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Molly Jo @molly1jo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How did I miss that Foghorn Leghorn was happily assisting in this fiasco? On brand. #Kennedy And there's nothing on the board that "proves" Smith was in Atl. It sort of proves that Smith had a reserved seat for some sort of event. These guys are drunk on power. #DimBulbClub

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax

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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’

Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 26/09/2026

Susan Collins is shocked, shocked, that Russ Vought is illegally impounding funds at OMB. She voted to confirm him after he said a billion times that he believes Trump has a constitutional right to do exactly this. She also votes with Trump 96 percent of the time. The concern is theater.

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'Shocked Pikachu': Susan Collins mocked for criticism of Trump pick she voted to confirm

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) accused the White House budget office of "illegal actions" after it tried to cancel $810 million Congress had already approved. Critics answered by reminding her that she ...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s a lawless gangster government that murders people routinely and nobody knows who they are, what they were doing, or whether they actually committed any crime. The US military is now a Star Chamber with Hegseth as judge, jury and executioner.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sure does 😕🤷🏼

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Volunteer Blue @volunteerblue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We need to bring reality back to our country. These lies and deceptions are unacceptable in our country. The Trump regime is spewing 'alternative facts' each and every day. Come to Volunteer Blue to focus your energies in these last days before and after the election to stop this insanity.

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Stevenof1 @stevenof1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just a Reminder...

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ok, here's a compromise: Print out the unredacted Epstein Files and tape them to the Kennedy Center. Boom! His name will be all over the place.

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Wortha Price @worthaprice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And the cause of death?

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Molly Jo @molly1jo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So, I didn't know about Ed and Kraft's personal relationship! Makes more sense why Sheeran didn't just tell Kraft to go f himself when he was presented with the ultimatum: ditch Macklemore or cancel your big stadium tour. Knowing Sheeran has a long-term friendship with Kraft gives me the creeps.

Ed Sheeran on Why He Performed at Robert Kraft's Surprise Wedding: 'He's Super Sweet'

The singer-songwriter performed "Perfect" for the Patriots owner and his wife's first dance By Bailey Richards

Published on October 19, 2022

02:58PM EDT

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David Montana 🇺🇸🇨🇦🌈🇺🇦🇲🇽🇻🇪🇵🇸 @mountainman14.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But basically admitting that trump administration knows China IS helping kill troops...as is Russia.

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Molly Jo @molly1jo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm glad mainstream media is finally using the correct language. Autocracy works. As far as language goes, I wouldn't mind something stronger, but autocracy is a good first step. #F47

In Xi visit, Trump embraces autocracy

ALEX BRANDON The Associated Press

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walk with China President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, in the Grand Foyer of the White House on Thursday.

He bans American outlets while celebrating leader who brutally suppresses free speech.

Analysis by PETER BAKER The New York Times

WASHINGTON-At the White House gate, a throng of Chinese journalists was being admitted onto the grounds of the Execu tive Mansion to cover the visit of President Xi Jinping. Out on the street, several American journalists were blocked from entering the White House on the orders of President Donald Trump.

The scene on Pennsylvania Avenue on Thursday morning captured a surreal week in the life of Washington. The presi dent of the United States barred American reporters because he labeled them a threat to national security, while welcoming Chi-nese reporters who answer to the communist dictatorship in Beijing.

This would be the same president who is rünning gov ernment-paid television adver-tising vowing to stop the United States from becoming socialist or communist in the same week that he held a friendly meeting with the democratic socialist mayor of New York and rolled out a literal red carpet for the communist president of China. The same president who is wag-ing economic war against the prime minister of Canada while inviting the president of Russia to visit his Florida golf club.

In the epic contest between democracy and autocracy, Trump has long given the impression that he may be on the other side. But rarely has that been brought home as starkly as this week, as he pun ishes news outlets for being too

SEE CHINA ON AB

The limousine carrying President Xi Jinping of China drives past the assembled media outside the West Wing of the White House after his meeting with President Donald Trump on Thursday.

DOUG MILLS The New York Times

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This Is 👇 Why We Can't Have Nice Things,Chump.......

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED......

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The worst case scenario

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They had over 1,000 FBI Agents working to redact Trump's name from the Epstein Files. Just think about that.

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I hear immigrant children also have heartbeats.

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Molly Jo @molly1jo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hi @nicollewallace.bsky.social, guests today said that F47 has "a fundamental misunderstanding..." of the role of the press in US. His reptilian brain understands completely. They, especially one guest, need to stop giving F47 and family the benefit of the doubt. And, yes, F47 is un-American.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I smell a Nobel Peace Prize!

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Woke @palumpsha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

THIS 100000%

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Molly Jo @molly1jo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The idiocy of this administration. We paid $9.5B to the casualties of doge cuts, to vacation, clean their cupboards, or hang with friends; then we paid them unemployment benefits. And then, in many cases, we spent money recruiting and hiring, or rehiring them or their replacements. #F47Idiocracy

Federal employees paid $9.5B not to work

DOGE efforts to shrink workforce hiked paid administrative leave.

By EILEEN SULLIVAN
The New York Times

The Trump administration paid federal employees $9.5 billion not to work during 2025, part of the president's plan to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy and government spending, according to a new estimate from a congressional watchdog.

The Department of Government Efficiency's program to shrink the federal workforce through deferred resignations increased the use of paid administrative leave by 435% during the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, the Government Accountability Office said in a report Tuesday. That represents a sixfold increase since 2023.

Drastically reducing the size of the federal workforce was part of a broader Trump administration plan to rein in what it called frivolous and wasteful federal spending, with an initial promise of $1 trillion in savings.

The administration has said its efforts have led to $200 billion in savings, a figure that outside experts have not independently confirmed. In addition, the federal deficit has increased since Trump returned to office, in part because of the war in Iran and the mobi

$the federal deficit has increased since Trump returned to office, in part because of the war in Iran and the sweeping tax cuts that Republicans enacted in 2025. During a congressional hearing Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said a government initiative to cut spending "is coming." Spending on civilian salaries and benefits represents a small fraction of the total fed-eral budget. Yet it was among the Trump administration's first targets for cutting costs. In a January 2025 email, the Trump administration offered a proposition to about 2 million federal workers with the subject line "Fork in the Road." It was billed as a one-time-only offer to pay workers through Sep-tember 2025 if they resigned within the next nine days. The offer came with the warning to the employees that they were likely to be fired eventually as the Trump administration sought to decrease the size of the federal government. The federal civilian work-force has shrunk by about 12% since Trump returned to office, according to data from the Office of Personnel Management, as a result of resignations, firings and new hires. But the agency has not been able to identify the long-term savings, the accountability office found. The Office of Person-nel Management did not respond to a request for comment. Of the $9.5 billion in paid administrative leave, the congressional watchdog said that about $6.7 billion was associated with the deferred resignation program, which agencies continued to offer at other points during 2025. According to federal data. 139,963 federal$

gressional watchdog said that about $6.7 billion was associated with the deferred resignation program, which agencies continued to offer at other points during 2025. According to federal data, 139,963 federal employees took the deferred resignation offer.

The largest number of deferred resignations were among civilian employees at the Agriculture, Defense and Treasury departments.

Critics have faulted the Trump administration for losing generations of expertise in the purge at the expense of Americans who have relied on federal programs.

"Trump spent billions to push out experienced and badly needed experts across government-this was the most expensive way imaginable to make government worse," Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, said in a statement Tuesday.

Hasty efforts to achieve Trump's downsizing mandates led some agencies to rescind deferred resignation offers or hire people to replace employees who left. The Partnership for Public Service, which advocates a more effective federal workforce, found that the federal government has backfilled more than 20,000 positions left vacant because of deferred resignations.

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Molly Jo @molly1jo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Good god. How did we find the stupidest, most incompetent people in the entire country to run the country? At least we'll have pretty, white men standing around as we continue our descent into 3rd-world country status. #F47

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Bathsheba in Blue @bathshebablue.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Russia continues decades of terroristic plots. - An airstrike on a train carrying David Patreus Boris Johnson. - Armed drones in Moldova targeting Zelensky. - Ongoing clandestine efforts to use assassins to kill Kremlin critics and dissidents around the globe. apple.news/A_vSRixXHRI-...

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String of daring Russian plots is testing Washington’s restraint — The Washington Post

A strike on a train that imperiled former European leaders and CIA officers is among a spate of attacks that risked a dangerous escalation with the West, experts say.

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CoCo ✌🏼💛🕊️ @coco.sheshed.rocks · 18/09/2026

For years, Rep. #MaríaElviraSalazar stood with Trump. Only now, in a competitive reelection race with #EliottRodeiguez ~ she says his immigration enforcement has “gone too far.” #FL-27 deserves a representative who will lead ~ not react. #VivaHerAlliance

VivaHer Alliance
CANDIDATE COMPARISON
FLORIDA'S 27TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
TWO VERY DIFFERENT VISIONS
ELIOTT RODRIGUEZ
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
REP. MARÍA ELVIRA SALAZAR
REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT
• Decades reporting on
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South Florida
Focused on families-not
Washington politics
LOCAL
LEADERSHIP
• Defend Social Security and Medicare
HEALTH &
• Protect access to healthcare
RETIREMENT
• Build more workforce housing
Stabilize Florida's insurance
AFFORDABILITY
market
Protect South Florida's environment
Invest in a resilient future
ENVIRONMENT
目
Independent voice rooted in Miami
Put constituents and facts first
ACCOUNTABILITY
In Congress since 2021
Votes with the Republican majority
Voted for the 2025 GOP budget law
• Law cuts Medicaid and food assistance
• Backed tax priorities favoring the wealthy
• Families still face high housing costs
• 0% LCV environmental score in 2025
• 29 votes rated anti-environment
Longtime Trump ally
Now says enforcement went too far'
THE RECORD SHOWS THE DIFFERENCE
#VivaHerAlliance

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Molly Jo @molly1jo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sounds like a great idea! More military equipment that the scaredy-cat Saudi mercenary militia can abandon as they flee the Houthi fighters. #F47

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Little Girl's Annoyed Eye Roll

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/09/2026

This week, the EU offered associate membership to Canada. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen framed the news in how "Europe and Canada believe in democracy, that power does not belong to the strongest, richest and loudest, but to all of us.” She was talking about us. (Link below)

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am suing the Attorney General of the United States. In my opinion, the judge in my case has been strategically laying the foundation for contempt.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

JPMORGAN, on oil: “.. the exit strategy is less clear, not more. .. the assumption that the disruption Is temporary is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain. So what happens if it doesn’t?” ⛽️

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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Forbes says more than $11.6 trillion in U.S. debt was added under Trump, while crypto and foreign deals poured over $1 billion into his pockets. You pay the interest. Trump pays off his mortgages. That is corruption hitting your wallet. #CorruptTrumpRegime

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Richard @rhmcvay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Your $5,000 'trump dividend' will be attached to your $2,000 tariff check and they'll arrive TWO WEEKS after your DOGE check.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🇨🇦🇺🇦✈️ Zelensky: Here, in Canada, the training of our pilots is also underway: 21 Ukrainians are training. Today, we have an agreement on the Drone Deal and the first document has been signed. And this will give us the opportunity to finance the defense of Ukraine.

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BeSmart 🦋🇺🇸🧢 @besmarteasy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

More of these please!

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Molly Jo @molly1jo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Typical"Christian" magat. Complete lack of empathy for people outside their immediate circle. They want nothing to do with that "Do unto others" stuff. He doesn't like Pride stickers = ban. He likes crosses = keep. I personally have become wary around people wearing crosses. #Christofascist

If Pride stickers go from Detroit Lakes schools, so should gold crosses
By Karen Tolkkinen

"Good things come in little packages," my mom, who was 5 feet, 2 inches tall, used to tell me.

Sometimes explosive things do, too.

The tiniest little detail at the Detroit Lakes High School has had the community in an uproar for the past month.

A sticker. Well, about a dozen stickers. Each about 2 inches by 2 inches, posted on classroom doors.

If the stickers were of a dancing Snoopy or classic book or a smiley face, nobody would have thought twice about it. In this case, they are Pride stickers.

Like many symbols - the state flag, a certain red hat, or a controversial statue - Pride symbols provoke a response.

For many LGBTQ people, the rainbow makes them feel seen, included, even safe, especially in greater Minne sota. Though there are Pride organizations and events here, public acceptance and support can be scarce.

On the other side are conservative Christians who see the rainbow as a sign of God's promise not to flood the earth, and who feel it has been co-opted by people embracing an identity they feel is against God's will.

In Detroit Lakes, for years these little rainbow stickers have supported the minority of students who identify as LGBTQ.

This year, four of six Detroit Lakes school board members ordered their removal, saying they violate district policy. In 1998, the district adopted Policy 505, created by the Minnesota School Boards Associa tion to govern what materials were allowed to be distributed in the district. Obviously nobody wants teachers handing out the Bible or the Quran, or students handing out flyers for the local cannabis joint.

The policy bans obscene, libelous or violent material. Everything else appears to be up to the school adminis tration, focusing heavily on whether the materials would disrupt the school day.

It's hard to see how rainbow stickers would disrupt the school day.

But let me try.

In many ways, I feel stretched between …

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"At the end of the day, you cannot drink dollars, you cannot drink data, you cannot drink code." - NJ resident gives POWERFUL words to city council that is FORCING a data center without resident approval

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🧊🛩️ HEADS UP MINNESOTA‼️ 👉 ICE Air inbound to Minneapolis Key Lime Embraer 145 Tail: N832HK – ETA 9:40am 👀

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 03/09/2026

Best response ever to anti-vax nonsense by @opinionatedchick.bsky.social

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Please balance me here guys, WHY do you
VACCINATE your children and do you do your
own research as a parent or you're just
following the norm?

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I did my own research. I randomly selected 10,000
children, collected serum samples, ran ELISAs for
antigen-specific IgG titers, performed neutralization
assays, calculated seroconversion rates, controlled
for confounders using multivariable regression and
conducted longitudinal surveillance for adverse
events.

Then I remembered I'm not an immunologist,
epidemiologist, virologist or biostatistician, so I took
my kid to the pediatrician.

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Trevor Burns @burnsiemn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Going to the Fair again because my son wants to sit on all the tractors 🚜. Hopefully, we can see some other cool stuff but who knows or cares he's gonna have a great time. Seems to be an early crowd today for parking. 1 week down! Still have some reservations for parking this weekend!

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Bruce H. McCosar @bmccosar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem has passed away. Long ago, my parents used to force me to go to church each Sunday. One time the pastor made a comment about "people who were destroying America, like Carl Sagan and Gloria Steinem." I liked Carl Sagan. Gloria Steinem was new to me. I took it as a recommendation.

My original trade paperback of Gloria Steinem's "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions" (1st edition, 1983).

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Jacqui @jamelle33.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?

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ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies | TVO Today

The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?

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Arizona Indivisible 🇺🇸🌵💪 ❌👑 @azindivisible.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Beautifully put 🙏 RIP Gloria Steinem 👇

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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 21/08/2026

The federal government doesn’t pay local property taxes. That’s an issue for Swift County and the city of Appleton, where CoreCivic recently sold a prison to the Department of Homeland Security to be used as an detention center. Appleton’s revenue could shrink by as much as 30%.

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Appleton area could lose more than $800,000 per year in revenue following government prison purchase • Minnesota Reformer

APPLETON — The federal government’s purchase of a 1,600-bed prison in Appleton for an immigrant detention facility could deal a major blow to city, county and school finances. The prison had been own...

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Molly Jo @molly1jo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Something is changing in the world of politics. The Pioneer Press is a conservative paper. A headline above the fold pointing out F47's Iran War idiocy is big. A @nytimes.com reporter saying the tax cuts were passed by Republicans is new. Until recently they would've said, "passed by Congress."

Pioneer Press: Iran scoffs at Trump threat.

NYT journalist correctly reports that it was the Republicans who passed the sweeping tax cuts that have contributed to U.S.A.'s soaring debt. In the recent past, that would've been reported as "passed by Congress."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We are unquestionably sending people to their deaths, all because the President and his appointees are making policy based on pure racism and bigotry.

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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The hypocrisy is astounding…not surprising just astounding. #Pinks

Hunter Biden sold one painting for $85K, and 27 paintings for a total of $1.5M, and trumpers lost their goddamn minds over it.
Barron trump, meanwhile, made $150,000,000 on a stake of his dad's unethical crypto coin, and not a peep from these same hypocrites.
Barron should be on the front line of his dad's illegal war of choice, from which he is ALSO grifting money.

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