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The workers of American are in a war with an entity created in 1886 which created a war plan written in 1971 and funded with millions in 1973. We are now seeing the policy bombs dropping that will soon destroy America as we know it
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While Republicans "dog whistle" conservatives about gays and transsexuals while also ending assistance programs, Amazon has replaced almost half of their human employees with robots.

𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠
www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-...
July 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
Robert Kennedy's new plan to get people to eat more vegetables.
June 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐬 a 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 many 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬⁣
In 2016, Donald Trump said contributions to the Clinton Foundation by Qatar left Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, hopelessly beholden to foreign entities and should disqualify her from serving as president.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | Before Qatar plane controversy, Trump derided foreign gifts — and Qatar
Trump previously attacked foreign and even Qatari donations to the Clinton Foundation. Now he wants to accept the biggest gift of all.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
⁣𝐌aking 𝐀merica 𝐆reat 𝐀gain? ⁣
or ⁣
𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐬 a 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 many 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬⁣
Republicans continue to take away from those that need and give to those that don't⁣
www.levernews.com/wall-street-...
Wall Street Gets A Trump Tax Break To Fire Workers
Lawmakers quietly added a line that effectively subsidizes Wall Street buying up companies, slashing wages, closing factories, and firing workers.
www.levernews.com
June 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
‪The American dream? Making America Great Again? ⁣
𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐡𝐨?
More like 𝐌isery 𝐀waits a 𝐆reat many 𝐀mericans.⁣⁣
www.youtube.com/shorts/ORIqr...
America. The escape room of countries 🤣
YouTube video by Atsuko Okatsuka
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June 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
bludogdems.bsky.social
It didn't work, in Viet Nam, it didn't work in Korea, it didn't work in South America, or Iraq or Afghanistan, but.....Here we ga again.
countercurrents.org/2025/06/the-...
The Folly of A War With Iran | Countercurrents
The neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya — and who were never held accountable for the profligate waste of $8 trillion taxpayer dollars…
countercurrents.org
June 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
Freedom of Religion Means I Get to Practice 𝐌𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬⁣. Christians that feel that they've been called to do "Spiritual Warfare" see evil everywhere because they always have evil and hate on their minds and in their hearts.
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Spiritual warfare and the roots of political violence
American democracy is under attack from an authoritarian movement.
contrarian.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
How Trump’s total destruction of the USA is enabled by tens of thousands of servile lackeys who will obey any order, just as their counterparts did in Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and in every other dictatorship we’ve seen since then. And laugh while doing it.
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Evil Progresses
How Trump’s total destruction of the USA is enabled by tens of thousands of servile lackeys who will obey any order, just as their…
allanmlees59.medium.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
American is a representative democracy. Americans vote for people to 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 and make their lives better. Who 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 to make their lives better.⁣
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Foreign Interests Appear to Be Pouring Millions Into Trump's Meme Coin
The top buyers of Trump's crypto meme coin used exchanges that ban U.S. users, indicating they are likely foreign buyers, Bloomberg reports.
www.rollingstone.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
A forensic analysis paid for by The NY Times concluded that 𝟖𝟏𝟑,𝟐𝟗𝟒 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 $𝟐 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 by trading the coin while 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭'𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 and partners 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 $𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 from trading fees from donors hoping to gain influence.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump and His Family Earned Millions From Trump Coin While 810,000 Others Lost Money: Report
Donald Trump and early investors have earned millions from $TRUMP coin while 813,294 wallets have registered $2 billion in collective losses.
www.rollingstone.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
The Only Thing Republicans are Good at is Blaming Others and Making Excuses
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/h...
House Republicans Shocked to Learn Bill They Didn’t Read Has Stuff in It They Don’t Like
Regrets, they’ve got a few.
www.vanityfair.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
People can no longer afford to shop at Walmart because Dollar General will take their few remaining pennies. Go 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐀!!! 𝐌isery 𝐀waits a 𝐆reat many 𝐀mericans.⁣⁣
www.morningbrew.com/stories/doll...
Dollar General raises outlook amid economic uncertainty
The stores that do well when everyone’s nervous.
https://www.morningbrew.com/stories/dollar-general-raises-outlook-economic-uncertainty?mbcid=40142640.4031044&mid=e93f129e1ad1f72f1531a5c643c8e5f8&utm_campaign=mb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew⁣
June 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐲 𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞⁣ 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐤𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐬, saying that starving Americans should eat their soup at home because poverty must be contagious, it keeps getting worse. ⁣ 𝐆𝐨 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐀!!!⁣
apnews.com/article/camp...
Campbell's Co. says sales rise as more Americans cook meals at home
The Campbell’s Co. said Monday it saw stronger sales of broth and condensed soup in its latest quarter as more Americans cooked their meals at home.
apnews.com
June 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
Trump lied. MAGA isn't Make America Great Again. It now means, Misery Awaits a Great many Americans.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲'𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 $𝟐.𝟗 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐡𝐞's 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐀 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐬?⁣
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says
As the Trump family's crypto ventures increase their wealth, the president's administration pauses a dozen federal crypto probes.
www.cbsnews.com
June 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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David Pepper on Substack
Central to authoritarian tactics is creating “the illusion of inevitability.” If the path to autocracy appears inevitable, it creates a huge disincentive to resist it, and an equally powerful incentiv...
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June 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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The #MAGAMurderBudget is going to kill people.
Wrong
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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June 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Trump is not the working man's friend
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
Opinion | We Study Fascism. And We’re Leaving the U.S.
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Trump has spent years yelling about politicization in Washington. But with federal employment requiring a pledge to the president and his policies, Trump shows what real politicization is
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Want a Federal Job? Get Ready to Pledge Allegiance to Trump.
The new federal job application asks which Trump executive order you love the best. He’s building his own deep-state spoils system.
nymag.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
Trump 1 was incompetence and chaos.
Trump 2 has key officials in office with several things in common:
1. Anti-Democratic
2. Personal loyalty to Trump
3. Movie star looks & incompetence
4. Serious past scandals
5. Desire to use the power of the state against opponents both political and public
Trump imprisoning his enemies and Uncle Sam and his constitution
June 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
𝐁𝐞 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝, 𝐁𝐞 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝. Trump demands loyalty to himself over the constitution, firing most who won't and using the government to attack those he doesn't like. Like him or not, he is taking away your ability to choose.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The Trump administration is descending into authoritarianism
From media to culture and the arts to the refusal to abide by court orders, we’re nearing ‘Defcon 1 for our democracy’, experts say
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐛𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐎𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐲𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞.⁣

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June 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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hrw.org
In the 1000+ page text of Trump's new budget bill, there's one paragraph that hasn't gotten nearly enough scrutiny.

🧵⤵️
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
The most 'beautiful' part of Trump's bill is it helps him defy federal courts | Opinion
Trump doesn't care about following the law, so he isn't likely to care that the American people want him to do exactly that.
www.usatoday.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐮𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥.
wapo.st/3HhnPSt
DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite
New procedures and requirements — some implemented in the name of improving operations — are slowing down federal agencies.
wapo.st
June 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
𝐈𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞? 𝐈𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧? Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...
Trump and Allies Sell Domestic Policy Bill With Falsehoods
www.nytimes.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
bludogdems.bsky.social
"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧"⁣
The new mantra sweeping the Democratic Party caused by unlikely success of a new book called "Abundance"⁣
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Can the ‘Abundance Agenda’ Save the Democrats?
Dispirited liberals are embracing—and feuding over—a new book’s call for cutting red tape.
www.wsj.com
June 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM