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“.. Some Republicans estimate they will eventually need to provide $35 billion to $50 billion in aid to farmers hit by Trump’s tariffs.”

[.. That’s roughly half of all the revenue raised from new 2025 tariffs so far this year, notes @ernietedeschi.bsky.social]

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Between this, the epstein list, obsession with trans kids playing sports, & neverending conspiracy theories about what's going on in schoolsin general, you realize that the primary concern of the Republican party and its supporters is their deep desire to abuse children

the bors "I think we should improve society somewhat" cartoon except society is replaced with "bsky" and "and yet you participate in it!" is replaced with "WAFFLES"

I haven’t been so disappointed by someone in a while.

I should have learned better a long time ago… and yet.

Good lord, this is bleak.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law.

Not. One.

Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters.

Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

Also: it makes zero sense to do a "deal" on any spending when Trump has already proven he will impound appropriated money at any time for any reason and SCOTUS has said repeatedly that him doing so is fine

fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know:

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The director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute: "Their words should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that the civilian leadership intends to use the threat and actuality of violence to infringe on Americans’ constitutional rights."

Trump targets states that voted for Harris in shutdown fight The Office of Management and Budget is withholding billions in energy and infrastructure money in more than a dozen states that voted against Trump.

every single one of these states has millions of people who voted for trump www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

if you respect the law and the constitution, the trump administration has no use for you

In my @teenvogue.com debut, I spoke with congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social about the incident involving her and an ICE agent at the Broadview ICE facility earlier this month, where protests against the Trump administration's aggressive immigration policies are ongoing daily.

Is this a Kavanaugh Stop?

So ICE went into an apartment building in Chicago, busted the doors down, & brought everyone downstairs zip tied (some pulled out of their apt naked), & put them on the street while they ran them through a database.

It didn’t matter if you were a citizen. You were zip tied on the street for hours.

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.

But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

Love hearing an NPR reporter repeat Vought's line about "unconstitutional DEI principles" with nary a query about what the fuck that actually means. At some point we need journalists to make this administration explain some of these batshit utterances.

“.. weakest September for job creation since 2011 ..”

> @weisenthal.bsky.social

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

vile stuff. vile people.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump • 3m I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can't believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT

Oh, so NOW we’re talking about Project 2025!

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Wild pitch followed by hitting a guy on a 3 - 0 pitch? Oof!

Democrats voted for a shutdown. Now they have to find a way out Senate Democrats kept their promise to reject any Republican spending bill that didn’t extend or restore health care benefits, choosing instead to force a government shutdown.

why, though? why do democrats have to find a way out? how come repulicans don't have to find a fucking way out?

this rubbish is why the fucking nazis have everyone by the neck.

also... the democrats couldn't find their way out of a locked garage with six windows.

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A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

what does an "unconstitutional DEI principle" mean in the context of a tunnel project? what, a black person is going to use it?