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Randy Barbee💙🇺🇲🇺🇦

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I'm a disabled US Navy 🇺🇲 Vietnam Era veteran with an undying pride in my country and its military. Member of the American Legion and Disabled American Veterans. I love traveling the world with my beautiful wife and reading. 💙💙

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Randy Barbee💙🇺🇲🇺🇦 @randylb.bsky.social · 14h

Nailed it 👌

Trilemma @trilemma.bsky.social · 15h

Cruelty gospel in action.

Angelic and demonic Mike Johnson say "blessed are the meek...for they shall starve quietly"

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 22h

In a nutshell.

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alexjackson2325.bsky.social @alexjackson2325.bsky.social · 2d

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Trisha @gibba1960.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s July 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill” slashed Medicaid funding and refused to extend these ACA subsidies—triggering a government shutdown and a looming healthcare crisis.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 2d

Two Russian regions used to strike Ukraine are now plunged into darkness

After a 6 October strike, Belgorod Oblast lost power across 24 settlements, while Bryansk Oblast’s Klintsy thermal power plant was hit twice, sparking fires and outages euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/06/k...

Kyiv reportedly knocks out power to 40,000 in Russia’s Belgorod and Bryansk oblasts, after Moscow hits Ukraine with 50 missiles

A thermal plant, substations in Belgorod, Bryansk oblasts were targeted.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Note the completely circular reasoning presented by Leavitt: a deployment of national guard to Portland is essential because people are (peacefully) protesting against the deployment of the guard to Portland. The will and orders of the Leader is the imperative in and of itself. Fascism 101.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

COLLINS: Which local officials in Portland have said that the National Guard is needed there?

LEAVITT: The judge's opinion is untethered in reality and the law

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 4d

Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 5d

"The investigation began after revelations that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration directed $10 million from a legal settlement with the Medicaid contractor Centene to the foundation for the governor’s political purposes."

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 5d

MAJOR NEWS: Prosecutors in Tallahassee are convening a grand jury relating to the Hope Florida scandal, the Herald/Times has learned. This is the charity started by Casey DeSantis that used FL legal settlement funds to campaign against medial marijuana amendment.

Grand jury summoned in Hope Florida criminal probe

In May, State Attorney Jack Campbell’s office confirmed that a criminal investigation was underway relating to information about the Hope Florida Foundation, the charity spearheaded by first lady C…

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile, behind the swamp curtain:

Casey Desantis’s charity that got $10 million redirected from a Medicaid fraud settlement the state entered into directly into its bank account rather than the #Florida treasury.

www.tampabay.com/news/florida...