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Christopher Mootham

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Sacramento, CA I am a progressive liberal, yet fiscally conservative. That means that corporations need to be taken off the dole. Welcome to the Blue Skies from the Apocalyptic Twitter Universe! Absolutely no DMs! DM = Instant Block 💙😆😇

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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 15d

THIS IS A FULL, UNREDACTED COPY/LINK OF TRUMPS & VANCES EVIL PROJECT 2025 MANIFESTO : www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
2025's "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise"

Project 2025's

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 19h

This was me in August 2018, running for Congress.

I was right back then, and I am still right.

Maybe the GOP jacking up health care premiums to astronomical numbers will open people’s eyes.

Medicare for all is the only rational and morally decent health care policy.

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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 3h

Indicting People Who Lied to Congress Would Overcrowd Prisons
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Indicting People Who Lied to Congress Would Overcrowd Prisons, Experts Warn

The result would be mass incarceration on an unprecedented scale.

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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 3h

Russ Vought Is Going to Damage Trump Even More Than Elon Musk Did newrepublic.com/article/2014... via @newrepublic.com

Russ Vought Is Going to Damage Trump Even More Than Elon Musk Did

Americans, and even many Republicans in Congress, don’t like it when an unelected bureaucrat makes huge cuts to the government.

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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 3h

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810K views · 39K reactions | STACK OF DOCUMENTS ABOUT MAR-A-LARGO! | VoteBlue

STACK OF DOCUMENTS ABOUT MAR-A-LARGO!.

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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 3h

Who Will Trump Indict Next, and How Will This Madness End?
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Who Will Trump Indict Next, and How Will This Madness End?

Donald Trump is going down his personal "Kill Bill" list and attempting to silence and punish all his enemies, but no authoritarian overreach can distract from his glaring weakness: The Epstein Files.

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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 4h

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How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries?

All generative AI queries could hit 329 billion per day by 2030. See the big picture on AI's energy use, and how it's reshaping our world.

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BIG D GRANDROYAL @bigdgrandroyal.bsky.social · 6h

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8h

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 7h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5h

ICE GOONS from the Terminal Island Facility forcefully restrained an observer, documenting the incident.

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 6h

Reminder that this baseless indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James is part of Donald Trump’s corrupt weaponization of the criminal justice system against anyone who has sought to hold him accountable.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 6h

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The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security

YouTube video by ProPublica

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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 6h

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Netherlands: Half a million bees killed in Dutch arson attack

Police investigate after 10 beehives were burned down in a park in the central city of Almere.

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William @william80.bsky.social · 10h

But, do you think that educating will help many of the MAGA sheep

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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 6h

Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire
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Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire

On April 6, 2024, a procession of Range Rovers, Aston Martins, and Bentleys rolled up to the Palm Beach mansion of billionaire John Paulson. The occasion was a glitzy fundraiser for Donald Trump’s pre...

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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 6h

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Hakeem Jeffries Outright Accuses House Republicans of Working To ‘Cover Up for the Pedophiles’

Hakeem Jeffries claimed that congressional Republicans are covering up for "pedophiles" by continuing to block a measure seeking to force the release of government files relating to Jeffrey Epstein.

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Son of Eric @spiritof44.bsky.social · 22h

REPORTER: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA: "Suspending who?"

REPORTER: Habeas corpus?