSister #Activist #CompassionNotHate #BlueMama #Idaho #La. https://danadugan.substack.com/p/first-in-time

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Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 1h

Dispatch From Idaho

Word on Qatar and the Mountain Home Air Force Base

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jondmaas.bsky.social @jondmaas.bsky.social · 17h

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Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 6h

It's a labratory not a plant, but yes, it is about 100 miles or so away

Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 6h

Idaho didnt sign on to this, It's the Feds.

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Blaine Id. Dems @blaineiddems.bsky.social · 11h

Appalling news for #Idaho, and the entire country. Qatar is an authoritarian monarchy that the trump regime calls an ally.
But Mike Simpson, a trumper, is thrilled about selling out Idaho.
Replace him in 2026. #VoteBlue

Call his office to complain loudly
208-334-1953
208-523-6701
208-734-7219

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Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 6h

fuming 😡😡

‘We are all Hamas’: Qatar minister's post resurfaces after Trump's Idaho air base deal

Qatar's defense minister, Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, and his American counterpart Pete Hegseth on Friday signed a deal on Friday

www.hindustantimes.com

Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 7h

they dont know yet. It takes time for news to reach into the hollers, canyons, hellholes and conclaves of the poorly educated, and misinformed.

Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 7h

horrendous news.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15h

“‘I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,’ Pope Leo XIV states in his first magisterial document …” www.americamagazine.org/vatican-disp...

Pope Leo in first major document: Love for the poor is not optional for Christians

“I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,” Pope Leo XIV states in his first m...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

One thing we've learned from the American judicial system: The first 34 felonies are on the house*.

*Terms and conditions may apply. See prosecutors for details if you're not white. Or rich.

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Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 8h

Pam Bondi is worthless, and yet dangerous.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“None of these statements are true.”

MEMPHIS DA Steve Mulroy FACT-CHECKS @AGPamBondi’s sworn testimony before Congress.

His post (with Spandau Ballet soundtrack 🎵): www.instagram.com/p/DPmv-WKEil...

Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 11h

Maria Corina - humble, pro democracy and, yup, anti-fascism as a winner should be. The Nobel Committee aren’t to be played or pressured. Well done.

Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 11h

In my home state, about an hour and a half away. Livid barely touches the way I feel now

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Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 11h

What the actual fuck!

Qatari Air Force Facility to Be Built in Mountain Home,Idaho: Hegseth - TIME

Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 12h

I hear them on a NPR spot laughing about the $$$. Sickening

Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 12h

Yup

And I do remember when it was a private home.

Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 12h

Boom

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EASTMAN @eastman9125.bsky.social · 12h

To be convinced that an omnipotent God would choose Donald Trump to lead America is proof that evangelicals will believe anything.

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Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 1d

crooked and a waste of our money. #DumpNoem in the polluted river that worm bobby swims in

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 1d

“Fired for no reason”: Former immigration judges speak out against Trump’s assault on the courts www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Fired for no reason”: Former immigration judges speak out against Trump’s assault on the courts

The Trump administration’s push for more deportations is upending immigration courts. Recently terminated judges fear the changes imperil due process.

www.motherjones.com

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Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 1d

embarrassing and obvious. Weenie Johnson is terrible at his job,

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

All to cover up the Epstein files.

Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 1d

It's so beautiful, I wanna cry

Trump Joins the Ranks of Nobel Laureates

For contributions so bold, the truth never stood a chance.

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Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 1d

or get a Peace Prize

Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 1d

Head over to Substack for the latest:
danadugan.substack.com/p/first-in-t...

First in Time: Chapter 9

Cookin' for Keeps

danadugan.substack.com

Butter Emails @butteremails2.bsky.social · 1d

also, the Dodge Ram commercial has hugely MAGA/America First vibes, and sends the climate hoax - I need a big truck to compensate - macho - fuck your feelings message to the lemming idiots who actually watch dumb commercials.

( full disclosure: I saw it by accident before I could hit mute)