MantaHunk 🌎🏳️🌈☮️🟧
@mantahunk.bsky.social
Wood carver. Wooden gear clock maker. History buff. Science nerd. 76-year-old social liberal from the '60s. Trying to find island of sanity in what is left of US. Squeezing what's left out of life. "You never miss the water 'till the well run dry."
We've entered a new era. The MAGA crowd has to be queued on when to clap and when not to clap. Be good little boys and girls. Follow the rules.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 59m agoLOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently
Michigan Democrats didn’t just turn out, they showed up like there was free weed and a chance to annoy Trump.
So where is the money? Who controls it? Who is accounting for it? Meanwhile Venezuela is still reeling from the Earthquake and we're no longer helping them.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h agoTrump on Venezuela: "We're taking out hundreds of billions of dollars"
El-Sayed: "I believe our kids have a right to our tax dollars. I'm about 10 min away from schools that look like they did 50 years ago. Our money should be spent here rather than sent in the form of bombs or tanks to foreign govts, particularly when they are doing most heinous things with them ... "
El-Sayed: "We've been talking about an illegal apartheid regime for a very very long time, and that supersedes Netanyahu itself. So I just think we need to treat Israel the way we would treat any other country that behaved the way Israel is behaving."
Me Trump Cartel Gold Card Corporate members. Watch to see how quickly their problems disappear.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 6h agoNEW: Trump is speaking today at a casino owned by a company battling lawsuits alleging its properties failed to stop the trafficking of a 9-year-old girl and other victims. The suits allege negligence and inadequate security. Our latest:
Finally someone is telling the truth about the Trump Administration and its Cabinet.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 1h agoDr Oz: "The reality is all these grifters have come because we invited them into the federal government to steal our money"
Trump claimed his Qatari gifted flying palace was going to his presidential library, but now he's saying maybe not. He wants a different older Air Force 1 to go there instead. Obviously he wants to keep it as his personal plane, but isn't sure how to do it legally. www.rawstory.com/trump-luxury...
Trump caves on promise to gift 'flying palace' to his presidential library: report
President Donald Trump's plan to display the Qatari-gifted Air Force One at his future presidential library has apparently been scrapped, according to his son.Eric Trump, who is involved in developing...
rawstory.com
Even persons with half a brain know that Todd Blanche should not be confirmed as AG. Even the court system knows he should not be confirmed. Even the New York bar knows he should not be confirmed. Even the Epstein survivors know he should not be confirmed.
Khashoggi's Ghost@urocklive1.bsky.social · 2h agoWell a little good news. Sadly it probably won't matter.
RFK Jr: "I'm announcing that HHS has begun the decertification of Network for Hope, the organ procurement organization."
The pattern is getting more dangerous by the minute. So far, Trump has put himself on: -Our US Passports -National Parks Pass -US Airport (Florida) -Currency -Trump Arch -Gold Statues Pay attention, he's turning our country into North Korea. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 There's no telling what's next...
I must be getting old. I just saw an ad with Cindy Crawford. She's 60 years old.
This is the polygamy state. This is the state that tried to legalize incest, because "it's natural."
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5mo ago1. In the most extreme bathroom ban moving in the nation, Idaho's House has passed a bathroom ban with a potential 5 year prison sentence for 2nd offense-using the bathroom. It even counts "offenses" of using the bathroom in other states. It now moves to the Senate.
I just woke up and Senator WhiteHouse is talking. Oh my God. Everyone needs to be out on the streets. This is not a good thing putting Blanche in. This is an actual hit on America as if it was the mafia that themselves doing it. People if you are not afraid, you should be. 
This is the power of the Strait of Hormuz, more powerful than "virtually all of our stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday"The Army has used up 'virtually all' of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, raising concerns about the military's readiness for future conflicts"
Actually, it's totally predictable. Pardon the pun. America's foundation is based on slavery and making money. American society worships money over everything else. Our current government exemplifies that baseline foundation, corruption.
Andromache🗽@andromache6.bsky.social · 2h agoFFS human beings. What are we doing?
🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
NEW: Democratic women’s caucus is about to call for Max Miller’s resignation: “Due to the growing evidence and clear lack of remorse, we are calling on Rep. Miller to resign immediately,” say Reps. Leger Fernández, Emilia Sykes and Hillary Scholten.
Then add Wildberries that even last year was $17.7 billion in debt. And the bond sales continues to fail to plug the collapsing RU budget. Petrolium sector is doing terrible as well... ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/maks...
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 3h ago🔥 The oil refinery strikes cost the Russian budget 1.2 trillion rubles, - The Moscow Times In July, the federal treasury transferred another 192.8 billion rubles to oil companies through the damping mechanism and the reverse excise tax. 1/4
The state said it needs the records to investigate allegations of abuse at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch.
New Mexico Sues Blanche, DOJ For ‘Withholding’ Epstein Files
The state said it needs the records to investigate allegations of abuse at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch.
forbes.com
And a judge is accusing him of fraud on the court in Florida And the New York bar is considering disbarring Todd Blanche. Not a single vote should go towards confirming Todd Blanche for AG.
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 4h agoBREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
How Republican of him. He should be resigning, yesterday.
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2h agoCongressional ethics panel had recommended Edwards face censure over its findings on ‘hostile work environment’
We still can't figure out JD's full name, other than couch fucker.
Patricia Zengerle@reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 3h agoEl-Sayed attacked Rogers as a Trump stooge and accused Republicans of trying to use his faith and full name - Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed - to scare voters. "My name is not the reason you can't afford your groceries," he said. "You know what is? Their BS policies." www.reuters.com/world/us/pro...
holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!
SCHIFF: When Trump ran against Hillary Clinton, who won? CANDEUB: Um. Trump was certified as winner S: Did he in fact win? C: He was certified S: Do you have some doubt about if he won? C: I have no doubt he was certified S: When did it become so difficult to answer such a simple question?