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@lynny49.bsky.social

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Dual national 🇬🇧🇺🇸 West Ham supporter, retired teacher, library volunteer since 2009, always cream on top 😉 jam underneath. If you’re Cornish you know. Voted for Kamala and Starmer.

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mlf3430.bsky.social @mlf3430.bsky.social · 1d

$170B for ICE and Border Patrol

$40B for Argentina

$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet

$230M for Trump's DOJ
"compensation"

$200M for Kristi Noem's jets

$98M for Trump's golf outings

But no money to lower your healthcare costs.

Never Again Republicans!!

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lynny49.bsky.social @lynny49.bsky.social · 1d

The Republicans will not want to honor that.

lynny49.bsky.social @lynny49.bsky.social · 1d

Britbox stopped carrying BBCQT last April 2024, and I wonder why? BBC told me it was licensing, but I really miss seeing British politics and the reception that Reform candidates received from the audience.

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Susannah R @susannahredelfs.bsky.social · 2d

I guess it’s our karma for swindling Mannahatta from Native Americans for a few beads and muskets. Now we’re selling the entire country off for swag bags of overpriced luxury-labeled trash made for pennies in a Chinese factory.

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Ginny @gmoyer17.bsky.social · 2d

WE paid for this shit! What's in these "gift bags". Does he think he's hosting Oscar parties? The million dollar golf game jaunts, the gold leaf, gaudy defacement of the Oval Office, the paving over of the Rose Garden, the demolition of the East Wing and a $300 million ballroom. STOP HIM.

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Diamond Life @diamondlifeca.bsky.social · 2d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson shamelessly lies: "We strengthened Medicaid. We improved healthcare access and we lowered premiums with our legislation."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the kind of sanctions avoidance Changpeng Zhao facilitated, from his sentencing memo.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Zhao also admits that between August 2017 and October 2022—according to the
company’s own data—“Binance caused . . . at least $890 million in transactions between
U.S. users and users Binance identified as Iranians,” plus “millions more in transactions
between U.S. users and users in other comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions, including
Cuba, Syria, and the Ukrainian regions of Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk.” Id. ¶ 9.o. The
company “profited significantly from its violations of law,” including through the
“significant fees” it earned “on transactions between U.S. customers and customers in
comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions.” Id. ¶ 9.p. The hundreds of millions of dollars
involved in trades that violated U.S. sanctions, and the fees that Binance earned from
processing those trades, became proceeds of unlawful activity. Binance facilitated later
transfers of those proceeds, including when its customers withdrew their funds from the
exchange. Zhao knew about the users in comprehensively sanctioned areas, did not direct
Binance to implement controls that would have prevented Binance from matching U.S.
users with users subject to U.S. sanctions to conduct cryptocurrency transactions, and those
transactions were a clear and foreseeable result of Zhao’s decision to prioritize profit and
growth over compliance with the BSA.

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 2d

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Leavitt: The president is in incredibly good shape and I think that's evidenced here every single day

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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 1d

You know that repulsive video of Trump in the F-16 dropping sh*t on Americans peacefully protesting his insanity, all to the Top Gun song Danger Zone? Well, I made it more accurate.

Here's who and what Trump is really sh*tting on each day...

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lynny49.bsky.social @lynny49.bsky.social · 1d

Where? (Just kidding).

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

ICE now has a budget bigger than most militaries around the world and has increased spending on weapons.

It's also engaging in a race to recruit 10,000 new agents who will eventually be out in American streets.

Some will be vetted, but how many unqualified recruits will fall through the cracks?

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Uncle Mark 🇺🇸 🫏 @unclemark.bsky.social · 1d

No shit.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting

The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

www.nbcnews.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage.

This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

This is very good

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe this is obvious to everyone but…why does the White House need a ballroom? It has enough space for state dinners, no? Is this for dances? Weddings? Storing classified documents?

Just confused so the reason would be helpful thx

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lynny49.bsky.social @lynny49.bsky.social · 2d

I do hope you are right.

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𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚎✩ @allmylovesteph.bsky.social · 3d

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

Remember that one time at band camp when Trump deliberately destroyed priceless art deco friezes that the Met had asked to be preserved because he couldn’t be bothered and had them destroyed instead? news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 3d

Over and over again, Trump proves he is the most corrupt American President in history.

He might as well set up a direct deposit at the U.S. Treasury.

He won't spend a cent to save families from their premiums tripling, but he wants taxpayers to pay HIM $230 million. Obscene.

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

www.nytimes.com

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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 4d

Here's a version of the English nursery rhyme, "The Grand Old Duke of York" 🎶 about the man who says he isn't going to call himself it anymore ... though whether he should be taken at his word ... 🤔

youtu.be/hoETmTJM014

"Grand Old Duke of York" - parody of English nursery rhyme by the Marsh Family on Prince Andrew

YouTube video by Marsh Family

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lynny49.bsky.social @lynny49.bsky.social · 3d

Being sent out to spew the same buzzwords for Magas. Make sure to use “communists.”

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3d

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