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Barbie Stombock

@grammyb2gman.bsky.social
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Small town girl. Proud daughter of a volunteer fireman. Shop owner. Grammy B to little dude.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14/10/2026
The White House is hiding a report about your taxes until after you vote. Each year the IRS publishes data on what people at every income level deducted and owed. This version is the first look at the GOP tax law from 2025. It was expected in July. It’s October. Full story at link in comments ⬇️
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ms Rachel from the top ropes
From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ohio doesn’t have anyone in the Senate fighting for us – we’re changing that this November.
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God @thegodshow.com · 27/09/2026
Thou shalt not use tax dollars to pay for fascist commercials.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
US national debt just hit $40 trillion. Why? HINT: It's NOT because the government is trying to provide its citizens healthcare or childcare.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/08/2026
BBC lawyers are moving to subpoena Don Jr., Ivanka, and Jared Kushner in Trump’s $10B defamation case, arguing the trio can speak to what Trump really intended when he addressed the crowd at the Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Show this as an ad nationwide, and the Dems win 410 House seats. (OK, that's an exaggeration. Make that 409)
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you’re hiding in a catering truck when you control the most powerful military in the world, you aren’t winning.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just want to say that @jaketapper.bsky.social wrote a book on the wrong candidate’s dementia and that should be obvious to every American.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Nothing infuriates fascists more than being held accountable for their own failures. YOU did this, Pete Hegseth. You and Donald Trump. For nothing. An absolute catastrophe. If you had a shred of integrity you'd resign and disappear from public life forever.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The misogynistic smearing of a former First Lady at a White House event sanctioned by a President … is a stain that will not be removable
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Something we really have to grapple with: the Biden administration and Democratic congress worked pretty hard to drive real investment into rural communities, and many of them responded by spitting in the Democrats' face. This isn't an insurmountable problem, but it can't be papered over either
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The courts ruled that Donald Trump had to pay back the $166 billion he stole through his illegal tariffs. Now, he's fighting back. Cut the crap, Donald. It's time to cut the check.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14/06/2026
Remembering a multi-day conservative freakout because Lizzo briefly played a founding father’s flute
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12/06/2026
The world now has its first trillionaire, but 39% of families in Florida are using "Buy Now, Pay Later" apps to buy groceries. This is Donald Trump’s America. A playground for the mega rich built entirely on the credit card debt of hungry children. What are we even doing?
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
live your life in such a way that the entire world isn’t waiting to see your accursed name pried off every building
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 04/06/2026
Trump and Stephen Miller built up a paramilitary force at DHS that they essentially promised immunity, and set it loose on American communities. I'm not going to write a blank check for a federal agency that refuses to distinguish between American citizens and violent criminals.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/06/2026
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“It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.
 
From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.
 
To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.
 
Happy Pride, New York City.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Hey remember when Trump said he didn’t know what Project 2025 was and the super serious mainstream media swallowed it? 😕🤷🏼
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Vietnam War veterans who dedicated much of their lives to U.S. government service are suing the Trump admin to halt the construction of Trump's proposed arch. Its planned height — twice of the Lincoln Memorial — would obstruct the view between the two hallowed memorials in a "disrespectful" manner.
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Vietnam Vets Sue to Block Trump's Triumphal Arch That Could Overshadow Arlington National Cemetery: ‘It's Just Disrespectful’
Vietnam veterans are suing the Trump administration to halt construction on the president’s proposed arch near Arlington National Cemetery, with at least one veteran reconsidering his desire to be bur...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Everything about this is fake. The Pentagon is recruiting hundreds of troops to pretend they’re spectators at Trump’s UFC cage-fighting event. They have to pay their own way and meet height and weight requirements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Donald Trump is sending the Justice Department after a woman he raped.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/05/2026
NEW: The $1.8B slush fund is NOT A SETTLEMENT. And now, 35 former judges have filed a motion to REOPEN the Trump/IRS case so the judge can commence an inquiry into whether the court was deceived. I've been sayin!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/05/2026
Stephen Miller: “We don’t check…” and “if you say your kids are hungry, you are going to get food stamps.” That’s a lie! SNAP applicants have to verify identity, income, household size, and citizenship or immigration status. Fraud rates are historically low.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/05/2026
Francis Maxwell: "The one thing America needs at this moment while a war is going on and affordability crisis is here is an octagon on the South Lawn — cage fight, at the White House, for Trump's birthday. Just take a second and imagine you were in a coma before 2016 and woke up to that sentence."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
And there you have it!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
#1. This is a lie. #2. Lots of dollars don't go to people who are lawfully, correctly, eligible to receive them. This administration wants to increase that total. #3. This admin has gutted professional anti-fraud tools (e.g. Inspectors Generals) while fueling massive fraud by cronies.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
And let’s not forget the writers, producers and crew who also made the Late Show what it was and who have lost their jobs because our president is a thin-skinned thug who deeply fears the ridicule he so richly deserves.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I saw this in Erin Brockovich. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Good reminder that the whole food assistance program is designed to benefit farmers and retailers...
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Chris Matthews🇦🇺 @larksong4.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
So we are now at the: 'throw off all pretence of democracy and do whatever it takes to maintain power'stage of fascism. The people of the USA are going to have to fight like Hungary to overcome this.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Presented with the text of Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address, MAGA goes crazy over how "woke" it is.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/05/2026
Energy Secretary Chris Wright backs off comments he made on Meet the Price in March that gas prices would be below $3 again this summer: "I can't make any predictions about oil prices or gasoline prices"
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"The Trump administration has laid off thousands of CDC scientists and public health professionals, including members of the agency’s ship sanitation program..." www.huffpost.com/entry/expert...
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Experts Wonder 'Where Is The CDC?' As A Hantavirus Outbreak Unfolds On A Cruise Ship
“The CDC is not even a player," said Lawrence Gostin, an international public health expert at Georgetown University. “I've never seen that before.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
‪G Elliott Morris‬: Democrats have now lost a net of six House seats in enacted or likely mid-decade redistricting across the U.S. They will need to win the House popular vote by 4 points to win the majority of seats. New House elec. simulations from Strength In Numbers
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Democrats now have to win the House vote by 4 points due to Republican gerrymandering
A new analysis by Strength In Numbers reveals the impacts of mid-decade and post-VRA redistricting by Republicans, with the now-missing Democratic counter-gerrymander in Virginia
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
When you see clips of people celebrating in Hungary after corrupt Orban is gone, realize that Trump, Vance and Rubio did everything they could to keep those celebrations from happening so Putin’s puppet could remain in power.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
All that’s missing are the inflatable flamingos. And it only cost us $6.9 million!
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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This Mother's Day - let's give more than cards and flowers. Let's listen to them, empower them, and build policies that support them. When we do that, everyone wins - especially our little ones. Happy Mother's Day, Moms. youtu.be/pfSFhuzpIVc?...
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Happy Mother's Day, Moms
YouTube video by Mallory McMorrow
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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Judicial nominee John George Edward Marck refuses to answer Chris Coons' question whether Trump can run for a third term.
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Nanners 🌻 @nanners3.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Sorry state we’re in when the president of the United States can call a reporter a bitch for asking a legitimate question about gas prices and the media says nothing… ? Shameful 😔
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Juliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
So Texas, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, and Tennessee can redraw districts without a referendum and that stands, but when Virginia lets voters decide directly at the ballot box, it gets overturned?
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Patrick Webb @patrickwbb.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
At 76% disapproval, Donald Trump has now set the record for the most unpopular president in American history.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Trump and Congressional Republicans don't think some Americans deserve to have their voice heard, which is what the SAVE Act is all about. Senate Democrats can't let this anti-voter bill become law.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. 85% of teachers are working second jobs during the school year, often just to keep up with the cost of living. Meanwhile, the average Wall Street employee got a bonus of $246,900 in 2025. Something has gone terribly wrong.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.
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