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CheekyGnome

@cheekygnome.bsky.social
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North Jersey native in the Land of Enchantment. Reader - history, art, science, banned. Saved by rock n roll. 🎸 Dog lover 🐾 Child of a Liverpudlian 🛳️ Elect Bozo, expect a clown show 🤡 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 PROSECUTE & IMPRISON 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Make America make sense again.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
What do these companies have in common: -Amazon -Walmart -FedEx -McDonald's -Dollar General -DoorDash -Instacart They're all highly profitable, give their CEOs lucrative salaries, and pay thousands of workers starvation wages — making them reliant on SNAP and Medicaid.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
BREAKING NYT: Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states "based solely" on whether they backed Trump in the 2024 election.
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
They died serving our country. They should be honored, not erased. Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of North Carolina
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Meet the senior staff running Mitch McConnell's DC office. You pay their salaries. You're entitled to know what they're keeping from us. Let them know how you feel.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Midwest Poultry Services is recalling more than 19 million eggs from its Texas farms over concerns about possible Salmonella contamination, according to the FDA. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Meidas Rick ❌🚫🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
RESURFACED: A painfully awkward video of Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard straight into his own nuts on live TV is going viral again, reminding everyone of one of his most embarrassing on-air moments. Share widely! This should be shared daily!!! 🤣🤣🤣 substack.com/@reallyameri...
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Really American (@reallyamerican)
RESURFACED: A painfully awkward video of Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard straight into his own nuts on live TV is going viral again, reminding everyone of one of his most embarrassing ...
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Forbes @forbes.com · 22/07/2026
Siad was under investigation in France for allegedly helping Epstein traffic and abuse women.
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Model Scout Said To Have Linked Epstein With Young Women Found Dead In Paris
Siad was under investigation in France for allegedly helping Epstein traffic and abuse women.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“.. The number of Amazon workers relying on the federal programs for the poor nearly tripled between February 2020 and September 2025 .. “.. And for the first time, ride-hailing and app-based food delivery companies .. ranked among the top three ..” $AMZN www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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NPR @npr.org · 22/07/2026
Republicans passed a more than $1-trillion Pentagon bill alongside a budget blueprint that would let them bypass Democrats and unlock other funds for the Iran war and Trump's election overhaul bill. n.pr/4pxoW2e
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House passes Pentagon funding and limits on stock trades in a last dash before recess
Republicans passed more than $1 trillion for the Pentagon alongside a budget blueprint that would let them bypass Democrats to unlock new funds for the Iran war and Trump's election overhaul bill.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🚨 WARNING 🚨 BREAKING: Police fatally shoot unidentified man in Madison, Wisconsin. According to witnesses, the man was shot in the head three times by police. According to witness Michael Doubek, the man had already been tased, was nearly handcuffed. That's just an execution pure and simple.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/07/2026
NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom. GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Trump has been pushing to increase military spending by hundreds of billions of dollars. 🤔 Trump’s sons are starting to invest in defense companies and stand to make a profit. Drink the #CupOfJoe that @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social is serving. #EyesWideOpen
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Worcestershire Wildlife Trust @worcswt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Are you passionate about wildlife and have a strong understanding of woodland, trees and wetland improvements for the benefit of wildlife? 🌳✨ Apply to be our Severn Treescapes Woodland and Wetland Advisor! 👉 www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/jobs/severn-... #WorcestershireJobs #WildlifeJobs
Recruitment poster for Worcestershire Wildlife Trust seeking a Severn Treescapes Woodland and Wetland Advisor, "Work with us" headline over a sunlit green tree canopy with the trust's badger logo.
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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 20/07/2026
ICE has STOLEN an Indigenous Tribal ELDER from NM, who was on her way to CHEMO. She stopped for gas, ICE then approached her, she showed all of her proper, legal documentation. They still stole her away. They're denying her of life saving CHEMO. When will it be enough. #ShedShed #ViVaHerAlliance
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 20/07/2026
Puppy Court is now in session!
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
As if America’s diarrhea shitstorm wasn’t bad enough, now it’s also the locus of passive aggressive beef between lettuce guys and the FDA:
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The FDA Says It Didn't Apologize to Supplier Linked to Diarrhea Outbreak, Actually
The agency stressed that the July 17 voluntary recall from Taylor Farms still stands. The supplier has been linked to the ongoing cyclospora outbreak.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Chaco Canyon is sacred—and a living landscape! Make your voice heard. Chaco Canyon is not for sale. And, we’re fighting like hell to protect it. Join us! Submit your public comment here: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-...
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Getting Citizens Bank to divest from ICE was a homegrown effort here. I can’t tell you how well organized this fight was.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026
14/ Read our full investigation:
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This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.
One of the few requirements for Arkansas private schools is that they have an American flag and a flagpole. But millions in state funds go to the largely unmonitored schools while complaints about saf...
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.
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Christine Kinser @ckinser.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
🆘DON’T KILL🐶MIKA V affectionate, afraid of strangers, led 2 a few bites. Imagine how this tiny puppy felt when family dumped her w/strangers? She had a rough start but recently, says ACC significantly improved; been loose & wiggly, leans in for 4, easily leashed, does well on walks 🙏Repost2find🏡
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The documents that Trump released and endorsed clearly validate and detail a massive Russian intelligence service operation to elect Donald Trump of which he and his entourage were aware and in which they knowingly participated. Russiagate is real, we learn.
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
WE are paying for this nonsense
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
"Paxton recently bought 3 condos at a luxury resort in Utah worth a total of $1.6m and transferred them to his blind trust. On the deeds, Paxton listed his address as a Dallas-area home. Police records indicate a woman who is not his wife & has been photographed vacationing with Paxton lives there"
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Ken Paxton Bought 3 Utah Condos, Adding to a $9 Million Real Estate Portfolio (Gift Article)
The Texas attorney general and his trusts now hold at least 15 properties worth about $9 million.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"A White House teleprompter operator used his position to win around $100,000 by placing bets on the prediction market Kalshi about what President Trump would say in his speeches, the company said on Thursday."
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White House Teleprompter Operator Bet on Trump Speeches, Kalshi Says
A technical assistant to President Trump won around $100,000, according to the prediction market, which flagged the activity to the federal government.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2026
If the head of US intelligence isn't able to say who won the election in 2020, then maybe he shouldn't be head of US intelligence.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In today's confirmation hearings for tRump toady, pedophile enabler, EPSTEIN victims nemesis, Ghislaine Maxwell protector & disgrace to the legal profession Todd Blanche as Attorney General, please vote:
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026
PADILLA: Do you personally believe that someone who forcibly entered the Capitol and assaulted law enforcement should be rewarded with taxpayer money? BLANCHE: I can't answer yes or no
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/07/2026
NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.
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FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Todd Blanche: We are keeping America safe. Murders are down. Renee Good. Alex Pretti. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 14/07/2026
Trumpers: We have done great, if we can take credit for the Obama and Biden presidencies.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Susan Collins voted to give ICE and CBP $70 billion. She owns the consequences of that vote.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 13/07/2026
Federal agents and local cops are inking thousands of deals to collaborate on immigration law enforcement, while stockpiling historic amounts of military-grade weapons. That’s the takeaway from contractual agreements, federal procurements, DoD. property data, and records requests.
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Feds and Deputized Cops Stockpiling War Machines for Deportation - The American Prospect
A year after Trump allocated billions for his immigration terror campaign, deportation agents are amassing historic amounts of military weapons.
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WIRED @wired.com · 12/07/2026
Madison Square Garden kept a database of its most famous and powerful visitors, assigning risk scores to some and labeling others as “LGBTQIA.”
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Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham’s legacy as an election denier will get sanitized by the media. Keep an eye on how CBS, CNN, TikTok (Ellison-owned properties) report on and share stories of Graham.
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Oracle's Larry Ellison joined Nov.
2020 call about contesting
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The billionaire GOP donor participated along with Fox's Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant
May 20, 2022
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I know it shocks everyone that Republicans are attempting to commit voter fraud in Massachusetts and Florida. #USDemocracy newrepublic.com/post/212823/...
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Republicans in Two Different States Caught Committing Election Fraud
One allegedly forged signatures in order to get on the ballot, while others are accused of producing a fake guide for voters.
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Vote these monsters out! #ICELawlessness
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 11/07/2026
Every name on this list was a person with a family, a story, and a life. How many more names? ICE must be abolished. #SheShed
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/07/2026
In a normal democracy—one with, say, free markets and the rule of law—a major retailer should have no issue publicly confirming that it made pricing decisions for business reasons only. We do not live in one. The latest edition of Receipts from @crampell.bsky.social:
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The Price of Staying on Trump’s Good Side
A classic trick in the Trump playbook: take credit for a company’s sale or investment that was already in the works.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 10/07/2026
As the D.C. District Court made clear, the illegal and inaccurate expansion of the SAVE database has been voided, and we expect the government to comply with the court’s order. We will do everything in our power to continue vindicating the privacy and voting rights of millions of Americans.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/07/2026
SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
5/ Also highly recommend. This analysis showing how Rubio's State Department has tried to manufacture a foreign “antifa” organizational threat. By @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/125072/fto-s...
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State Dept's FTO Designations Undermine Claims of "Antifa" Threat
Leading counter-extremism expert unpacks the administration's claimed designation of "Antifa Groups"
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE Agent is once again using excessive force If slamming a man’s face into a concrete wall isn’t assault, then attacking the guy that caught him on video is! Screen shot of agents face is in replies make sure everyone sees him!
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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“Can you imagine if this was a woman and they were showing naked pictures of Ivanka in a hotel room?” - Hunter Biden
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Hunter Biden is not an expert on the Epstein files | Friends Keep Secrets
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 09/07/2026
“I saw a video posted on Facebook that he had been shot. I recognized him immediately,” the son said, his voice breaking. “Not from his appearance, but from his voice, crying for help as he lay on the street, bleeding out.” trib.al/CorCsif
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