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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 3h

It doesn't cost $10k to drive 190 miles!!
Only costs me a large coffee!
I smell bullshit and fraud 👀

Meet the Senate aide with a $44,000 taxpayer-funded commute

Sen. Roger Marshall’s chief of staff, Brent Robertson, has taken at least 26 trips to Washington from his home in central Virginia.

www.politico.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

WE FOUND THE WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE:

FBI Director Kash Patel used a $60 million government jet for a booty call during the shutdown.

Not the first time. In April, he made multiple trips to Nashville to see his 26-year-old country-singer girlfriend and even flew her around to hockey games.

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 9h

The current homepage of USDA. This is deeply and profoundly fucked up. And illegal. People need to go to jail.

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 2d

As I guessed last week, Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes dropped tonight. After 5+ years of pushing the Overton window Fuentes is no longer untouchable- he’s in the mainstream, on the biggest MAGA platform. Open, unabashed Hitlerism is no longer too far for today’s conservative movement

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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Barb M. @barb1158.bsky.social · 7h

He’s thin k i—-
No, sorry, it’s just a dial tone.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9h

um. you ok?

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD 🐸(🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 10h

"I did not raise my right hand to be used as a pawn and activated against my community." ✊🏾

Capt. Dylan Blaha

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 13h

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

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SiriusXM Urban View @urbanviewradio.bsky.social · 22h

Who profits most from Medicaid? Employers like Walmart and Amazon, many of whose workers rely on the program

@luriedanielfavors.bsky.social #LDFShow

www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Commentary: Who profits most from Medicaid? Employers like Walmart and Amazon, many of whose workers rely on the program

Big employers such as Walmart, Amazon and McDonald's stick taxpayers with the bill for healthcare and food for their employees. The GOP budget will make life harder for those workers.

www.latimes.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11h

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

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Barb M. @barb1158.bsky.social · 7h

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Robert Ellingsworth @by1959.bsky.social · 14h

You're not superior to anybody.

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Barb M. @barb1158.bsky.social · 7h

a man in a kitchen with the words " you heard the man " behind him

ALT: a man in a kitchen with the words " you heard the man " behind him

media.tenor.com

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 19h

Pope Leo XIV has called for “an end to this era of political and moral arrogance.”

Pope Leo: “War Is Never Holy” — Leaders Must Tear Down Walls and End Violence

Pope Leo is done watching self-described Christian leaders praise God with one breath and glorify cruelty with the next.

open.substack.com

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Barb M. @barb1158.bsky.social · 7h

Wow. What a dream maker.
It’ll be so grand.

a man in a suit says " none of us " in front of him

ALT: a man in a suit says " none of us " in front of him

media.tenor.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the 'new model' is factory jobs for life-for you, your kids, and your grandkids
BY EMMA BURLEIGH
May 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM EDT
"This is the new model, where you work in these plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here," U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says.

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Barb M. @barb1158.bsky.social · 7h

Trump couldn’t scratch a pimple on, umm, their areas with a pimple!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 1d

Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

indivisible.org

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Fair Share America @fairshareamerica.bsky.social · 1d

"This is a moment that demands a response. If Dems can’t run on a unified platform that centralizes and prioritizes taxing the ultrawealthy in order to dismantle their stranglehold on our govt, then they need to get out of the way for people who will."

Read more: bit.ly/4ohxXLq

#TaxBillionaires

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Barb M. @barb1158.bsky.social · 7h

Keep trying, Democrats.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 16h

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.

Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 20h

The best thing anyone can do — and this is why the Ontario Reagan ad was so useful — is illustrate to people who chiefly vote for Republicans that the Republican Party no longer shares their values, values that were held by Republicans for a very long time!

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Barb M. @barb1158.bsky.social · 7h

They seem so content in their work.

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