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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · 16h

Say WHAT??!!!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16h

the final boss of "imagine if obama did it"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 16h

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 1d

My first foray onto YouTube for @wired.com, doing a deep dive into the state of immigration enforcement and deportation under the Trump administration.

youtu.be/uD9ETC80HDA?...

Where ICE Has Taken The Most People | On The Grid | WIRED

YouTube video by WIRED

youtu.be

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · 9d

Fighting for healthcare is the reason Ds are asking for negotiations. NO ONE IS ASKING FOR HEALTHCARE BENEFITS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Rs are lying about that. Health insurance costs for 22 million in limbo as shutdown begins - The Hill

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · 11d

With @nicollewallace.bsky.social on Deadline Whitehouse in a few.

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AMPTsuper @amptsuper.bsky.social · 12d

"Some Republicans will need to ask themselves a very important question: Will they spend all their political capital keeping the Epstein files secret?"

www.msnbc.com/top-stories/... @clairecmc.bsky.social Claire McCaskill @msnbc.com

Claire McCaskill: As the House inches toward Epstein files vote, spotlight shifts to vulnerable GOP senators

Some Republicans will need to ask themselves a very important question: Will they spend all their political capital keeping the Epstein files secret?

www.msnbc.com

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · 12d

Whew. That’s more like it. #ChiefsKingdom

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · 14d

If Hawley is not pretending to support union workers, this would be a good time to go after Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Federal Bureau of Prisons Ends Union Protections for Workers

www.nytimes.com

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · 14d

I hope Comey asks for a trial next week. He needs to win this at trial, not on motions.

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · 18d

For you in Missouri…Sinclair who is trying to slant the news for Trump and refusing to accept Jimmy Kimmel’s show…owns ABC Channel 30 KDNL in St Louis.

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · 19d

Off the Met Life stadium in NJ to watch the Chiefs beat the Giants! #chiefskingdom

Off to Met Life stadium to watch the Chiefs beat the Giants! #chiefskingdom.

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · 19d

Gosh I remember when important government officials accepting a big bag of cash as part of an FBI investigation would be a problem.

Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 19d

On Earth 2.0, this would be The Story of the week, a firestorm of corruption, cover-ups, and scandal. Tom Homan, the thuggish head of Trump’s immigration brute squad was videotaped accepting a $50,000 cash bribe… and the Trump DOJ shut the investigation down.

open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Glitches in the MAGA Will to Power?

Watergate in plain sight

open.substack.com

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · 21d

This assault on the First Amendment must stop. It looks like the groups that were denied entry into the parade were MAGA screened. Infuriating. abc17news.com/news/educati...

10 groups denied entry into MU's homecoming parade

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri is providing the courts with a list of groups approved and denied for next week’s Homecoming Parade. This follows a court order earlier this week and ch...

abc17news.com

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · 21d

Grew up in Columbia,home of Mizzou. Graduated from Mizzou. Mizzou homecoming parade belonged to entire community.I participated many times as a child and young woman, with various orgs, including Girl Scouts. Imagine my shock that my Univ decided to ban groups from parade, including GIRL Scouts? 1/2

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · Sep 10

I'm horrified to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah.

Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence.

Mark and I are praying for Charlie's recovery.

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · Sep 10

I am incredibly sad for Charlie Kirk’s family and our country. Hope they apprehend the shooter quickly and that person is held accountable for this vile act.

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Sep 10

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · Sep 10

Trump is clearly not taken seriously by either Putin or Netanyahu.

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · Sep 6

Welp. Not the start we wanted. But hats off to Herbert and the Chargers. They played a hell of a game.

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · Sep 6

You spit at a player you are out. You take a swing at a player’s head, just a penalty. Right.

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ready.

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · Sep 5

Amen. And remember he called those that fought and died “suckers and losers”

Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · Sep 4

Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nothing will nail down a Nobel like rebranding to the “Department of War.”

Also sorta overrides the key military mission of deterrence, which is a piece of our national & defense security strategy.

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · Sep 3

And he also said green coffee beans would melt fat.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3

FOX: Do you agree with Florida ending all childhood vaccine mandates?

MEHMET OZ: I would definitely not have mandates for vaccinations

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · Sep 3

The people of Kansas City should be furious about what the Republicans are trying to do to them. Breaking up KC for more political power to Trump is outrageous. And wrong. KC is a crown jewel of MO and the Rs are treating it like dirt.

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