Steve R
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Steve R
@steverostron.bsky.social
Boise, ID
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The Trump regime is declaring that funding for the CFPB is illegal.

Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators.

Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Raskin: If this were to pass, this astounding provision would give eight Republican senators a personal payday of at least a million dollars each, paid for by the U.S. Taxpayers at a time when we are throwing millions of people off of their health care…
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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“After the gringa left, the guards came in to beat us,” said one detainee of what occurred after a visit from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
Trump sent men to torture in El Salvador, report confirms
Human Rights Watch found that Venezuelans shipped to El Salvador by the United States were beaten almost every day.
www.motherjones.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Upon Reaching 100 Cosponsors, Nadler, Smith, and Himes Send Letter to Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Urging a Markup of West Bank Violence Prevention Act

nadler.house.gov/news/documen...
Upon Reaching 100 Cosponsors, Nadler, Smith, and Himes Send Letter to Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Urging a Markup of West Bank Violence Prevention Act
nadler.house.gov
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Dreamers were once obvious candidates for a path to citizenship. Now, they’re getting picked up, detained, and set for potential deportation.
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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1/ This Veterans Day, Common Defense and Task Force Butler are proud to announce a powerful new partnership to uphold democratic values and counter rising authoritarianism in the wake of Donald Trump’s re-election.
youtu.be/qwbjMwXM2Q0?...
Going on Offense for Democracy: Task Force Butler and Common Defense
YouTube video by Task Force Butler
youtu.be
November 12, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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And now Middleton is going to take advantage of legislation that was meant to provide state funding to rural areas of Idaho that don't have the tax base to build school facilities, rather than communities that have money but don't want to pay anything, like Middleton.
www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...
New state funding could bring a new elementary school to Middleton
State funding and donated land could bring a new school to Middleton to ease overcrowding—if voters reject a May bond.
www.kivitv.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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if I'm an ATC who took one measly sick day since it was fucking October and my kid had a cold I am *incandescent* over this.
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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News coverage of this has focused on the pardon of those involved in the fake electors plot.

But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia

My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Going all shutdown on our homepage right now at prospect.org. Understand what's happening, check it out!
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts sits on the board of the State Leadership Initiative (SLI), which was co-founded by Nate Fischer & Noah Wall. Alex Acosta (of Epstein plea deal infamy) is the chairman. WTF? 1/
stateleadership.org/about/
About | State Leadership Initiative
About Our Vision Americans transforming their state and community into a legacy their children and grandchildren will be proud to call their home. SLI was f ...
stateleadership.org
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Lutsk. Children sleep in the basement to the sound of explosions.

Every day, parents in #Ukraine shelter their children in basements as Russian drones and missiles target our cities. Many young children have never experienced peacetime

Russia must be stopped.

📹: ruslana_sunbeam / TikTok
November 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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"Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." - Statue of Liberty left out the sick, and now Rubio is stopping them from getting visas to enter the US. #Eugenics #Fascism
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/us-...
US to deny visas to people with diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses - The Times of India
US News: TOI correspondent from Washington: Foreign nationals seeking to immigrate to the United States could now be denied visas and green cards based on pre-.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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A certified write-in candidate, Malvin “Gabe” Wilson is one of 24 volunteer firefighters and works as a logging trucker, but says he’s looking forward to his new duties as Mayor.

Link in bio.

#NeighborhoodNews #CityofCouncil #Idaho #Mayor
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Seriously? He has no idea how insurance works or how to govern. I’ll never get over 77 million people thinking a man this incompetent belongs anywhere near the Oval Office.
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Russ Vought is evil. Maybe actions like this will wake up our #IdahoLegislature & #GovernorLittle to help protect our citizens. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/11/07/r...
New Trump administration rule would override state medical debt protections • Idaho Capital Sun
A new Trump administration rule would override state laws that prevent consumers’ credit reports from including medical debt.
idahocapitalsun.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Trump: "I stick up for Viktor Orbán. Not a lot of people do because in many cases they're jealous. They wish they did what he did. They would have no problems if they did what he did."
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM