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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 4h

Despite campaigning on an “all the above” energy policy, Trump canceled the Esmeralda 7 solar project, a Nevada-based project that would stand among the world’s largest solar power plants, large enough to power nearly 2 million homes.

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Trump administration cancels largest solar project in United States

The Bureau of Land Management has officially cancelled the Esmeralda 7 solar project, a Nevada-based project that would stand among the world’s largest solar power plants, large enough to power nearly...

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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 5h

Trump laid off just about every employee who works to administer funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, the primary federal law supporting students with disabilities.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 8h

After previously claiming that layoffs at the CDC were needed to keep its focus on infectious diseases, Trump lays off hundreds with expertise in infectious diseases including those working to halt measles and an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

www.nytimes.com

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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 8h

Comey indicted for telling one lie, after Trump tells 40,000 lies.

Letitia James indicted for a mortgage application discrepancy, after Trump was convicted of fraud by inflating asset values for years on financial statements.

Bolton for mishandling classified data, after Trump had it everywhere.

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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 9h

John Bolton, a former national security adviser to President Trump, since turned Trump critic, is the next to be indicted by Trump - for possessing classified documents.

Oh, the irony!

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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 9h

Trump’s doctor claims Trump has “exceptional health.”

Is that “exceptional” as in “mentally or physically disabled and requiring special schooling?”

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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 12h

The S&P 500 was less than a couple of points from another all-time high. Then, after a single social media post from President Donald Trump, $2 trillion in market value was wiped out.

What will it take for the House and Senate to acknowledge Trump has dementia?

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/11/t...

Market sell-off: Trump post lops off $2 trillion from stocks in a single day

The unraveling shows the sway the president's one-man trade policy still has over the fate of the global economy.

www.cnbc.com

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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 12h

More like severed heads in a bag.

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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 12h

Hey, that’s a dad joke!

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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 12h

The other two dogs are banking with Chase.

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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 12h

That’s a hairy thought.

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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 12h

2008 again?

Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 12h

Your taxes at work.

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Edna’s Antifa Brat🎨🐈‍⬛📚🍹🕷️🌴 @lsto4.bsky.social · 1d

*Turn up your volume.

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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 12h

I’m not so sure too many people have an extra $22,000 a year just sitting around.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13h

Thanks to Republicans in Congress, some Americans will have to pay more than $22,000 every year to keep their health insurance coverage.

$22,000.

That could be a matter of keeping health care coverage or just giving up—and for some people, life and death.

Thanks to Republicans, some Americans will pay $22,000/year to keep their health insurance.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 12h

Private Air Force for Trump just in case the U.S. Military stays loyal to the U.S. Constitution.

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Elon Musk 🇺🇸 Parody @elonmusk-parody.bsky.social · 1d

NEW RULE:A President who commits treason should have their Supreme Court Justices rescinded.

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It’s Still Me! @itsstillme1.bsky.social · 1d

Impeach Trump now!

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14h

“Sure, Trump is taking foreign bribes, terrorizing immigrants, trying to jail his political opponents and destroying our public health system, but I’m still glad I voted for him because that black Democrat lady had a funny laugh.”

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Glenn Storm @glennstorm.bsky.social · 13h

WSJ: Trump’s “Pam:” social media post Sept 20th urging AG Bondi to prosecute political enemies (Comey, Schiff, AG James) was admitted to be a DM and sent publicly by mistake;

… an explicit order to weaponize DOJ from a corrupt and incompetent President who Rs in Congress will not check.

Vote blue.

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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 12h

Everything in the U.S. Constitution has been redacted except for the “right to be a Christian,” and the “right to bear arms.”

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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 12h

Weird because everything Trump does shocks, upsets, and disgusts me.

Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Prize committee described Machado as a "woman who keeps the flame of democracy going, amidst a growing darkness" and commended her for her efforts to "achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy".

Trump is achieving a transition from democracy to dictatorship.

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