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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15h

The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two Gulfstream private jets for Kristi Noem, the secretary, and other top department officials at a cost of $172 million, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

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

Public documents show the Department of Homeland Security has contracted to purchase a pair of top-of-the-line Gulfstream jets for the secretary and other top officials.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Reminder: Trump's Argentina bailout only benefits one American; a $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire

A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

www.motherjones.com

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 2d

He's not opening the government because he doesn't want those secret files revealed. It's not complicated.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”

(Published August)

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals

Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

www.propublica.org

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

So I guess for MAGA when a Chinese balloon goes over US airspace it’s a week straight of apoplectic comments that WW3 is starting because Biden is weak, but when Trump allows the Qataris to have an airbase in the US and fly fighter jets over our country that is America First.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 10d

There is no left-wing violence in Chicago or Portland. It simply is not happening.

It's so not happening, in fact, that Republicans in Oregon took footage from two South American countries to create a hoax photo about Portland.

They have no actual violent footage to put forward.

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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S92024 @suzanne92024.bsky.social · 11d

100's of national guards for 12 people and one chicken suit.

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S92024 @suzanne92024.bsky.social · 11d

The white house is lying.

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 11d

Donald Trump really wants us to believe:

There’s not enough money to fix ACA healthcare premiums

There’s not enough money for Air Traffic Controllers

But there’s somehow $20 billion available to bail out Argentina?!

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S92024 @suzanne92024.bsky.social · 12d

Miller probably has that playing on a loop and old dementia brain can't tell the difference.

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S92024 @suzanne92024.bsky.social · 12d

Can we put Jesse Waters on the list for the eventual Crimes against Humanity trials at The Hauge?

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12d

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

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S92024 @suzanne92024.bsky.social · 14d

On my way to drop this off.
YES ON 50

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 16d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

bangs.

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16d

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.

Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

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S92024 @suzanne92024.bsky.social · 15d

Good for FIFA. They should not denigrate the sport by holding opening ceremonies in the US.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 16d

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18d

Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days.

Mike Johnson voted “no” on that.

They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then

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S92024 @suzanne92024.bsky.social · 19d

Shut it down! Do not cave. Do not bend over. Do not roll over. Protect democracy. Hold the line.

S92024 @suzanne92024.bsky.social · 19d

Do not cave. Do not roll over. Shut it down. Hold the line.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19d

BREAKING: The White House claimed the FBI deep state targeted Homan in the $50K bag-o-cash bribe for government contracts, but it was actually a fellow ICE colleague that steered undercover agents to Homan. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

How Tom Homan wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting

A former associate of Trump’s border czar allegedly proposed a $1 million scheme last year that put FBI agents on Homan's trail.

www.msnbc.com

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S92024 @suzanne92024.bsky.social · 20d

When we finally have our own "Nuremberg" trials, and we will, all evidence will be needed

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 20d

BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) just signed Trump’s gerrymander into law.

If courts do not intervene, a referendum effort fails or the GOP again ignores the will of voters, the GOP will have locked in a 7–1 majority in the U.S. House for the rest of the decade.

Missouri Gov. Signs Extreme Gerrymander, Ballot Initiative Crackdown Into Law