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lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · 19h

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'Turn the rhetoric down:' House Speaker Johnson calls for peace after Trump shooting

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lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · 23h

There is no mention of the results of cognitive tests.

lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · 2d

This is literally using a pastor’s head for target practice.

lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · 5d

This must be where the executive branch is trying to activate the National Guard to protect the judge’s life, family, and home from attacks forewarned by threats that area local, state and federal law enforcement are able to prevent.

lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · 8d

What is interesting about Leavitt’s interview with NPR today is that the staff reviewing the New York City grants has been deemed unessential. Does that mean that the red state grants are also being withheld pending review, or that the staff reviewing those grants has been deemed essential?

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lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · 10d

Trump and the majorities in the House and Senate are Republican with the power and responsibility to govern this country. Republican congressmen refuse to negotiate which is part of their jobs and leave their jobs at a critical time just like striking workers who obey their union boss.

lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · 11d

Developing Sun Phenomena in southeastern CT

lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · 15d

It would be interesting if lying during legislative hearings by other appointees and nominees of the Trump administrations was prosecuted in the same way.

lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · 23d

If there is less and less interesting and entertaining content on CBS, ABC, Paramount, and Disney, there’s less and less reason to watch. These companies are abandoning their viewers for mergers. If they continue to throw away viewers, their companies will fail.

lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · 27d

Why would anyone want to prevent US citizens who disagreed with the current President from leaving the country? Wouldn’t it make more sense to encourage them to leave?

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lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · Sep 5

Does he mean that only unemployed Republicans should be counted in the labor statistics?

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lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · Sep 4

Why is the anti-vaccinating policy that will increase child mortality also supported by those who want to increase the birthrate? If the goal is increasing the population, this isn’t an effective way to achieve it. It will lead to population decline and heartbreak from preventable deaths.

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lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · Sep 4

Now that Florida moves to no longer require vaccines for school children it puts its whole population, the lives of its visitors, and the lives of people who even briefly are in a space once occupied by one of its infectious residents at risk.
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lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · Aug 22

Could the increase in
Republican registrants be linked to concerns about safety? With the demands by the executive branch to the states to force sharing of in-depth
data on individual voters, being listed as a Republican may give a bit of protection against executive branch actions.

lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · Aug 13

What do you know? He has finally called out the National Guard!

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lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · Jul 22

Can they be docked if they leave work early?

lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · Jul 22

What would happen if the rest of the journalists refused to attend?

lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · Jul 20

She’ll have made them sign no-consent agreements so that they can’t say anything about what they found about Trump. If that doesn’t work, she’ll fire them. If they say something, Trump will also sue them for defamation, and both will claim that they are just disgruntled, revengeful former agents.

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lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · Jul 18

Trump will string Paramount along for four years saying he’ll approve the deal if only Paramount does one more thing for him. Paramount will voluntarily strip away CBS independence hoping for a deal until it parrots Trump. With nothing left to lure Trump, Paramount will not be able to get the deal.

lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · Jul 9

I am surprised that she didn’t include the fired federal workers, too.

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lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · Jul 2

What blarney from Murowski—counting on others to do what she doesn’t have the gumption to do! What is even sadder is that now that she has voted for Trump’s budget, he’ll impound the Alaskan funding if she doesn’t do whatever he wants in the future, and Thune and her GOP colleagues will let him.

lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · Jun 30

Would it be possible for governors to activate the National Guard to protect people going to and from their hearings? It seems that ICE standard procedures are to hide agents identities and seize people without judicial warrants. Armed escorts could discourage these tactics.

lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · Jun 19

The quotation does not seem to indicate who is responsible for the assaults. Could the statistics be based on assaults done by ICE? In that case the 400+% increase could be accurate.

lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · Jun 13

If a high ranking government official and staff are staging an appearance in a US
state where they are answering questions about their actions, they should be able to identify the two people who are US senators of that state. Noem’s & staff lack of prep and inability to hear has lead to this mess.

lj200.bsky.social @lj200.bsky.social · Jun 9

Impoundment is taxation without representation as the President is ignoring how Congressional representatives in the House and
Senate voted to allocate funds.