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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4h

Esmeralda 7 was all set to receive its final approvals in July and even got a rare procedural win from the Trump admin in its early days

Then came Trump’s permitting freeze, which was a condition for passing his tax megabill

Now 6.2 gigawatts of new solar — unfathomable to me — may be no longer

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 1h

This headline 🫣

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 5h

In the middle of a government shutdown—while millions of Americans face down dramatic increases in their health care premiums—the Senate just voted to send another $900 BILLION to our already bloated pentagon budget. Disgusting.

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 3h

Who’s running the master spreadsheet on all the corruption that needs to be followed up on in better times?

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4h

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7h

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 4h

Oh! 😂😂😂

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 4h

Hee hee. 👁️👁️

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 4h

Not sure what shade of bruise that is but typically we put eye shadow above the eye. 😉

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 4h

We stand with you Portland war zone 💅🍩💃🏻🕺🥁🐸

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 4h

Here she is in all her crazy. There were other articles from actual news sources but this one is funnier due to her lousy makeup job. You’ll see what I mean.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Reporter lashes out at police for not helping when protester attacked

A reporter who was allegedly attacked by a savage protester outside a Portland ICE facility lashed out at the liberal city's police force for failing to help her.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 4h

Oh. I think this is the person who was with that known MAGA agitator in Portland.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 5h

After Pritzker and Newsom threatened to leave the NGA, the Republican Chair breaks with Trump. Pressure works. Keep it up!

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 14h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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frankriveramar1.bsky.social @frankriveramar1.bsky.social · 5h

Bail out of authoritarian regimes is his first priority…farmers can wait. Health care can be cut, kids can go hungry.

Who will bail out USA after he destroys our own economy?

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5h

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 5h

ANTIFA:

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

I’m sure this is fine. abcnews.go.com/US/dominion-...

Dominion Voting Systems sold to company run by former Republican election official

Dominion Voting Systems, which sued Fox over its reporting on the 2020 election, has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former GOP election official.

abcnews.go.com

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 9h

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11h

Indicting your political enemies because they’re your enemies, not because they’ve committed crimes, is unAmerican.

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 11h

Domestic terrorism targeting non-white people = #KavanaughStop

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 11h

I gonna need Lindsey Halligan to lose her license to practice law at the first opportunity.

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 11h

The cross necklace is a nice touch. 🤭

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

BlackRock is seeking to buy Aligned Data Centers, a data center construction company.

It’s also going to buy AES, one of the major power providers for Big Tech data centers.

While these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

www.foxnews.com

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