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Ricky Davila on X: "A poet slams the inaction of Congress after so many tragedies. You'll want to watch this. Brilliant. https://t.co/1efzNPlXE7" / X

MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 17h

Oct 6, 2017
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A poet slams the inaction of Congress after so many tragedies. You'll want to watch this. Brilliant. https://t.co/1efzNPlXE7

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MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 17h

Climate activist Greta Thunberg alleges torture in Israeli detention aft... youtu.be/0ZcD5IPYiZk?... via @YouTube

Climate activist Greta Thunberg alleges torture in Israeli detention after Gaza Flotilla arrest

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Trump Just Had A Full-On Meltdown About The New York Attorney General On Truth Social, And It's Exactly What You'd Expect

MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 17h

#WhenWillEnoughBeEnough Trump continued. “Until this ‘SCUM’ is removed from the Attorney General’s Office, no company will move to New York, and few companies will be using the New York Stock Exchange, or NASDAQ, for going Public.” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Trump referred to the Attorney General as "SCUM" among other things.

Watch Trump STORM OUT After Carroll Wins $83 MILLION Judgment!

MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 17h

2. The courtroom erupted as the jury delivered the massive financial penalty, marking one of the most significant legal defeats Trump has faced to date. Visibly furious, Trump left in anger, later raging about the verdict on social media

MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 17h

#JusticeFinally Watch Trump STORM OUT After Carroll Wins $83 MILLION Judgment! youtu.be/_WZHkt_z7ms?... via @YouTube

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How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day

MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 21h

#GiftWAPOArticle #TikTokAddiction Jon Freilich, a 51-year-old operations manager in California, described his TikTok behavior as an addiction.
“I’ve never smoked or used drugs, so I don’t know what chemical addiction feels like, but I feel like I’m addicted to TikTok,” wapo.st/4obueib

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

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MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 1d

2. but they're also looking at programs that they want to slash, and from what we've heard from the president himself," she added.

MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 1d

#AndSoItBegins #BuckleUP "He knows exactly the places in the government that he wants to cut, and that's not only people that they want to to fire, essentially, which we now know is in the thousands,

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'It's not just rare': White House reporter stunned by 'unprecedented' move coming soon

President Donald Trump is eying massive cuts to the federal workforce under cover of the government shutdown, and CNN's Alayna Treene reported that layoffs of that scope have never been done before.So...

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Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans

MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 2d

2. part of an overhaul of the federal safety net for poor, older and disabled people that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits, according to people familiar with the plans.

MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 2d

#GiftWAPOArticle #FreeRead The Trump administration is preparing a plan that would make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments,
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Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.

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An anonymous woman using the pseudonym "Katie Johnson" filed a lawsuit in California accusing both Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein of forcibly raping her when she was 13 years old at underage sex parties at Epstein's Manhattan residence in 1994.

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Katie Johnson’s Full Testimony Of 2/11/16 #donaldtrump #elonmusk #epsteinisland #jeffreyepstein

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Joy Reid Has Explosive Two-Word Retort For Trump VP Vance Seconds After Hearing His Attack On Her

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MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 3d

Joy Reid Has Explosive Two-Word Retort For Trump VP Vance Seconds After Hearing His Attack On Her www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Joy Reid had an explosive retort for Trump Vice President JD Vance seconds after learning, for the first time, of his recent attack on her.

FBI agent relieved for refusing to give James Comey a 'perp walk': report

MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 4d

An FBI agent was reportedly relieved of duty for refusing to conduct a "perp walk" of former bureau Director James Comey in front of news cameras following the announcement of Comey's indictment last month, according to a report.

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An FBI agent was reportedly relieved of duty for refusing to conduct a "perp walk" of former bureau Director James Comey in front of news cameras following the announcement of Comey's indictment last ...

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MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 7d

2. The pigtailed girl who liked pretty dresses was battling malaria and desperately needed medication that could save her life.

MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 7d

#GiftWAPOArticle #TheImpactOfUSAIDFreeze$$ Fever ravaged the body of 5-year-old Suza Kenyaba as she sweated and shivered on a thin mattress in a two-room clinic in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

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MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 8d

#VoteBlueNoMatterWho Francis Maxwell reports on Trump melting down over an Australian reporter asking him a question. Trump dealt CRUSHING BLOW as AUSTRALIAN LEADER HITS BACK - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYdQ...

Trump dealt CRUSHING BLOW as AUSTRALIAN LEADER HITS BACK

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She shattered her elbow and ended up with a $97,000 bill

MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 8d

#OMG As soon as she fell, Deborah Buttgereit knew she couldn’t avoid going to the hospital. “I could hear the bones moving around in my elbow. She shattered her elbow and ended up with a $97,000 bill www.yahoo.com/news/article...

As soon as she fell, Deborah Buttgereit knew she couldn’t avoid going to the hospital. “I could hear the bones moving around in my elbow,” said Buttgereit, who was 60 when she slipped on a patch of ic...

Trump news at a glance: more than 100,000 federal workers to quit on Tuesday in largest ever mass resignation

MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 9d

More than 100,000 federal workers are to formally resign on Tuesday, the largest such mass event in US history, as part of a Trump administration program designed to make sweeping cuts to the federal workforce. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Latest departures in Trump administration’s deferred resignation program come as Congress faces government shutdown deadline – key US politics stories from Sunday 28 September

Elon Musk REVEALED in Epstein Files: HE WENT TO THE ISLAND

MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 9d

#PoliticalPunk The Epstein Files just dropped NEW EVIDENCE... and Elon Musk is in them. Documents released by the Epstein estate tying Musk directly to Epstein’s infamous island, raising questions that Trump and his MAGA defenders don’t want answered. youtu.be/jGRO2ppBSPw?... via @YouTube

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This millennial nurse commutes 5,000 miles from Sweden to work at a California hospital. She works eight days in a row and rakes in over $100 an hour

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MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 10d

This millennial nurse commutes 5,000 miles from Sweden to work at a California hospital. She works eight days in a row and rakes in over $100 an hour www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...

Supercommuting isn’t just for ambitious interns or Fortune 500 CEOs, one millennial nurse flies across the world—and she says it actually boosts her work-life balance.

Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs

MaxineElizabeth1 @maxineelizabeth1.bsky.social · 10d

Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs. About 486,000 people live full time in an RV, which appears to be more than twice as many as in 2021, according to survey data from the RV Industry Association. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Moving into an RV may seem like a way to save money, but it can come with unexpected costs and trap families in a cycle of debt.