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Steve Pietroske

@spietroske.bsky.social
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Recently retired husband and father of 2 twenty something’s. Packer, Brewers, Bucks fan. Greenfield, WI

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h
Talarico: I've heard credible reports that Ken Paxton has a serious medical condition that causes clinical levels of cowardice. People are concerned. He has asked for proof of life from me. I'm asking for proof of spine from him.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/10/2026
Trump announced that a group of companies—including OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Palantir, and Amazon—have committed over $2.4 billion to accelerate American scientific research. In other words, he's replacing established research institutions with the corporations that have curried favor with him.
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Trump calls on AI to speed up science—while continuing to defund it
Tech firms are giving big to a White House AI science program amid the destruction of institutions like the NIH.
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American Oversight @americanoversight.org · 09/10/2026
Trump allegedly took highly classified docs to Mar-A-Lago in 2021. There's a report about it but a judge is keeping it hidden. We’ve fought for the report’s release for more than year. Now Trump is trying to delay our hearing until after the midterms. www.ms.now/deadline-whi...
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Trump and his former co-defendants seek delay on Jack Smith report hearing
The president’s personal counsel cited Trump’s busy schedule ahead of the November midterms as reason to further postpone the matter.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump Crime Family
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Adam McCalvy @adammccalvy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the most dominant pitching seasons ever, told by those who watched it all — from the @milwaukeebrewers.bsky.social owner to the rookie left-hander who might have summed it up best. www.mlb.com/news/jacob-m...
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One of the most dominant pitching seasons ever, told by those who watched it all
MILWAUKEE -- Every start day was an event when Jacob Misiorowski took the mound during the Brewers’ record-setting 103-win regular season. Right down to the finale. The 24-year-old Brewers ace got a s...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As soon as Ukraine started talking about kicking Russia's ass with AI all these tech bro shitheads started yapping about how "we need regulation" after Elon Musk personally called each one them.
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Spy Kids 2 Coincidence
ALT: Spy Kids 2 Coincidence
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Biden checks his watch at a ceremony and Fox does nonstop segments on it for weeks. But Trump falls asleep repeatedly at the 9/11 ceremony and they won’t even show it. But national broadcast news networks won’t show it either because that would be impolite.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 09/09/2026
Trump's Interior Department redirected 300 specialized emergency responders to work on his beautification projects in DC. Soon after, the Grand Canyon flooded, leaving 80 people stranded and at least two people dead. Talk about misplaced priorities.
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Before Deadly Floods, Trump Diverted Emergency Responders To Beautify D.C.
Trump reassigned 300 National Park Service emergency responders to golf course and reflecting-pool renovations before the Grand Canyon flooded.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Farmer complains he can’t get workers to pick peas after offering free housing & $1,400 a week. Where are the Americans who will do the work now that ICE has driven away undocumented immigrants? I guess elections have consequences. 🤷🏾‍♂️
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/09/2026
"'How many more people that are blue checkmarks on X, that are putting out information on behalf of the federal government and Donald Trump and the Republican party . . . are actually special government employees being paid by your tax dollars?'" ICYMI:
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Pete Hegseth Is Building a Pentagon Troll Army
The defense secretary’s MAGA influencer allies aren’t merely cheering him on—some work for him.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Weiss started her activist career in college going after a Muslim professor and decades later she is sticking with it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Remember when she was all but measuring the drapes in the White House? Anyway
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/08/2026
He never went to the War College. Never worked in industry. Never did a Pentagon tour as a civilian or as a member of the armed services. trib.al/qizQo1U
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Pete Hegseth Is Too Egotistical to Know How Incompetent He Is
Brutal news accounts this week provide more proof of what we already knew: The chaos he’s creating is making the country weaker, not stronger.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It doesn’t really make much sense. We’ve conducted military campaigns that have absolutely dwarfed Iran in scope and scale and never even came close to not making payroll. Money was spent on something other than Iran.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Either ditch the cap, or just change it to 1% on everything over $185,000. That would be totally fair, and Social Security would be fine for decades.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is from last year. FAFO: Stupidest Administration in History Edition.
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Dave Conrad @dconrad.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
American Lysenkoism
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/08/2026
Trump on Darlene Graham not being able to answer a very basic question about Taiwan-China: "All she was was being honest. I mean, she's into the price of groceries ... she's going to do what the president wants."
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
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Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion
The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This should forever be Elon Musk's legacy. Not spaceships. Not electric cars. Starvation. Misery. Mass murder.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century
U.S. debt is on track to reach historic levels
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Source: Authors' calculations using data from the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve, the Yale Budget Lab, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. A full list of sources is available here.
Chart: Center for American Progress
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The whole story about Ken Paxton, the stolen Mont Blanc pen, and a courthouse videotape, is just one wonderful detail after another. Here you go:
Related Texas comptroller-elect shuffles personnel, promises accurate state revenue estimate

AUSTIN - In the great pen caper, Texas' incoming Attorney General Ken Paxton drew a Blanc. It happened last year at a Collin County courthouse, where lawyer Joe Joplin rushed through the security stop, needing to get to a hearing. A few hours later, he realized he'd left a tray of three pens at the metal detector. One was a gift from his wife — a $1,000 Montblanc. Mon Dieu. "It came back like a Kodak moment. I knew I'd put it in a separate bin and that second plate didn't come out," Joplin recalled in a recent interview. He rushed to the security entrance and the pen was gone. Joplin talked to the sheriff's deputies, who told him that shortly after Joplin went through, another man picked up a tray of pens on top of the machine. Joplin said he's not into fancy pens, but it had sentimental value. He asked about security cameras and whether he might view the tape. The deputies were unable to help. Joplin, frustrated and a bit frightened of telling his wife, wrote to an old friend, "just to vent." The boyhood pal was Collin County Sheriff Terry Box. In an Aug. 14, 2013, email, Joplin recounted the details. "The loss of my pen is my responsibility," he wrote, but he also thought a lost and found procedure might be instituted.Box is a sheriff who likes to see lost items returned. He ordered up the videotape. On the security video, the sheriff said he saw several people go through the machine after Joplin. And then he recognized the guy who picked up the pens — state Sen. Ken Paxton of McKinney. "It looked like he took a pen and put it in his pocket out of the tray," Box said. He asked a deputy to call Paxton and see whether he had it. He looked. He did. A day or so later, Paxton gave the pricey rollerball pen to a deputy to return to Joplin, the sheriff said. Paxton spokesman Anthony Holm called it a simple mistake. "Fifteen months ago a pen or pens was shuffled between two attorneys in a courthouse. This is far from newsworthy, as the pen was returned when the error was realized," Holm said. Joplin said he — and his wife — welcomed it back. "I don't want to cause anyone any harm. I was very grateful," he said. He declined to speculate on what might have happened. "You can surmise that," Joplin said.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yet another example why a sociopath should never be near the levers of power.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I drove across Memorial Bridge in DC today. Saw Trump’s gold-plated bridge ornaments. Free business idea: A tour company that offers “Corruption Tours” of DC where you see all the places Trump has effed with.
A photo taken from a car, driving across a bridge, Lincoln Memorial in the distance, and a gold-plated statue on the right.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Facing mounting scrutiny, the Trump administration is slated to spend at least $900 million on White House construction initiatives, The Washington Post reports.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
BREAKING: The U.S. posted a record $432 billion budget deficit for July, above the $346 billion expected. The fiscal-year deficit has reached $1.8 trillion, while interest costs have topped $1 trillion, per Treasury.
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
No pharmaceutical company will spend the billions required to appease this President’s incoherent call to split the MMR vaccine into three on a whim. In 2 years, the EO expires. And it has no teeth. This is theater at a time when people need real substantive leadership.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Today the Islamic Republic of Iran essentially declared that Donald Trump is too mentally deranged and pathologically deceitful to negotiate with... so they won't. And you know what? They're right. That's a normal, rational, adult position. So why don't we see it inside the US?
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Chicago History Podcast @chicagohistorypod.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Calling it "Bribe Force 1" made me laugh a hearty laugh.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 07/08/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/08/2026
In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home. (Published Dec. 2025)
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
DOGE “consistently overstated its savings in online posts, taking credit for lease cancellations initiated before the group existed .. .. DOGE also claimed contracts were terminated that had not been ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I could have sworn "stolen valor" was a thing Turns out it was just something else Republicans never actually gave a shit about Draft-dodging PoS
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Capital One Financial hits back against a lawsuit over its decision to close ‌the Trump Organization's bank accounts years ago with a disclosure that marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to the US president's family business. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Reflecting Pool case was doomed to fail from the start. DOJ’s willingness to scapegoat an innocent man to indulge Trump’s lies of vandalism is shameful. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
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Charges Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool
A former Olympian will not face trial after federal prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false.
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Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
New rule: if the indictment gets a press conference, the dismissal gets one too
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/07/2026
I was wondering if anyone was keeping a running total on Trump’s waste and abuse. You have to check out this video. And there’s so much, I bet you forgot about some of it: 💰Ballroom: $1 billion project, taxpayers already on the hook for $300 mill 💰 J6 Slush Fund: $1.776 billion for his rioters 🧵
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/07/2026
God this makes my skin crawl. I genuinely can't understand how adult men can behave like this & retain any self-respect.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Impeach this corrupt villain
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Sherry @sherry2.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Don Jr & Eric Trump have joined 10 company boards since 2024 election Sudden burst of business opportunities is conspicuous, before 2024 Election, there's no evidence they were sought-after business leaders, outside of Trump cos Now they get GOVT Contracts www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
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Companies see boost from Trump admin after adding Don Jr. to their board - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Don Jr. and Eric Trump have joined a total of ten companies’ boards since the 2024 election.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It's nauseating to watch them smile and fawn over him. Just nauseating.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Don Jr.’s firm posting 200% returns while federal funds flow to his investments & his dad is POTUS -- shocking! Congress must investigate now I explain on @ms.now 👇
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
What if hostile foreign governments were able to control social network algorithms in the United States, suppressing information vital to our survival as a democracy? That would be weird.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 20/07/2026
My favorite part of this it seems to have been posted by the guy, to show how terrible pro choice people are, but we all think she rules.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It's the fraud economy. A bubble made of bubbles. A puff pastry of whipped bullshit with a nothing filling, held up with stilts that are resting on a plummeting grand piano.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The Trump Treasury Department's top tax policy official was forced out of his job after he warned that the Trump White House was at risk of violating a federal law prohibiting senior officials' involvement in IRS audits.
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Exclusive | Top Treasury Tax Official Ousted After Clashes With White House Over IRS Audits
Kenneth Kies warned that political officials risked breaching a law that limits who can influence tax enforcement.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
More: www.ms.now/news/veeps-s...
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Vance’s security detail ‘fed up’ with hastily arranged personal and family travel requests
Secret Service sources said the Vance family asks included getting their young son to a golf lesson on a military helicopter.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What the actual fuck? Look, I'm sorry to keep saying this, but the president is clearly a dementia-ravaged necrotic husk of a man whose addled rants bear no actual resemblance to reality and I, for one, think that is concerning.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“The Trump administration is spending hundreds of thousands of your tax dollars to glorify and pay tribute to a sitting US President and his political agenda. Not only is this a terrible waste of Americans’ hard-earned money, it is clearly against the law." newrepublic.com/post/212990/...
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New Docs Reveal Trump Spending Even More on Giant Banners of Himself
Democratic Senator Adam Schiff points to new government documents that show how much money is going toward those massive MAGA banners across the nation’s capital.
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