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@mmegaffee.bsky.social

Professor, sociology and criminology; medical researcher; author; grew up in US Air Force.

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Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry.
It's clear they are trying maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dems for that suffering. But it's transparently the White House working overtime to keep the suffering going!
bsky.app/profile/cram...

09.11.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 256    πŸ” 95    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 7

And they're living it up with dancing girls at Mar-a-Lago and drinking bubbly at the new CafΓ© de Rose Garden and hitting companies up for Trump's opulent ballroom and squeezing a 747 from Qatar and selling watches and crypto and sneakers and otherwise making a mint.

It shouldn't be hard at all.

05.11.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4028    πŸ” 1026    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 14
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this mf is on Fox damn near every day now

04.11.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 11640    πŸ” 2040    πŸ’¬ 2073    πŸ“Œ 424
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House Democrats Respond to Trump's Illegal SNAP Cuts YouTube video by House Democrats

Let’s be clear: The Trump Administration has the resources and the legal authority to fully fund SNAP benefits. Not only do they have the ability, but they have also been ordered by a court to do so. And they are still choosing not to.

04.11.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now rewriting MAGA’s future Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An β€œaristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.

rightwing guy inherits insurance empire from his dad.

struck with revelation that the rich should run everything! "a proper elite that takes care of the country".

builds JD vance from dust to ensure just that.

profits!

gets wapo treatment as a big thinker.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

04.11.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2942    πŸ” 1053    πŸ’¬ 195    πŸ“Œ 54

It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.*

The First Amendment protectsβ€”or, at least, is supposed to protectβ€”the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.

04.11.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2721    πŸ” 996    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 28

SNAP benefits will be gone, small businesses will suffer, insurance premiums will double, air traffic will be delayed/halted: All of these things are happening because when the gov't shutdown ends, the Epstein Files get released.

04.11.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 17763    πŸ” 5508    πŸ’¬ 432    πŸ“Œ 206

Not gonna even speculate how #complicitmedia would react if a Black president boasted about a new marble shitter in a government shutdown.

01.11.2025 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 484    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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Kristi Noem blasts β€œforeigners” for dangerous driving. According to the Rapid City Journal, that state’s court records show Noem had 20 speeding tickets dating back to 1989, alongside other violations, including failure to stop at an intersection and invalid license plates.

01.11.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2532    πŸ” 1081    πŸ’¬ 181    πŸ“Œ 95

But now she has 175 million dollars worth of private jets so problem solved.

01.11.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6816    πŸ” 2425    πŸ’¬ 381    πŸ“Œ 84

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

01.11.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 579    πŸ” 127    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3

Is it just me or do these proclamations sound more and more like the work of Dement AI?

01.11.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1096    πŸ” 222    πŸ’¬ 140    πŸ“Œ 8

I wonder if the South American fishermen he's routinely killing would count as "innocent Christians" too, or nah?

01.11.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3624    πŸ” 824    πŸ’¬ 177    πŸ“Œ 20
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Obama: "They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and blame DEI for every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? Must be DEI. Your wife kicked you out? DEI. Who knew?"

01.11.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 15739    πŸ” 3932    πŸ’¬ 273    πŸ“Œ 179
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Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"

01.11.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 26454    πŸ” 7747    πŸ’¬ 518    πŸ“Œ 369
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So trumps probably never read the great Gatsby, but is it possible that no one at mar-a-lago has read the great Gatsby?

01.11.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4678    πŸ” 843    πŸ’¬ 444    πŸ“Œ 69
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Newsom: I cannot wait for all the punditry. Historic victories all across the United States of America. Proposition 50 winning by double digits. A new governor of New Jersey, a new governor in Virginia.

I’ll end as I began: thank you for giving a damn.

01.11.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 20305    πŸ” 4661    πŸ’¬ 259    πŸ“Œ 146
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Billboards outside US Southern Command urge troops not to 'break the law’ in Caribbean strikes β€œDon’t let them make you break the law,” reads a billboard along the road to U.S. Southern Command, one of several set up by veterans.

Here's a brilliant billboard campaign to put important messages before the National Guard troops being deployed to US cities! Another illustration of doing what we can, where we can. A model for us all! taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-gro...

01.11.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1741    πŸ” 526    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 5
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Kash fired the guy he thinks outed him for taking another private jet flight to see his girlfriend sing.

02.11.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 14764    πŸ” 6006    πŸ’¬ 937    πŸ“Œ 367
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New York Times Op-Ed one year ago

01.11.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1346    πŸ” 467    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 16

Suspect the SNAP issue is going to become increasingly problematic both for Trump and Congressional Republicans because of the demographic skew of SNAP recipients bsky.app/profile/dese...

02.11.2025 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 546    πŸ” 167    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 4

The person who is currently running our country has lost his mind and it’s time we start talking about it.

02.11.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2724    πŸ” 830    πŸ’¬ 147    πŸ“Œ 32

The person running our country is most likely Stephen Miller. The person who is the President lost what little mind he had years ago. I mean he has the intellectual age and impulses of a 5 year old.
But I agree, he gets worse everyday and it should be a matter of the U.S. Government's concern.

02.11.2025 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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At some point we might have to consider the fact that he might be mentally unstable.

02.11.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 20705    πŸ” 4998    πŸ’¬ 3591    πŸ“Œ 906

This is where psychology is so very important. Simply put, one man is a sociopath and one man is not. I am not saying this to be cute. It is a fact. Donald Trump’s behavior is consistent with sociopathy. There was nothing about Reagan that was sociopathic. Hard stop.

01.11.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 992    πŸ” 125    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 9
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

01.11.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 13326    πŸ” 5054    πŸ’¬ 562    πŸ“Œ 272

1. The commercial was done by Ontario, not Canada itself, which is run by someone in the opposing party to Carney. He had nothing to do with it.
2. Commercial was not "false." It was entirely accurate.
3. Reagan hated tariffs.

Stop just letting him lie constantly.

31.10.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3245    πŸ” 774    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 34
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Mamdani: You know, there wasn’t a single New Yorker I spoke to who told me the reason they were voting for Donald Trump was so he could spend $300 million on renovating a White House ballroom.

31.10.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3701    πŸ” 773    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 16
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Tick-Tock, Mike

30.10.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5381    πŸ” 1703    πŸ’¬ 294    πŸ“Œ 87
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Tom Nichols: β€œThis whole notion of deploying riot control troops to every city β€” for what? What kind of disorder are they expecting? Perhaps millions of people voting, going to the streets to express their choice in an election?”

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

30.10.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 532    πŸ” 136    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3

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