@aappaa.bsky.social
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Kristi Noem billed South Dakota taxpayers more than $640,000 in personal travel-related costs, including a six-day trip to Paris, a bear hunt in Canada, a trip to Houston for dental work to fix her smile, and a book tour. But she can afford a $50,000 Rolex for a prison porn photo op in El Salvador.
Kristi Noem refused to say who financed some of her travel. It was taxpayers who were on the hook
An Associated Press analysis of recently released travel records found more than $150,000 in expenses tied to Noem’s political and personal activity.
apnews.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Kristi Noem billed South Dakota taxpayers more than $640,000 in personal travel-related costs, including a six-day trip to Paris, a bear hunt in Canada, a trip to Houston for dental work to fix her smile, and a book tour. But she can afford a $50,000 Rolex for a prison porn photo op in El Salvador.
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"They have this plan to essentially never respond to what voters actually want, let alone need. They can just throw money at this problem forever & they think it's working so far."
@alexshephard.bsky.social says Musk & Trump think they can get away with enacting their agenda by "buying elections."
@alexshephard.bsky.social says Musk & Trump think they can get away with enacting their agenda by "buying elections."
March 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"They have this plan to essentially never respond to what voters actually want, let alone need. They can just throw money at this problem forever & they think it's working so far."
@alexshephard.bsky.social says Musk & Trump think they can get away with enacting their agenda by "buying elections."
@alexshephard.bsky.social says Musk & Trump think they can get away with enacting their agenda by "buying elections."
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1. BREAKING
A career federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, Adam Schleifer, was abruptly fired—reportedly at the direction of the White House—after leading the prosecution of Andrew Wiederhorn, a wealthy Trump donor and former CEO of the company behind Fatburger.
(Link at end of thread)
A career federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, Adam Schleifer, was abruptly fired—reportedly at the direction of the White House—after leading the prosecution of Andrew Wiederhorn, a wealthy Trump donor and former CEO of the company behind Fatburger.
(Link at end of thread)
March 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
1. BREAKING
A career federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, Adam Schleifer, was abruptly fired—reportedly at the direction of the White House—after leading the prosecution of Andrew Wiederhorn, a wealthy Trump donor and former CEO of the company behind Fatburger.
(Link at end of thread)
A career federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, Adam Schleifer, was abruptly fired—reportedly at the direction of the White House—after leading the prosecution of Andrew Wiederhorn, a wealthy Trump donor and former CEO of the company behind Fatburger.
(Link at end of thread)
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This is what happens in dictatorships. Lawyers, judges, and the rest of us have to stand up. We know universities won't.
zeteo.com/p/ice-manual...
zeteo.com/p/ice-manual...
SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
zeteo.com
March 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
This is what happens in dictatorships. Lawyers, judges, and the rest of us have to stand up. We know universities won't.
zeteo.com/p/ice-manual...
zeteo.com/p/ice-manual...
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“I am being targeted for one reason alone: for speaking the truth about the genocide of the Palestinian people that Yale University is complicit in.”
truthout.org/articles/i-w...
truthout.org/articles/i-w...
I Was Suspended for Pro-Palestine Speech Amid AI-Generated Smears
Rather than investigate the source of these allegations, Yale Law School accepted them at face value.
truthout.org
March 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“I am being targeted for one reason alone: for speaking the truth about the genocide of the Palestinian people that Yale University is complicit in.”
truthout.org/articles/i-w...
truthout.org/articles/i-w...
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I'm going on tour for my book THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP! Dates and venues in the graphic. I'll be sending out more detailed info in my newsletter and posting it on here as the dates approach. Hope to see you there!
March 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I'm going on tour for my book THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP! Dates and venues in the graphic. I'll be sending out more detailed info in my newsletter and posting it on here as the dates approach. Hope to see you there!
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Stay angry. Get angrier.
The final tally to advance the CR is 62-38.
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
March 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Stay angry. Get angrier.
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BREAKING: I just offered an amendment on the floor to give Veterans fired in the Trump-Musk layoffs their jobs back.
Every single Republican blocked it.
Shame on them for betraying our heroes.
Every single Republican blocked it.
Shame on them for betraying our heroes.
March 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
BREAKING: I just offered an amendment on the floor to give Veterans fired in the Trump-Musk layoffs their jobs back.
Every single Republican blocked it.
Shame on them for betraying our heroes.
Every single Republican blocked it.
Shame on them for betraying our heroes.
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In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.
March 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.
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The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.
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Thank you @guardianheather.bsky.social for the interview. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz
Uncertainty created by tariffs and contempt for rule of law will deter investment, says top economist
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thank you @guardianheather.bsky.social for the interview. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste.
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
February 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste.
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
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Gaza ceasefire exchange: More than 300 Palestinians return home to Gaza youtu.be/tdGrGggCCxQ
Gaza ceasefire exchange: More than 300 Palestinians return home to Gaza
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
youtu.be
February 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Gaza ceasefire exchange: More than 300 Palestinians return home to Gaza youtu.be/tdGrGggCCxQ
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Hard to overemphasize how much of the activity on X is not organic but rather is online ops and how dangerous it is that Musk—while high on drugs and for almost 24 hours a day—marinates in and uplifts the content within this environment as though it were organic representation of popular sentiment.
February 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Hard to overemphasize how much of the activity on X is not organic but rather is online ops and how dangerous it is that Musk—while high on drugs and for almost 24 hours a day—marinates in and uplifts the content within this environment as though it were organic representation of popular sentiment.
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More Boers incoming
February 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
More Boers incoming
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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My mom calls me because my dad has been pissed all day about his insulin going from $10 to $94.50
This is a quote: "That stupid motherfucker is a cancer on America. He's the biggest piece of shit that ever walked the planet and I hope his fat ass eats 10 BigMacs, gets diabetes & keels over" 😳 🤣
This is a quote: "That stupid motherfucker is a cancer on America. He's the biggest piece of shit that ever walked the planet and I hope his fat ass eats 10 BigMacs, gets diabetes & keels over" 😳 🤣
January 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
My mom calls me because my dad has been pissed all day about his insulin going from $10 to $94.50
This is a quote: "That stupid motherfucker is a cancer on America. He's the biggest piece of shit that ever walked the planet and I hope his fat ass eats 10 BigMacs, gets diabetes & keels over" 😳 🤣
This is a quote: "That stupid motherfucker is a cancer on America. He's the biggest piece of shit that ever walked the planet and I hope his fat ass eats 10 BigMacs, gets diabetes & keels over" 😳 🤣
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What air traffic controllers? The FFOTUS gutted aviation safety last week.
apnews.com/article/coas...
apnews.com/article/coas...
Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee
President Donald Trump has moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security by firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up while...
apnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM
What air traffic controllers? The FFOTUS gutted aviation safety last week.
apnews.com/article/coas...
apnews.com/article/coas...
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Dear god:
“Trump’s budget office ordered an expansive freeze…of ‘all federal financial assistance,’ a move that could HALT PAYMENTS WITHIN DAYS TO STATES AND U.S. HOUSEHOLDS THAT RECEIVE ASSISTANCE LIKE SNAP FOOD AID…Social Security and Medicare won’t be affected.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
“Trump’s budget office ordered an expansive freeze…of ‘all federal financial assistance,’ a move that could HALT PAYMENTS WITHIN DAYS TO STATES AND U.S. HOUSEHOLDS THAT RECEIVE ASSISTANCE LIKE SNAP FOOD AID…Social Security and Medicare won’t be affected.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Trump administration orders sweeping freeze of all federal aid
In a two-page memo, the Office of Management and Budget ordered all federal agencies to temporarily suspend payments.
www.politico.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Dear god:
“Trump’s budget office ordered an expansive freeze…of ‘all federal financial assistance,’ a move that could HALT PAYMENTS WITHIN DAYS TO STATES AND U.S. HOUSEHOLDS THAT RECEIVE ASSISTANCE LIKE SNAP FOOD AID…Social Security and Medicare won’t be affected.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
“Trump’s budget office ordered an expansive freeze…of ‘all federal financial assistance,’ a move that could HALT PAYMENTS WITHIN DAYS TO STATES AND U.S. HOUSEHOLDS THAT RECEIVE ASSISTANCE LIKE SNAP FOOD AID…Social Security and Medicare won’t be affected.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
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It’s a cult:
“Those seeking jobs have been told they will have to prove their ‘enthusiasm’ to enact Trump’s agenda and have been asked when their moment of ‘MAGA revelation’ occurred.”
apnews.com/article/trum...
“Those seeking jobs have been told they will have to prove their ‘enthusiasm’ to enact Trump’s agenda and have been asked when their moment of ‘MAGA revelation’ occurred.”
apnews.com/article/trum...
Loyalty tests and MAGA checks: Inside the Trump White House's intense screening of job-seekers
Job-seekers hoping to join the new Trump administration are facing a series of intense loyalty tests.
apnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
It’s a cult:
“Those seeking jobs have been told they will have to prove their ‘enthusiasm’ to enact Trump’s agenda and have been asked when their moment of ‘MAGA revelation’ occurred.”
apnews.com/article/trum...
“Those seeking jobs have been told they will have to prove their ‘enthusiasm’ to enact Trump’s agenda and have been asked when their moment of ‘MAGA revelation’ occurred.”
apnews.com/article/trum...
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"When you see those images, the ICE raids... the troops deploying to the border, it almost makes you feel as if we're at war, but at war with this imaginary enemy. ... That is the point. The point is to sustain the very fear that got Donald Trump to the White House." [email protected]
January 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
"When you see those images, the ICE raids... the troops deploying to the border, it almost makes you feel as if we're at war, but at war with this imaginary enemy. ... That is the point. The point is to sustain the very fear that got Donald Trump to the White House." [email protected]
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NEW
Senator Thom Tillis personally assured Danielle Hegseth that if she signed a sworn-statement about her former brother-in-law’s conduct that it would carry weight and could lead him, Murkowski, and Collins to vote NO on Pete Hegseth’s nomination.
He then became the 50th century to vote YES.
Senator Thom Tillis personally assured Danielle Hegseth that if she signed a sworn-statement about her former brother-in-law’s conduct that it would carry weight and could lead him, Murkowski, and Collins to vote NO on Pete Hegseth’s nomination.
He then became the 50th century to vote YES.
Exclusive | Tillis Assured Hegseth’s Former Sister-in-Law Her Testimony Could Convince GOP Senators to Vote No
North Carolina senator provided pivotal 50th ‘yes’ vote to confirm Hegseth as Defense Secretary.
bit.ly
January 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
NEW
Senator Thom Tillis personally assured Danielle Hegseth that if she signed a sworn-statement about her former brother-in-law’s conduct that it would carry weight and could lead him, Murkowski, and Collins to vote NO on Pete Hegseth’s nomination.
He then became the 50th century to vote YES.
Senator Thom Tillis personally assured Danielle Hegseth that if she signed a sworn-statement about her former brother-in-law’s conduct that it would carry weight and could lead him, Murkowski, and Collins to vote NO on Pete Hegseth’s nomination.
He then became the 50th century to vote YES.
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My firm is willing to represent pro bono those fired in this unlawful and vindictive purge. These dedicated civil servants were performing their jobs and upholding the rule of law.
BREAKING on @MSNBC:
The Justice Department is firing more than a dozen officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith's team.
Acting Attorney General James McHenry claims the officials could not be trusted in "faithfully implementing the president's agenda."
The Justice Department is firing more than a dozen officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith's team.
Acting Attorney General James McHenry claims the officials could not be trusted in "faithfully implementing the president's agenda."
January 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My firm is willing to represent pro bono those fired in this unlawful and vindictive purge. These dedicated civil servants were performing their jobs and upholding the rule of law.
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Take my advice and sell your stock in Target NOW.
January 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Take my advice and sell your stock in Target NOW.