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American Oversight @weareoversight.bsky.social · 1d

A third of White House staff will reportedly be furloughed due to the government shutdown but all 49 DOGE employees will be spared.

The public deserves answers about how the shadowy agency operates. We’re investigating.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 1d

About 30% of Federal workers are veterans. Rather than help people pay for their health insurance, Republicans and Donald Trump shut down the government and went on a firing spree that especially hurts those who served.

The Congressional GOP and Donald Trump are anti-veteran.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 10h

Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is one of the key American architects of Trump’s post-Gaza policy. In Aug. 2025, he briefed Trump on the plan he had been working on for several months w/ Tony Blair & Steve Witkoff to shape what the Trump team calls its “day-after” blueprint for Gaza...

Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is one of the key American architects of Trump’s post-Gaza policy. In August 2025, he briefed Trump on the plan he had been working on for several months with Tony Blair and Steve Witkoff to shape what the Trump team calls its “day-after” blueprint for Gaza. It’s worth revisiting how Kushner himself has spoken about the Strip.

At a Harvard Kennedy School event in early 2024, Kushner argued that Israel should “move the people out [of Rafah] and then clean it up,” describing Gaza as “not really a historical precedent” but the product of past wars whose borders could naturally change again. When told that Arab leaders feared Israel would never allow displaced Gazans to return, he replied, “Maybe, but I’m not sure there’s much left of Gaza at this point,” before describing the enclave as “waterfront property” which would be “very valuable.”

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American Oversight @weareoversight.bsky.social · 11h

The DOD Office of Inspector General has reportedly completed its review of Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal for official business.

We filed a FOIA for the OIG’s independent findings. When the stakes are this high, disclosing what happened isn’t optional.
americanoversight.org/american-ove...

American Oversight Seeks Release of Pentagon Inspector General’s Report on Secretary Hegseth’s Signal Use - American Oversight

We filed a FOIA request for the DOD watchdog’s review of auto-deleting messaging app use for official business.

americanoversight.org

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 15h

This is because Trump is LYING

He is telling LIES to provide excuses to injure, terrify, and kill Americans

He is a LIAR

It is all Trump DOES:

He LIES

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14h

A Mainer received an Amazon package containing 250 missing ballots for a GOP-backed referendum that would restrict ballot access. Amazon claims the box contained only the expected items, leading some to ask whether the mishap was a political stunt. https://bit.ly/42DKdwZ

Mail Ballots Were Found in an Amazon Box in Maine. Some Suspect a Political Dirty Trick.

Read more here...

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 15h

Peter Thiel strikes me as a guy who somehow drove himself mad trying to come up with little quips for cocktail parties. If you pay attention to his political statements, they are all oft-repeated anecdotes and observations where the payoff is that he's actually quite clever.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 14h

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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 1d

Bouncing paychecks for uniformed military, even temporarily, is one of the danger zones that national governments shouldn't even play with. The shutdown is not - hasn't ever been - good, but unpaid troops are sort of thing that underlay the problems which we had a little convention in 1787 about.

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Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 21h

This is a truly insane thing to say about 2500 protests happening on the same day in disparate locations across the nation and individual states.

This nation is huge. Most of our states are the size of entire countries. And the military isn't being paid right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 12h

Uh oh, MAGA… Jack Ciattarelli blamed the unvaccinated for COVID’s resurgence:

“I think the medical professionals are perfectly accurate when they say that this epidemic is an epidemic of the unvaccinated.”

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 14h

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Charlotte Crist @touchesky.bsky.social · 16h

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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gl00mbrd.bsky.social @gl00mbrd.bsky.social · 13h

It’s not going to go “MAGA” it’s going to go Pro-Israel. The buyers are all massive right wing Zionists who have admitted that they are going to use it as a tool to propagandize people back to having a positive view of Israel, even Netanyaghoul has said this publicly

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure Russ Vought’s latest mass firings of federal workers will help Republican Winsome Earl-Sears in her race for VA governor in a few weeks.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Trump’s Albert Speer-style German Arch of Triumph now planned for DC.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

What a work schedule. The Republican speaker of the House grinds hard

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

This is absolutely disgusting

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

You’ll never guess who is in charge of the Homeland Security Council….

(Miller. It’s Stephen Miller.)

Jordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: A senior ICE official testified today the WH Homeland Security Council — and not the State Department — informed him Uganda was the deportation target for Abrego Garcia.

DOJ then asserted presidential privilege over any other details about the call. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

DOJ asserts presidential privilege over details about how Uganda was selected in Abrego Garcia deportation case

A senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official said third-country designations are typically made by the State Department.

www.wusa9.com

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 1d

MAGA wake up call. NO ONE is escaping these tariffs. NO ONE.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

CNN reports Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal with Hamas. The eminent pediatrician was detained in Dec. during Israel’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital, after he refused to abandon patients under siege.

Continued below ⬇️

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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