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JoeBIn818

@joebin818.bsky.social

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No DMs. North SFV Los Angeles gay senior. Former journalist, lifelong union Dem with rescue dog and aversion to bullshit. I am here only to get news and discuss it. If you want to do something else, find someone else. I repost all gift links I see.

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JoeBIn818 @joebin818.bsky.social · Mar 6

This.

Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · Mar 6

Democracy dies in decorum.

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JoeBIn818 @joebin818.bsky.social · 11h

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12h

🧵 This reporting confirms my suspicion on why, based on reporting last week, the CIA's Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, installed himself as the agency's general counsel. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

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JoeBIn818 @joebin818.bsky.social · 11h

Someone could run for president on the promise of burning down the ballroom and they'd probably win.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

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JoeBIn818 @joebin818.bsky.social · 11h

Because they're also beating the hell out of Americans on the streets of Chicago and destroying The CDC and cutting taxes for billionaires and destroying the affordable Care Act and ...

JoeBIn818 @joebin818.bsky.social · 12h

He wouldn't have marriage rights nor the ability to use surrogacy to have children, both which he enjoys, without us on the Left. He can suck it. Not mine, I wouldn't have sex with this monster, but figuratively.

Fuck him. Again, somebody else and not me.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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JoeBIn818 @joebin818.bsky.social · 12h

And yes, the Valley is Los Angeles.

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Piñata at Puffer's on Victory Blvd at Sepulveda in LA.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 12h

We are for sale. With the grifters now governing us pocketing the profits while we sit here not as citizens of a republic, but dumb cattle in an abattoir chute, waiting for the next sledgehammer blow to the head.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

Qatar gave Trump a $400M jet. Trump gave them a military facility on US soil.

The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.

Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.

If this isn't corruption, what is?

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JoeBIn818 @joebin818.bsky.social · 12h

I've been trying to get on the social security website for the last 20 minutes. After I enter in my login the wheel just turns and turns. Is this MAGA?

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 16h

ONCE YOU TOLERATE DISRESPECT IN ANY FORM, IT BECOMES A PATTERN.

Time has come to weed out society's bad apples. 🍎🤢🗑️🇺🇸

#RottenPoliticalParty #FelonMagaCult #KickThemOut

🎥 @briantylercohen.bsky.social 💎

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14h

DOJ seems shocked at the idea that competence might be required.

The "federal employees are being fired, and you're not even prepared to address whether that's legal?" the judge asked.

"That's correct," the DOJ lawyer responded.

www.rawstory.com/government-e...

Judge snaps at Trump's DOJ: 'You're not even prepared'

The Justice Department appeared in court after President Donald Trump and his administration fired thousands of federal workers. Trump publicly threatened Democrats, saying that if they didn't end the...

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JoeBIn818 @joebin818.bsky.social · 13h

Will Ferrell makes a lot of money from PayPal. I don't like that at all. Do you think he's met Thiel?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14h

Journalists spent months documenting Stephen Miller's affinities for white nationalism and Trump just goes and tweets it out.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 14h

Nick Fuentes says the leaked Young Republican chats prove that "everyone's a groyper now," but they have to do a better job of hiding their real views: "These guys were doing a great thing ... The mistake that they made is that they were sloppy." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17h

Elise Stefanik is scrubbing photos of herself accepting awards from the vile Young Republicans caught in the Politico group chat. She supported every single one of them in New York State.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

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Elizabeth @underthesea62.bsky.social · 15h

It's up to $40B now

Bessent says US considers doubling aid to Argentina to $40B - POLITICO share.google/6rfgpNNLypRc...

Bessent says US considers doubling aid to Argentina to $40B

The assistance is aimed at bolstering the country's collapsing currency and calming economic unrest before Oct. 26 midterm elections.

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𝐊 🖕🐸🖕 @girlybojon.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, because Bessent is one of the people with money tied up there. If Milei's economy fails, he loses that money.

So do a bunch of other people.

And just as a sidenote, I find it stupid that Beseent has any control over money after a hideously losing career as a hedge fund manager.

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 16h

Check out our ads running in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and more than 185 local newspapers today.

We're encouraging Americans to stand up to Donald Trump and join their local, peaceful No Kings protests this Saturday. @gtconway.bsky.social

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 16h

Everything is retribution

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21h

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Phyllipp @phyllipp.bsky.social · 1d

"They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1d

Young Republicans / TPUSA MAGAs proven to be actual genocidal racist-incel-trolls, a very shocking and unforeseen development.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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