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CREW @citizensforethics.org · Jul 17

BREAKING: Eight employees are reportedly working for the White House without taking a salary from it.

This means they could be earning outside income while working in powerful roles, creating potential conflicts of interest.

If White House employees are working for free, what are they getting instead? - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

According to the report, eight employees are working for the White House without taking a salary from it. Forgoing a government salary may seem like a noble choice, and in some cases it can be. But it...

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · Jul 17

YES! Gavin Newsom starts the process to gerrymander California. Why that is good!

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SharonT @svtsvt.bsky.social · Jul 17

Always thought fighting the gerrymanders was a waste of resources. We gerrymander the blue States which are huge and we win. Why play a losing hand repeatedly? Ev blue State that can pass this should do it now since SCOTUS allows it in the red States!

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SharonT @svtsvt.bsky.social · Jul 16

Just wanted to say Dumps huge amount of lower leg, ankle & most likely feet swelling are worse signs than his hand issues. Congestive heart failure is a real possibility. His hand bruises could be because as we age our skin gets very fragile, thin and easily bruises & tears.

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SharonT @svtsvt.bsky.social · Jul 1

And after my divorce I couldn't get a credit card bc our credit didn't apply to the woman. I had the ftime job for 6yrs & he quit abt 8jobs and didn't contribute anything to income.
Also sexual harrassment wasn't illegal, so women had to put up with it or quit. Men got the promotions.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Jun 22

Trump’s attacks on Iran were based on vibes, not new intel, two administration officials tell Rolling Stone. “There is no intel,” one of the sources says. “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”

'There Is No Intel': Trump's Attacks on Iran Were Based on Vibes, Sources Say

Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities was not based on new intelligence, administration officials say.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 22

Rachel Maddow: “If Trump wasn’t getting the intelligence that Iran is on the verge of a nuclear weapon from the intelligence community… who is he getting it from? Israel?”

The right question.

And pretty obviously the right answer.

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Kaname650 @kaname650.bsky.social · Jun 22

And this right here!!! ⬇️

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 22

Iran’s stockpile dropped to 0 after Obama made the Iran Deal… until Trump pulled out of it (against the advice of his own Defense Secretary, General Mattis… because he hated Obama)

Feels pretty relevant in this moment.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 22

Iran’s stockpile dropped to 0 after Obama made the Iran Deal… until Trump pulled out of it (against the advice of his own Defense Secretary, General Mattis… because he hated Obama)

Feels pretty relevant in this moment.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Jun 4

Closing the thread: bsky.app/profile/tani...

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Jun 4

RESULT: Democrats easily defend a state House seat in South Carolina in a special election tonight.

Keishan Scott, the 24-year old Dem nominee, won 71% to 29%, so by 42. (Harris had carried the district by 5% last fall; Biden won it by 15% in 2020.)

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Jun 3

There’s a special election tonight for a South Carolina House seat that Harris carried by single-digits last fall.

The early vote just came in, 80% to 20% for the Democrat.

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SharonT @svtsvt.bsky.social · May 23

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Gave my neighbor a free smart lock—now you can win 1. Comment + share! #HomeDepotPartner #THDKwikset

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 14

RFK Jr starts having a tantrum as Chris Murphy details how he lied during his confirmation hearing about his anti-vax views

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · May 15

We collected well over 180,000 signatures to put it on the ballot. It passed by 57%. These assholes don’t care about us.

STOP VOTING FOR THEM.

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SharonT @svtsvt.bsky.social · Apr 13

Plus his sister said his antivax foundation pushing vaccine disinfo & conspiracies is a grift and that he & his family are all vaccinated.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Apr 13

DOGE already has cost tax payers money (at the very least $500B/year in IRS revenues, but that's before other huge costs are accounted for).

And as I keep noting, Elon's $150B/year estimate is what some of the IGs who got fired were finding--w/o cutting services.

Jake @my2bits4u.bsky.social · Apr 13

Doge will end up costing tax payers money and not saving one nickel.
All we will have done is opened up our books to a group of nefarious folks for some yet to be determined reason.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Apr 13

I have over 35 stories on my list of DOGE debunkings (I'm sure I missed some while I was traipsing around Paris).

Three months in, DOGE continues to make the same stupid accounting errors in its claims.

www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...

DOGE Debunking - emptywheel

MuskWatch’s DOGE tracker Running Xitter threads from Momentum Chaser January 30: Fact Check: No evidence US spent $50 million on condoms for Gaza January 30: FACT FOCUS: No evidence that $50 million w...

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NO KINGS IN AMERICA… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · Mar 26

Time to BOYCOTT ‘Airbnb’…👇

Make. These. Fuckers. Pay. ✨

#BoycottAirbnb

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Mar 26

The Atlantic has now published the Signal texts with attack plans in response to administration denials.

I worked at the Pentagon.

If information like this is not classified, nothing is.

If Hegseth is claiming he declassified this information, he should be shown the door for having done so.