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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 3h

LoL. Of course he kept it.

Tom Homan Was Said to Have Received $50,000 From Agents. He May Not Have to Return It.

www.nytimes.com

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 8h

Gavin Newsom: “What more evidence of authoritarianism do you need? These guys aren’t screwing around. We can no longer screw around. It’s all at stake. People need to wake up. We can’t continue to play by the old set of rules.“

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 4h

Because who needs cyber defense in an emergency or an election?

Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 7h

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 7h

Because bribery works.

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows

Report looks at White House nominees and appointees and agencies dictating energy, environment and climate policy

www.yahoo.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 14h

Threatening Democrat elected officials with prison for opposing your lawlessness is peak authoritarian.

Trump Takes Aim at Illinois Governor and Chicago Mayor

www.nytimes.com

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 1d

What the actual Christian fuck?

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi: Anti-Rule of Law. Pro-Corruption. That is all.

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 1d

Awful and true.

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

www.nytimes.com

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 2d

More of this. Public employees need to quit abetting fascism.

Hundreds of ex-DOJ staffers accuse Pam Bondi of putting Trump over the constitution

The former staffers warn that the Justice Department is failing its mission in an open letter released Monday.

www.axios.com

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 2d

Heroic.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

NEWS: A top federal prosecutor in Virginia has informed colleagues the she is DECLINING to charge NY AG Letitia James, despite pressure from Trump himself to indict her on bogus charges.

New via Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian of MSNBC. Link in reply.

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 2d

I feel bad for farmers who are facing losses in their business, but I am 100% opposed to bailouts that apply public funds in a "socialist" manner ONLY to narrow groups that support a regime committed to the suffering of other groups.

Bitter medicine perhaps, but medicine.

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 2d

When you only have a few dozen "capable, complicit, corrupt" executives to lean on, they each have to wear multiple (pointy) hats.

Bessent Taps Social Security Chief to Serve as C.E.O. of I.R.S.

www.nytimes.com

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 3d

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government

One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 5d

You're so kind to boost myself and others. Can't communicate how much I appreciate it. You're the best!
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hopeful66 @hopeful66.bsky.social · 5d

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

Signs of psychosis. No biggie

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 5d

They were always lying and continue to do so.

Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals

President Donald Trump is openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign, as one of its architects works to use the government shutd...

www.yahoo.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d

Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 6d

Once the pendulum swings, any MAGA hat worn or displayed at work is enough to end your career. Right?

Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag

FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk at an FBI field office in California last year.

www.yahoo.com

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 6d

Following this logic, any street level dealer tied ultimately to the guys we're "at war" with could also be labeled as combatants too or maybe just treasonous civilians. Either way, death penalty or summary execution by military could be justified.

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 6d

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles

The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

lastcampaign.substack.com

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you again for the boost. You're the best!
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