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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Portland family detained at border facility for 2 weeks in apparent violation of immigration policy

Kenia Jackeline Merlos, her 9-year-old triplets and 7-year-old son have been detained since late June.

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 14

Specifically, the CBO estimates that income for the bottom 10% of households would fall by 2% in 2027 and by 4% in 2033 as a result of the bill's changes.

Noted: All tax cuts, excluding the permanent cuts for the rich, is starting in 2026 December end ending in 2028!

Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 14

but gives permanent tax cuts for their rich donors and big corporations and also estate exemptions for the rich.

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the bill would reduce income for the poorest 10% of U.S. households.

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 14

With passing this "Big Beautiful Bill" and forbidding the courts to control Trump, they're elevated him above the law!

Why don't you tell the truth that the bill cuts funds for Medicare (approx. $500 billion), Medicaid (approx. $1 trillion!), ACA, and SNAP

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 14

- Temporarily make overtime compensation deductible for the premium portion of overtime for tax years 2025 through 2028, excluding highly compensated employees and qualified tips.

- Temporarily increases the child tax credit to $2,500 per child for tax years 2025 through 2028.

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 14

- Temporarily increase the additional standard deduction for seniors by $4,000 for people making a gross income of $75,000 for a single person and $150,000 for a married couple, for tax years 2025 through 2028.

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 14

- Temporarily make tip income deductible for tax years 2025 through 2028.

- Temporarily make auto loan interest deductible for for autos with final assembly in the United States for tax years 2025 through 2028; deduction limited to $10,000 and phases out.

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 14

Why don't you tell the truth that...
ALL TAX CUTS FOR THE PEOPLE ARE TEMPORARY, NOT LIKE THE CUTS FOR THE RICH AND BIG CORPORATIONS!

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 14

REPUBLICANS LIE ABOUT TRUMP'S BBB
The 'One Big Beautiful Bill' will cause at least 18 million Americans to lose their health insurance and access to food assistance programs - will go hungry - all so they can give tax breaks to billionaires.

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 14

Whether it'll translate into anything substantial is yet to be seen, but...this post sure seems like a thing that a guy prominently featured in the Epstein files would write!
Attorney drops SHOCK DISCOVERY amid Trump-Epstein fallout...
youtu.be/UdgVC0IAPEY?si=AD14dqI8xgT4XKss via @YouTube

Attorney drops SHOCK DISCOVERY amid Trump-Epstein fallout

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 14

His unhinged post earned Trump his first ever "ratio" on Truth Social — a post with more comments than "likes" — as people expressed their frustration and sense of betrayal.

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 14

He's gotten so used to just blaming everything and anything on his pantheon of enemies and being able to get away with it, but this shows a level of desperation and condescension that not even the MAGA faithful can simply wave away.

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 14

So in the space of a few months we've gone from "the Epstein list is on my desk and here's a teaser" to "actually it doesn't exist and the case is closed" to "actually it does exist but it was written by Obama, Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Biden administration so let's just forget about it."

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 14

Throwing his support behind Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump presented the hilarious and ridiculous explanation that Obama and Hillary created the Epstein files, which is why they won't release them.

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 14

has only grown louder with each new attempt by the Trump team to tamp it down — and now a desperate Trump is pulling out all the stops in an attempt to regain control of the narrative.

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jul 14

VIDEO OF THE DAY:
Mad King posts unhinged meltdown in attempt to bully his fans into silence over Epstein!

The outcry from MAGA world over the Trump administration's flagrant bait-and-switch over the alleged client list of notorious arch-pedophile Jeffery Epstein

Attorney drops SHOCK DISCOVERY amid Trump-Epstein fallout

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · Jun 23

In the last week, I had the opportunity to see a lot of this country’s natural beauty. In the midst of President-imposed chaos and congressional GOP apathy, it makes me want all the more to work toward a nation worthy of what we have, and willing to come together for more than this.

View of plains from the ascent of Pike’s Peak.

Rocky, snow-streaked view from the top of Pike’s Peak.

View of mountains from Estes Park, Colorado.

The Story of the Song
During an 1893 hiking trip in Colorado, Katharine Lee Bates was inspired to write what became one of the most famous songs in US history. Bates was a professor, poet, and writer who traveled up Pike's Peak by covered wagon and mules with fellow teachers from Colorado College.
After a long trek, they reached the top and took in the magnificent view.
At the 14,000-foot mountain summit, Katharine stood in awe and later recalled that moment: "I was very tired. But when I saw the view, I felt great joy. All the wonder of America seemed displayed there, with the sea-like expanse."
Bates wrote a poem from that experience, which was first published on July 4, 1895, in The Congregationalist. A few months later, Silas G. Pratt set the poem to music, and by 1900, more than 75 musical versions existed.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · Jun 17

This is an insurrection.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · Jun 17

No Kings 2.0 is on July 4th

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jun 17

It would raise the debt ceiling by $5 trillion, instead of the $4 trillion, the increase adopted by House Republicans, and it will add a $2.2 trillion annual deficit.

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jun 17

House and Senate Republicans agree on the extension of the temporary tax cuts Republicans enacted during Trump’s first term in 2017.

The cost of those tax cuts would be partly offset by cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

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Anna @sanikri.bsky.social · Jun 17

BRACE YOURSELVES

Senate Republicans unveiled a draft of their vision for key tax and spending cuts, setting up an intra-party conflict over legislation enacting Trump’s agenda.

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · Jun 15

Robert Frost wrote “Fire and Ice” in 1920, contemplating the relative destructive potential of desire and hate. 105 years later, the current president relies on both, willingly destroying all in his path for the sake of his endless hunger for power and hatred for humanity.

“Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost:

Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · Jun 13

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 13

Worth remembering.

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