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AF veteran, pilot, airplane builder, avid reader of political books. 🇮🇹🇺🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Atheist. Fuck Felon Musk, fuck trump and fuck you too if you voted for that orange piece of christofascist shit. SLAVA UKRAINE!!🇺🇦

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LR @trychick.bsky.social · Apr 22

I got my Italian Passport today!!!!

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LR @trychick.bsky.social · 8m

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A disgrace without grace

During her Senate Oversight Hearing, Attorney General Pam Bondi showed she will say whatever she needs to enact Trump’s policies.

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LR @trychick.bsky.social · 13m

What?!

LR @trychick.bsky.social · 1h

Makes me want to burn the fucking flag.

LR @trychick.bsky.social · 1h

No. We all just HATE YOU THAT MUCH. AND NOBODY PAYS ME TO PROTEST FASCISM. I DO IT FOR FREE🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

LR @trychick.bsky.social · 1h

Fuck my state. Indiana sucks.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 2h

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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LR @trychick.bsky.social · 1h

What bribe is he going to wring out of them this time?

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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LR @trychick.bsky.social · 1h

He also said he took away our first amendment freedoms.

LR @trychick.bsky.social · 1h

I use the work FUCK a lot, but I need something stronger. Fuck isn’t cutting it anymore with this goddamn fucking christofascist administration and all the fuckery, cruelty and criminality going on EVERY SINGLE DAY.

LR @trychick.bsky.social · 1h

No they aren’t. They’re hiding from their constituents. YOU TOLD THEM NOT TO HAVE TOWN HALLS!!!!!

LR @trychick.bsky.social · 1h

And to basically turn AG workers into slaves.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 9h

I mean read this, the Trump administration in an official document is saying that Americans won't ever pick crops and America won't have enough food to eat because of ICE raids!
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As a result, employers are facing significant economic harms, the filing claims. And incredibly, given the administration’s unceasing rhetoric to the contrary, the Labor Department definitively rejects the idea of Americans replacing the missing workers. “The Department does not believe American workers currently unemployed or marginally employed will make themselves readily available in sufficient numbers to replace large numbers of aliens,” the filing states, adding that agricultural work involves “a distinct set of skills and is among the most physically demanding and hazardous occupations in the U.S. labor market.” (For what it’s worth, nearly half of all agricultural workers are native-born, and significantly more than half are U.S. citizens, according to Department of Agriculture data.)

The Labor Department even claims that broadly advertising agricultural jobs, which is required under the H2-A rules, has not led to a boost in applications from U.S. workers. This is a bit of a fiction; workers who apply often do not receive jobs, and nobody is really checking to see if applications are coming in. “The system isn’t set up to prove that there’s a labor shortage of U.S. workers,” said Costa, of EPI.

In the end, the Labor Department concludes, the only way to protect agricultural employers from disaster and consumers from rising prices and food shortages is to slash wages in the H-2A program to make it more viable to bring in workers. This is an odd response to a workforce crisis, since cutting wages across the sector will likely drive existing workers to look elsewhere for jobs. In fact, farm employers in Florida fear that H-2A foreign workers won’t apply for these jobs anymore because the wages are so low. (There were 384,900 H-2A applications last year.)

But the filing states, “Without swift action, agricultural employers will be unable to maintain operations, and the nation's food supply will be at risk.”

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LR @trychick.bsky.social · 1h

They are fucking exploiting agricultural workers to benefit big AG. It’s fucking disgusting.

The cruelty is the point and FUCKING OVER WORKERS
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Also, be prepared for produce prices to skyrocket.

LR @trychick.bsky.social · 1h

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Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

Am I reading this right? Did Trump say he took freedom of speech away?

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h

Flagging Trump this afternoon:

"We took the freedom of speech away. Because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech — but what has happened is, when they burn a flag it, agitates and irritates crowds."

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LR @trychick.bsky.social · 1h

Sure, this moron "understands the law."

LR @trychick.bsky.social · 2h

Sure. This totally true.
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LR @trychick.bsky.social · 2h

lol

LR @trychick.bsky.social · 2h

This is a disgrace and the republicans in congress are responsible for this outrage.

LR @trychick.bsky.social · 2h

Ha ha ha ha ha. Fuck the government.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5h

Merrick Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago. It happened in August 2022 three months before Jack Smith was appointed. Jack Smith was in the Netherlands at the Hauge prosecuting Kosovo war crimes when Mar-a-Lago was searched. Eric should have listened to my podcast.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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LR @trychick.bsky.social · 2h

Fuck this sleazy asshole.