April
@aellsworth8.bsky.social
WA born
🏠 Arizona
Army Veteran OIF 07-09
🏠 Arizona
Army Veteran OIF 07-09
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Trump is pulling federal agents from drug enforcement to chase immigrants, leaving Arizona checkpoints unattended and even pardoning convicted traffickers.
@azagmayes.bsky.social is right: this is making families across America less safe.
@azagmayes.bsky.social is right: this is making families across America less safe.
Opinion | Arizona attorney general: We're doing our part to fight drugs at the border. But the Trump administration has backed off.
Kris Mayes: My state is at the front lines in a drug crisis. Yet federal efforts to fight drug and human trafficking are declining.
www.ms.now
December 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Trump is pulling federal agents from drug enforcement to chase immigrants, leaving Arizona checkpoints unattended and even pardoning convicted traffickers.
@azagmayes.bsky.social is right: this is making families across America less safe.
@azagmayes.bsky.social is right: this is making families across America less safe.
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This statement is way outside of CIA’s lane and erosive of the ethical norm that intelligence should be non-partisan. If that norm vanishes, intelligence loses a very large portion of its value.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This statement is way outside of CIA’s lane and erosive of the ethical norm that intelligence should be non-partisan. If that norm vanishes, intelligence loses a very large portion of its value.
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Dude who took health insurance and food stamps from more Americans than any Speaker in US history wants you to know how tough he's got it.
Mike Johnson: “I haven’t had a vacation day in two years. I haven’t been off in two years, literally.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Dude who took health insurance and food stamps from more Americans than any Speaker in US history wants you to know how tough he's got it.
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It doesn’t matter where you live or how you vote – Social Security is a universal promise of economic security.
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It doesn’t matter where you live or how you vote – Social Security is a universal promise of economic security.
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Paying your taxes does not forfeit your right to privacy.
Democracy Forward is honored to represent this coalition of brave plaintiffs protecting the privacy of millions of Americans.
Democracy Forward is honored to represent this coalition of brave plaintiffs protecting the privacy of millions of Americans.
UPDATE: Today a federal court blocked the unprecedented efforts by the IRS to share data on millions of taxpayers with ICE.
This is an important win for millions of people, and represents the first injunction against this unlawful data sharing.
This is an important win for millions of people, and represents the first injunction against this unlawful data sharing.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Paying your taxes does not forfeit your right to privacy.
Democracy Forward is honored to represent this coalition of brave plaintiffs protecting the privacy of millions of Americans.
Democracy Forward is honored to represent this coalition of brave plaintiffs protecting the privacy of millions of Americans.
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Editorial Boards have been derelict in their defense of American democracy.
Credit to a local paper for standing up: @sentinelcolorado.com the first to call for #impeachment.
Showing AGSulzberger & NYT, Will Lewis & WaPo, Emma Tucker & WSJ what the Fourth Estate is for.
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Credit to a local paper for standing up: @sentinelcolorado.com the first to call for #impeachment.
Showing AGSulzberger & NYT, Will Lewis & WaPo, Emma Tucker & WSJ what the Fourth Estate is for.
bsky.app/profile/sent...
EDITORIAL: Trump's savage call for executing Dem vets in Congress warrants impeachment
‘His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him’
sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...
#ImpeachTrump #Sedition #Pentagon
‘His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him’
sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...
#ImpeachTrump #Sedition #Pentagon
EDITORIAL: Trump's savage call for executing Dem vets in Congress warrants impeachment - Sentinel Colorado
'His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him'
sentinelcolorado.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Editorial Boards have been derelict in their defense of American democracy.
Credit to a local paper for standing up: @sentinelcolorado.com the first to call for #impeachment.
Showing AGSulzberger & NYT, Will Lewis & WaPo, Emma Tucker & WSJ what the Fourth Estate is for.
bsky.app/profile/sent...
Credit to a local paper for standing up: @sentinelcolorado.com the first to call for #impeachment.
Showing AGSulzberger & NYT, Will Lewis & WaPo, Emma Tucker & WSJ what the Fourth Estate is for.
bsky.app/profile/sent...
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TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
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"A personalist regime allowed a mediocrity like Patel to rise by being willing to sell out the honorable and competent...FBI is being weakened in its capacities to do anything except to serve as a loyalist organization."
Important @donmoyn.bsky.social piece:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Important @donmoyn.bsky.social piece:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization
What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"A personalist regime allowed a mediocrity like Patel to rise by being willing to sell out the honorable and competent...FBI is being weakened in its capacities to do anything except to serve as a loyalist organization."
Important @donmoyn.bsky.social piece:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Important @donmoyn.bsky.social piece:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
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For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
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I don’t ever want to hear any Republican anywhere ever complain about someone instigating political violence against them ever again. They are a political violence party. They just object to splashback onto themselves of the environment of political violence they’ve created.
Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families."
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I don’t ever want to hear any Republican anywhere ever complain about someone instigating political violence against them ever again. They are a political violence party. They just object to splashback onto themselves of the environment of political violence they’ve created.
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A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax. The anti-Robin Hood.
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax. The anti-Robin Hood.
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
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trumps administration is the largest looting of the working class funneled up to the wealthy in history
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
trumps administration is the largest looting of the working class funneled up to the wealthy in history
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We're not really talking enough about how the tariff reversals on fruits and nuts and spices is an admission by Trump that his entire economic program is a miserable failure.
www.axios.com/2025/11/15/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/15/t...
Tariff relief at the grocery store
The affordability crisis has worsened since the imposition of steep import taxes.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
We're not really talking enough about how the tariff reversals on fruits and nuts and spices is an admission by Trump that his entire economic program is a miserable failure.
www.axios.com/2025/11/15/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/15/t...
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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admitting to statutory rape to own the libs
epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
admitting to statutory rape to own the libs
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AI Jesus Chatbot User Shocked To Learn 'H' In Jesus H Christ Stands For Hussein'
November 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
AI Jesus Chatbot User Shocked To Learn 'H' In Jesus H Christ Stands For Hussein'
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This is a heist, plain and simple. Just nonstop grift and corruption from this crooked President and his administration.
They're doing nothing to make life more affordable for regular people, but they ARE working overtime to get rich using taxpayer dollars and resources.
They're doing nothing to make life more affordable for regular people, but they ARE working overtime to get rich using taxpayer dollars and resources.
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This is a heist, plain and simple. Just nonstop grift and corruption from this crooked President and his administration.
They're doing nothing to make life more affordable for regular people, but they ARE working overtime to get rich using taxpayer dollars and resources.
They're doing nothing to make life more affordable for regular people, but they ARE working overtime to get rich using taxpayer dollars and resources.
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Study; USAID programs have saved over 90 million livesover the past 2 decades. Researchers estimate that if current cuts continue through 2030, 14 million people who might have otherwise lived are likely to die.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Study: 14 million lives could be lost due to Trump aid cuts
A new study looks at lives saved by USAID in the past and what the future without the agency will look like.
www.npr.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Study; USAID programs have saved over 90 million livesover the past 2 decades. Researchers estimate that if current cuts continue through 2030, 14 million people who might have otherwise lived are likely to die.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Grocery prices. Gas prices. Prescription drug prices. Overall prices. Over just three days, Trump made false claims about all of them. | Fact check
Fact check: Trump’s lying spree about inflation
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Grocery prices. Gas prices. Prescription drug prices. Overall prices. Over just three days, Trump made false claims about all of them. | Fact check
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And a third possibility is that they actually mean some sort of new individual health reimbursement account (HRA), not HSAs.
My point is, if Republicans don't actually know what acronym they're planning to use, maybe news outlets shouldn't be credulous about Republicans having a "plan."
My point is, if Republicans don't actually know what acronym they're planning to use, maybe news outlets shouldn't be credulous about Republicans having a "plan."
This is neither here nor there, but the distinction between a FSA and a HSA is actually pretty monumental — FSAs are use-it-or-lose-it, HSAs are not — and I don't think we actually know which one Trump(/Rick Scott/Bill Cassidy) is talking about in his new concepts of a plan
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
And a third possibility is that they actually mean some sort of new individual health reimbursement account (HRA), not HSAs.
My point is, if Republicans don't actually know what acronym they're planning to use, maybe news outlets shouldn't be credulous about Republicans having a "plan."
My point is, if Republicans don't actually know what acronym they're planning to use, maybe news outlets shouldn't be credulous about Republicans having a "plan."
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Immediately after he releases his healthcare plan.
2020: "Trump has promised an Obamacare replacement plan five times so far this year. And the plan is always said to be just a few weeks away."
kffhealthnews.org/news/back-to...
2020: "Trump has promised an Obamacare replacement plan five times so far this year. And the plan is always said to be just a few weeks away."
kffhealthnews.org/news/back-to...
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Immediately after he releases his healthcare plan.
2020: "Trump has promised an Obamacare replacement plan five times so far this year. And the plan is always said to be just a few weeks away."
kffhealthnews.org/news/back-to...
2020: "Trump has promised an Obamacare replacement plan five times so far this year. And the plan is always said to be just a few weeks away."
kffhealthnews.org/news/back-to...
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The Trump-Vance admin is unlawfully facilitating the bulk sharing of taxpayer information with ICE, including personal information of over a million taxpayers, like names, addresses, dates of birth, and even fingerprint identification numbers.
We’re fighting back in court.
We’re fighting back in court.
Court documents reveal ICE request for nearly 1.3 million taxpayer records
More than 47,000 matches came from that request, per emails released as part of a lawsuit that seeks to stop the IRS-ICE data-sharing agreement.
fedscoop.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The Trump-Vance admin is unlawfully facilitating the bulk sharing of taxpayer information with ICE, including personal information of over a million taxpayers, like names, addresses, dates of birth, and even fingerprint identification numbers.
We’re fighting back in court.
We’re fighting back in court.
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It's below the dignity of his office and the press corps to point out that the President is, at best, deeply involved with covering up the crimes of our most notorious sex criminal.
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It's below the dignity of his office and the press corps to point out that the President is, at best, deeply involved with covering up the crimes of our most notorious sex criminal.