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Lee West

@whodat35.bsky.social

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“Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.” — Things you won’t see trending on X • L.A./N.Y./London/Rome & NOLA. Energy transition, Silicon Valley technofile, aerospace, filmmaker, writer ✍️, former producer, foreign policy and dolphin hugger. #RESIST

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · Jul 27

🚨 #SocialSecurity is on the chopping block. Thanks to Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” retirees are now staring down $18,000-a-year benefit cut in just seven years. Seniors who paid in their whole lives are left holding the bag.
– $13,600 cut for a typical retired couple.

A new analysis projects a 24% cut to Social Security benefits by late 2032.

Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will cause sharp cuts to Social Security by late 2032, a new analysis says.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 1m

Masked ICE agents struggling to find violent criminals in spite of terrorizing cities like Chicago. youtu.be/BIjw-vrte98

Masked ICE agents struggling to find violent criminals in spite of terrorizing cities like Chicago

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2h

for over four months I’ve reported as Trump has put troops and federal agents in cities across America. more than ever I’m seeing and hearing from people pushing back — standing up for immigrants, democracy and members of our military who don’t want this.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1h

US Soybean farmer: This is caused by this administration, and it’s having a negative major consequence on not only farmers, but also on American factory workers..."

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 16m

Agreed. The massive Epstein cover up and government shutdown should cause pause for all Americans right now.

WE CAN NOT
COEXIST WITH PEOPLE WHO THINK
RAPING CHILDREN IS ACCEPTABLE.

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 19m

Trump put out this atrocious “projection” memorandum in which his regime and party is the one that is totally guilty of promoting and advocating doxxing.

Everyone must read this because it casts a broad ridiculous swath and makes ALL of us terrorists. And, it will target 🎯 innocent Americans.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 2h

Corruption is at the heart of this regime: Receipts and accountability will take this trifecta governance down. campaignlegal.org/press-releas...

Ethics Watchdogs Demand Investigations into Treasury Secretary Bessent’s Potential Conflicts of Interest and Ethics Violations

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and Democracy Defenders Fund (DDF) today formally requested that the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Of...

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 26m

Good points. When cable TV came along, news was fractured into hundreds of bits… and now with social media, news is now fractured into thousands of pts of light/alt right blogs and paid off social media influencers who generate screen scraped biased content across multiple platforms posing as news.

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Citruchel LLC @citruchel.rip · 41m

A surveillance state is the only way the GOP can enforce their xenophobic, misogynistic, Christo-fascist policies.

You can't outlaw immigrants without surveillance.

You can't outlaw contraceptives and abortions without surveillance.

You can't outlaw #Resistance and #Dissent without surveillance.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 2h

When Trump's masked thugs are detaining & torturing us citizens, Iraqi War Veterans...giving no Constitutional rights before brutalizing & abducting people, you know democracy is in danger.

So do something! Volunteer to help win the upcoming elections, recruit others and march on no Kings Day!
🧵

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 53m

That’s because their loser talking head host has a make-up room in the Pentagon…

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 58m

Why? Why is our government doing this? Why are they turning our country into a Big Brother surveillance state with our own tax dollars? Who benefits?

The Trump regime plans to launch a $500 million counter drone program to support state and local governments as they develop anti-drone security…

Trump administration to launch $500M drone program ahead of World Cup

White House planners have been increasingly focused on securing airspace over stadiums.

www.politico.com

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 1h

The BIG UGLY BILL funneled billions into DHS/ICE against public mandate. This is where Trump’s private army is coming from.

No checks or balances, no Ombudsman & no oversight run by sycophants/autocrats & corrupt former prison co. lobbyists like Homan who want to fill bed quotas & break laws.

Opinion | The Tom Homan Affair Has More Red Flags Than a May Day Parade

www.nytimes.com

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 1h

Great concept. More power to Prof. Rosen.

“I joined up with News Creator Corps by putting two and two together… Allow me to explain.” #journalism

newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...

I joined up with News Creator Corps by putting two and two together… Allow me to explain. - News Creator Corps

The consumers of news and information, the people formerly known as the audience, have gone into the production side.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 1h

This. This is NOT NORMAL folks.

This is McCarthy-era Red Scare stuff right out of Trump’s playbook. His mentor was Roy Cohn.Know the enemy. Trump is ruling our country with an iron-fisted autocratic grip based on fear. It’s dangerous, destructive and will not end well.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 1h

Retail investors still have a voice. They can attend stockholder meetings… they can divest of stocks that wantonly support a fascist regime. And, they can call out the institutional investors and private hedge funds that are manipulating the market and demand investigations.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1h

Sen. DURBIN: Donald Trump deployed the Texas National Guard over the objections of our governors. Republicans, if a Democratic president deployed the Guard to your state over your objections, how would YOU react?

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

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Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 2h

Goldman Sachs Report Blows Up Trump’s Key Tariff Claim. www.thedailybeast.com/goldman-sach...

Goldman Sachs Report Blows Up Trump’s Key Tariff Claim

The administration has claimed foreign countries would one the ones paying for the president’s sweeping tariffs.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 2h

WhoDat has receipts. 🧾

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 2h

Douglas Jackson, a service disabled veteran who was fired from IRS on Fri as part of the mass layoffs has a message for the Trump admin: “I’m an Orlando veteran. I’m not a DC bureaucrat. Either they don’t know who they’re firing, or they just don’t care.”

www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/p...

Tracking the impact of Trump’s shutdown layoffs of federal workers | CNN Politics

Douglas Jackson, a service-disabled veteran, is one of more than 4,000 federal workers laid off as part of the Trump administration’s latest RIFs.

www.cnn.com

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 2h

Corruption is at the heart of this regime: Receipts and accountability will take this trifecta governance down. campaignlegal.org/press-releas...

Ethics Watchdogs Demand Investigations into Treasury Secretary Bessent’s Potential Conflicts of Interest and Ethics Violations

campaignlegal.org

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 2h

Look who missed their deadline to divest of up to $25 million worth of soybean and corn farmland in North Dakota…
www.bankingdive.com/news/bessent...

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Ethics questions cloud Bessent’s assets

The treasury secretary is delayed in complying with a conflict-of-interest agreement to divest certain investments, including farmland. He received an extension and pledged to comply, but that’s not e...

www.bankingdive.com

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 2h

The troika of Bessent, Lutnick and (former FTX advisor) Atkins will all look good in orange jumpsuits.

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 2h

Sad to see all these buy ratings on public healthcare stocks this morning. The jackal buzzards are circling. Watch which GOP reps stand to make a killing on these key stocks based on their private trades prior to today.

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