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Prosecutor Who Rejected Trump’s Pressure to Charge James Is Fired

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 12h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u... More Trump corruption. #LetitiaJames

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 12h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u... No money to extend Obamacare subsidies but $172 million for Kristi Noem’s jets. #KristiNoem

Opinion | Teapot Dome. Watergate. They’re Nothing Compared to This.

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 12h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o... “You can tick off notorious executive branch scandals, but none of them featured this scale of mixing of personal and government interests, much less the sheer accumulation of profit of Mr. Trump’s multibillion-dollar crypto windfall.” #TrumpCorruption

The Shutdown Is Stretching On. Trump Doesn’t Seem to Mind.

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 14h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u... This is a Trump/Republican shutdown. #Shutdown

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 1d

Is there $50,000 in that bag?

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 1d

The Government Is Shut Down. But Not for Fossil Fuels.

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 1d

“as well as population growth and the rise of artificial intelligence applications.
“At the same time the Trump administration has been trying to slow or stop the expansion of renewable energy that could add to the nations electricity supply.”

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/c... “Most experts say that there is no national energy emergency, pointing to record amounts of oil and gas that is being produced in the United States. Electricity demand, however, is on the rise, driven largely by the explosion of data centers,

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h... #Obamacare

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 1d

Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u... #BoycottSalesforce

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 1d

Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force

Santos Is Released After Trump Commutes His Sentence

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u... Yet another reason I attended the No Kings protest today. This is not about justice. This is about rewarding loyalty to Trump. #GeorgeSantos

Live Updates: Former Trump Aide John Bolton Is Said to Be Indicted Over Handling of Classified Information

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 2d

In TWO WEEKS, this show will be scary funny! Advance tickets available here: cur8.com/23871/projec... #EatDrinkLaugh #PangeaNYC #standupcomedy #NewYorkCity

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 3d

“Trump ANNOUNCES a COVERT operation.” That one slipped right by me! #TrumpVenezuela

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 3d

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10... Coming from the guy who kept classified documents in his bathroom, this is a fucking joke. #JohnBolton

Racist and Homophobic Texts From Young Republican Officials Prompt Backlash

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 3d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u... THIS is who Republicans are. #Republicans #Racist #Homophobic

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 3d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u... THIS is how you fight back! First MIT and now Brown. #BrownUniversity

Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump From Firing Government Workers During Shutdown

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 3d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u... “The White House budget office had ‘taken advantage of the Latin government spending and government functioning to assume that all bets are off that the laws don’t apply to them anymore and they can impose the structures that they like.’” #Shutdown #Layoffs

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 3d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u... Along with Trump’s elimination of DEI and the Supreme Court possibly overturning the Voting Rights Act, this is basically legalized discrimination. #TrumpRefugeePolicy

Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Key Provision of Voting Rights Act

Paul Hallasy @paulhallasy.bsky.social · 3d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u... Maybe they’ll bring back slavery, too. #SupremeCourt #VotingRightsAct