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pattymo.com
Donald Trump feels a deep kinship with and respect for anyone who runs any kind of scam or film-flam. Mystery solved
kenvogel.bsky.social Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 16d
NEW: Trump's mysterious commutation of David Gentile has upset & confused his victims.

Several of the businesses in which their life savings were invested had Scientology links.

Gentile is a Scientologist himself, but the church says it had nothing to do with the commutation.
Fraudster’s Victims Are Seething After Trump Commuted His Sentence
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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propublica.org
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
me: ugh god you know how you make plans for friday night but then friday night gets there and you don't want to do it and it feels sooooooo good to cancel?

my liege lord Daimyō Nobunaga (unsheathing katana): even a dog understands loyalty. She whose word is not bond does not deserve to live
October 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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profsaunders.bsky.social
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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ericumansky.bsky.social
Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson.

This is what we documented.

www.propublica.org/article/immi...
October 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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pbump.com
I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.
wsj.com The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Sep 29
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Car repairs up 15%. Furniture up 9%. Electricity up 6%. Coffee up 20%.

Now Republicans say they will shut down the government unless their law to increase many health insurance premiums by 75% goes into effect.

They are ruining people’s lives with these cost hikes.
September 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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charluv.bsky.social
#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Baltimore is seeing the city’s fewest homicides in 50 years. Here’s why.
Multiple people have taken credit for the historic drop that mirrors a national decrease in violent crimes. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says it’s due to a community-based approach to gun violence.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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dumbmike.bsky.social
"ji"? Did you want to go to Jira, the #1 bookmarked tab you open 80,000 times a day? Or did you want to travel across the country in the middle of a Thursday to visit 𝗝𝗶𝗳𝗳𝘆 𝗟𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲? These are my best guesses, based on 30 years of tracking your every movement, action, and thought online.
May 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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cooperlund.online
Every Monday I wake up, fully cognizant of the fact that the President took a perfectly healthy economy back behind the shed and shot it, and then I go about my job for the week like that didn’t happen because I have no control over it. It makes me feel ridiculous.
April 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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vanhollen.senate.gov
The CFPB has returned BILLIONS to consumers who were victims of financial schemes, but the richest man in the world wants to destroy it. A judge paused Musk’s  plan because it would “decimate the agency.”

This pause must become a full STOP.
Judge pauses Trump administration's plans for mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire nearly everyone at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been paused by a federal judge, who says she's “deeply concerned” about the plan.
apnews.com
April 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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zoeschiffer.bsky.social
Judge Blocks DOGE From Laying Off 90 Percent of CFPB. By @peard33.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/cfpb-t...
In a court filing to Jackson on Friday, an anonymous employee said Gavin Kliger, a member of Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, managed the disputed layoffs of nearly 1,500 workers. “He kept the team up for 36 hours straight to ensure that the notices would go out yesterday (April 17),” the anonymous worker wrote. “Gavin was screaming at people he did not believe were working fast enough to ensure they could go out on this compressed timeline, calling them incompetent.”
April 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
hell yes. can't wait to start chucking these into the ocean
deepseadawn.bsky.social Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · Apr 17
"Clearly cool: A transparent paper-based material could replace single-use plastics!
The mm-thick paperboard behaves just like plastic; it's strong, transparent, shapeable & can hold boiling water. But it degrades within a year on the ocean floor!"
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/clea...
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Clearly cool: A transparent paper-based material could replace single-use plastics
The millimeter-thick paperboard behaves just like plastic; it's strong, transparent, shapeable—and can hold boiling water. But it degrades within a year on the ocean floor.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
April 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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dairyqueenslime.bsky.social
forgot about material costs at my factory
April 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
the most appalling part of this political era is the physical harm they are inflicting on innocent people but secondary to that i find the constant smug lectures from this country's biggest collection of hypocrites, scammers, perverts, pedophiles, and overall bozos very distasteful
razzball.bsky.social Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · Apr 16
Baseball participation and poems are down because of vaccines is a new one
RFK Jr. gets emotional about autism in kids: 'we are doing this to our children' They'll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they'll never write a poem'
April 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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jamellebouie.net
me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He did not reason himself into his preoccupation with tariffs and can neither reason nor speak coherently about them. There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim — only the impulsive actions of a mad king, untethered from any responsibility to the nation or its people. For as much as the president’s apologists would like us to believe otherwise, Trump’s tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview. The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance. His long history of scams, hostile litigation — not to mention his frequent refusal to pay contractors, lawyers, brokers and other people who were working for him — is evidence enough of the reality that a deal with Trump is less an agreement between equals than an opportunity for Trump to abuse and exploit the other party for his own benefit. For Trump, there is no such thing as a mutually beneficial relationship or a positive-sum outcome. In every interaction, no matter how trivial or insignificant, someone has to win and someone has to lose. And Trump, as we all know, is a winner.
April 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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socksthewolf.com
The government is about to give OpenAI the ability to legally steal if we do not flood this page in the next 12 hours.

OpenAI will have immunity from all lawsuits regarding copyright infringement. All other AI companies will follow.

Do you despise AI? Dissent, retweet. Do something. #furry #art
Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan
On behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the NITRD NCO requests input from all interested parties on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan ("Plan"). Th...
www.federalregister.gov
March 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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papapishu.bsky.social
Schmidt had been visiting Luxembourg and flew back to the U.S. on Friday. His partner had gone to pick him up at Logan Airport, and waited four hours before calling authorities. “It was just said that his green card was flagged,” said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized. Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair. She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression. “He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior. He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza. On Tuesday, Schmidt was transported to the regional headquarters for ICE in Burlington, Massachusetts, and then transferred to the Wyatt facility. The family, including his partner, who is a cardiologist in Nashua, have acquired attorneys and been working with the German consulate in hopes to have him released on bail.
March 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Walz: I own this. We wouldn’t be in this mess if we'd have won the election and we didn't. We have to make sure that Americans know it's not just that Donald Trump is bad, but we're offering them something better
March 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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osullyville.bsky.social
These are the two ugliest fattest nastiest pieces of shit to ever bubble up
March 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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dumbmike.bsky.social
JOHN OLIVER: That brings us straight to our main story tonight, audience members who still believe what they were told on a playground once in 1992: that babies are made by a boy peeing on a girl's bathing suit.
ME: (body checking locked emergency exit)
March 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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dennycarter.bsky.social
An agency head finally said no. And when DOGE threatened employees and security guards they said no again. “No” might’ve stopped DOGE completely.
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Mar 6
JUST IN: The head of the US African Development Foundation is suing Peter Marocco and DOGE — and he is describing in detail the standoff in which he blocked DOGE from entering the agency's offices.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
March 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Dear friend,

Mr. Trump's coronation last week was a disgrace. As I bowed in protest, I thought to myself "What has become of our nation"

Now it's all up to us. Can you spare $5, $10, or even $20 so I can attend the royal feast to continue the fight?
March 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM