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US Navy Submarine Veteran | Democrat I work in IT and play in Nature (photography) Photos: https://glass.photo/kurtschlatzer #VeteransResistanceSquadron #VeteransAgainstTrump

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Kurt Schlatzer 📷 ⚓ @kurtschlatzer.com · May 15

Trump is a living example that a person can be the greatest con man of all time, while simultaneously being the easiest mark of all time.

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Steve M. @geekprivateers.bsky.social · 9h

Absolutely true. #MAGAMorons

A picture of the President with the caption:

At this point, they could find Trump raping a bound woman, watching child pornography, shooting Mexican immigrants, in the Oval Office lit with burning bibles with bags of classified documents addressed to Putin, smoking a crack pipe, and Trump supporters would say:

"YOUR TAKING THAT OUT OF CONTEXT!"

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Mikel 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @mikelking.com · 1d

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Ole Vet USAF @olevetusaf.bsky.social · 1d

www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...
“It’s hard to find previous reports of a defense secretary letting his wife sit in on official closed-door meetings or tasking his senior staff with their official duties.

'Shows poor judgment': Hegseth forced top Pentagon aide to back his wife having a key role

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly forced a top Pentagon aide to support Hegseth's wife having a key role in closed-door meetings — an unusual move, and one the aide eventually admitted he didn...

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 1d

📉Trump's WLFI crypto token—which is not backed by any underlying assets and does not convey ownership in anything other than the token itself—hit an all-time low today of $0.146156 amidst an overall market downturn.

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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 1d

From Brian Taylor Cohen: The Convicted FElon & Hegseth are allowing the Qatari government to build a military base in Idaho, USA.
What the FUCK!!!
Is that the payment for the Convicted FElon's personal Air Felon One!?!? 🤬😡🤬😡🤬

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Kurt Schlatzer 📷 ⚓ @kurtschlatzer.com · 1d

How does he even speak with his mouth full?

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Does Qatar have the Epstein files or its equivalent? Is Qatar blackmailing Trump in exchange for building an air force base on US soil? It's either this or billions of dollars.

Release the Epstein files. Now.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

Argentina gets $20 billion, Qatar gets an airbase in Iowa, while our soldiers are being fed by food banks. Orgs like Army Emergency Relief are stepping in amidst Trump’s shutdown, and you can make a donation at any of the links in this thread:

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 1d

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Kurt Schlatzer 📷 ⚓ @kurtschlatzer.com · 1d

Oh. Hell. No.

Gerry Joyce-Magladene @deaconbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

What? No foreign country has ever built their own military base on US soil - never! So who does Trump allow to build the first base here? Not a NATO country, but QATAR, who unlawfully gave Trump his own jet.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1d

Many have noticed a pattern that on the days Russia attacks Ukraine the worse, Donald Trump goes on social media and thanks Putin. This has happened repeatdly.

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Kurt Schlatzer 📷 ⚓ @kurtschlatzer.com · 1d

WTF?

Kat Hartness @kathartness.bsky.social · 1d

'Never felt more betrayed': MAGA rebels over Trump's 'treasonous' Qatar base in Idaho

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'Never felt more betrayed': MAGA rebels over Trump's 'treasonous' Qatar base in Idaho

After years of advocating "America First," President Donald Trump's administration, the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Friday, "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acce...

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Kurt Schlatzer 📷 ⚓ @kurtschlatzer.com · 1d

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WE THE PEOPLE (@50501nc) on Threads

❌👑 A Complete List of All 10/18 No Kings Protests in North Carolina:

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Kurt Schlatzer 📷 ⚓ @kurtschlatzer.com · 1d

Garbage in(charge), garbage out.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/a...

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system 'very high risk,' US Army memo says

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has high-risk security problems according to a recent internal Army memo.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 1d

The man in charge of our nations health thinks foreskins cause autism and babies come out of the placenta.

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Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · 1d

Todays upcoming results from
Walter Reed…

trump at the dr looking at a scan…the tests are conclusive, you’re a colossal piece of shit

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

"He’d be right—except that, for those keeping count at home, Reid is the second Republican to be engulfed in a Nazi porn scandal in just over a year." newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified

Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.

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Eric Foltz @ericfoltz.bsky.social · 1d

At some point, the National Guard Generals need to realize that when multiple courts hand down decisions saying that the deployments to American Cities are illegal, the orders themselves are illegal and they have an obligation to defy them.
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Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks National Guard Deployment in Chicago Area

A federal judge is set to decide Thursday whether to block President Donald Trump from deploying 200 members of the Texas National Guard alongside 300 members of the Illinois National Guard to the Chi...

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning! If you work at HHS and want to talk to a reporter anonymously, you can reach out to me on Signal.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

If you are a paying subscriber to The Washington Post, this is what you get.

If you are a free subscriber to Democracy Docket, this is what you get.

Support independent, pro-democracy media. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Kurt Schlatzer 📷 ⚓ @kurtschlatzer.com · 1d

This also means 5x more coding errors and 5x more security issues 😎

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 1d

When he promised to bring down everything, some of you should have asked more specific questions.

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Roughly half of U.S. states are effectively in a recession and ‘hanging on by their fingertips,’ Moody’s chief economist says | Fortune

Moody’s chief economist, Mark Zandi, tells Fortune parts of America are already in recession, with 22 state economies contracting despite strong national GDP growth.

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𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 1d

💥 WATCH 💥

Federation of Federal Employees President Randy Erwin.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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Kim @kim4thebabies.bsky.social · 1d

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Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Venezuela Opposition Leader Machado — Bloomberg

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for democracy at a time when political freedom is increasingly at risk from the rise of authoritar...

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