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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 9h

Hegseth telling DFAS to just move money from savings to the checking account

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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“Hey man did you get QA to sign off?” Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 12h

Because of how complex defense accounting is and how the money crosses different years and programs, DFAS is set up specifically to draw at those dates from those programs. You can't just create $15b dollars, you need to allocate it across a bunch of different areas and subsequently pull from/

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11h

lol okay russ

this is going to be incredible and the likelihood a bunch of people not only do big boy crimes but irrevocably Break Something continues to increase

Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 11h

apnews.com/article/trum... OMB says the money for the troops is going to be covered by R&D but we’re back at how does DFAS color that money (like legally how does it use that pot) and distribute it properly over a holiday weekend to meet a Wednesday suspense.

Trump directs the Pentagon to use 'all available funds' to ensure troops are paid despite shutdown

President Donald Trump says he's directed the Defense Department to use “all available funds” to ensure that U.S. troops are paid on Wednesday despite the government shutdown.

apnews.com

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 11h

It doesn’t sound like they’re going to be able to pull this off without catastrophic consequences. We’re just in full on coyote time right now

a coyote holding a sign that says " that 's all folks "

ALT: a coyote holding a sign that says " that 's all folks "

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 1d

Live look at tariff otaku

a man is peeking out of a door and smiling with the words `` here 's johnny '' .

ALT: a man is peeking out of a door and smiling with the words `` here 's johnny '' .

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 1d

A bunch of room temperature IQ swing voters are waking up to the reality that Trump never intended to make it 2019 again, and they’re about to be really Angry.

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile a bunch of scheming viziers are running around trying to advance their own interests while the country burns down around them

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 1d

It really feels like things are coming to a head, doesn’t it? God emperor Trump is visibly in decline, the gov is shutdown indefinitely, troops aren’t getting paid, ICE is increasing its brutality, groceries are through the roof, and everyone’s health insurance is about to go up.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

They are going to lose control of the country. They have the debased billionaire class, they have a small army of violent bigots. But they don’t have most Americans. They absolutely don’t have enough guys and they know it

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2d

ARE YOU HABEAS CORPUS?

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Tim Graham @timgrahamart.bsky.social · 2d

You’re not allowed to yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater, but apparently you are allowed to invent phantom threats as a pretext for state violence.

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 3d

It’s so refreshing to hear someone state it plainly. The president has pudding for brains! Many people are saying!!

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3d

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” said @govpritzker.illinois.gov. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head … He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

Democratic governor’s comments came as he continues to oppose President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago area for deportation efforts.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3d

Ideally you don't have to keep asking if the President even knows he's lying.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 3d

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans standing in line at Voodoo Doughnut in the middle of a “bombed out city”

a young boy in a yellow shirt is standing next to a woman and holding a cup .

ALT: a young boy in a yellow shirt is standing next to a woman and holding a cup .

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 3d

The nation is ours, and the Nazis know this, and they don't even exactly want to take it from us, they just want to destroy it

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3d

this is not to say that they’re going away any time soon or that things won’t get worse before they get better, but last week felt like the administration started coming unglued and this week feels like the unraveling is speeding up

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Jess @georgiajess.bsky.social · 3d

“Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 3d

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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