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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 1h

There are going to be thousands of settlements to compensate all the victims of Trump firings. Bet.

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

www.nytimes.com

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 3h

Way to go everyone! You (American Taxpayer) just bailed out the failing leader of Argentina, because he's a "Trump Bro". Only cost you $20 Billion.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 3h

Congrats to the Dodgers. Closed out a tough Philly team tonight in extra innings. One step closer to returning to the World Series.

Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 13h

Courtesy of Elon Musk, Tesla's cheapest, lower content, objectively "less valuable" cars are several thousand dollars more expensive than the better (now called "premium") versions were last month.

The federal $7500 credit expiry harms all EV makers, beginning with the market share leader.

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 14h

Did we expect any different?

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 1d

LoL. Of course he kept it.

Tom Homan Was Said to Have Received $50,000 From Agents. He May Not Have to Return It.

www.nytimes.com

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom: “What more evidence of authoritarianism do you need? These guys aren’t screwing around. We can no longer screw around. It’s all at stake. People need to wake up. We can’t continue to play by the old set of rules.“

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

Because who needs cyber defense in an emergency or an election?

Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 1d

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 1d

Because bribery works.

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows

Report looks at White House nominees and appointees and agencies dictating energy, environment and climate policy

www.yahoo.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 1d

Threatening Democrat elected officials with prison for opposing your lawlessness is peak authoritarian.

Trump Takes Aim at Illinois Governor and Chicago Mayor

www.nytimes.com

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 2d

What the actual Christian fuck?

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 2d

Pam Bondi: Anti-Rule of Law. Pro-Corruption. That is all.

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 2d

Awful and true.

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

www.nytimes.com

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 3d

More of this. Public employees need to quit abetting fascism.

Hundreds of ex-DOJ staffers accuse Pam Bondi of putting Trump over the constitution

The former staffers warn that the Justice Department is failing its mission in an open letter released Monday.

www.axios.com

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 3d

Heroic.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3d

NEWS: A top federal prosecutor in Virginia has informed colleagues the she is DECLINING to charge NY AG Letitia James, despite pressure from Trump himself to indict her on bogus charges.

New via Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian of MSNBC. Link in reply.

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 3d

I feel bad for farmers who are facing losses in their business, but I am 100% opposed to bailouts that apply public funds in a "socialist" manner ONLY to narrow groups that support a regime committed to the suffering of other groups.

Bitter medicine perhaps, but medicine.

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 3d

When you only have a few dozen "capable, complicit, corrupt" executives to lean on, they each have to wear multiple (pointy) hats.

Bessent Taps Social Security Chief to Serve as C.E.O. of I.R.S.

www.nytimes.com

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 4d

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government

One of the most brazen conflicts in history.