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You can call me Paulette. I care about the incredible ecosystems we're losing due to humanity being terrible stewards. I also care about said humanity. I live in CT, and yes, I'm an old cat lady.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Here’s a clip of the Zach Bryan song that has MAGA furious.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2025
DURBIN: You won't even say whether you talked to the WH about this? BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any internal conversations with you D: They're going to transfer TX Guard troops to the state of Illinois. What's the rationale? B: I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job. Hope it's a good one for everybody! #HappyLaborDay
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
💥 The NFL is stoked to be woke. “All 32 teams will feature an end zone message of their choice at each home game throughout the season, selecting from four options: ‘End Racism,’ ‘Stop Hate,’ ‘Choose Love’ or ‘Inspire Change.’ africa.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
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Social justice messages to continue in end zones
For the sixth straight season, all 32 NFL teams will feature a message of their choice in one end zone at each home game and "It Takes All of Us" in the opposite one.
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pmcintx @pmcintx.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
One overlooked tidbit: RI voted Kamala. Governor is Dem. The wind farm was to benefit RI and CT. Blue states. Meanwhile, in Texas, wind is booming. From Texas public comptroller site:
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The only thing better than a wind farm for your ocean view is a 9/10 completed wind farm sitting there doing nothing. Thank, Don
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/08/2025
NEWS: DNC Chair Ken Martin says TX State Rep. Nicole Collier was threatened with a FELONY charge for speaking on a press call with him, Cory Booker, and Gavin Newsom.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"Why Did Meta’s AI Policy Let Chatbots Have ‘Sensual’ Conversations With Kids?" Forget the AI apocalypse: chatbots are already wreaking havoc, writes @jacobsilverman.com for Zeteo. But it’s not too late for Congress to try and bring tech companies to heel. Read/share/subscribe:
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Why Did Meta’s AI Policy Let Chatbots Have ‘Sensual’ Conversations With Kids?
Forget the AI apocalypse: chatbots are already wreaking havoc. But it’s not too late for Congress to do something to bring tech companies to heel.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Mass Die-Off of Western Monarch Butterflies Linked to Pesticides, Study Finds Shameful we are not acting to stop the wipe out of these beautiful Butterflies but profit of pesticide industry who buy politicians is all that matter www.ecowatch.com/monarch-butt...
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Mass Die-Off of Western Monarch Butterflies Linked to Pesticides, Study Finds - EcoWatch
A new peer-reviewed study has linked pesticides as a likely cause to a mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies that occurred in 2024.
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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’: Author Michael Grunwald reckons with the challenge of food-based climate emissions in his new book We Are Eating the Earth Ridding ourselves of fossil fuels has been a tortuously ponderous pro...
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Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’
Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’: Author Michael Grunwald reckons with the challenge of food-based climate emissions in his new book We Are Eating the Earth Ridding ourselves of fossil fuels has been a tortuously ponderous pro...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Israel, which does not allow foreign journalists into Gaza…has killed 237 journalists since the war started, according to Gaza’s government media office. The Committee to Protect Journalists said at least 186 journalists have been killed in the Gaza conflict. apple.news/At7CSM72NQWe...
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Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza — The Guardian
Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 11/08/2025
Department of Homeland Security agents, loitering around a nightlife district in D.C. as part of a presidential show of force? More proof of the need to unwind the entire department.
Three uniformed Border Patrol agents standing at the corner of 7th & H St. N.W., near an entrance of the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro station. Two uniformed Homeland Security Investigations agents patrolling a sidewalk in the Chinatown neighborhood of D.C.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%... "That's just how it is."
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
In my piece on Gov. Greg Abbott’s suit, I briefly addressed why his allegations that the Democratic legislators committed bribery are entirely meritless. But I’m so annoyed by this that I might have to write more. It’s just so unserious. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-le...
More troubling is that Abbott barely even attempts to provide a factual basis for his accusations. His central claims are threefold: (1) Wu met with "outside groups" to
"procure funding" that would "enable" Democrats to flee the state; (2) He accepted "things of value," including a trip on a private jet, to "facilitate" the withholding of his vote; (3) He continuously "solicited" money in connection with the group's coordinated "official action."
While Abbott claims that these allegations amount to bribery "on their face," he doesn't bother to show how.
Perhaps that's because, had he tried, it would quickly become apparent that the alleged conduct does not amount to bribery. Among other reasons, there's not a scintilla of evidence of corrupt intent. There's also no suggestion of an exchange. Rather, there is evidence that Wu decided to leave the state and deny quorum and then sought financial support for his action. This is the difference between a politician accepting financial support from those who support his policies and actions and a politician corruptly accepting financial inducement to take certain positions.
The latter is a crime. The former is more norm than exception in political life.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/08/2025
NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs just terminated union contracts including AFL-CIO (AFGE), NAGE, NFFE, SEIU, and nursing unions NNOC and NNU. nurse.org/news/va-term...
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VA Just Terminated Most Federal Union Contracts, National Nurses United Included
The VA has terminated union contracts for over 360,000 healthcare workers, including nurses—raising urgent concerns about staffing, patient safety, and veteran care nationwide.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Federal law enforcement is being used to literally hunt down Texas Democrats in Illinois so Republicans can draw new electoral maps and disenfranchise millions of people. An extremely scary precedent is being set right now and Illinois is the first proving ground: www.axios.com/2025/08/07/f...
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FBI will help locate Texas Democrats who fled the state, Cornyn says
Texas GOP have been threatening the state legislators with "legal consequences" for breaking the quorum.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Pristine Forest and Endangered Gorilla Habitat at Risk as Half of DRC Opened to Bids for Oil and Gas Drilling: Disgusting our closest relatives stand no chance against the giant corporate who will obliterate their home for profit www.ecowatch.com/congo-oil-ga...
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Pristine Forest and Endangered Gorilla Habitat at Risk as Half of DRC Opened to Bids for Oil and Gas Drilling: Report - EcoWatch
The Democratic Republic of the Congo plans to open 306 million acres of tropical forest and gorilla habitat to oil and gas drilling.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
“Democrats could lose 42 seats” Bannon says he has been pushing for Trump to redo the census like this for 10 years — and Alex Degrasse says between stealing seats in Texas, a new census, and attacking the Voting Rights Act they hope to grab over 40 seats from Democrats.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
In Alabama, another horrible ICE detention story— pulled over for going 1 mile over the speed limit and then put into detention, a woman who earned a masters degree and has become a beloved community advocate. Not a criminal. Someone who contributes to America. www.al.com/news/2025/08...
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Alabama immigration advocate detained by ICE in traffic stop, family says: ‘Just heartbreaking and discouraging’
"Her detainment is not only legally questionable — it is morally wrong," a petition demanding her release reads.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
From this month's edition of The Onion.
ICE is hiring!

US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team.

Open positions include:
Senior Goon
Racism Enforcement Office
Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time)

Experience with children a plus

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
BREAKING on MSNBC: A group met to discuss Jeffrey Epstein and other topics at the White House last night. AG Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel were both there. Another topic discussed: Two fired FBI agents with ties to the Mar-a-Lago search. @msnbc.com
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
DHS Says DACA Recipients are “Illegal Aliens,” Tells Them to “Self-Deport” twp.ai/4ioweu
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DHS Says DACA Recipients are “Illegal Aliens,” Tells Them to “Self-Deport”
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Trump is wiping out scientific data on climate change And has already purged more than 8,000 government web pages and 3,000 dataset Outrageous decades of research erased because he doe s not want people to know the truth about climate change vitalsigns.edf.org/story/trump-...
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The Trump administration is wiping out scientific data on climate change. The data heroes are ready.
While the Trump administration is erasing critical health and environmental data from government websites, a group of scientists, archivists and volunteers is racing to rescue it.
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Detroit Breakdown @detroitbreakdown.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan. And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.
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PMO: Benjamin Netanyahu decides full IDF occupation of Gaza | The Jerusalem Post
The Prime Minister's Office conveyed the message to the Chief of Staff: If this does not suit you, then you should resign.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 04/08/2025
The photographer Mark Peterson spent several weeks documenting the presence of ICE agents at Federal Plaza, who line the hallways waiting to detain people as they leave their immigration hearings. nyer.cm/dnwU8MF
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Plastics 'crisis' is costing $1.5tn in global deaths from heart failure to dementia new report confirms Less than 10% of plastic is recycled Plastic set to triple to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060 More than 16,000 chemicals used in plastics, many not regulated phys.org/news/2025-08...
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Plastic pollution 'grave and growing' health threat: Lancet
Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We have hit pay dirt, so please stop talking about what we will forever call "the Jeffrey EPSTEIN Hoax" Sadly, his PAST supporters have bought into this "bullshit" hook, line and sinker. We should just be grateful he doesn't want their support anymore & stick together like glue. #EPSTEINS4EVER
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Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 31/07/2025
As President Trump strips health care away from millions of Americans and burdens working families with higher costs, he plans to build a $200 million ballroom for himself and his billionaire donors. This is an unbelievable display of excess and abuse of the presidency.
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Trump plans $200M overhaul of East Wing in significant change to White House
The project to construct a massive ballroom fulfills a wish for Trump, who has long disliked the tent pitched on the lawn to accommodate large-scale events.
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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Countries failing to act on UN climate pledge to triple renewables, thinktank finds: Fossil fuel reliance likely to continue and Cop28 target of limiting global heating to below 1.5C will be missed Most global governments have failed to act on the 2023 UN pledge to triple the world’s ren...
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Countries failing to act on UN climate pledge to triple renewables, thinktank finds
Countries failing to act on UN climate pledge to triple renewables, thinktank finds: Fossil fuel reliance likely to continue and Cop28 target of limiting global heating to below 1.5C will be missed Most global governments have failed to act on the 2023 UN pledge to triple the world’s ren...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Quiet part out loud — “The children's savings program included in Trump's (Trillions Transfer) is a back door for privatizing Social Security, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday.” apnews.com/article/trum...
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Brown University Bows To Trump Administration Amid 'Discrimination' Complaints twp.ai/4ipu6r
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Another University Bows To The Trump Administration
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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
New Zealand government votes to bring back fossil fuel exploration in major reversal: Ruling right-wing coalition votes to reverse ban, a move it believes will alleviate energy shortages and high prices New Zealand’s government has voted to resume oil and gas exploration despite an outcry...
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New Zealand government votes to bring back fossil fuel exploration in major reversal
New Zealand government votes to bring back fossil fuel exploration in major reversal: Ruling right-wing coalition votes to reverse ban, a move it believes will alleviate energy shortages and high prices New Zealand’s government has voted to resume oil and gas exploration despite an outcry...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/07/2025
A judge has blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and orders that it keep getting Medicaid funds. Follow below for the latest politics updates ⬇️
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Judge blocks Trump administration efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, largest abortion provider in US – live
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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Eastern US swelters from heatwave as high temperatures affect half of country: Heat and humidity are stretching east from the Mississippi River valley, and some areas could see heat indices of 120F The eastern half of the US is facing a significant heatwave, with more than 185 million peo...
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Eastern US swelters from heatwave as high temperatures affect half of country
Eastern US swelters from heatwave as high temperatures affect half of country: Heat and humidity are stretching east from the Mississippi River valley, and some areas could see heat indices of 120F The eastern half of the US is facing a significant heatwave, with more than 185 million peo...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.
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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for COP30 climate summit in Brazilian city of Belém. Also investing more than $81m (£62m) to expand airport capacity from 7 to 14 million passengers www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
America in a nutshell.
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Wim Meijer @wimgmeijer.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The EPA will eliminate its scientific research arm, firing chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.. As a result it can no longer assess impacts upon human health and the environment. Its destruction will devastate public health in the US… 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
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E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days. They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention. Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...
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Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone
A U.S. Army veteran arrested during an immigration raid at a California marijuana farm says he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle on his way to work.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Alina Habba doesn’t have the votes to get confirmed. newjerseyglobe.com/national/hab...
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Habba announces departure as U.S. Attorney - New Jersey Globe
U.S. Attorney Alina Habba told her staff on Thursday that her tenure as a federal prosecutor will come to an end on Tuesday when she hits the 120-day
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Alice ❌👑 @a-l-yang.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
ICE lawyers are allowed to hide their identities. Another step in the collapse of transparency and morality. theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
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ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court
ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 16/07/2025
In Trump’s first term, some Republicans balked at a conspiracy theorist who called Obama a “terrorist leader,” whom Trump had nominated for a senior Pentagon position. In Trump’s second term, Republicans unanimously confirmed retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata anyway www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Senate Republicans confirm retired general with ugly record for key Pentagon post
At Trump's behest, Senate Republicans elevated a conspiracy theorist who called Obama a “terrorist leader” to a senior Defense Department position.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
“Donald Trump … insist[s] that he never drew pictures. “However, several doodles and artworks created by the president surfaced online … to directly contradict his claims. They suggest Trump regularly produced sketches adorned with his trademark signature.” www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-sketc...
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 16/07/2025
🚨NEWS: Donald Trump is proposing to slash the federal budget line that funds the nation’s flood warning network. The White House is pushing this cut even after the deadly floods in Texas.
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Amid Deadly Floods, Lawmakers Left Gap In Warning System
Before the Texas disaster, Congress and successive presidents ignored demands to fully fund a nationwide system monitoring rivers for signs of flash floods.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
JUST IN: Gunman Opens Fire in Kentucky Church After Shooting State Trooper at Local Airport — Multiple Injuries twp.ai/4ioGSD
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Lexington, KY Airport/Church Shooting: Latest Info
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
This is the consequences when we chose the wrong direction.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 17/06/2025
Tech companies are officially merging with the military “The US Army today will direct commission four tech executives at the rank of Lt. Col.”
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Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs to commission into Army reserve, form 'Detachment 201' - Breaking Defense
“There’s an urgency to change and transform the Army and these guys [are] going to help,” said Col Dave Butler.
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