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💙Christine Slemmer💙 @slem63.bsky.social · 22h

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Read the full story: propub.li/3KYaHTN.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Van Zandt County Democratic Party @vzctxdems.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you from Texas 💙

❌👑💙D to the R to the R💙❌👑 @daleroy1.bsky.social · 1d

I received my ballot in the mail! I am voting YES on ballot 50! I know this could be the difference between DJT’s power grab in TX and other places working or not. @fieldteam6.org @villaverla.bsky.social

Photo of California Official Ballot envelope (pink column on left, white on right) with the address recipient covered by another piece of mail.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 1d

I don't understand why I see things so differently. I see a health insurance industry that thinks it's entitled to charge people 1/3rd of their income for healthcare. That industry shouldn't be "fixed." It should be burned to the ground and its ashes pissed on.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

I forget-- who controls the White House, Senate, and House?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

She is not doing well

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Schiff: This is supposed to be an oversight hearing when dozens of prosecutors have been fired simply because they worked on cases investigating the former president.

Bondi: What about the fires in California? Are the riots in LA serious?

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Soybean Farmer: So now I've got a tariff war that's killing my market. I don't have any money from grain we're sending to other countries for USAID. I mean, I've got a compound problem. I don't know how you plan for next year because we don't know where we're at.

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 1d

Ryan Walters used his job to push Christian Nationalism, punish teachers, and turn public schools into culture war battlegrounds.

Now he’s gone—and Oklahoma is racing to undo his damage.

The reckoning has begun. 👇

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahoma-h...

Oklahoma has already started erasing Ryan Walters’ disastrous legacy

The Christian Nationalist superintendent’s resignation has sparked a statewide effort to undo his damage

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

A defiant U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi refuses to answer questions from US Senators and goes on the attack when questioned about her decisions made as the U.S. Attorney General.

Oct 7, 2025

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

By all means, indict Jack Smith on bullshit allegations and give him the trial that SCOTUS denied him.

Poke the bear, Donnie. See what happens.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Update from the war zone in Portland.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Sara Cress @saracress.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the kind of stuff he was worried about during the last session. A lotttttta whining. bsky.app/profile/sara...

Sara Cress @saracress.bsky.social · May 22

The Texas House is currently debating SB 11, which would allow prayer time in schools with very little instruction on how that would work, exactly. ANYWAY, here's Rep. Brent Money talking about the good old days before trans people were invented. #txlege

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Sara Cress @saracress.bsky.social · May 22

The Texas House is currently debating SB 11, which would allow prayer time in schools with very little instruction on how that would work, exactly. ANYWAY, here's Rep. Brent Money talking about the good old days before trans people were invented. #txlege

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polillitam G.M. 💙🦋🦋🦋 @polillitam.bsky.social · 1d

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'Deeply worried': Shocking photo of masked agent pointing gun at woman alarms expert

Department of Homeland Security officers who are enforcing President Donald Trump's immigration agenda are taking an increasingly violent posture against protesters — and American Immigration Council ...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Sue Carr @scarr54.bsky.social · 2d

You can’t fix stupid and this man is an idiot!

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SailBum @sailbum.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to stop the terror in the a
Streets of Chicago tell ICE to get the FUCK out of Chicago.

youtube.com/shorts/SEor7...

Chicago mayor says ‘ICE tear-gassed our police,’ calls for investigation

YouTube video by NBC Chicago

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Van Zandt County Democratic Party @vzctxdems.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, Hunt County's HD2 Rep Brent Money, just like Gov. Abbott, does nothing.

Time for Texas to vote-out the do nothings and vote-in real leaders.

Bobby Cole @bobbyfortx.bsky.social · 2d

A couple more ERs closed in North Texas last month, making the drive to the nearest ER for some communities longer than 20 minutes. That's too long if you're having a heart attack. www.wfaa.com/article/news...

One of the fastest-growing counties in Texas just lost two emergency rooms

The CEO of Hunt Regional Healthcare said financial issues forced the hospital system to close two freestanding emergency rooms in Quinlan and Commerce.

www.wfaa.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

There is no acceptable excuse for zip-tying children! None.

This shouldn’t even have to be said.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 2d

Proud to welcome Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid, Princess of Belgium, as part of the nation's largest trade mission to California.

There’s no better place to do business than right here in California — the world’s fourth-largest economy.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Turning the military on citizens.

Attempting to rig elections.

Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.

Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

Last year they claimed “illegals” were voting, without any evidence.

They used fear mongering to push for voter suppression laws.

Now they claim “illegals” are getting free healthcare, again without any evidence.

So they can make healthcare unaffordable for millions of Americans.

Enough.

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