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naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Mar 27

You simply do not get rich enough to buy a $60k watch as the Gov of South Dakota or as Cowgirl Barbie. Methinks there’s been a payoff here…

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Mar 27

It appears that Kristi Noem may have worn a $60K Rolex during her visit to the El Salvadoran prison camp today.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · Mar 6

Trump's in full retreat today as his poll numbers slip:

He convened the cabinet to limit Elon after voters pressured Congress.

He delayed the tariffs b/c the market dropped out & created fears of a recession.

He's losing in court b/c DOGE didn't follow the law.

Keep fighting.

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naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Feb 11

I said the FCPA would be next. Clearly, I need to STFU.

Bloomberg: Trump signed an EO today directing DOJ to pause enforcing the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits American companies and foreign firms from bribing officials of foreign governments to obtain or retain business.

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naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Feb 11

Can you say “projection”???

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 11

Trump: "I don't think you can work from a home. Nobody is gonna work from home. They are gonna be going out, they're gonna play tennis, they're gonna play golf, they're gonna do a lot of things. They're not working."

naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Feb 8

USDA inspector general didn't order 'mass extermination' of birds to drive up cost of poultry, eggs www.snopes.com/fact-check/u...

Share with your indoctrinated friends.

Snopes is a trustworthy resource.

USDA inspector general didn't order 'mass extermination' of birds to drive up cost of poultry, eggs

Although it is standard procedure to kill flocks with the outbreak of bird flu, posts on social media twisted the truth.

www.snopes.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Feb 6

The real scam: making you fear the “the other” while the rich rob you blind. I wish every American understood this.

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naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Feb 7

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FPCA) is one of the most critical pieces of international trade law we have. Of course they want to trash it. Next up, the ITAR and the EAR.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · Feb 6

Stopping FARA is opening the door to massive corruption

David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · Feb 6

AG Bondi, day 1:
-- disbands the Foreign Influence Task Force
-- stops FARA (foreign govt lobbyist registration) enforcement except when actual espionage suspected
-- Stops FCPA (bribing foreign govts) enforcement unless to further drugs or terrorism

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Feb 5

Trump doesn’t care about any of those things. The sooner our elected officials realize that reality the better chance we will have of mounting a serious resistance.

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naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Feb 4

I am sure if I understood, I’d be even more terrified, so thanks for the cryptic references.

Stay safe! But press on - you people are amazing!

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naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Jan 29

Keep speaking truth to power. I am sure you feel unmoored at the moment, but you did the right thing and your integrity will be rewarded.

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Bradley Wall @bwallarthur.bsky.social · Dec 26

This. But one man. One unfathomably rich and morally bankrupt man.

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naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Dec 24

This post says it very plainly. Soon there will be no news outlets that can be trusted to report without bias towards an authoritarian regime.

Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · Dec 24

GOOD LORD CNN, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU

Threatening to take over the Panama Canal, annex Canada and force a purchase of Greenland isn't "teasing expansion"

It's contemplating unprovoked armed conflict-and against our allies, no less!

This is what Putin does!

YOU'RE NORMALIZING A POTENTIAL WAR

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Dec 24

holy hell this is sad stuff from CNN

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Dec 24

Here’s how CNN is covering Donald Trump’s threats against our allies:

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naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Dec 24

Already massively sick that major media is obeying in advance - when I only learned that term a couple of months ago.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Dec 24

Oh, did he “tease” seizing other countries’ territory, @cnn.com?

What a little scamp he is. What an incorrigible rascal.

not an art thief @famousartthief.bsky.social · Dec 24

this is insane

naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Dec 23

Let’s try to remember this.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Dec 23

As for the popular vote, according to the latest tally from the Cook Political Report, Trump won 49.8% of the vote, a margin of 1.47% over Harris.

Harris, interestingly enough, "won a higher percentage of the popular vote than Trump received in 2016 or 2020..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Pretending he has an electoral mandate, Trump keeps making stuff up

Donald Trump keeps lying about the margin of his election victory because the truth is too inconvenient to leave intact.

www.msnbc.com

naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Dec 23

Wishing you all the best in the coming year!

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · Dec 23

Gas prices Dec. 23, 2024 Sam's Club Longview, Tx. Thanks President Biden and VP Harris.

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naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Dec 23

The truth matters. Vaccines save lives.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Dec 23

Vaccines stopped polio.

The image is a graph titled "Reported paralytic polio cases and deaths, United States, 1910 to 2019," from Our World in Data. It shows the annual number of polio cases (in red) and deaths (in green). A sharp decline in both cases and deaths occurs after the introduction of the polio vaccine in 1957, which is marked with an arrow labeled "Vaccine introduced in 1957." The graph illustrates the dramatic impact of vaccination on reducing polio cases and fatalities over time.

naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Dec 23

Mark Cuban - making a real difference.

Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company @costplusdrugs.com · Dec 23

🎁 Spreading cheer with our price drops all year!

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Price drop on 200mg Topiramate. The new price for 90 tablets is $10.60. The old price was $14.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · Dec 23

Since details of the smear campaign broke, initially in a big feature in The New York Times, then subsequently in dozens of articles on major news sites, not one outlet has used the word misogyny. www.usermag.co/p/blake-live...

Why won’t the media use the word misogyny?

Misogyny is at the core of these smear campaigns targeting women, yet news coverage consistently avoids naming it.

www.usermag.co

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naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Dec 23

…it’s not “an underage woman,” she was a child. It was rape of a child. It’s harder to hear and/or read, but it’s accurate. It SHOULD be shocking.

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naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Dec 23

Absolutely. It is child rape.

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · Dec 23

FFS it is not “sex with an underage girl.” Girls are underage. It is sex with a child or actually just rape. Trump wanted an ( alleged) child rapist as AG

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · Dec 22

A little piece of knowledge that touched me years ago when I first heard about it: In Japan, people who arrive early to work park further away from the entrance so that those who arrive later can arrive on time.

Our world needs more of this lived compassion. Much, much more.

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naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Dec 22

For those of you who shot me a gimlet eye when I posited that Elon would walk into his first day at DOGE carrying a kitchen sink and fire thiusands of Federal Employees the first day:

HE ALMOST SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT…

WITH A TWEET.

naptownsteph.bsky.social @naptownsteph.bsky.social · Dec 19

Wow. Carl Sagan was absolutely prescient 30 years ago!