ballardpj.bsky.social
@ballardpj.bsky.social
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Enough said.
May 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Today’s a great day to remind everyone that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%

That’s FAR lower than private sector retirement programs, btw.
May 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Obamacare Transparency vs. Trumpcare
May 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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I will stack up Carl Sagan or Neil deGrasse Tyson against any - and I mean ANY - religious figure for wisdom, perspective and compassion.
May 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Moody’s downgraded the U.S.’s credit rating for the first time in history because the Republicans can’t get their fiscal house in order and Trump is playing whack-a-tariff with our biggest trading partners. Are we great yet, America?
May 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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My favorite couple ..... ❤️‍🩹
May 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Not that this needs to be said, but bribery out in the open is still bribery.
May 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Right on all accounts. Trump only cares about himself. All those that voted for him wanted what he was offering. They will be hurt just like the rest of us. The old saying of “YOU KNEW I WAS A SNAKE WHEN YOU TOOK ME IN” applies.
January 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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PM Carney to Trump's face: "Canada is not for sale — won’t be for sale ever." Trump's face looks anguished and angry as he forces a smile for the cameras.

Trump: "I must say Canada is stepping up their military participation, but never say never."
May 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Man I gotta say, knowing that there's nothing anyone can do to walk the President back from tanking the economy because he's got crank ideas about how trade works is really making it hard for me to do my little work tasks
May 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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JC!! Is Trump trying to compete with Ivan the Terrible?
Including Police Officers
To all of you who serve and protect.
You think this scumbag has your back

An exhibit from the ATF
Headquarters has been
REMOVED, Justice Dept confirmed

We know he doesn't care about dead children

But now
Police officers
His people
And you voted for it
#MomSky
May 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Speaker Mike Johnson is running into some resistance from fellow House Republicans on a bill to codify President Donald Trump’s push to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
GOP push to formalize Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ runs into resistance in House | CNN Politics
Speaker Mike Johnson is running into some resistance from fellow House Republicans on a bill to codify President Donald Trump’s push to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
www.cnn.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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This is an example of the ignorant leading the really ignorant at HHS. We'll need to find competent medical advice elsewhere.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US scientist who touted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid named to pandemic prevention role
Steven J Hatfill, who promoted the drug despite scant evidence of efficacy, becomes special adviser at HHS
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Extent of Pete Hegseth Signal usage revealed as he used app to ask aides to relay military plans to other countries

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth used Signal to liaise with aides about daily Pentagon business and was participating in at least a dozen chats www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Pete Hegseth used Signal to instruct aides to message about ops
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth used Signal to liaise with aides about daily Pentagon business and was participating in at least a dozen chats
www.independent.co.uk
May 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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2019 is calling and saying, hey, why didn’t you listen
April 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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i know it’s a fraught word but these are degenerate people
The person who runs the Libs of TikTok account says she "arrested some criminal illegal aliens" with Kristi Noem this morning in Arizona and promises some "exclusive" social media content "coming soon."

She's also wearing a badge in this picture.
April 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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JUST IN: Supreme Court has stayed a federal judge's order requiring the rehiring of probationary employees at six federal agencies. The nonprofit plaintiffs lack standing, the justices ruled. But...

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true?

BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country

Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime?

BONDI: *leaves*
April 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Doing this in El Salvador with those prisoners as a backdrop is extremely twisted.
March 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Duckworth goes on Fox and Baier reads her statement calling Hegseth a “f**king liar”
March 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Ossoff: He’s so consumed by his efforts to secure revenge, crush his enemies, and conquer Greenland that he’s doing nothing for the people who elected him. His entire domestic agenda is tax breaks for the wealthy, rounding up immigrants, revenge, and centralizing as much power as he can..
March 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I don’t like this Stratcom Posture Statement coupled with the reported strategic bomber buildup on Diego Garcia at all.
March 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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DOGE isn't just cutting vital government services.

Each federal job loss could also result in the loss of at least one additional worker in the private sector.

Working people having less money in their pockets to spend stifles local economies.

What’s “efficient” about that?
March 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM