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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 9h

Donors of $333 million to the ballroom include "contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member." From @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/4yiUDPx

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Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom

The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 2h

Come to think of it, can you name a country that he hasn’t betrayed?

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 3h

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 2h

Isn’t JD known for his Appalachian ethnotcity?

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 4h

Ask Li’l Marco, he can do it.

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 9h

How much testosterone makes a healthy ass? Inquiring Kegs want to know.

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Nita Cosby @5-2blue.bsky.social · 10h

US officials considering ad campaign to urge South African Afrikaners to emigrate Trump has falsely claimed Afrikaners are facing ‘white genocide’, but very few have applied to live in US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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US officials considering ad campaign to urge South African Afrikaners to emigrate

Exclusive: Trump has falsely claimed Afrikaners are facing ‘white genocide’, but very few have applied to live in US

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 10h

Thoughts, prayers and Fondelest Memories.

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 10h

“Three Cracks In The World”

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 11h

Shorter? “thirst traps leave you thirsty.”

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 11h

“Trump’s abhorrent pressure tactics will lead to violent deaths and injuries of thousands of Ukrainians hit by missile strikes … Never in the history of the United States has a president used the lives of allies as bargaining chips to obtain a partisan political benefit.”

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We've lost track of how very un-ordinary ICE's current reign of terror is. We’ve already gotten used to a level of fascism, authoritarianism, and corruption that would be unthinkable and shocking to us just a short time ago. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-s-ty...

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Trump's Tyranny, Part I: ICE's Reign of Terror

A look at life in the very un-ordinary of times

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23h

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23h

Isn’t it time for every honest member of the political media to declare loudly and clearly that Trump and the Republicans are building a dictatorship?

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 23h

Trump gave billionaires massive tax breaks. Now his IRS won’t release the numbers showing who benefited. Two missed deadlines. An election weeks away. If these tax cuts were so wonderful for ordinary Americans, RELEASE THE DAMN NUMBERS! #USDemocracy newrepublic.com/post/216605/...

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Trump Hides IRS Report on How His Tax Cuts Have Ruined America

The IRS is refusing to publish a report on the real impacts of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Is he saying we should all be smoking kudzu?

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I remember (because I was involved with it at the time) when Google said its lodestar was 'Don't Be Evil.'

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Elon Musk has pointed directly at Trump as the source of recent throttling on Starshield, the military-grade version of Starlink used by Ukraine. Zelensky warned the slowdown would cost lives by limiting Ukraine’s ability to fend off Russian invaders. www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

10/ These cases differ, and not every claim is proved. But Reuters documented at least 470 targets of Trump’s retribution campaign by November 2025. That scale demands attention. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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Trump’s campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting

A Reuters investigation documents at least 470 acts of retribution under Trump’s leadership.

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yep, their iron didn’t get any higher than their spincter.

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Can we go back to when some of our Congress critters has some iron in their spines?

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

All the President’s Stenchwomen.

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Cash For Tango, and Mango and Bango.

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Somehow I don’t think Epstein is in her remit.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Excellent piece by @jamellebouie.net

Rank-and-file Democrats — and, I’d wager, a substantial portion of the voting public — do not want compromise and cooperation. They want accountability. And if we hope to confine Trumpism to the ash-heap of history, then accountability is the only choice there is to make.

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leftynavyseal.bsky.social @leftynavyseal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Politico: Amid fierce pushback from medical professionals, Florida to remove four childhood vaccines from its schedule, including chicken pox and hep B, Surgeon General Ladapo saying decades of medical science is less effective than a mother's intuition.

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“Job qualifications are for Dumbocrats” in 3, 2, 1

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Maida ☠️ @emmaidama.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This 👇🏼 #Pinks 🌸 #USDemocracy

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Bob @psychobob4q2.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm really glad to see folks outside of my nerdy corner of the world highlighting the way Trump may be using Venezuela to create a self-funding Pentagon. Trump's effort flies in the face of the key reason Congress has the power of the purse -- to keep the executive from self-funding the military.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

3. DOGE made false claims about employee performance in order to fire them, but did not want to put their names to these emails. So they would coerce civil servants into doing so. If the civil servants refused, they were fired. (Not just DOGE, other Trump appointees like Kash Patel did this).

The revealing moments in the civil service were lonelier. They occurred inside people’s hearts and minds, and seldom leaked to the press. After his arrival at the IRS, one of Gavin Kliger’s first acts had been to demand that the agency fire its 6,700 probationary workers, who had yet to be granted civil service protection. By law they could be fired only for poor performance. Gavin had asked Traci DiMartini, in her capacity as head of human resources, to agree to put her name on an email to the mostly young employees telling them that they had failed at their jobs. The Doge people played this trick often. They’d use or try to use civil servants as a kind of ventriloquist dummy so that they, the Doge workers, could keep their names off official documents. But Traci took one look at the email, saw it was plainly a lie, and refused to have anything to do with it. The price of that single act of resistance was her job. Gavin didn’t have the authority to fire Traci, but his new acting commissioner did. “He asked Melanie to fire Traci, and Melanie did it,” said Kathleen.

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Thinking? That’s above their pay grade. And that’s why they leave it up to Elon on X.

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Put him on a rail, and turn that spit.

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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I don’t want a lame duck, hobbling around and squawking this and honking that. I want a crippled duck, muzzled even tarred and feathered.

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They will "review" whether DOGE records are actually Federal Records, or as the bad people in charge claim they were just advisors. I call BS and so should every Federal employee & institution they destroyed. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/u... #dv1 #usDemocracy #voices4victory