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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 2h

Last week, Hegseth ordered military leaders to fly in from around the world for the gathering, just ahead of a potential government shutdown.

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 2h

The U.S. military is meant to be apolitical, loyal to the U.S. Constitution and independent of any party or political movement. That creates pressure on the commanders to avoid reacting to overtly political comments, by Trump or Hegseth.
It was unclear how much the event cost. .

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 3h

Trump’s budget hands billions in tax cuts to the ultra-rich—while cutting Medicaid, food assistance, and education for working families.

This isn’t just policy. It’s values on display.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-bud...

Trump’s Budget: Tax Cuts for the Rich, Cuts for Everyone Else

A $7 Trillion Plan That Slashes Food Aid, Medicaid, and Education While Rewarding the Top 1%

adamkinzinger.substack.com

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 3h

The Silence of the Generals
And the searing words of a veteran on the bench
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-silenc...

The Silence of the Generals

And the searing words of a veteran on the bench.

www.thebulwark.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 3h

Her contempt is extraordinary. Trump thinks he’s a king. He believes he’s accountable to no one. Not Congress. Not the American people. And so when his people testify before the Senate, they act like they are bound by no rules and no laws.
She is a vile bitch
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/p...

US Sen. Dick Durbin and AG Pam Bondi clash over National Guard in Illinois and Justice Department politicization

Attorney General Pam Bondi defended herself against Democratic criticism that she had weaponized the Justice Department at a congressional hearing.

www.chicagotribune.com

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 3h

"Trump's Immigration Policies and Project 2025

Explore Trump’s 2025 immigration plan and its impact on immigration law with proposed policies on screening, border security, deportations, and birthright citizenship."
www.docketwise.com/blog/trump-2....

Trump's Immigration Policies and Project 2025

Explore Trump’s 2025 immigration plan and its impact on immigration law with proposed policies on screening, border security, deportations, and birthright citizenship.

www.docketwise.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 3h

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” Edward R. Murrow

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 3h

Indeed.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 3h

No one who is on Social Security, has Medicare or Medicaid asked for this. Republicans don't give a fuck about the old or poor. They would prefer they die so they can pocket their benefits. They are selfish, greedy bastards who are only interested in their billionaire buddies who can buy eletions.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 3h

Trump’s wickedness has contaminated our discourse. Its relentlessness is equal parts overwhelming and numbing. In addition to a completely cowed GOP that seems pathologically committed to raising concerns in private while publicly fawning over all the president does is disgusting and repulsive.

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 4h

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 3h

I appreciate you, sister Casey 🧡💛🩷

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 3h

Money 💰

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 6h

John Roberts Defies the Supreme Court. He is proving to be a loyal soldier in Trumpy's Army of War. I guess in-Justice Roberts being paid untold millions in crypto retirement money is being rewarded bigly.
newrepublic.com/article/2001... via
@newrepublic

John Roberts Defies the Supreme Court

If the chief justice was once a judicial institutionalist, he has become all too eager to cast norms and precedent aside in matters that benefit Trump.

newrepublic.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 6h

Thank Roberts.
John Roberts Defies the Supreme Court. He is proving to be a loyal soldier in Trumpy's Army of War. I guess in-Justice Roberts being paid untold millions in crypto retirement money is being rewarded bigly.
newrepublic.com/article/2001... via
@newrepublic

John Roberts Defies the Supreme Court

If the chief justice was once a judicial institutionalist, he has become all too eager to cast norms and precedent aside in matters that benefit Trump.

newrepublic.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 7h

Like Hitler, Trump spews hatred, fear, and disinformation—promising revenge & retribution. He seeks to terminate the U.S. Constitution, corrupt the DOJ to indict any/all opponents, throw people in jail who disagree with him, and shut down all fact-based journalism—ending democracy & the rule of law.

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 7h

How John Roberts Created the Anti-constitutional Monster Devouring Washington. From ushering in Citizens United to granting presidents broad immunity, no one in the capital is more responsible for Trump’s destructive 2nd term than the Supreme Court’s chief justice
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/h...

How John Roberts Created the Anti-constitutional Monster Devouring Washington

From ushering in Citizens United to granting presidents broad immunity, no one in the capital is more responsible for Donald Trump’s destructive second term than the Supreme Court’s chief justice.

www.vanityfair.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 7h

It was always easy for our military to terrorize citizens as Miller describes.

That's not the point.

The point is that this is America—not the Third Reich—and OUR MILITARY ISN'T TO BE USED THIS WAY.

Anyone who can't understand and accept this was NEVER a fan of America, democracy, or rule of law.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 8h

The original sin was failing to send trump to prison for the rest of his life," for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020. He should have been charged and jailed, period.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 8h

It is important to emphasize that enforced disappearance is a violation of international human rights law and US legal challenges are being pursued against such practices.
Trump is doing it anyway.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

ICE may deport migrants to countries they aren't from with just six hours' notice

Immigration officials may deport migrants to countries other than their own with as little as six hours' notice, Trump administration memo says.

www.usatoday.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 8h

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States? Forty-five billion will build a lot of stuff. In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing. We’re about to spend nearly four times on detention centers what we spend on housing
newrepublic.com/article/1976...

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?

If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.

newrepublic.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 8h

Its coming.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 8h

The Supreme Court has taken off its mask this term by creating unconstitutional de facto immunity for presidents who act illegally and by gutting the ability of public agencies and Congress to protect Americans from abuse by right-wing special interests
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The Supreme Court Has Fully Embraced an Antidemocratic, Right-Wing Agenda

The Supreme Court has taken off its mask this term by creating unconstitutional de facto immunity for future presidents who act illegally and by gutting the ability of public agencies and Congress to ...

www.americanprogress.org

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 8h

They are just getting started.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 8h

Private prisons are ramping up capacity
Nearly 90% of people in ICE custody are held in facilities run by for-profit, private companies. Two of the largest, Geo Group and CoreCivic, are working to increase their ability to meet the administration's demand.
www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

Who profits from immigration detention?

A look at the industry underpinning President Trump’s immigration agenda.

www.marketplace.org

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