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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 1h

Learning table manners 🤣

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 3h

A Latina woman in Venezuela won the Nobel Peace Prize. That’s going to grind a certain orange man’s axe 🤩

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 3h

Don’t give me biased sources and expect me to take you seriously.

Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 12h

Most people know that.

Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 18h

We are wide open to hackers. Thanks a lot, GOP federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurit...

The shutdown and CISA lapse expose new cracks in America’s cyber defenses

"What's at risk are confidential communications about commerce and trade deals and what the military is doing," said Mike Hamilton.

federalnewsnetwork.com

Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem claimed they arrested the girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa and through her they would be going after that nefarious terrorist organization. Wouldn’t that make the founder really really old, like WWII old? 🤭

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 1d

So how does US mail end up in an Amazon delivery? Weird abcnews.go.com/amp/US/maine...

Maine officials address election security after 250 ballots found in Amazon delivery

The Maine secretary of state said authorities are investigating the 250 blank election ballots that were found in a resident's Amazon order last week.

abcnews.go.com

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 1d

Trump says “we took the freedom of speech away.”

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 1d

Johnson not allowing troops to get paid thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Johnson, in shift, signals no vote during shutdown for military pay

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday signaled opposition to moving a stand-alone bill to pay military service members during a government shutdown, walking back his Tuesday statement say…

thehill.com

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 2d

Ron Johnson went on FOX News and said “…it’s not the Republicans that are a threat to our democracy, it’s President Obama, it’s President Biden, it’s the radical leftists that have served and support them.” 🤔 🤪

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 2d

That’s the 3rd time I see them randomly pointing guns at people.

Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller claimed the administration has “plenary authority” othen played like he froze on CNN so they played along that they had a glitch. Plenary authority is the full, absolute, and unrestricted power over a particular subject or matter.

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 3d

Can he take JD Vance with him?? www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 3d

Rand Paul voted no on the Republican stopgap measure while John Fetternan voted yes….👀

Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 4d

Why doesn’t the dirty laundry come out until after abusers resign from their posts? www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...

Called a 'ghost employee' by lawmaker, Walters adviser Matt Langston exits state ed agency

A Texas-based longtime adviser of former state Superintendent Ryan Walters also has left his job with the Oklahoma State Department of Education.

www.oklahoman.com

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 5d

Ceiling fan and other things went off momentarily with the power. Looks like a little owl lol #cats #mainecoon

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 6d

🫤 www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...

Defense secretary taps MAGA extremist to push military ‘cultural refresh’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is tapping an unabashed bigot to lead what’s being called a “cultural refresh” of the Department of Defense

www.msnbc.com

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 6d

Doing away with the first amendment one EO at a time www.democracydocket.com/analysis/law...

‘Stakes Are High:’ Big Law Alerts Clients on Trump’s Domestic Terrorism Order

Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

www.democracydocket.com

Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 7d

It kind of looks like the Trump administration thinks causing suffering is a joke. Watch this video, it’s sickening

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 7d

Trump froze $2.1 billion in Chicago transit funding today, starving another Democratic city of funds as the government shutdown entered its third day.
Budget director Vought said the money, used for elevated train lines, had been put on hold to ensure it wasn’t "flowing via race-based contracting."

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 7d

The alien criminal element was sleeping with stuffed bears and binkies. I know those ice agents feared for their lives.

Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 7d

I kind of thought he was a problem right from the start

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 7d

A ballroom nobody wants or needs www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-tacky...

Trump’s Tacky $200 Million Ballroom Is Under Investigation

The House Oversight committee is looking into where the money for Trump’s gaudy “monstrosity” is coming from.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Alexandra C. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 @alexa55.bsky.social · 7d

The escalator right next to them was running lol