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Forever New Yorker and lifetime learner. πŸ’™ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ 🌈 πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ ally She/Her

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Dems want FCC probe of "60 Minutes" omission of Trump's Binance pardon exchange A note said the extended version of the interview had been "condensed for clarity."

An exchange from Trump's "60 Minutes" interview about his family's crypto empire was not included in the extended version shared online.

Trump sued and settled with the network over the program's editing of a 2024 Kamala Harris interview.

03.11.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 556    πŸ” 194    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 9

Yes. Today all leader needs to be great communicators. Consider Rep Jeffries & Sen Schumer - both probably good at keeping colleagues in line. One of the most important leg skills historically.
But both are mediocre to bad public communicators, which is really detrimental to the Party in this era

03.11.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Right wingers live in constant fear don’t they.

03.11.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 317    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

Yet another scandal unprecedented in American history.

Either Trump is senile and doesn’t recall issuing the pardon or a staffer issued it without Trump’s knowledge. Doesn’t matter which. Both are reason enough to remove him from office.

03.11.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 169    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 4

He said at least 10 things in this interview that would ordinarily be impeachable. This might be the worst of them.

03.11.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s fine. We’ll just stop paying our federal taxes.

03.11.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Has anyone started a Bluesky auto pen account yet? πŸ€”

03.11.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

03.11.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 8384    πŸ” 3015    πŸ’¬ 1432    πŸ“Œ 1435

Sweet. Easy congressional inquiry in 2027.

Who is drafting the pardon paperwork? Who is briefing him before he signs them? What ethics checks are being done before these pardons are being drafted?

Is he actually even signing? Are these all auto pen?

03.11.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1808    πŸ” 460    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 8
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I Can't Help Feeling Like a Creep Wearing Meta's New Gen 2 Glasses Meta's new display-less smart glasses are quite good, but the vibes are off.

β€œI'm not saying these are glasses for creeps, but I can't help but feel like one while wearing them.”

Reader, they are for creeps.

02.11.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1412    πŸ” 318    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 64

Its oil.

02.11.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This might be the one that breaks me. Every federal agency reduced to banana-republic personal fiefdoms where criminal Trump allies loot the public and fire vastly more qualified people for daring to do their jobs. It’s unthinkable. It’s obscene.

02.11.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 708    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 6
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Trump’s Team Offers to Keep Some Ballroom Donors Incognito

Trump didn’t disclose all the Ballroom donors who have business with him:

β–ͺ️Jeff Yass, investor in TikTok parent company: $2.5m+ to ballroom

β–ͺ️ BlackRock, trying to buy Panama Canal ports: $2.5m+

β–ͺ️Extremity Care, Medicare reimbursement issues: $2.5m

β–ͺ️Vantive, Medicare reimbursement

01.11.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s also the right ratio for a TV screen and YouTube

31.10.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stop streaming ICE recruitment ads NOW! The Trump administration has funneled billions of dollars into these dystopian ICE recruitment ads. Meanwhile, cities are being terrorized by ICE agents who are running rampant with abuses of power, s...

Melt ice

Pls sign
sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

31.10.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In Late, Obscure Notice, DHS Turbocharges Trump’s Voter Purge Database, Evading Privacy Protections Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security quietly formalized sweeping changes to a federal immigration database, turning it into a national β€œvoter verification” tool that appears to sidestep federal privacy protections and will make it easier to remove large numbers of voters from the rolls.

31.10.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1710    πŸ” 1201    πŸ’¬ 104    πŸ“Œ 109
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CBS News kills its climate unit David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

31.10.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1585    πŸ” 781    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 61
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THIS is what republicans have done to our peaceful Illinois communities (taken this morning in River Forest IL)!! 😑😑😑 WHY exactly are they doing this ? Happy Halloween everyone - be safe!

31.10.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 298    πŸ” 185    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 24

This is how it’s done!
(Except I was reading yesterday that we need to video this stuff on horizontal, as you capture more of the activity and the context)

31.10.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Republicans Claimed Biden Censored YouTube. 20 Employees Seem to Say Otherwise Lawyers for Alphabet, Youtube's parent company, recently alleged that the Biden administration tried to β€œinfluence” the company. Interviews with employees don't appear to support their claim.

Lawyers for Alphabet, Youtube's parent company, recently alleged that the Biden administration tried to β€œinfluence” the company. Interviews with employees don't appear to support their claim.

31.10.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 849    πŸ” 242    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 12

Yes, because young people who play lots of video games are famously into managing their healthcare

31.10.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A truly extraordinary document. Judge Rodriguez throws out the indictment because "the Government’s conduct is so shocking to the universal sense of justice that it should be deprived of the opportunity to prosecute the Defendant." Hard to count all the different ways ICE lied throughout this case.

31.10.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 371    πŸ” 151    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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The White House ballroom saga could be worse for Trump than he realizes | CNN Politics President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom saga last week followed a familiar Trump-era arc: A bunch of the president’s critics sounded the alarm about his latest provocation – in this case, the su...

THIS is why you take a story like this and beat the drum about it every chance you get.

Some people say - why are we focusing on the White House when this or that horrible thing is happening.

Because we want to weaken Trump using any tool at our disposal

www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...

31.10.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Among those to be let go were eight on-air correspondents and hosts, all of whom were women, and half of whom were people of color.

31.10.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Such a magnetic guy. Really inspiring

30.10.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œFunds are available for [SNAP] program operations even in the event of a government shutdown"- This was DIRECTLY from Trump's USDA- but they deleted it from the website.

Trump isn't trying to β€œmitigate harm.” He's illegally choosing not to pay November SNAP benefits & covering it up!

30.10.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Tha video is embarrassing. I’m embarrassed for him. And for us

30.10.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."

29.10.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1436    πŸ” 263    πŸ’¬ 732    πŸ“Œ 973

Yikes. Watch the five minute local news story. I just don’t see any way that meme was a threat. Was it a violation of some new Tennessee law? Hard to say.

But goddamn has Tennessee become one of the least democratic states in this country.

29.10.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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US citizen, 67, β€˜has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

28.10.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2988    πŸ” 1765    πŸ’¬ 126    πŸ“Œ 252

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