Gidget 💜
@gidget.bsky.social
Anti-fascist, Anti-bigot, Wife, Dog Mom AF, Star Wars, Autoimmune Warrior, 🏒⚽️⚾️🏈, banned book reader, plant porn, 3rd Generation Miamian, Curmudgeon. 🚫 DMs. Opinions are my own. I say “FUCK”. A lot. Formerly GG - glkg0223 on Xitter Joined 6/11/2023
More than five million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits since President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. https://to.pbs.org/47Sb4rd
Cuts to SNAP benefits push many Americans to seek help from food banks
More than five million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. The bill cut SNAP funding, e...
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Trump’s new press secretary. Reporter: “You said Zacharia is an attorney. Where did she pass the bar exam? What state?” Zacharia: “When I moved to China.” Well, maybe she did walk past a bar in China, but that doesn’t count.
here's Bruce Blakeman tonight claiming "I never said that I would cut Medicaid in half" -- immediately followed by a clip of him saying on Fox Business in June that "we make sure we cut Medicaid in half"
We are struggling to find the person who let this happen.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoSusan Collins: "I think what happened is far too many ICE officers were hired and deployed without adequate vetting and training"
NEWS Kimberly Guilfoyle, the newly ousted U.S. ambassador to Greece, tried to convince the White House that the messages in which she pleaded with a donor to pay off her Amex bill were AI-generated. Officials didn’t believe her. Full Story: on.wsj.com/4yoopSV
We scoured social media, court records and local stories for instances of immigration agents holding citizens against their will. The administration doesn’t track these cases. So we have. We’re sharing our database with you.
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice tells @timmiller.bsky.social: “This Iran war is a classic example of stupid shit. It’s these ventures of choice that get us bogged down and erode our strategic position, cost lives, and cost the American consumer that we must avoid.”
President Donald Trump's diesel deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats as fueling Russia's war against Ukraine, violating existing U.S. laws and drawing the U.S. closer to Russia. https://to.pbs.org/4yo5QOJ
Trump's diesel deal with Putin draws bipartisan criticism from a frustrated Congress
The deal is being criticized by both Republicans and Democrats as fueling Russia's war against Ukraine, violating existing U.S. laws and drawing the U.S. closer to Russia.
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In Las Vegas, a former gang leader was sentenced Tuesday for orchestrating the murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur in 1996.
In Georgia, police have identified the man who fell to his death while riding a roller coaster at a Six Flags amusement park outside of Atlanta. Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, 42, was an employee at an Atlanta charter school, according to local school officials.
Pope Leo XIV had surgery on Tuesday to remove a cancerous growth in his lung, the Vatican announced.
Pope Leo has lung cancer, the Vatican announces after surgery
Pope Leo XIV had surgery on Tuesday to remove a cancerous growth in his lung, the Vatican announced.
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RESIGNED: Trump’s Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, resigned, not because she’s corrupt. (That’s no sin in TrumpWorld) But because she got caught. Guilfoyle asked a Trump donor to pay off her $100,000 Amex credit card bill in exchange for favors that never came. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
A sixth measles death has been reported in Pennsylvania. There have been 1,136 confirmed measles cases in Pennsylvania this year, the most in 35 years.
Fox: The American dream now costs $5.3 million, up more than 4% in just one year. It is becoming more unreachable.
The crowd at JD Vance's rally in Tyler, Texas minutes out from the start of the program
Kimberly Guilfoyle has resigned as Ambassador to Greece after asking a donor to pay off her $100,000 debt in exchange for government favors.
Anti-war means preventing war; not surrendering once the war has already started, you can't virtue signal a working air defence or artillery into existence when you need it. It's not virtuous or responsible to be a spineless coward at best, and a collaborator at worse. Be an adult.