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D Lavoie

@djlavoie.bsky.social
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Comms and policy. Work for racial justice, social justice, economic justice. Former journo. Current Dad. Personal account, personal views. Signal: @djlavoie.99

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D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 2h
🚨🚨🚨SHOCKING🚨🚨🚨 Trump was lying and got the coverage he wanted anyway!
Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 5h
Pretty shocking how this dashed-off Truth post appears to be putting this controversy to bed. Will MAGA Inc actually pay this money back? By what mechanism? To what entity? Are they paying the higher ad rate Super PACs are charged or the discount rate of gov't PSAs? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads
The president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money.
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D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here's some fun shit I learned while researching a piece on the glut of touchscreen kiosks we have these days: human employees turned over customers 8 to 1 v kiosks because random customers don't have muscle memory for the pos the way a human does. Anyone who worked retail could've told them that
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Executing prisoners is not a legitimate power of government, despite its long and barbaric history, and we should put an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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