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Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h ago

It would be great if the media in interviews could ask El-Sayed about issues most American voters care about that affect their daily lives, which he talks about every day and has made the centerpiece of his campaign, instead of endless questions about Israel and podcasters.

Mack Butterfield@mack2114.bsky.social · 16h ago

The Trump administration has quietly issued a sweeping regulation that seems to make political ideology, rather than scientific merit, the overriding determinant in all federal research and grant funding decisions. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

The White House's new, quiet plan to attack public health | Opinion

This proposed regulation is insidious. Political appointees would be given greater authority to decide who gets federal funds, with experts sidelined.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)@axidentaliberal.bsky.social · yesterday

If an Attorney General must be confirmed in the middle of the night, on a one party basis, by a single vote, after multiple delays and with defections from his own people, you know there’s probably something very wrong with that nominee And there is something VERY WRONG with Todd Blanche

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · yesterday

Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell has custom meals and a comfort puppy in prison. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick kept his job after lying about his ties to Epstein. Todd Blanche was OKd as AG after his Epstein files cover-up. Clearly, Republicans think the rape of children is no big deal.

Peggy Stuart@peggystuart.bsky.social · yesterday

Trump voter whose fiancée was arrested by ICE: "ICE is picking up law abiding citizens. They're destroying families, jobs. I wouldn't vote for Trump again, not after this fiasco. When they swarm someone at airports, it's like they're shooting fish in a barrel."

Freedom Writers Collaborative@fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 2d ago

'Just doesn't hold water': Tapper confronts Republican over Trump claims

'Just doesn't hold water': Tapper confronts Republican over Trump claims

CNN anchor Jake Tapper pushed back on one Republican lawmaker’s attempt to clear President Donald Trump and Republicans of their stagnant economic numbers that came out this week. “That just doesn't hold water,” Tapper said, after U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) attempted to lay the nation’s plummeting job numbers on temporary sports events like the World Cup. The exchange began with Tapper asking Gimenez to answer for the economy delivered to voters by Trump and his congressional Republican majority in weeks preceding a problematic November mid-term. “But I understand the frustration that the American people have,” said Gimenez, who then tried to blame former president Joe Biden for the economy nearly two years after Biden and his cabinet departed, despite Biden topping Trump’s job numbers. “… I think our message is, ‘look, it's not perfect right now, but if you go back to what we had with Biden and the Democrats, you're going to get out of control spending, which is going to jack up the inflation rate.” Gimenez then claimed “the dip in the employment numbers” was because of the “end of the World Cup.” “You had hundreds of thousands of people employed by the World Cup. And, you know, there's no more World Cup. And so we need to see what happens in August. … But I believe that we're on the right track. … It's just going to take a little bit of time for it to come to fruition.” “I don't know that that World Cup spin is accurate,” Tapper countered. “The World Cup lasted three weeks into July, and we had an economist on earlier who said that that just doesn't hold water. In terms of the Trump economy versus the Biden economy, I mean, … President Trump won quite handily in 2024. Now we're in 2026 and the American people don't think that that is a selling argument.” “Your constituents, they are worried about their gas prices. And now, they know that the war in Iran is one of the reasons why their gas prices are so high. They voted for Donald Trump because he said he was going to bring prices down, but you know a lot of groceries cost more. Aren't you worried?” “Yeah, of course I'm worried,” Gimenez admitted. “But again, our job is also to contrast what we're doing to bring the costs down versus what the Democrats are going to do, which is going to jack prices way back up again. … Look, you got to stay the path. You know, we're going to get there. But if you go back to that, it's going to get much, much worse.” - YouTube youtu.be

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David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2d ago

A Dem apparatus with any media capacity & savvy would push this to the top of people's awareness & keep it there. "Will the Supreme Court light the final scraps of its legitimacy on fire by allowing Trump to continue with his illegal vanity project?"

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d ago

Breaking News: President Trump cannot continue building the ballroom in the White House without explicit approval from Congress, a federal appeals court panel ruled. The Supreme Court will likely decide the project's fate.

Peggy Stuart@peggystuart.bsky.social · 3d ago

James Talarico: “The first thing we have to do when we win this seat is pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. We have to restore federal voting rights protections. These rights are inherent to people as human beings, the ability to shape your own destiny.”

D. Earl Stephens@dearlstephens.bsky.social · 3d ago

📌When he's gone, he'll be remembered for all the terrible damage he's intentionally done to people, animals and our clean air and water just to enrich himself ... He's an historically awful, awful man.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 6d ago

THIS IS SO ON BRAND… Three polls. Same verdict: Trump’s approval has completely collapsed. A normal president would take the hint and try to pivot. Trump doubles down.

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Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 6d ago

James Talarico: Since taking office, Ken Paxton has become a multi-millionaire — all while most Texans’ pay has remained stagnant for decades. He now owns 15 homes, while most Texans can't afford one. We can't afford Ken Paxton's corruption.

Shooti@bambooshooti.bsky.social · 6d ago

The strategy grew darker with the rise of FDR, the New Deal and regulatory oversight. FDR’s 1933 decision to take the U.S. off the gold standard was the tipping point. The wealthy panicked and plotted a coup. They planned to raise a private army of 500,000 veterans to overthrow FDR’s government. /8

Bond salesman Gerald C. MacGuire. In 1933, MacGuire tried to recruit retired Major General Smedley Butler to raise a private army of 500,000 veterans to conduct an “armed protest,” overwhelm the capital and overthrow FDR. MacGuire and his associate William Doyle were state-level leaders in the American Legion and planned to recruit the paramilitary force from its membership. Conspirators modeled their plan on Croix-de-Feu, a French fascist veteran organization that used mass rallies to destabilize the French government. MacGuire claimed that high-ranking American Legion leaders were secretly in on the plot and prepared to pivot the entire organization toward supporting the coup.
Shooti@bambooshooti.bsky.social · 6d ago

Major General Smedley Butler exposed the Business Plot, but it would have failed anyway. By 1933, the internal fracture between the Legion’s wealthy elite leadership and its impoverished, working-class rank-and-file made the organization far too unstable to be used as a cohesive fascist army. /9

Retired Major General Smedley Butler gives an anti-war speech at a demonstration in Philadelphia, Nov. 9, 1935. General Butler feigned interest in the Business Plot in order to gather intelligence, then exposed the conspiracy to Congress in late 1934. The congressional committee investigating Nazi and fascist activities validated Butler’s testimony, confirming that a fascist plot to create a veteran army was being planned. The national leadership of the American Legion denied any institutional involvement, dismissing the allegations as a hoax. No prominent industrialists or Legion leaders were criminally prosecuted.