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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 7m

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

We should mandate a work requirement for House Republicans to get their health care. How about they have to work at least one week a month to keep their government health insurance?

🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 11m

This is not sustainable.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

The economy is increasingly reliant on the wealthiest 10%.

(via MS) @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 17m

Let me remind everyone Larry Kudlow was on CNBC every day telling you the George W. Bush economy was "Goldilocks." The market kept going up until it was revealed everyone was over leveraged and Bear Stearns went out of business. Everyone suffered, regardless. Warren Buffet had to bail out the govt.

🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 21m

This should not be taken lightly.

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 3h

CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin Is ‘Anxious’ Wall Street Is ‘Reliving’ 1929 Market Crash Under Trump

CNBC star Andrew Ross Sorkin told 60 Minutes that he is "anxious" Wall Street is racing towards a stock market crash like the one that rocked investors in 1929 The post CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin Is ‘Anxious’ Wall Street Is ‘Reliving’ 1929 Market Crash Under Trump first appeared on Mediaite.

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 41m

Let me just say that I don't drink anymore. I don't drink any less, either.

Thank you! I'll be here all week and don't forget to tip your server!

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 21h

Spreadsheets? Dude, that is all they are going to do. CPA's are dead now.

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 21h

His only fault was marrying Don Jr's ex-girlfriend. We all make mistakes. At least, she's in exile in Greece. Yet, to be confirmed for her ambassadorship. 😂

🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 21h

IDK, maybe. I just think schools see kids with autism break downs as overall failures, regardless of color. That was my experience. We are woefully unprepared to help children on the spectrum. I had to drive more than 200 miles every week to get therapy.

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 21h

In case you were wondering all the inflatable frog costumes are sold out. 😂

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 22h

The AG was included by George Washington because he wanted a trusted attorney to advise all cabinet members. It feels like we are far, far away from that.

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 22h

For those who like charts. This is from the last Great Republican Recession. See the correlation here? I guess CNBC doesn't. *shrugs*

🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 22h

Oh, the Farm Bureau that funds every R candidate in every state? The Farm Bureau that refuses to let Democratic candidates speak to their members during election years? Yeah, that Farm Bureau. F 'em

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 22h

Nice, timely reaction, NYT's. Didn't this happen like a couple a weeks ago? I believe a next day response would have been more appropriate, but you do your journalism, and I'll do mine. Cowards.

🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 22h

Clearly, this is an incentive for "Drill, baby Drill." Exxon Mobile, the president is on the phone and wants you to invest billions in extracting oil on public land, but the selling price is only going to be $2 a barrel. Deal? 😂

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 22h

This man is an actual surgeon. Yes, he is very thirsty, but we knew that when he started his own grifter TV show. BTW, I still thank Oprah owes us all an apology for that, too. He's still hasn't made enough coin, so he is literally giving to credence to math he knows is incorrect, in public.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 22h

His stock is nearing the 52 week low so got to make some headlines. Did he not give enough $$ to Trump? 😂 I laugh, but I am serious. Maybe he didn't so he has to make a public splash.

🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 22h

This can't be America. It's not the one I was proud of, or the one my father and husband served in the military. This is not what they joined up for.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 22h

This is believe. Congress has become "ceremonial." Only YOU have to make this end in 2026, if we get to vote. We need to flood the streets with protests until then. You know, like communist and the 3rd world countries have to do. Unbelievable I'm even typed that sentence.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 23h

And the national media never pushes back on this? I mean c'mon...why do they even give any creedence to these lies? There is no credible explanation for this at all.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 23h

I've seen him a lot on your air over the years to know he's a complete ass. You don't make $ in the market without recognizing an asshole when you see one.

🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 23h

Oh....

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects.

In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill.

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 23h

She hasn't changed. She's just big mad because Trump wouldn't let her run for the U.S. Senate in GA. She's still an opportunistic bitch, but she's seen the writing on the wall so she's crafted a new message to keep her job. It would be refreshing if every day wasn't a Realty Show, but here we are.

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 23h

Not without license plates.

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 23h

Wait, what? Is this even legal?

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE spent $800K on vans with stingray tech that collects data from all nearby phones, even yours. These devices mimic cell towers to track locations and intercept communications. Oversight and transparency are needed now.

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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social · 23h

I hope every No Kings event next weekend employs the same characters.

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