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Str8Grandmother @str8grandmother.bsky.social · 1h

Processing the
#FridayNightMassacre
I can't help but think about all that gold gilding slathered on doo-dads in the oval office and the continued construction, during shut down, of the new Ballroom.
WHY don't people open their eyes and see what is going on in our country, the sheer corruption.

Str8Grandmother @str8grandmother.bsky.social · 1h

You really REALLY NEED to hashtag all these posts.
It is the only way to collect up and group all the related stories, not just from you but from others as well. This issue should be hashtagged.
#FridayNightMassacre

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Boocoos @boocoos2.bsky.social · 23h

WHEN WE FIGHT WE WIN.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Str8Grandmother @str8grandmother.bsky.social · 1h

GOOD for Caledonia.
Don't let them in Wisconsin at all, all they do is suck all your electrical power and raise your rates.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4h

Yet another in the never-ending list of "imagine if a Democratic president said this"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Str8Grandmother @str8grandmother.bsky.social · 1h

Just wait until they build the Mosque for their troops.
That is gonna go over very well in Idaho.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 4h

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5h

This kind of partisan political message, under the guise of a public service announcement, is illegal on several levels.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 3h

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.”

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

“.. 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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Fabulous Abomination @fababomination.bsky.social · 4h

THIS! 👇👇👇👇👇

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 4h

“America First” means:
•$20B to Argentina to screw American farmers
•$38B to Israel for genocide
•$??B to Qatar for new Air Force base in Idaho

Meanwhile—US Service members stand in food lines because Trump’s government shutdown has them furloughed without pay. So much winning!
Are we great yet?🤔

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 3h

Oh shit.

Diesel Bug Has An Irrational Amount Of Freedom @dieselbug1137.bsky.social · 3h

If the only thing that's fully funded by the government is the police. Then you live in a police state. That's just how numbers work. It's fair to judge a society by how it chooses to allocate resources.

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Str8Grandmother @str8grandmother.bsky.social · 2h

Nah, I think of it differently.
Remember when trump said we should stop testing for Covid as that will make it go away?
So I think with no MMWR that makes us all immortal.
No one dies.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 3h

I think a lot about how Michelle Obama remarked on regularly being in rooms with the most powerful and wealthy people in the world and her chief takeaway was that they're just not that smart

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 6h

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 4h

He got the shots that his own HHS is telling you are not necessary

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 4h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Str8Grandmother @str8grandmother.bsky.social · 2h

Shit that is just east of Naples, not for from Mount Vesouvious, which eruption burried Pompie. Pompei is just west of Naples

Str8Grandmother @str8grandmother.bsky.social · 2h

He is going to be in for quite a shock then next Saturday
when we are all out on the streets protesting like our country depended on it.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3h

“All of these actions reflect a buoyed commander in chief who feels emboldened to go further after feeling as though he has faced surprisingly little resistance to his ambitious agenda in the first nine months. He has even remarked to aides that he is shocked how easy it has all proven to be.”

Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear

Recent moves by the president reflect a commander in chief who has seemingly faced little resistance to his agenda.

www.wsj.com

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Str8Grandmother @str8grandmother.bsky.social · 2h

USE the hashtag to group and collect all these stores and observations
#FridayNightMassacre

Str8Grandmother @str8grandmother.bsky.social · 2h

I WILL BE OUT PROTESTING Steven, and my adult children will be too.

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 3h

There are more of us than there are of them—and we know our right to assemble peacefully and protest. I’m counting on my fellow Americans to prove that at the No Kings protest on Oct. 18.

Str8Grandmother @str8grandmother.bsky.social · 2h

Use the hashtag to collect and group all of these stories.
it's the only way, force yourself to remember to hashtag
#KavanaughStop

Str8Grandmother @str8grandmother.bsky.social · 2h

USE THE HASHTAG!
#FridayNightMassacre

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Str8Grandmother @str8grandmother.bsky.social · 2h

USE THE HASHTAG!
#KavanaughStop

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.

(Published April)

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

www.propublica.org

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