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Christy B

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Surviving in beautiful WNC with my horses & dogs. Stop the war now! ✌️

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Toots @ndcatlady.bsky.social · 6h
Better late than never??? Climate change is accelerating and he is removing trees. Not because they are dead but because of a golf course. It's madness. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Judge Orders Trump Administration to Answer for Tree Removals at D.C. Golf Course (Gift Article)
During a four-hour hearing, a federal judge demanded answers from the Trump administration about who authorized the removal of hundreds of trees at the East Potomac Golf Links.
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Louis Shalako @louisshalako.bsky.social · 5h
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Judge ‘furious’ as 430 trees are chopped down from golf course Trump wants to renovate | CNN Politics
A federal judge on Monday said she was “furious” with the Trump administration’s move over the weekend to cut down at least 430 trees from a Washington, DC, public golf course that President Donald Tr...
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 12h
Hahaha
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h
The Moron and Lunatic in the White House has now declared China and Russia aren’t helping Iran, and that if they were, “we would know about it very fast.” We do know. His own Defense Secretary told senators they are. Trump's covering for Putin and Xi as they help Iran kill American service members
Screenshot of a Truth Social post from Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), dated 10/12/26 at 7:45 PM, reading: “I see so many comments from the Radical Left Morons and Lunatics that China and Russia are helping the ‘wonderful’ Islamic Republic of Iran. If they are, it’s at a very low level, but I don’t believe they are at all. They have too much to lose, and we would know about it, and know about it very fast! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h
Scoop: Lesley Stahl's "60 Minutes" piece on the extremist Israeli settlers in the West Bank spurred HEATED clashes behind the scenes at CBS News, with Bari Weiss "very, very hands-on." Stahl grew so frustrated, she floated quitting. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
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Bari’s Stahl Showdown
Two recent clashes over Israel coverage have roiled Bari Weiss' CBS News, Status has learned, with one confrontation even pushing legendary “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl to the brink of quit...
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 22h
lol
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 22h
But the stories are out there now. They don’t care about the truth.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h
Zelensky on bombing the Russian data centers: “It’s pretty clear where the bots were coming from.”
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It matters that she's a member of Congress. This is an extreme escalation. He is attacking a member of the one body with the constitutional power to hold him accountable and check his crimes. And he's doing so trying to gin up a fake basis to strip her of her eligibility to be in Congress.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Doing a pre-dawn house raid is obviously being done as thuggish intimidation and as a literally violent assault on her and her family. Overaggressive raids happen in other contexts but in this case it's going out of their way to do politically targeted state terrorism.
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 22h
This thread says much of what was going thru my head about why it’s so dangerous & bad for the country. bsky.app/profile/andy...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 22h
Sorry I don’t find misogyny funny
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 22h
So many things are wrong about this that are based in the worst, ugliest parts of this moment & our history. But a big threat is that it’s an effort to chill accountability going forward by showing that no one is safe from an actual weaponized administration. It’s the most dangerous both-sidesism.
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 22h
Another looming public health crisis
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/10/2026
Many of Elon Musk's former DOGE foot soldiers have leveraged their government stints to fuel private-sector ambitions: building companies that tap government largesse or that deploy knowledge they garnered during their brief tenures in Washington.
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They came to Washington to dismantle government. Now, they’re profiting from it.
DOGE alumni have leveraged their government experience, raising at least half a billion dollars for firms spanning cyberwarfare, AI and data centers, a Post analysis found.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
More than 1.5 million people have watched our video on how the Roberts court has ushered in a new era of Jim Crow. See why youtube.com/shorts/QVBHg...
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Jim Crow 2.0 is here
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And that the Russians are giving intel on US to aid Iran in a hot war. It’s total insanity. It should be the biggest story in the country but all the Sunday shows were too busy letting Republicans spew the most unhinged lies & calling Dems communists. Complete failure by the MSM.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelenskyy on the continued Russian attacks on Ukraine energy infrastructure; "we are waiting. We are waiting for the details of the conversation between the Americans and the Russians. We are waiting to see what specific steps the Americans are ready to take."
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
They are too busy chasing the non-story on Ilhan Omar this AM.
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Obscene wealth & grotesque spending on hatred.
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It’s also one that the “highly weaponized Biden DOJ” didn’t touch.
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
He also threw in a lesbian joke for good measure. And dropped Joe Rogan & Theo Vonn’s names as his buddies.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Judges whose orders are ignored by the Trump regime need to do more than complain from the bench. They need to throw people in jail.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So executing a valid search warrant to recover stolen classified documents at Mar-a-Lago is an “illegal, partisan witch hunt” Yet when a racist president who tried to incite a race war against Somalis and called Ilhan Omar “garbage” has DOJ raid her home for this sham, it’s supposedly acceptable
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
How to track the effects of Trump's mismanagement? Look at a) emergencies and b) big, public-facing agencies. New at Can We Still Govern? @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social & Ellis Chen break down the data of the mess at IRS. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/things-rea...
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Things Really Are Getting Worse at IRS
Data show damage to service quality and taxpayer privacy in a more politicized agency
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You might remember images of the volume of paper at IRS. Biden created a new in-house scanning system to deal with the problem. Trump stopped that project, contracted it out at higher cost. The contractor was unable to deliver and its been further scaled back. So the paper keeps mounting.
an IRS cafeteria filled with paperBut in April 2025, work was suspended, as agency leadership decided to switch to using contractors. After initially prioritizing 26 tax forms for scanning, “concerns about the contractors’ readiness” led the agency to scale back the program to only three major tax forms. Early data from Treasury Inspector General shows that even this downsized goal is not near to being met; from May through December 2025, only 18% of the paper forms were successfully scanned.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Are y’all just parrots now? The facts relate to decades old paperwork that her Dad completed bsky.app/profile/just...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Judge Reyes' opening statement to the DOJ as the hearing begins: "I am thoroughly unamused right now."
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Also Trump keeps doing this… bsky.app/profile/rbre...
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Everytime I think it’s impossible for me to hate him more…
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING WaPo: A federal judge just ordered the Trump admin to stop cutting down trees at East Potomac Golf Links after preservationists asserted that more than 500 were felled Saturday and "hundreds more" were slated for removal.
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Judge halts tree removal at D.C. golf course that Trump has proposed overhauling
Plaintiffs had said “hundreds more” were slated for the ax, and the judge ordered a stop to all tree removal until 7 a.m. Tuesday or until she issues another order.
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The permission structure for outwardly naked xenophobia & racism is crazy.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If Ilhan Omar was a Norwegian Christian, Trump wouldn't be going after her. The attack on her is an obvious campaign of racial and religious hatred. And it only works if a majority of voters have lost their sense of decency.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So it's not even tied to all of the other MAGA conspiracy theories and accusations they've lobbed at her over the years, such as her marrying her brother or being the ringleader of a Medicaid fraud ring. Instead, it's about paperwork her dead father filled out 40 years ago when she came to the US.
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Pope Impious @popeimpious.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Meanwhile….
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Mitch McConnell Staring
ALT: Mitch McConnell Staring
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I literally just said the exact same thing to my BF before I saw this. It’s exactly like that. And 💯 fabricated
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
listen i won’t shed a single tear for kim or any of the women who work for trump, but it remains interesting that only the women in his orbit suffer consequences for being pieces of shit
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
She knows WAAAAYYYY too much for him to just fire her. Also Trump has basically done the same thing but to the tune of multi-, multi-millions. He just knows not to “paper” these things.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 12/10/2026
Garnet broke a huge story. We don't have salaries and we still pay for fact-checking. Please support our worker-owned, paywall-free publication with a gift or paid subscription today: www.autonomynews.co/support/
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Elon Musk amplified the conspiracy theory, leading to a lot of right-wing frenzy. The Ohio facility, a small institution no doubt suddenly inundated by calls and harassment, finally said tonight that this is all false.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In August, Trump purchased between $1m and $5m in SpaceX bonds. Two days later, he signed a memorandum setting out a new policy pledging US government support for space transportation companies: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Military-base housing is “reserved for military who have earned those quarters from fighting in wars and defending our country... They should not be used for people in the White House. It’s an abuse.” www.vanityfair.com/story/stephe...
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MAGA’s Petit Trianon? Katie and Stephen Miller’s House on a Military Base
From her house on a military base, Katie Miller treats Washington’s most powerful to cakes, farm animals, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs. "I can’t fucking stand her,” says one ally. But "Stephen Mil...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Weakness is dangerous, and Trump is dangerously weak. And, as weaklings do, he blames others for his own failures, and thereby makes everything worse." My latest essay: "War Through Weakness: Trump’s Superpower Suicide in Iran and Russia" snyder.substack.com/p/war-throug...
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War Through Weakness
Trump’s Superpower Suicide in Iran and Russia
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
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ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The @houstonchronicle.com posted this video and it's pretty jarring. No matter that he was fleeing, law enforcement officers may not use deadly force on someone who poses no significant risk of death or serious injury to others. Deliberately hitting someone with a car is a use of deadly force.
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Christy B @bchristyb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hope so!
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