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Bumble D. Bee
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Busy as the proverbial. Curious about all sorts of things. Never give up, never surrender.
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normative.bsky.social
"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
bumblebee9.bsky.social
One economic advantage of a dual citizen giving up American citizenship would be no longer paying income tax no matter where they live in the world. Is that what you were thinking of?
December 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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wrenispinkle.bsky.social
Jealous girlfriend meme with Donald Trump smiling at Zohran Mamdani and Stephen Miller looking jealous
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
bumblebee9.bsky.social
The answer here to the question, "How much of a dumbass can you be?" is "Nuclear-level."

The timeline for the planned coup is absolutely hilarious.

www.fox6now.com/news/texas-m...
The Indictment: Gavin Rivers Weisenberg, 21, of Allen, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, of Argyle, have been indicted by a grand jury on counts of conspiracy to murder, maim, or kidnap in a foreign country and production of child pornography. The charges were given for the pair's extensive plans to travel to Gonave Island, which is part of the Republic of Haiti, to attempt a coup de'état, the documents say. Weisenberg and Thomas prepared from August 2024 to July 2025 to execute their plans, in which they allegedly intend to buy a boat, sail to Gonave Island, kill every man on the island, overtake it by force, and take the women and children as sex slaves. Gonave Island has a population of about 87,000.
November 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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rparloff.bsky.social
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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climatologist49.bsky.social
75-year trend of October temperatures. It's as if something has changed. 🤔
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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climate.us
Science should serve everyone.
Thank you to those who believe in keeping climate information open, accurate, and independent. Your words remind us why our work matters.
#ClimateForUs #ClimateScience #TestimonialTuesday
Graphic titled "What people are saying" with three quotes: - Thank you for your labor on this important effort! We need independent unbiased scientific data more than ever. - Ellen - Thanks for keeping scientific information available, visible, and unimpeded by political agendas. - Jordan Lowy - For all the research, information and services you have provided in the past, thank you. - Jonathon Graphic titled "What people are saying" with 2 quotes: For all the human rights abuses happening right now, this is the most important issue. If we don't have a livable climate, we have nothing. Thank you for keeping this information alive and available to us all. - Robbin - Thank you for doing this important work of protecting the climate resources that we taxpayers have paid for and need to be able to use. Keep up the struggle. Eventually, this sad time in our nation's history wi Shel Horowitz
November 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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afreedma.bsky.social
An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
Workers fear NASA is quietly gutting the iconic home of Hubble and Webb. The agency says it’s strategically closing buildings | CNN
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
www.cnn.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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petergleick.bsky.social
My first science job was as a summer undergraduate intern here working on the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite.
November 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.
khrisnin.bsky.social KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · Oct 31
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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jasonleopold.bsky.social
🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 sex crimes probe, according to emails obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Jeffrey Epstein Went to War Over Money Laundering Probe in 2007 Sex Case
Federal prosecutors opened a financial-crimes investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 amid their larger sex-trafficking probe. The financier and his legal team waged a war against them, his emails ...
www.bloomberg.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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getwired.com
😳😂👍
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social
The media's complete lack of curiosity over our nearly 80 year old President's health when he has permanent bruising on his right hand, swollen ankles, facial drooping, disappeared for days from public view twice in the last 2 months and just had an unexplained MRI is notable
October 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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pbump.com
The distillation of this is that your government is lying to you and plans to keep doing so.
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Oct 29
Scoop: The Trump admin's videos boasting triumphs on immigration have used misleading footage from months ago or thousands of miles away

When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes"

wapo.st/4nuDGwf
Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations
Official videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage that was years old or recorded thousands of miles away, a Washington Post analysis found.
wapo.st
October 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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qasimrashid.com
Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218.

Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.

These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐
October 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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erikforrestjackson.com
The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟
Donald Trump appeared to describe a dementia screening he underwent at Walter Reed Medical Center as a 'very hard' IQ test while speaking with reporters inside Air Force One
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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spahn711.bsky.social
For those unfamiliar with the Halo games, the Flood is a parasitic alien lifeform so bad that superweapons known as Halos were built as a last resort to kill all sentient life in the galaxy in an effort to stop them. And the official DHS page is memeing about it while referring to immigrants. Vile.
An X screenshot of the DHS profile in which they shared "finishing this fight" with a picture from the Halo video game with the text "DESTROY THE FLOOD join ICE"
October 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
"nearly half..." ???

it's an open book test.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
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October 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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barbmcquade.bsky.social
Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
October 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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thefarce.org
So New York Republicans are meeting with German fascists.
Flyer for the New York Young Republican Club event “Drinks with AfD,” featuring Jan Wenzel Schmidt and Kay Gottschalk on Thursday, October 2 at 7 PM. Event costs $10 for members, $20 for non-members, with drinks provided.
October 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 16
Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)
October 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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charlesornstein.bsky.social
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM