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@thebra1n.bsky.social
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Likely voter. 🦈♟️ (background credit: Alex L.)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/05/2026
Attorney Kurt Olsen once worked to try to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in court and was later sanctioned by judges for making baseless allegations about Arizona elections. He is now Trump’s director of election security and integrity.
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8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key ta...
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
6x bankrupt witless buffoon in charge: How it started: Due to trade deficit and drugs, I need to invoke special emergency powers to impose tariffs (i.e., taxes on Americans) without the consent of Congress. How it's going 10-11 months later right before SCt declared these actions unconstitutional:
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
As I've said many times, if the South would have won the Civil War or if Trump were living in 1860, he'd be a plantation owner with over 100 slaves and zero moral qualms about it. No doubt about it in my mind.
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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The Vote Yes on Amendment 87 Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 20/01/2026
Important perspective from Greenland.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 13/01/2026
The majority of the leadership team inside Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney’s Office resigned Tuesday in protest of directives from federal officials in the wake of the killing of Renee Good, according to sources familiar with the decision.
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Joe Thompson, U.S. Attorney who uncovered massive fraud in Minnesota, resigns from office
Thompson has been at the center of the national debate around fraud in Minnesota and has claimed that billions have been stolen from tax payers.
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
As predicted. Now correlate it with the 'before and after' number of bankruptcies, especially for farms.
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
These distillers probably voted for the tariffs that wrecked their businesses.. "Following a banner year for U.S. distilled spirits exports in 2024, exports of American spirits fell 9% year-over-year in the second quarter, driven by ongoing trade tensions.." finance.yahoo.com/news/another...
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Another U.S. liquor brand files Chapter 11 bankruptcy
The United States liquor industry has faced problems on multiple fronts. First, Americans just aren't drinking as much as they used to. "The percentage of U.S. adults who say they consume alcohol has ...
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Wait, are these same good ole tariffs that Trump repeatedly said China and "countries that have been ripping us off" would pay?? 🙄 finance.yahoo.com/news/roomba-...
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Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy as tariffs drive up costs
Once a pioneer of robot vacuums, the Roomba maker said higher tariffs helped tip the company into bankruptcy
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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a little girl in a blue shirt is standing in front of a shelf filled with glassware .
ALT: a little girl in a blue shirt is standing in front of a shelf filled with glassware .
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Trump-pardoned convict plead guilty but that doesn't matter. Seems like they're just going to loot the treasury using bogus "settlement" claims for convicted Trump supporters including for Trump himself. 'Drain the swamp' and Mexico will pay for the wall, the maga dupes use to chant..
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
".. Bondi fired prosecutor Will Rosenzweig, 39, because of the negative things he said about Trump on a social media blog before he became a federal prosecutor in Miami in 2020."
miamiherald.com
Revolt in Miami prosecutor’s office amid investigation of Obama’s CIA director
“The office had always been apolitical, but that is no longer the case,” said one former U.S. attorney in Miami.
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
medium.com/@carmitage/t...
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The Bombshell Inside Trump’s $1.3 Billion Pardon Market
The Pardon for Pay President
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 31/10/2025
The Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.
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Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
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Snopes @snopes.com · 31/10/2025
Social media posts claim House Speaker Mike Johnson signed a bill cutting a projected $186 billion from SNAP. That’s true. Here’s what the bill does. 👇 www.snopes.com/fact-check/m...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson signed bill cutting $186B from SNAP in July 2025
Users shared this true claim amid uncertainty regarding whether Americans would receive federal food benefits during the 2025 government shutdown.
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Remember 2016 when Trump would make speeches about how Hillary would be a "pay for play" President and he wouldn't bc he was rich and financing his own campaign? Every Trump accusation of impropriety and illegality is a projection about himself. Corruption personified. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Who is paying for Donald Trump's new White House ballroom?
A former White House chief ethics lawyer described the ballroom donations as an ethical "nightmare".
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Corruption suspicions confirmed. bsky.app/profile/unus...
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Call your China tariffs.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2025
Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641. As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570. (Published July with @texastribune.org)
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Lulz www.cnn.com/2025/10/05/b...
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Trump considers massive bailout of at least $10 billion for American farmers hurt by his trade war | CNN Business
American farmers are having a tough year, in no small part because of President Donald Trump’s trade war. Now, the White House is gearing up to extend them a multi-billion-dollar bailout, sources tell...
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Dr. Art Garfunky @chimpvsdog.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 11/08/2025
Reminder that 10+ Jan 6th insurrectionists pardoned by President Trump have already been rearrested, charged or sentenced for other crimes. The crimes include plotting murder of FBI agents, child sexual assault and reckless homicide while driving drunk.
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At least 10 pardoned insurrectionists face other criminal charges - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
At least 10 January 6th insurrectionists pardoned by President Trump have already been rearrested, charged or sentenced for other crimes.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/08/2025
Donald Trump is posting threats about the most powerful weapons on Earth to salve his ego and improve his political fortunes, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues.
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Not With a Bang, but With a Truth Social Post
The president is rattling a nuclear saber as a distraction.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/08/2025
The Florida AG is now fishing for personal data about everyone who attended or performed at a Pride drag show. This should set off every civil liberties alarm bell we have. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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You Went to a Drag Show—Now the State of Florida Wants Your Name
EFF has long warned about this kind of mission creep: where a law or policy supposedly aimed at public safety is turned into a tool for political retaliation or mass surveillance. Going to a drag
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Rise of the Idiot Interviewer www.currentaffairs.org/news/rise-of...
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Rise of the Idiot Interviewer
Podcast bros are interviewing presidents and power players without doing basic research beforehand. The result is a propagandistic catastrophe.
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Wretched lady who abruptly dropped FL investigation of Trump Univ. after she got a 5 figure check from him and who turned DoJ into Trump's law firm by firing and replacing career prosecutors with Trump 'personal loyalty' lawyers gonna meet with Ghiz to get the truth while holding key to her cell. 🙄
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Why? Probably bc you (Trump) got your lawyers to intervene as a "John Doe" to get the court to seal or redact all mentions of Donald Trump. www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump...
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The newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents have Donald Trump's name all over them. He had been secretly disguised as 'Doe 174.'
Former President Donald Trump may have fought to keep his name redacted in court documents before a judge ordered it unsealed.
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The Economist @economist.com · 17/07/2025
Americans think that they are more generous than they are. When pollsters ask them to estimate what proportion of its budget the federal government spends helping people abroad, the average answer is 26%. In reality it is about 1%
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Five charts explain Trump’s cuts to foreign aid
If Congress approves, the cuts would save less than Americans think—and risk countless lives
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
www.scotusblog.com/2025/07/whos... “… the CASA opinion seems to confirm what Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has been warning: that the court is holding the government to a different, and much more lenient, standard from all other litigants (including past administrations) who seek a stay...”
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Whose irreparable harm?
Cases and Controversies is a recurring series by Carolyn Shapiro, primarily focusing on the effects of the Supreme Court’s rulings, opinions, and procedures on the law, on other institutions, and […]
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This is the type of grift you're supposed to expect from a washed up reality tv star. Not from the President of the United States. Oh wait....
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
No problem, once Trump hears about repercussions from his actions I'm sure he'll take time off from his busy day of golf to invite the J6 mob over to Vegas after he blames Canada and tells them that Vegas has been "treated very, very unfairly" by Canadians.
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MountainBikeCrashExpert @magnusxander.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Someone came up with the perfect analogy: The Republicans are the Uvalde shooter. The Democrats are the Uvalde police. Yes, the shooter is the problem. But it’s the cops we expect to defend us and act on our behalf, and not just stand around being cowards. That’s why we’re mad at those cops.
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Quietly, Trump is reducing the US sanctions on Russia. On June 27 US Treasury authorized "Certain Transactions Related to Civil Nuclear Energy", allowing a dozen of big sanctioned Russian banks to do transactions "related to civil nuclear energy." ofac.treasury.gov/media/934396...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
LA TIMES: “Most were taken off the streets of LA with no criminal convictions… record levels of people in detention…” (making private prisons a lot of money)
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Netanyahu has been claiming that Iran was 2 to "3 weeks away" from a nuclear bomb since around the Bush admin. trying to get a US potus to do his dirty work of bombing Iran. Of course, Trump was the only sucker who took the bait and put the county at risk for war and terror attacks on US interests.
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Very likely a sign of things to come through 2028 and possibly beyond.
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Beks @antifaoperative.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Moms for Liberty Legislator of the Year 2023
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | This is truly the darkest, dumbest timeline
Dr. Phil, ICE raids, the L.A. protests and why America 2025 feels uniquely surreal.
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
He doesn't care about regulations, traditions or 'sacrosanct lines' that go against his interests. A political army of cult followers is exactly what he wants to help insure a power grab coup and unconstitutional third term. www.military.com/daily-news/2...
military.com
Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance
As President Donald Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
He's responsible for six bankruptcies plus made hundreds of millions through fraud (per NY courts) but sure, he knows what he's doing..
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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For Trump, This Is a Dress Rehearsal
Ordering the National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles is a warning of what to expect when his hold on power is threatened.
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Call me crazy but in this case I believe China about who really was desperate for the call over the no trade deals yet, serial lying, bank defrauding, classified document stealing, convicted felon President of the U.S..
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Barchart @barchart.com · 05/06/2025
Oops 😂
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Barchart @barchart.com · 05/06/2025
U.S. National Debt projected to soar to $55 Trillion by 2034 if the Big Beautiful Bill passes 🚨🚨🚨
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Dr. Art Garfunky @chimpvsdog.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
State of the Union
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
thedispatch.com/article/farm...
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Don’t Bail Out the Farmers
Elections have consequences.
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theBRA1N @thebra1n.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Another victory for injustice, crime, criminals, fraud, privilege, social disorder, unaccountability and corruption. The only question is how much did they "contribute" or buy worth of Trump meme coin.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Republicans can only lose 3 Senate votes on Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and these senators are the most vulnerable in 2026: -Collins (ME) -Tillis (NC) -Sullivan (AK) -Husted (OH) -Moody (FL) -Cornyn (TX) -Ernst (IA) If they represent you, tell them to vote NO.  (202) 224-3121
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