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debrazena.bsky.social @debrazena.bsky.social · 11m

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LindaFly @lindafly.bsky.social · 1d

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h

We've all heard that there is no free lunch.

Well, guess what?

There is no free 747 either.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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debrazena.bsky.social @debrazena.bsky.social · 15h

Luv it & thank you!

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debrazena.bsky.social @debrazena.bsky.social · 15h

#govjb

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18h

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 1d

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debrazena.bsky.social @debrazena.bsky.social · 15h

#chicago

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 2d

After 30 years of publication, the U.S. Department of Agriculture abruptly canceled its annual report on the prevalence of hunger in America. The USDA’s press release condemned the report as “politicized,” “subjective, liberal fodder” that did “nothing more than fear monger.”

An American Hunger Crisis Is Coming

Trump’s cruel and disastrous policies—slashing food stamps and hiking inflationary tariffs—are creating an American hunger crisis.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 3d

If only someone could have predicted this

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Soybean Farmer: So now I've got a tariff war that's killing my market. I don't have any money from grain we're sending to other countries for USAID. I mean, I've got a compound problem. I don't know how you plan for next year because we don't know where we're at.

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 2d

📌 The tide is slowly shifting
Souls are fighting back ⤵️🐥

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 2d

Pam Bondi is going to see in the end that her alliance with Trump is going to cost her everything. All of these loyalists never come out on top when it’s all said and done.🤷🏾‍♀️

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

SCHIFF: Was it true when the White House press secretary denied that Homan took the money?

BONDI: I was not in office, I was not confirmed, when that was handled

SCHIFF: Did he take the money?

BONDI: That happened prior to my confirmation