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@speedyrick.bsky.social
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Socialist. From Seattle and New Mexico. Former AUSA, ex-journalist Latin American Review, Dog lover, avid reader, news junkie.

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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 23h
TX 23rd district. The choice is between a MAGA extremist with no qualifications or a school teacher, Katy Padilla Stout represent one. Republican Brandon Herrera is an extremist with neo-Nazi views and hates women. This is a two point race, donate to Katy's campaign. emilyslist.org/candidate/ka...
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 23h
This case just makes my blood boil. Gang raped by Frat Rats and the DA and Cornell think, writing on essay is appropriate punishment. Incredible. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence (Gift Article)
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Call the Ken Paxton Corruption Hotline at 844-WHOS-KEN. Learn about his record and leave him a voicemail. (It’s a real number.)
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICE arrested the mom of a 9-year-old at a school bus stop in Austin, leaving him alone and crying. The video has profanity and is heartbreaking to watch, but it shows the fear/pain of what happened. This is evil. This is wrong. And it has to stop.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Republicans endorse Kansas Dem Adam Hamilton. Hayden is the second Republican former Kansas governor to endorse Hamilton former Gov. Bill Graves backed the Democrat in early September. Arch Naramore, who won a fifth of the vote in the Republican Senate primary, has also endorsed Hamilton.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
S.C. Justice John Roberts is hated by his neighbors for his Trumpism. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rebecca Kutler is who we should be focusing on at MSNOW. She fired Joy Reid and replaced them with a banal set of "noncontroversial" talking heads. Still good to have Chris Hayes, Nicole Wallace and Rachel Maddow but Kutler would have made the decision.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“This event is the worst we’ve seen and unlike any other botched execution in the modern era,” said Robin Maher, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. “There is no precedent.” 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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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump loses again. thehill.com/regulation/c...
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Appeals court backs finding Trump colluded with IRS, Treasury
An appeals court Tuesday sided with a lower court judge who determined President Trump colluded with the Department of Justice (DOJ) in bringing and later dismissing a case seeking $10 billion in d…
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brandon Herrera, a misogynist Repug candidate for Texas 23rd district is ahead by only a 6 point spread. This is one of the gerrymandered districts that Trump created. Katy Stout the Dem is grossly being outspent. Donations in this race can still turn the race. secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_tx23
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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MAGA Senator Humiliated After Attempt to Corner Jack Smith Backfires Comically
Eric Schmitt thought he was cornering former Special Counsel Jack Smith over a conspiracy theory about his prosecution of Donald Trump. He was wrong.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The difference between the practice depicted in “Checkout,” the comedy, and the unrelenting, unbearable horror described in “NAZA” is scale. Now, it’s industrial. That’s what makes it a genocide." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once (Gift Article)
The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not to worry, DJT's NFL fascist commercials will not confuse Alaskans that his fascist vision will make their lives better. www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/09/25/2...
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From $24 gas in Noatak to emergency generators in Anchorage, rural Alaska braces for winter energy strain
While gas prices topping $24 a gallon force remote communities to scale back subsistence hunting, state energy crews are stockpiling emergency generators and critical hardware in Anchorage.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Scott Galloway says that he, as a Jew, gets to define what genocide means and that the destruction, bombing, killing and displacement visited on Gaza do not constitute genocide because they did not kill enough people. Genocide has a legal definition, look it up Scott. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFRG...
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Scott Galloway Asks Absurd Genocide Question
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Utterly insane and blasphemous although the skulls of his enemies kinda tell the whole story, right? And you wonder why normal people hate AI slop.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026
Their punishment was to write essays.
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Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com · 25/09/2026
A New Mexico jury on Friday found Facebook willfully committed more than 43 million violations under state law and engaged in unfair and deceptive trade practices regarding collection of user data. buff.ly/sG1wrso
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New Mexico jury finds Facebook at fault over data collection • Source New Mexico
A New Mexico jury on Friday found Facebook willfully engaged in unfair and deceptive trade practices over third-party data sharing.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Project Jupiter in New Mexico is on life support. Now is the time to keep fighting it. Here's a discussion of Oracle and the financial problems facing Project Jupiter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cbv...
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Hyperscalers are hiding a massive secret about uninstalled GPUs | Ed Zitron
YouTube video by The Tech Report
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Supreme Court once again takes steps to undo our democracy. Supreme Court Reform Now! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Federal Voter Identification Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The very definition of false consciousness; the belief where members of a subordinate class come to hold beliefs, values, or perceptions that work against their own material interests and instead serve to uphold the interests of the dominant class. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/s...
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Bernadine Bluntly’s Brand Was Tradwife. Then She Got Divorced. (Gift Article)
What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living online?
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How many years have I been telling you to keep your eye on Iowa? I know what I’m seeing on the ground and what I’ve been seeing for a couple of years… LFG!
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These are the people destroying our country. Lunatic evangelicals who stutter nonsense claiming to speak for a god which none of us recognizes. It's mental illness.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's like having the Manhattan Project being run by private oligarchs. No reason to trust the tech overlords. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Climate protesters say tech companies, not AI, are the real ‘danger to humankind’ – and the planet
Activists gathered outside the OpenAI offices on Monday during climate week in New York City
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Eight sailors tried to commit suicide on the USS Lincoln while deployed in Trump's quixotic war with the rest of the world. Impeach Hegseth and start house-cleaning at the Pentagon. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says (Gift Article)
The aircraft carrier with its crew of about 5,000 sailors has spent more than 300 days at sea.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Claude could not give me the YTD precipitation in my area, so I just googled it and it popped right up. So much for superior intelligence. Not ready for prime time.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
West Texas, do not elect Nazi Brandon Herrera to Congress. The man is a scumbag. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Nazi jokes and ‘cum trophies’: meet the Texas gunfluencer who could soon represent Uvalde
Brandon Herrera, a YouTuber known for making outrageous pro-gun statements, is the frontrunner to represent a district devastated by mass shootings
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Betting markets give this scumbag a 60% chance of winning but actual polls are close. You can make a difference in this race. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Nazi jokes and ‘cum trophies’: meet the Texas gunfluencer who could soon represent Uvalde
Brandon Herrera, a YouTuber known for making outrageous pro-gun statements, is the frontrunner to represent a district devastated by mass shootings
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Giant surveillance tower going up in Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso. It is Orwellian in scope and will surveil both Mexican and American citizens. I simply don't understand how this has flown under the radar. www.theborderchronicle.com/inside-the-s...
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
But, of course, it's Ezra Klein giving a platform for the most self-interested apologist for the AI destruction. Ezra is the worst virtue signaling, "I'm so smart and clever" asshole to ever come down the pike. When I listen to him I feel like I'm being condescended to, "I'm smarter than you."
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You have agency. Fascism only thrives when cowards refuse to take action.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Ms. Collins’s...is...costing her state far more than it is contributing. This cycle, the only way to really deliver for Maine is for its voters to reject Ms. Collins’s long-running yet increasingly specious argument that she is somehow above the political fray." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...
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Opinion | Susan Collins’s Luck May Be Running Out (Gift Article)
The independence and moderation of Maine’s Republican senator hardly matters anymore.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The very definition of an existential threat. "The science linking fossil fuel emissions and global temperature rise is long-established and irrefutable. The solutions to help curb emissions, such as solar energy and electric vehicles, are proven and abundant. " www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/c...
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The Big Threat Has Been Climate Change. Now Comes A.I. (Gift Article)
Both are human-caused, both are frightening, and one of them has raced to the forefront of the global conversation.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Zuck never misses an opportunity to be an evil asshole. Fuck META! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Climate change deniers are a death cult. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"The point is that Sheeran’s actions once again treated anti-Palestinian censorship as an uncontroversial norm...The reaction to Sheeran suggests that...after three years of livestreamed genocide, this norm is finally losing its hold in the cultural mainstream." theintercept.com/2026/09/16/e...
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Ed Sheeran’s Craven “Neutrality” Is a Watershed Moment for Mainstreaming Palestine Solidarity
Ed Sheeran’s entire tour quitting in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore proves the logic of BDS.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump's stooges are taking down art from the Kennedy Center and replacing it with gold plated (of course) fascist propaganda.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What kind of mentally deficient man wants to add his name to a memorial for a dead president. It's like adding his name to the Lincoln Memorial or scrawling Donald Trump on gravestones. Extreme narcissism envelops the rotting corpse that is Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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The Guardian view on NAZA’s persecuted directors: journalism is not treason | Editorial
Editorial: Politicians who threaten filmmakers rather than investigate alleged military crimes expose not strength but a leadership frightened of the evidence
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I support Macklemore! Ed Sheeran is a coward. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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‘A maelstrom of his own making’: how Ed Sheeran’s tour turned into a full-blown culture war
Moment of reckoning for ‘Mr Nice Guy’ of music, who embraced Macklemore’s political cred only for pro-Palestine rapper to be dropped under pressure from billionaire
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When can we finally call it genocide. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 18/09/2026
NEW: Seattle is about to ban supermarkets from using your data to set individualized prices and coupons to curb price gouging and discrimination. The big grocer lobby is pissed, and is spamming Seattleites with scary text messages. Read in @thestranger.com: www.thestranger.com/news/seattle...
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Seattle Is Poised to Ban Supermarket Algorithmic Price Discrimination - The Stranger
This coming Tuesday, in an effort to crack down on price gouging and discrimination, the Seattle City Council will vote on a bill prohibiting large grocery store companies from using customer personal...
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the most cogent analysis of the state of the Democratic Party that I have read in a long time. Very much worth a read. www.offmessage.net/p/ai-risk-ne...
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A.I. Risk And The End Of The Neoliberal Style In Politics
You can’t make pragmatic compromises with predatory counterparties.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pundits, journalists and others have tortured the term "populism" in equating right-wing Maga and socialism as forms of "populism." Socialism or progressives are not populist as they have actual principles and policies for which they advocate vs. "stick it to the man" vague trumpist shit.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Child separation never went away. This is a crime against humanity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump officials sending undocumented children to Texas sparks fears of mass deportation
Exclusive: Nearly 90% of children in federal custody being directed to GOP-controlled state that has unlicensed facilities and low legal representation rates
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think they should be taxed accordingly, you fly in a private toxic polluter, you should pay an environmental impact fee of at least $100,000. If your can afford to fly private jet you can afford to pay for the damage you cause. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Private jets pollute up to 14 times as much as commercial planes and are undertaxed in US, report says
Number of private jets has surged in recent years, but they do not pay commensurate portion of fees to FAA operations
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NAZA, is an Israeli documentary which is causing consternation in the Netanyahu regime because it reveals the truth about the Palestinian genocide. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
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Opinion | Why Israel Fears This Searing New Documentary (Gift Article)
It’s hard to tell whether Israelis are enraged by “NAZA” because they think it’s full of lies, or because they know or fear it’s true.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dog bites man. Every single fucking time that the moron utters anything, the vaunted @nytimes.com appraises it on its front page, like some squalid inmate in an asylum, repeating the same phrase over and over and over again. "Maybe this time he's serious." Just pretend it's real.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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From the politics community on Reddit: Since 2025, Trump Made More Stock Trades Than All 535 Congress Members Combined
Explore this post and more from the politics community
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Stop Trump/GOP/ICE/SCOTUS Reign of Terror Against America. @iampilgrim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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