LakeCity Leroy
@lakecityleroy.bsky.social
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We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
Notice that look on Kim Jong Un's face? That's recognition that he's looking at a moron.
Voting machines connect to the Internet... That's definitely a problem!! electiontruthalliance.substack.com/p/debunking-...
Debunking U.S. Election Myths
Part 1: Myths About Election Machinery & How "It Can't Happen Here"
electiontruthalliance.substack.com
5 years ago, Proud Boys Canada dissolved after being listed a terrorist entity, but experts warned it could simply rebrand. Intelligence must track networks, not just names. Why doesn’t the U.S. do the same? globalnews.ca/news/7830426... #FBI #Canada #Counterterrorism globalnews.ca/news/7830426...
Despite announcing they have disbanded, Canada’s Proud Boys may not be finished, experts warn - National | Globalnews.ca
Proud Boys members could regroup under a new banner or join other organizations, experts on right wing extremism said.
globalnews.ca
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
ysph.yale.edu
Not even days in office and already violating the useless Hatch Act.
Stephen Miller deserves to spend the rest of his natural life fighting a legal system charging him of crimes he didn't commit in a language he does not speak, alone, and without counsel: publicnotice.co/p/stephen-miller…
Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids
That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.
publicnotice.co
Are we allowing this? Because there is no one with honor or integrity in Congress to stop it....? Is there a way for us to fight this?
This is so heartbreaking 💔 what’s happening to our sailors! #Pinks #USDemocracy
The Kushner deal to buy the Lakers stinks to high heaven. saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-kushne...
The Kushner Deal to Buy the Lakers Doesn't Pass the Smell Test
There are coincidences in business and then there is a sequence of events so extraordinary that pretending not to notice it becomes willful blindness.
saltypolitics.substack.com
Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?
After Alex Pretti was shot while peacefully witnessing during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the US government did not investigate his murder; they investigated groups that were supporting efforts to witness and document, calling them agitators. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
nytimes.com
What’s Going On… Is Hegseth This Unintelligent Or Is He This Racist? He canceled a $400k contract for a $1.69M … for the same item! #Blues
SHOCK REPORT: Desperate sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have tried to jump overboard amid an extended Middle East deployment, as families sound the alarm over severe mental health struggles, exhaustion, food shortages, water contamination, deteriorating conditions, + more, per Military Times.
Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say
Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month.
militarytimes.com
I love this. Senate candidate Annie Andrews says she decided to jump into the race the day RFK Jr was nominated to lead HHS. She’s a pediatrician. Saw what was coming & decided she couldn’t sit on the sidelines. THIS is what I’m talking about. Feeling called to serve & actually following through.
The U.S. Healthcare System is Already Mostly Socialized And there's nothing radical about wanting to end insurance company parasitism.
The U.S. Healthcare System is Already Mostly Socialized
And there’s nothing radical about wanting to end insurance company parasitism
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This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”
Jack Mirkinson@jackmirkinson.bsky.social · last wk.Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.
Newsom: "That $400m Qatari plane? That's not a $400m gift. It cost you $936m. That was what was appropriated as he's cutting food stamps and cutting your Medicaid. He put a billion dollars in the Pentagon budget to retrofit his private plane because that's going with him after the presidency ... "
