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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 19h

Isn’t this the guy that has like several billion in a Roth IRA? And he’s worried about “hiding” his money?

Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 1d

I’m starting to think the plan now is to just keep the government shut. If the pay does go out on the 15th, he’s proven congress is vestigial. They’ll operate under an unchallenged assumption that Treasury can send money to wherever Trump deems necessary. I have a very bad feeling about this.

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 1d

Retiring

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 1d

He’ll just grab some cash from the tariff shelf. /s

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 1d

It’s well past time for mainstream news outlets to start calling out this absolute nonsense BS. What he’s saying is easily debunked!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 2d

Pretty clear the market was just waiting for a trigger. The selloff today is way bigger than just a tariff dump.

Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 2d

Are they gonna get rid of any/all thin blue line flags too?

Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 2d

Right in line with what you’d expect from someone elevated to leadership of a large and complex organization who has never managed more than a small team.

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 2d

Wondering what the Venn diagram of the “Bernie was robbed!” folks and the “Janet Mills should stay out of the Senate race!” folks looks like.

There’s a primary! This is how it’s supposed to work!

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 2d

So so so so fucking tired of governance by tweet.

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 2d

I wasn’t sure if my schedule was going to be workable to attend our local gathering on the 18th, but now I’m doubly incentivized to figure out how to make it happen.

Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 2d

With the run-up in the market that’s happened lately, I guess Trump needed to create a buying opportunity for his cronies.

Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 2d

Because Obama got one.

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 3d

If the Jays go all the way and win the World Series, the MAGA meltdown is going to be insane. Putting a marker down now that at least a few in that camp will call for rules changes to eliminate non-US teams.

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 4d

So much same.

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 4d

Good on ya, Chuck. Keep it up, and go harder. You’re on the right track for a change.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 4d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 5d

Oh my. I really hope that’s not an AI-generated or modified photo. If it’s real, I don’t know how any of those troops genuinely passed an ACFT. And I don’t say that as an attempt to shame them.

Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 5d

I would very much like to see every Democratic governor send a similar letter.

Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 5d

Newsom says he’s on the verge of quitting the National Govs Association: “should not be difficult … regardless of partisan affiliation, to agree that politicizing our states’ Natl Guard and deploying… over the objections of the home-state Governor,harms the interests of states”

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 6d

Beautiful fall afternoon in the PNW. Great view of Mt. Baker across the Sound and beyond Whidbey. Taken from Ft. Flagler State Park, one of my favorite Olympic Peninsula spots.

A view of snow-capped Mount Baker in the distance, with clear blue sky above, blue Puget Sound in the mid-distance, the Marrowstone Point Lighthouse buildings on the left, and some evergreen trees in the immediate foreground.

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 7d

He’s incapable of understanding that his escalating screeching is in no way strengthening his case.

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 7d

lol, no, it’s not. Illegal is illegal. He can try, and he might succeed, but parsing “can he do it” is not helpful. It’s fucking illegal, and media needs to say that rather than mush-mouthing the lede.

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 7d

No, it’s not unclear. It’s illegal. Lack of enforcement does not change the fact that there is a law that prohibits it.

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 7d

This is good news. Even a Trump appointee can clearly see the egregious overreach and flouting of laws.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 8d

JFC dude…”it’s not clear”? What isn’t clear about the fact that a law exists that specifically prohibits living individuals from being represented on currency? Why are you unable to just say that without the equivocation?

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Chris Halstead @c20d.us · 9d

I can’t get over how pathetic this whole crew is. A whole gaggle of deeply insecure and emotionally stunted losers that are utterly unable to comprehend the notion of selfless service or governance for collective benefit.

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