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@jake100.bsky.social
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Lowly citizen observer and commentator. No party, only country affiliation. Deep roots in flyover country, matured in blue states, now ensconced in foreign land. (@jake200.bsky.social is also me!)

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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This pretty clearly lays it out, but it's just the tip of the iceberg. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term
Bitcoin, internet, EVs, private dinners for hire – the list of pay-for-play and quid quo pro goes on, and on … and on
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"Honestly, Brian, I don't think this is a man who is frequently confronted by anybody." @smith.senate.gov to Brian Tyler Cohen Or ever has been.
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Sherry @sherry2.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Here's hate: South Carolina State Senator Tom Fernandez drives his $200k, Kevlar coated Hellfire Apocalypse Jeep Gladiator to peaceful No Kings protest to lay on his air horn, flip 2 birds, and mouth "Fuck You" to his constituents F U Fernandez www.fitsnews.com/2025/06/16/s...
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South Carolina's 'Senator Boobs' Flips Off Liberal Protesters - FITSNews
How Tom Fernandez rolls...
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
You say you never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realize He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say do you want to make a deal? ... Ain't it hard when you discovered that He really wasn't where it's at After he took from you everything he could steal
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16/06/2025
PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015. THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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haller55.bsky.social @haller55.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Do you have any idea how *ridiculous* we look as a nation to other #G7 world leaders? Starting in 2017, we have sent them, and they have laughingly let us call "the most powerful man in the world": - First, a preening, bullying, clueless pseudo-millionaire (True, they had already had experience with
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16/06/2025
PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015. THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Photo from The Hill's Al Weaver (from Xitter) catches Tina Smith confronting Mike Lee.
A photo taken in The Capitol, possibly just off the floor. Tina Smith, wearing black slacks and a maroon jacket, is facing off against Mike Lee, who is leaning towards her.
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Which country is more bloodthirsty? Israel, who massacres other countries' citizens OR Russia, who butchers their own citizens ? Stay tuned.
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
While members of Congress want their personal information, such as addresses, hidden to protect them, the U.S. government published the home address of the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia who then had to be put in protective custody because of threats...
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This guy travelled around the world to spread his venom. Who paid for it?? #Boelter
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
You'd think police would be outraged that a fanatic was impersonating them to carry out a political assassination. Have there been statements from any police chiefs around the country regarding the murders? This is devastating for public confidence in the police. #Boelter
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I know the #Mormon community to be kind, generous and caring- for everyone in their community, not just Mormons. So, how they could elect someone like Mike Lee to represent them is at best perplexing, at worst infuriating. Mike Lee betrayed the good people of Utah, his professed religion, his office
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
#Boelter claimed to be strongly anti-abortion, but he didn't hesitate to make some children parentless. Clearly, he really cares about life, which can be said for all those rabid fanatics who blow up clinics, shoot doctors, harass patients, and invade their privacy. They care about life - their own.
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Trump won't send the National Guard to Arkansas or North Carolina to help with natural disasters (because states should do more!), but a peaceful protest in LA brings out thousands of troops...
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Regardless of one’s position on abortion, this is legally correct.
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Silicon Valley's very own Ted Kaczynski - just as wacko, just as deadly, but glorified because he has money. He is rich - which, in Silicon Valley, is confused with "smart" ... He's a menace to us all, just as Thiel is.
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The Ukrainians didn't inform the US about their attack yesterday. Because they were afraid someone in the US administration would inform the Russians? Because they don't view US communications as secure? (From Russia or China) Because they view the US as more aligned with Russia than with #Ukraine?
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Let's be honest. Eastern Europe is becoming increasingly authoritarian because that's what those people know and like the best, especially men and people outside the cities. They miss the all-powerful leader to maintain status quo, keep the right people in and the wrong people out! Trump people!!
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Russia suffered 1,230 casualties YESTERDAY (in ONE day) in #Ukraine. Russia averages 1,000 casualties PER DAY. Putin is a monster - to his own people! For pointing that out, Prigozhin was blown out of the sky. This is the guy Trump has great conversations with (we don't know how many...).
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Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
This guy is rambling about what groceries are called and we're really having a discussion about Biden's failing health? Media, heal thyself.
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
To air on May 22 on ZDF @zdfde.bsky.social : "Coup of the Tech Billionaires" (Staatsstreich der Tech-Milliardäre) Here's a quote from the journalist, Claus Kleber (well-known in Germany). "This [the title] means certain billionaires from Silicon Valley fundamentally influence the new political ->
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The arrests and closure of "Königreich Deutschland" in Germany yesterday were on the basis of a "criminal conspiracy". Their goal was an alternative state to the Republic of Germany. Something to think about, Thiel & Co. Money doesn't get you everything.
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Germany's radical reshaping under Nazi rule - every area of life from literature, culture and the arts to religion, education and science - happened in *less than a year* and penetrated and reordered every aspect of German society. The Nazi regime took more and more radical measures. #Project2025
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 06/05/2025
The Senate votes tomorrow on Trump's pick to lead Social Security. Trump and Musk are putting us on a glidepath to privatization, and Frank Bisignano is the yes-man that will help them do it. Republicans will be to blame when seniors and folks with disabilities start missing checks.
A photo of me standing behind a podium at a Social Security rally in Washington DC. Signs behind me read stop the steal, protect Social Security.
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
All these new books are interesting, but we won't hear the real stories until Biden dies.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A modest request: In reports about Trump's endless, lawless exec orders, maybe point out that he *does not have* legal power to do these things. Trump did not "make it official" or "make good" on this bullying, as @semafor.com contends. He has ZERO official power to do this. King Canute dept.
Article from Semafor saying that Trump "made it official" in his threats to cut PBS and NPR funding.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Is this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Why don't we see any AI renditions of Trump as Israeli Chief Rabbi, either Ashkenazi or Sephardic?? #Pope
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Culture of cruelty. Culture of impunity.
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Republignorant. You can also read "repugnant" into it.
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The trumped-up arrest of a judge in Milwaukee takes my breath away. This is real, serious Third Reich territory. What's next for Bondi & Co? Making defendants appear before a judge while forced to wear trousers two sizes too big and no belt? It's coming. Watch films of Nazi judges and courtrooms.
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
A reminder: DOGE is not a congressionally approved agency and has no legal authority. Where's their money coming from?
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
These days, it's more reassuring to spend your time with furry creatures.
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The rich get rich and the poor get poorer. In the meantime, in between time, ain't we got fun?!
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Julie O'Donoghue @jsodonoghue.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Incredibly, while Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana repeatedly refused to cover the surgeries of many, many women, the insurance company DID cover the surgeries of the wives of the insurance company's executives. #lalege
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/04/2025
I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
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Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
So apparently the drug Mounjaro turns you into a Trump-and-Netanyahu-enabling sellout www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/o...
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Opinion | John Fetterman: GLP-1 Drugs Saved My Health. More Americans Need Access.
The government should make it easier to access GLP-1s.
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Dear Mr. Xi, When you start turning off the electricity in the U.S., please make sure the MAGA strongholds are hit first and most, e.g. Texas, Florida (especially Palm Beach), North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and the entire South. Thank you!
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I bet the Chinese army doesn't have any problem recruiting people anymore.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Guys, guys, guys. It’s not math. It’s not finance. It’s not economics. It’s all about psychology. Abnormal psychology. Read the DSM-5’s chapters on Cluster B personality disorders. And then it all becomes clear. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Japan tariffs - 25% on cars, 24% on other exports Japanese companies: - invested $800B in the US in 2023. - have been the US' biggest foreign investors for the past 5 years. - employed 529,000 Americans in 2022. Japan hosts the most strategic US military bases in Asia - which it does not have to.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
the entire financial industry from pundits to ceos need to be marched in front of the american public and forced to explain wtf they were thinking by backing the guy who admitted during the campaign they would intentionally destroy the economy
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Ms. Kevin @kkalmes31.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
So, you piss off China like never before, enrage them, really, and at the same time you dismantle your cybersecurity apparatus. Brilliant!!! Americans have NO IDEA what awaits them.
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jake100.bsky.social @jake100.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Dems better hurry up and find a new target BEFORE #Musk leaves! They'll never have one as good as him - which is why, of course, Republicans (mainly Susie?) are moving him out of there. How about the PayPal Mafia? to keep Musk in the picture and supplement him with equally reprehensible billionaires
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