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@pickinandagrinnin.bsky.social

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ISCM professional. Animal, music and book lover. BMW bike addict. Just a girl livin the dream with my wife and our pets in Chicago. ⚠️ Sarcasm is my 2nd language. 🌈 🌊 FFS, do NOT DM me. I have enough friends I ignore in rl.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING:

Jack Smith is requesting that Congress and the Justice Dept. let him testify in public.

In new letters to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Smith says he wants to testify "in open hearings" because of "the many mischaracterizations" around his investigations.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 11d

#A_NewHope ✊

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11d

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12d

I know! Let’s raise tariffs and healthcare costs, too! That should help make things affordable! 🙄

A tweet from Barchart reads: “U.S. Housing Market has reached its most unaffordable level in history” followed by two siren emojis. Below the text is a chart titled “U.S. Home Price History: 1890 to 2025,” showing inflation-adjusted home prices over time. The line graph tracks steady or moderate fluctuations from 1890 through the 1990s, then a steep rise leading to the 2006 housing bubble, a sharp drop afterward, and a dramatic spike again reaching a new peak labeled “2025 Bubble.” The chart indicates that 2025 marks the highest inflation-adjusted home price index in recorded history.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12d

New rule. If Congress doesn’t work, they don’t get paid.

Who thinks that sounds good? ✋

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days.

They have worked 12 days in 3 months.

Epstein Shutdown.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 12d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 12d

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19d

Yes, so embarrassing.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19d

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29d

Trump threatens to permanently cut jobs and people’s health care if a shutdown happens, making it clear only Democrats would actually care — then lies about “fraud/waste/abuse”

Tough to negotiate with people who don’t actually care about the people they’re governing

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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · Sep 26

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 27

Millions of Americans marched against the US invading Iraq under the false pretence of weapons of mass destruction.

How many Americans will march against the US invading itself under the false pretence of domestic terrorism?

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 27

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

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pickinandagrinnin.bsky.social @pickinandagrinnin.bsky.social · Sep 28

She can be comatose… as long as she swears fealty to Dear Leader.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Sep 28

The meritocracy and the media that normalizes it.

David Noll is not an AI--or is he? 👻👻👻 @david.noll.org · Sep 27

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

Ms. Halligan, who took over on Monday after her predecessor quit rather than prosecute James B. Comey with what he believed was insufficient evidence, had a little trouble with the first two tasks. At one point, she entered the wrong courtroom. When she found the right one, she stood on the wrong side of the judge, then appeared confused about the paperwork she just had signed.

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maga-crime-watch.bsky.social @maga-crime-watch.bsky.social · Sep 13

A president is only as good as his or her advisers and staff. The presidency is not a TV reality show, but our current admin has been staffed like it is one. The people in office must do what their director wants or "be fired" & the man at the top is more interested in theater than in real policy.