@biggivenotbiggov.bsky.social
Make charitable donations a tax credit, instead of a deduction, and let volunteer work count.
Pinned
Whether you believe that govt can and should be more and better, or as RWL might've that Trump's govt is its base nature laid bare; you must see that Trump's govt is no govt but is " a man or a few men with power over many."
He / they are using that power to make America an abject kleptocracy.
He / they are using that power to make America an abject kleptocracy.
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Bear 🦮
Adult male Alaskan Malamute mix
Adoptable from Yakima Humane Society (Yakima, WA)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bear-79308658/wa/yakima/yakima-humane-society-wa65/
Adult male Alaskan Malamute mix
Adoptable from Yakima Humane Society (Yakima, WA)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bear-79308658/wa/yakima/yakima-humane-society-wa65/
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Bear 🦮
Adult male Alaskan Malamute mix
Adoptable from Yakima Humane Society (Yakima, WA)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bear-79308658/wa/yakima/yakima-humane-society-wa65/
Adult male Alaskan Malamute mix
Adoptable from Yakima Humane Society (Yakima, WA)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bear-79308658/wa/yakima/yakima-humane-society-wa65/
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
~ Charles de Montesquieu
~ Charles de Montesquieu
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
~ Charles de Montesquieu
~ Charles de Montesquieu
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"The Jones Act: A century-old anchor dragging Alaska’s economy under water" www.adn.com/opinions/202...
Opinion: The Jones Act: A century-old anchor dragging Alaska’s economy under water
The Tustumena replacement’s ballooning price tag shows how the Jones Act’s U.S.-build mandate bleeds coastal Alaska and delays relief.
www.adn.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"The Jones Act: A century-old anchor dragging Alaska’s economy under water" www.adn.com/opinions/202...
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New @nberpubs: "Then and Now: A Look Back and Ahead at the Federal Budget" www.nber.org/papers/w34455
"the debt-GDP ratio will rise to 183% in 2054 under the OBBBA as legislated and to 199% if the temporary tax and spending provisions are made permanent" 😲
"the debt-GDP ratio will rise to 183% in 2054 under the OBBBA as legislated and to 199% if the temporary tax and spending provisions are made permanent" 😲
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
New @nberpubs: "Then and Now: A Look Back and Ahead at the Federal Budget" www.nber.org/papers/w34455
"the debt-GDP ratio will rise to 183% in 2054 under the OBBBA as legislated and to 199% if the temporary tax and spending provisions are made permanent" 😲
"the debt-GDP ratio will rise to 183% in 2054 under the OBBBA as legislated and to 199% if the temporary tax and spending provisions are made permanent" 😲
You know your country is dying when you have to make a distinction between what is moral and ethical, and what is legal.
~ John De Armond
~ John De Armond
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
You know your country is dying when you have to make a distinction between what is moral and ethical, and what is legal.
~ John De Armond
~ John De Armond
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J R 🐕
Adult male Jack Russell Terrier
Adoptable from Montgomery County SPCA (Amsterdam, NY)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/j-dot-r-79306513/ny/amsterdam/montgomery-county-spca-ny203/
Adult male Jack Russell Terrier
Adoptable from Montgomery County SPCA (Amsterdam, NY)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/j-dot-r-79306513/ny/amsterdam/montgomery-county-spca-ny203/
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
J R 🐕
Adult male Jack Russell Terrier
Adoptable from Montgomery County SPCA (Amsterdam, NY)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/j-dot-r-79306513/ny/amsterdam/montgomery-county-spca-ny203/
Adult male Jack Russell Terrier
Adoptable from Montgomery County SPCA (Amsterdam, NY)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/j-dot-r-79306513/ny/amsterdam/montgomery-county-spca-ny203/
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Celeste 🦮
Baby female Mixed Breed
Adoptable from Hood River Adopt A Dog (Hood River, OR)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/celeste-79306975/or/hood-river/hood-river-adopt-a-dog-or209/
Baby female Mixed Breed
Adoptable from Hood River Adopt A Dog (Hood River, OR)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/celeste-79306975/or/hood-river/hood-river-adopt-a-dog-or209/
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Celeste 🦮
Baby female Mixed Breed
Adoptable from Hood River Adopt A Dog (Hood River, OR)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/celeste-79306975/or/hood-river/hood-river-adopt-a-dog-or209/
Baby female Mixed Breed
Adoptable from Hood River Adopt A Dog (Hood River, OR)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/celeste-79306975/or/hood-river/hood-river-adopt-a-dog-or209/
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The president is a child molester.
Release the Epstein files and let's be done with him.
Release the Epstein files and let's be done with him.
Epstein Files: Political Roadblocks And Financial Cover Ups: The Fight For Full Disclosure
Political roadblocks and financial cover ups in the fight for full disclosure of the Epstein files
www.forbes.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The president is a child molester.
Release the Epstein files and let's be done with him.
Release the Epstein files and let's be done with him.
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A baby gasping for air. A mother screaming. A DHS agent laughing from a black SUV. 💔 #DHS #TrumpAmerica #Cicero
Tears in the Backseat: Baby Pepper-Sprayed as Trump’s DHS Turns Grocery Lot into a War Zone
The Veraza family thought it would be an ordinary Saturday — a quick grocery run, diapers and milk, maybe a stop for ice cream on the way home. But within minutes, their world descended into chaos,…
allchronology.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A baby gasping for air. A mother screaming. A DHS agent laughing from a black SUV. 💔 #DHS #TrumpAmerica #Cicero
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POLITICO: “.. Among those who received the ‘full, complete and unconditional’ pardons were Rudy Giuliani .. Mark Meadows, .. John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro, .. Boris Epshteyn .. and Sidney Powell ..”
@politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
@politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
POLITICO: “.. Among those who received the ‘full, complete and unconditional’ pardons were Rudy Giuliani .. Mark Meadows, .. John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro, .. Boris Epshteyn .. and Sidney Powell ..”
@politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
@politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.”
@bloomberg.com $HD
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@bloomberg.com $HD
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.”
@bloomberg.com $HD
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@bloomberg.com $HD
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
A man and an administration devoid of humanity.
reason.com/2025/11/10/d...
"Don't Send Cubans and Venezuelans Back To Suffer Under Communism
Despite Trump promising to stand "with the good people of Cuba and Venezuela," his administration has fast-tracked deportations for victims of communism."
reason.com/2025/11/10/d...
"Don't Send Cubans and Venezuelans Back To Suffer Under Communism
Despite Trump promising to stand "with the good people of Cuba and Venezuela," his administration has fast-tracked deportations for victims of communism."
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A man and an administration devoid of humanity.
reason.com/2025/11/10/d...
"Don't Send Cubans and Venezuelans Back To Suffer Under Communism
Despite Trump promising to stand "with the good people of Cuba and Venezuela," his administration has fast-tracked deportations for victims of communism."
reason.com/2025/11/10/d...
"Don't Send Cubans and Venezuelans Back To Suffer Under Communism
Despite Trump promising to stand "with the good people of Cuba and Venezuela," his administration has fast-tracked deportations for victims of communism."
Liar, moron, both?
"Trump Seems Very Confused About 'Affordability'
The president says the affordability crisis is over, but he's also promising huge government checks. And he doesn't know how much gas costs."
reason.com/2025/11/10/t...
"Trump Seems Very Confused About 'Affordability'
The president says the affordability crisis is over, but he's also promising huge government checks. And he doesn't know how much gas costs."
reason.com/2025/11/10/t...
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Liar, moron, both?
"Trump Seems Very Confused About 'Affordability'
The president says the affordability crisis is over, but he's also promising huge government checks. And he doesn't know how much gas costs."
reason.com/2025/11/10/t...
"Trump Seems Very Confused About 'Affordability'
The president says the affordability crisis is over, but he's also promising huge government checks. And he doesn't know how much gas costs."
reason.com/2025/11/10/t...
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Hickory 🦮
Young male Husky mix
Adoptable from Salem Dogs (Salem, OR)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/hickory-79302423/or/salem/salem-dogs-or299/
Young male Husky mix
Adoptable from Salem Dogs (Salem, OR)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/hickory-79302423/or/salem/salem-dogs-or299/
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hickory 🦮
Young male Husky mix
Adoptable from Salem Dogs (Salem, OR)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/hickory-79302423/or/salem/salem-dogs-or299/
Young male Husky mix
Adoptable from Salem Dogs (Salem, OR)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/hickory-79302423/or/salem/salem-dogs-or299/
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Trump has threatened to bomb or invade 7 countries with a shot to play in the 2026 World Cup. He *has* bombed one (Iran) and said he'd deny them visas. He's preparing for war with another (Venezuela). He has summarily executed citizens from at least 3. He has imposed tariffs on nearly all of them.
FIFA head says 'you will see' at World Cup draw if Trump receives new peace prize
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Trump has threatened to bomb or invade 7 countries with a shot to play in the 2026 World Cup. He *has* bombed one (Iran) and said he'd deny them visas. He's preparing for war with another (Venezuela). He has summarily executed citizens from at least 3. He has imposed tariffs on nearly all of them.
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The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
...
And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
...
He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
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In Washington today, the word "emergency" is a magic key; it unlocks powers Congress never granted, suspends the discipline of regular order and decorates bloated bills with provisions too dubious to pass on their own.
'Emergency' has become Washington’s favorite loophole. It’s costing taxpayers $15 trillion.
What was once meant to be a narrow exception for genuine crises has become a routine pretext for government overreach.
reason.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
In Washington today, the word "emergency" is a magic key; it unlocks powers Congress never granted, suspends the discipline of regular order and decorates bloated bills with provisions too dubious to pass on their own.
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I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
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He said: "Prices are down under Trump.'
Me: "It is quite literally false. There's not a single way you can interpret a word that the man's saying..as being remotely reflective of either what we're seeing in data from all across the country or in people's everyday lives."
Me: "It is quite literally false. There's not a single way you can interpret a word that the man's saying..as being remotely reflective of either what we're seeing in data from all across the country or in people's everyday lives."
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
He said: "Prices are down under Trump.'
Me: "It is quite literally false. There's not a single way you can interpret a word that the man's saying..as being remotely reflective of either what we're seeing in data from all across the country or in people's everyday lives."
Me: "It is quite literally false. There's not a single way you can interpret a word that the man's saying..as being remotely reflective of either what we're seeing in data from all across the country or in people's everyday lives."
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
~ Edmund Burke
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
~ Edmund Burke
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
~ Edmund Burke
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
~ Edmund Burke
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Bear - Local Foster!!! 🐾
Young male German Shepherd Dog mix
Adoptable from PAWS New England (Princeton, MA)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bear-local-foster-79301479/ma/princeton/paws-new-england-ri77/
Young male German Shepherd Dog mix
Adoptable from PAWS New England (Princeton, MA)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bear-local-foster-79301479/ma/princeton/paws-new-england-ri77/
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Bear - Local Foster!!! 🐾
Young male German Shepherd Dog mix
Adoptable from PAWS New England (Princeton, MA)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bear-local-foster-79301479/ma/princeton/paws-new-england-ri77/
Young male German Shepherd Dog mix
Adoptable from PAWS New England (Princeton, MA)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bear-local-foster-79301479/ma/princeton/paws-new-england-ri77/
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Baby Dino 🐶
Baby male Carolina Dog mix
Adoptable from Amazing Dogs (Carlsbad, CA)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/baby-dino-79301562/az/phoenix/amazing-dogs-ca2932/
Baby male Carolina Dog mix
Adoptable from Amazing Dogs (Carlsbad, CA)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/baby-dino-79301562/az/phoenix/amazing-dogs-ca2932/
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Baby Dino 🐶
Baby male Carolina Dog mix
Adoptable from Amazing Dogs (Carlsbad, CA)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/baby-dino-79301562/az/phoenix/amazing-dogs-ca2932/
Baby male Carolina Dog mix
Adoptable from Amazing Dogs (Carlsbad, CA)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/baby-dino-79301562/az/phoenix/amazing-dogs-ca2932/
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot -- because the first leads inevitably to the second.
~ Harry Browne
~ Harry Browne
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot -- because the first leads inevitably to the second.
~ Harry Browne
~ Harry Browne
