@bigpaul81.bsky.social
Lifetime fascist hating liberal with two adult son's. Retired and golfing.
Trump complains that Somalians are "taking billions and billions of dollars" from our country, and they should be thrown out.
But hey, it's okay when rich white Floridians do it...
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If anyone was blindly arguing that America isn’t a still racist country, this exchange ought to settle the matter permanently.
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A particularly compelling item from @economist.com about Trump's "own police force" and its lawless behavior. "The result of sending quasi-soldiers to neighbourhoods is chaos and violence."
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BREAKING: Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth's use of Signal to share details of airstrike posed risk to U.S. personnel, AP sources say.
03.12.2025 18:52 — 👍 1251 🔁 496 💬 145 📌 85Several weeks before this happened, Karoline Leavitt’s brother & others in the Leavitt family kept urging Bruna Ferreira to leave her son in the U.S. and to self deport, according to statements by Bruna’s sister.
This is seriously fucking dark! These people are heartless monsters.
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
03.12.2025 13:21 — 👍 11290 🔁 6206 💬 468 📌 329Gift Article:
”A sickening moral slum of an administration
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.”
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House Republicans passed a blatantly unconstitutional bill to exclude noncitizens from being counted in the census, and limit apportionment to solely citizens.
If enacted, the legislation would likely buy GOP-dominated states more congressional seats.
You don’t fight drug trafficking by freeing the man who flooded our streets with cocaine.
This pardon is an insult to law enforcement and a gift to the cartels.
More on Emil Bove's transformation from star prosecutor of the Honduran ex-president to apologist for Trump's pardoning of him, by @jonesieman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/n...
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This timing makes a lot more sense now, doesn’t it?
Adm. Alvin Holsey resigned in October as commander of U.S. Southern Command right after flagging concerns about those U.S. military strikes on “suspected” drug boats in the Caribbean.
He served for 37 years.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has denied Russia's claims that is has captured Pokrovsk, Vovchansk, and Kupiansk.
Russia's claims come as the country attempts to strengthen it's position amidst negotiations.
Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
The U.S. unexpectedly halted deliveries of certain weapons to Ukraine and has reduced contact with German officials providing Ukraine aid, The Times reports.
The U.S. has paused aid deliveries without warning multiple times.
Heads up this morning Bluesky family
MAGAs poured millions into the little election in deep red Tennessee and had Party leaders show up, to make sure they won yesterday's special election where trump won by +30%
The fascists can't possibly put that effort or cash into every single district in 2026
There weren't two strikes on the boat. There were FOUR strikes.
Bradley takes the fall, but he'll probably be allowed to retire, and keep his pension. Then Trump will pardon him, which will essentially end all investigations.
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Rubio is talking about Americans dying and Trump is literally asleep. This isn’t a slip. It’s who he is.
The Nodfather, snoozing through his own Cabinet meeting.
Trump called Rep. Ilhan Omar 'garbage' today and said that Somalis should 'go back to where they came from.'
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‘Is this real?’ Pete Hegseth accused of open ‘wink at Nazis’ during cabinet meeting
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A redacted and unclassified version of the Defense Department's review of the use of private messaging apps to discuss military operations will be released Thursday, according to multiple sources.
Pentagon's internal "Signalgate" review sent to Congress
www.axios.com/2025/12/02/p...
Remember in May when Trump gave asylum to 17 family members of the Sinaloa cartel after making a deal with El Chapo’s son? And did you know in 2013, El Chapo bribed Juan Hernandez- who trump just pardoned - in exchange for protection in Honduras? I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.
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GOP senator: Trump pardon of convicted Honduran president sends 'horrible message'
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The Real Math of Survival The official poverty line for a family of four in 2024 is $31,200. The median household income is roughly $80,000. We have been told, implicitly, that a family earning $80,000 is doing fine—safely above poverty, solidly middle class, perhaps comfortable. But if Orshansky’s crisis threshold were calculated today using her own methodology, that $80,000 family would be living in deep poverty. I wanted to see what would happen if I ignored the official stats and simply calculated the cost of existing. I built a Basic Needs budget for a family of four (two earners, two kids). No vacations, no Netflix, no luxury. Just the “Participation Tickets” required to hold a job and raise kids in 2024. Using conservative, national-average data: Childcare: $32,773 Housing: $23,267 Food: $14,717 Transportation: $14,828 Healthcare: $10,567 Other essentials: $21,857 Required net income: $118,009 Add federal, state, and FICA taxes of roughly $18,500, and you arrive at a required gross income of $136,500. This is Orshansky’s “too little” threshold, updated honestly. This is the floor.
The single largest line item isn’t housing. It’s childcare: $32,773. This is the trap. To reach the median household income of $80,000, most families require two earners. But the moment you add the second earner to chase that income, you trigger the childcare expense. If one parent stays home, the income drops to $40,000 or $50,000—well below what’s needed to survive. If both parents work to hit $100,000, they hand over $32,000 to a daycare center. The second earner isn’t working for a vacation or a boat. The second earner is working to pay the stranger watching their children so they can go to work and clear $1-2K extra a month. It’s a closed loop.
The Housing Lie (Or, Why the Model Is Optimistic) Critics will immediately argue that I’m cherry-picking expensive cities. They will say $136,500 is a number for San Francisco or Manhattan, not “Real America.” So let’s look at “Real America.” The model above allocates $23,267 per year for housing. That breaks down to $1,938 per month. This is the number that serious economists use to tell you that you’re doing fine. In my last piece, Are You An American?, I analyzed a modest “starter home” which turned out to be in Caldwell, New Jersey—the kind of place a Teamster could afford in 1955. I went to Zillow to see what it costs to live in that same town if you don’t have a down payment and are forced to rent. There are exactly seven 2-bedroom+ units available in the entire town. The cheapest one rents for $2,715 per month. That’s a $777 monthly gap between the model and reality. That’s $9,300 a year in post-tax money. To cover that gap, you need to earn an additional $12,000 to $13,000 in gross salary. So when I say the real poverty line is $140,000, I’m being conservative. I’m using optimistic, national-average housing assumptions. If we plug in the actual cost of living in the zip codes where the jobs are—where rent is $2,700, not $1,900—the threshold pushes past $160,000. The market isn’t just expensive; it’s broken. Seven units available in a town of thousands? That isn’t a market. That’s a shortage masquerading as an auction. And that $2,715 rent check buys you zero equity. In the 1950s, the monthly housing cost was a forced savings account that built generational wealth. Today, it’s a subscription fee for a roof. You are paying a premium to stand still.
Never forget that we're in a CLASS WAR, not a political one.
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How out of touch. Trump thinks affordability is a hoax. That’s not how anyone I know is feeling.
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Trump Fumes at Fox Reporter: Americans Are ‘Getting Fake News From Guys Like You’ on Affordability Crisis Mediaite
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George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
02.12.2025 21:53 — 👍 2273 🔁 722 💬 73 📌 86Just what is a kinetic strike?
A word to make it seem less horrible?
WE ARE FIRING MISSILES INTO BOATS IN VENEZUELAN WATERS AND KILLING EVERYONE ON BOARD WITHOUT EVIDENCE OR DUE PROCESS.
They might have already written up the pardons for all the new military "leaders".
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The commander of the German Army, Christian Freuding, said in an interview with The Atlantic that the Pentagon has cut off communication with the German Defense Ministry, including coordination of military aid to Ukraine.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
