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@byrdsky.bsky.social

Independent, Progressive, retired CPA

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Why Are Conservatives So Destructive? It’s Everyone Else’s Fault | Common Dreams Why are the rest of us supposed to respectfully indulge people who believe the Earth is 6,000 years old? Fascists are victims only of their own delusional understanding of the world, not the alleged p...

Why Are Conservatives So Destructive? It’s Everyone Else’s Fault www.commondreams.org/opinion/what...

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Entire UN Security Council Except US Says Gaza Famine 'Man-Made' as 10 More People Starve to Death | Common Dreams While acknowledging that "hunger is a real issue in Gaza," the US ambassador to the UN repeated a debunked claim that the world's leading authority on starvation lowered its standards to declare a fam...

Entire UN Security Council Except US Says Gaza Famine 'Man-Made' as 10 More People Starve to Death www.commondreams.org/news/un-secu...

28.08.2025 01:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'We'd Rather Be a Free Country': Bernie Sanders Shreds Trump for Latest 'Dictator' Rant | Common Dreams US President Donald Trump muses about being a dictator, drawing criticism. Sanders and others rebuke Trump for suggesting dictatorship is acceptable.

'We'd Rather Be a Free Country': Bernie Sanders Shreds Trump for Latest 'Dictator' Rant www.commondreams.org/trump-dictat...

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Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

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Qatar’s GDP is $213 billion.

A $1.2 Trillion investment is a laughable lie.

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Just a reminder for any member of Congress who seems to have forgotten...

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Major health insurer facing criminal DOJ probe for possible fraud: report Federal investigators are investigating a major health insurer for possible criminal Medicare fraud, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.Health care fraud investigators at the Justice Department have been probing UnitedHealth Group since at least the summer of 2...
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Busting up big corporations. 

Tackling Wall Street’s greed.

Getting big money out of politics. 

Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages.

Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare...

This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

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The White House is harboring a criminal. A 34 times convicted felon!

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Court Scraps $8 Limit on Credit Card Late Fees The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau switched sides and backed a federal lawsuit by banks and business groups seeking to eliminate a fee cap the bureau set last year.

A government-imposed $8 limit on most credit card late fees is the latest consumer protection regulation to be scrapped by President Trump’s administration.

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Neither Neurodivergence Nor Mental Illness Made Them Bigots—They're Just Awful People It's hard to admit your heroes are jerks, but the mentally ill and neurodivergent shouldn't be collateral damage.

Autism didn’t make them do it. Mental illness didn’t, either. This personal piece from The Big Picture cuts through the excuses and names the real issue: some people are just hateful, and we need to stop giving them cover.

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Raskin: He destroyed more than $10 trillion in American wealth in a single week. And then he went golfing and bragged to America about winning the tournament at his own golf course. That's like bragging about being endorsed by your own campaign manager. So much winning

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I bears repeating that the reprehensible Pam Bondi is just making up lies about the innocent people she is condemning to a life of torture. Most of them did not commit *any* crimes--unlike Pam Bondi, who took a bribe as a public official. She is downright evil.

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TRUMP LIED: The Truth About US Spending in Ukraine Revealed!
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger TRUMP LIED: The Truth About US Spending in Ukraine Revealed!

Trump says the US has spent $350 billion in Ukraine, and Europe has done less than us. Is this true? Nope, take a look and be sure to like and subscribe to my new YT channel

youtu.be/ZROD0LjN3HU?...

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Nice try.

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Yes!🤣🤣🤣

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Ah yes, the glory days of the Robber Barons and a U.S. diplomatic presence so irrelevant the entire world went to war in 1914.

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🚨 NEWS: The IRS and DHS have signed an agreement to share confidential tax data for suspected undocumented immigrants.

Follows our reporting that this deal was imminent — and would cover **7 million** suspected undocumented folks.

More to come…

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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