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Milquetoast Gen-X father, PDX transplant to New Zealand, Science, politics, disc golf, board games, motorcycle touring, trash fiction consumer. Broncos, Blazers, Ducks, Avs, All Blacks

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/08/2026
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)
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Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
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The Press @thepress.co.nz · 03/08/2026
A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has links to neo-Nazi groups and online accounts praising Adolf Hitler, an investigation by The Press has found.
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NZ First youth leader linked to neo-Nazi network
A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has links to neo-Nazi groups and online accounts praising Adolf Hitler, an investigation by The Press has found.
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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Great to see that National support 30 weeks Paid Parental Leave. Especially after they voted against the introduction of PPL. Blocked the extension to 26 weeks for several years. Canceled 33 pay equity claims. And just this year, cut Best Start payments for the majority of new parents.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Trump in the Star Wars medal scene.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Where are Kid Rock & Lee Greenwood when you really need them?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017 to 2025. The top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined. Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
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The Luggage 🇳🇿🇺🇸💉🥏🏍️🔬🍺 @theluggage.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Wow! What a cover of “Don’t Get Me Wrong” m.youtube.com/watch?v=IS2Q...
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Don't Get Me Wrong (The Pretenders Cover) | The Andertones Band ft. Robbie McIntosh
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2026
New in PN: A regime of idiots — A complete inventory of Trump stooges "The downside of Trump’s reliance on sub-mediocre stooges is they amplify his own stupidity & terrible judgment. Dumb stooges inevitably emulate his sadism & laziness, leading to a govt marked by sociopathology on a grand scale."
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A regime of idiots: A complete inventory of Trump stooges
They will remain, festering, awaiting the next opportunity for soul-selling.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/03/2026
A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy. n.pr/4uXOx6X
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Yep, a mom's COVID shot during pregnancy protects her baby, a large study finds
A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Pope Leo this week called universal health coverage a "moral imperative." He also said: “Health cannot be a luxury for the few,” it is “an essential condition for social peace.”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/03/2026
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account 

Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart”
Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001
Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar  at city hall

Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/03/2026
NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority. By @hannahallam.bsky.social
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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first. 2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts. 3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger. 4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover. 5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.
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BREAKING NEWS: U.S. District Court Judge Laura Provinzino has just found a government atty in CIVIL CONTEMPT of COURT for violations of her orders in a habeas case. Attorney cited is Matthew Isihara, a JAG atty from Dept. of War assisting in local US Attorney office 
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Judge Provinzino had ordered a detained immigrant held by ICE in El Paso, TX  be released in Minnesota with all of his identification papers. ICE released the man in TX with none of his papers, forcing his attorney to find him a shelter for the night & flight back to MN (2/)Paul Blume
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Judge said she is imposing CIVIL CONTEMPT "to force the government to comply with her court order" to immediately return immigrant's papers. Gov't attorney Matthew Isihara is responsible for $500 daily fine, every day the man does not have his papers starting tomorrow. (3/3)
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CONTEMPT FINDING: Matthew Isihara apologized for allowing the order in this habeas case to "fall through the cracks." Blamed situation on case overload & significant understaffing in US Attorney's office. Says he has picked up nearly 130 habeas cases in just last month. 
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Sean Highkin @highkin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yang Hansen on the most fun part of the Rising Stars experience: “I tried to show everybody my ‘Chinglish.’”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2026
Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/02/2026
The immediate point here is the smearing of Ilhan Omar, but the bigger point is that the right lives in a world where nobody on their side ever does anything wrong. ICYMI @willsommer.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4br42No
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Did Ilhan Omar Stage Her Attack? Of Course Not. But Trump Thinks So.
A real false flag story for your favorite False Flag newsletter.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Interesting to watch Musk spin his newly released correspondence with Epstein. What he is not addressing is that he very much requested to visit and party with Epstein, while SpaceX gave a tour to Epstein in 2013.
X post from Elon Musk that reads:

No one pushed harder than me to have the Epstein files released and I’m glad that has finally happened. 

I had very little correspondence with Epstein and declined repeated invitations to go to his island or fly on his “Lolita Express”, but was well aware that some email correspondence with him could be misinterpreted and used by detractors to smear my name. 

I don’t care about that, but what I do care about is that we at least attempt to prosecute those who committed serious crimes with Epstein, especially regarding heinous exploitation of underage girls.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
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Diservations @diservations.com · 23/01/2026
Muppet greatness. I need everyone to watch this so Disney sees the numbers and accidentally approves more Muppets.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
i wish i could still buy things at the prices i used to complain about
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/01/2026
Child’s Blow Into Car Breathalyzer Rewarded With Dicey Trip To Ice Cream Shop
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Child’s Blow Into Car Breathalyzer Rewarded With Dicey Trip To Ice Cream Shop
MILWAUKEE—After instructing his 5-year-old son to imagine a bunch of birthday candles at the other end of the tube, local dad Rick Cerney, 41, reportedly rewarded the child’s blow into his car Breatha...
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Reminder: even if we accepted this — which, to be clear, we shouldn't — proof won't protect you. They'll say your passport isn't enough, they need your birth certificate. Brought that? No, it's a copy, we need the original. Have the original? Sorry, can't be sure it's not a forgery.
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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 03/01/2026
This war and extra-judicial kidnapping is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Political leaders on both sides must condemn it. It’s not about whether Maduro is a tyrant but whether the US is still governed by laws and the Constitution. As if this morning, we are clearly not.
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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"A kahikatea forest remnant site in north Waikato has seen a near complete disappearance of tradescantia after the leaf beetle, stem beetle, and smut fungus all established there between 2019 and 2021. This site is now seeing recovery of native ferns and tree seedlings."
Kahikatea site showing massive reduction in tradescantia due to biocontrol.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/11/2025
Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/
Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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Megyn Kelly Anxiously Waits For Everyone Else To Start Condoning Pedophilia Too
NEW YORK—Faced with backlash against comments she made last week downplaying the sex trafficking crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, an anxious Megyn Kelly appeared on her podcast Monday waiting for everyone e...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/10/2025
WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.
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The Luggage 🇳🇿🇺🇸💉🥏🏍️🔬🍺 @theluggage.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Apparently Journalism is no longer about holding power to account. Just let them spin whatever lies and narrative they want just say “fair enough”. JFC
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2025
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)
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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Chair of America First Women. Co-founder of Women for Trump.
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
the sinclair charlie kirk tribute has 71K views nine days after it was supposed to preempt jimmy kimmel by comparison, this antique toaster restoration video has 102K views after one day
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111 Years Old Antique Toaster Restoration
YouTube video by Odd Tinkering
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 28/09/2025
This on the other hand is one of 4 public libraries (+1 Uni library) built by the US Scottish industrialist Andrew Carnegie in Washington DC alone! 2,509 were built between 1883 & 1929. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away around $350m equivalent to $6.9 billion in 2025 money
The 11th library in the US to receive a grant. Designed by New York firm Ackerman and Ross, this Beaux-Arts building was dedicated on January 7, 1903. Andrew Carnegie and President Theodore Roosevelt attended the ceremony. The building ceased to serve as the central branch of DC Public Library in 1970; it now houses the offices, collections, and research library of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.[1] It also houses an Apple store.
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Hākoakoa/Skua BOTY @hakoakoa-boty.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🤩 That's us! Look at that handsome bird! Let's see... Tarāpuka? Tarāpunga? Koekoeā? Toroa? Who else is shouty?
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Hākoakoa/Skua BOTY @hakoakoa-boty.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Vote for the bird as BOLD and ORIGINAL as you are. Vote Hākoakoa #birdoftheyear2025 @forestandbird.bsky.social
Black and white photograph taken by Herbert Ponting, a member of the Terra Nova expediiton to Antarctica. South Polar skuas are shouting at Ponting to keep his distance. The text includes a quote from R.F. Scott's diary: 6 january 1911, “To-day I walked over our peninsula to see what the southern side was like. Hundreds of skuas were nesting and attacked in the usual manner as I passed.”  
Vote for the Bird as BOLD and ORIGINAL as You are.
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Hākoakoa/Skua BOTY @hakoakoa-boty.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
We're a week into voting with one more to go, whānau ngā manu. Don't do something you might later regret. Vote SKUA for #birdoftheyear2025 @forestandbird.bsky.social
A sequence of three black and white photographs of a South Polar Skua's relentless approach toward the photographer. It's a powerful bird defending its territory. The photos are stacked, staggered, on the left. Text on the right says "And in that final moment everything became clear to me. Vote Skua."
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Hākoakoa/Skua BOTY @hakoakoa-boty.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Top predators matter. Skuas matter. The whole food web depends on them doing their job just as much as it depends on primary producers. Vote for a bird who lives wild & free. Vote skua #birdoftheyear2025 @forestandbird.bsky.social
Image of a Subantarctic Skua (Brown Skua) soaring free above crashing waves near the Pyramid, Chatham Islands. The text says "Bird of the Year 2025" and identifies Mark Fraser as the photographer.
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Hākoakoa/Skua BOTY @hakoakoa-boty.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
What counts is who you give it to. Vote SKUA #birdoftheyear2025 #skua #skuasforever @forestandbird.bsky.social
A poster for the Wild Bunch, if William Holden (and everybody else) was a Skua. A gang of Skuas have been attracted by a penguin carcass.
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Pinky @pinky1259.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
If you think Tylenol is bad for children, wait until you find out about guns.
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The Luggage 🇳🇿🇺🇸💉🥏🏍️🔬🍺 @theluggage.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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The Luggage 🇳🇿🇺🇸💉🥏🏍️🔬🍺 @theluggage.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Choctaw Bingo
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The Luggage 🇳🇿🇺🇸💉🥏🏍️🔬🍺 @theluggage.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Saw Superman last night. Entertaining and lost of well deserved criticism but one thing Gunn knows how to do well is drop the needle on some songs that fit perfectly. This won’t make sense til you see the film but this is a brilliant fit: open.spotify.com/track/7yHRma...
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Punkrocker (feat. Iggy Pop) - As featured in Superman
Teddybears, Iggy Pop · Soft Machine · Song · 2006
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/07/2025
Epstein’s "little black book" totals 97 pages, containing 1,571 names and roughly 5,000 phone numbers. At least 38 names are mysteriously circled, including Donald Trump's. “I got my hands on a copy,” writes Leland Nally. “I made close to 2,000 phone calls.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.
What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Under Reagan's tax cuts, the average tax cut for the top 1% was 68x larger than the average cut for middle-class households. Under Bush's tax cuts, it was 16x larger. And under Trump, 36x larger.  The GOP has always governed for the privileged few.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/07/2025
Mike Johnson on Texas floods: "In a moment like this, we feel just as helpless as everyone else does ... all we know to do at this moment is pray."
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