@johnofvt.bsky.social
I just want to point out that this awful budget is being shepherded by the Speaker who says the Bible is his guiding document. Of course he didn’t say which Bible - right SATAN?!?!
AKA MAGA Murder Budget
They need a catchy title for this.
How about: The Kill the Children, the Old and the Needy to Make the Rich Richer Act of 2025?
House Republicans Push Forward Plan to Cut Taxes, Medicaid and Food Aid
How about: The Kill the Children, the Old and the Needy to Make the Rich Richer Act of 2025?
House Republicans Push Forward Plan to Cut Taxes, Medicaid and Food Aid
May 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I just want to point out that this awful budget is being shepherded by the Speaker who says the Bible is his guiding document. Of course he didn’t say which Bible - right SATAN?!?!
The MAGA Murder Budget of 2025
AKA MAGA Murder Budget
They need a catchy title for this.
How about: The Kill the Children, the Old and the Needy to Make the Rich Richer Act of 2025?
House Republicans Push Forward Plan to Cut Taxes, Medicaid and Food Aid
How about: The Kill the Children, the Old and the Needy to Make the Rich Richer Act of 2025?
House Republicans Push Forward Plan to Cut Taxes, Medicaid and Food Aid
May 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The MAGA Murder Budget of 2025
So we are Musk’s sales arm now?
NEW: Records show that senior State Department officials in both D.C. and Gambia coordinated with Starlink execs to coax, lobby and browbeat Gambian government ministers to help Musk. One official said Gambia is under “maximum pressure” to yield.
The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...
www.propublica.org
May 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
So we are Musk’s sales arm now?
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Under Fascism, the state makes sweeping changes (sold as an attack on waste, fraud, and abuse) in the name of efficiency…and “the trains will run on time!”
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
April 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Under Fascism, the state makes sweeping changes (sold as an attack on waste, fraud, and abuse) in the name of efficiency…and “the trains will run on time!”
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
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Apartheid Clyde a petty, dangerous, incompetent man but what always amuses me is how no one likes him and he can’t even buy his way into getting people to like him. He can’t buy a good sense of humor or good looks or good reputation.
April 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Apartheid Clyde a petty, dangerous, incompetent man but what always amuses me is how no one likes him and he can’t even buy his way into getting people to like him. He can’t buy a good sense of humor or good looks or good reputation.
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Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.
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Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people.
Blazing your own path for the W
👏👏👏👏👏
Blazing your own path for the W
👏👏👏👏👏
April 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people.
Blazing your own path for the W
👏👏👏👏👏
Blazing your own path for the W
👏👏👏👏👏
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what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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Very fun to explain the signal scandal to my 13 year old who truly understands the catastrophe of adding the wrong person to the group chat and absolutely fell out when I showed her the Mike Waltz emojis.
March 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Very fun to explain the signal scandal to my 13 year old who truly understands the catastrophe of adding the wrong person to the group chat and absolutely fell out when I showed her the Mike Waltz emojis.
You gotta give DJT credit - once he starts a lie he sticks with it even after he no longer needs it - and nobody cares anymore.
President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that will require proof of U.S. citizenship on election forms. The move is in an aggressive push to catch and combat voter fraud, which is exceedingly rare but constantly cited by Trump as a reason he lost the 2020 election. nyti.ms/3FHy1Ti
March 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
You gotta give DJT credit - once he starts a lie he sticks with it even after he no longer needs it - and nobody cares anymore.
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It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal *honor* to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.
March 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal *honor* to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.
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Meta raked in $8B thanks to Trump’s first tax cuts. It donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
Comcast got $6.6B. It donated $1M to his inauguration.
Bank of America got $24B in tax subsidies, and you guessed it, donated to Trump’s inauguration.
This is who Trump governs for.
Comcast got $6.6B. It donated $1M to his inauguration.
Bank of America got $24B in tax subsidies, and you guessed it, donated to Trump’s inauguration.
This is who Trump governs for.
March 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Meta raked in $8B thanks to Trump’s first tax cuts. It donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
Comcast got $6.6B. It donated $1M to his inauguration.
Bank of America got $24B in tax subsidies, and you guessed it, donated to Trump’s inauguration.
This is who Trump governs for.
Comcast got $6.6B. It donated $1M to his inauguration.
Bank of America got $24B in tax subsidies, and you guessed it, donated to Trump’s inauguration.
This is who Trump governs for.
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The politicization and weaponization of both the CIA and the FBI at the same time sets the country up for another intelligence failure on the scale of Pearl Harbor or 9/11. A joint essay by me and @tim-weiner.bsky.social: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/patel-ratc...
Patel, Ratcliffe Set Up U.S. for a National Catastrophe
A rare joint essay on the dangers inside the battle for the soul of the FBI and CIA
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The politicization and weaponization of both the CIA and the FBI at the same time sets the country up for another intelligence failure on the scale of Pearl Harbor or 9/11. A joint essay by me and @tim-weiner.bsky.social: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/patel-ratc...
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RIP Gene Hackman…
February 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
RIP Gene Hackman…
YES!!! Rich guys suck (toes apparently) - hedge fund bros blow!
YES @repcasar.bsky.social: "We should be talking about the fact that it's not immigrants that are raising your rent, it’s hedge funds that are buying up your neighborhoods and raising your rent. It’s not LGBT Americans that are screwing up, you have, your health care, it's corporate CEOs who are."
February 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
YES!!! Rich guys suck (toes apparently) - hedge fund bros blow!
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We will make sure that all 217 of these Republicans hear loud and clear about how unconscionable it is to cut Medicaid and other benefits, especially when the cost of groceries and living is only getting higher from Trump’s economic policies.
February 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We will make sure that all 217 of these Republicans hear loud and clear about how unconscionable it is to cut Medicaid and other benefits, especially when the cost of groceries and living is only getting higher from Trump’s economic policies.
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Today I’m in a Budget Committee markup, where Republicans are trying to give $4.5 TRILLION in tax giveaways to the richest handful of Americans.
This budget is a betrayal of poor and middle class families — and Democrats are calling it out and fighting back.
This budget is a betrayal of poor and middle class families — and Democrats are calling it out and fighting back.
February 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Today I’m in a Budget Committee markup, where Republicans are trying to give $4.5 TRILLION in tax giveaways to the richest handful of Americans.
This budget is a betrayal of poor and middle class families — and Democrats are calling it out and fighting back.
This budget is a betrayal of poor and middle class families — and Democrats are calling it out and fighting back.
This what I’ve been
Saying but this guy says it better. The attack on DEI is an attack on women’s rights and people of color hidden behind transgender people. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
Saying but this guy says it better. The attack on DEI is an attack on women’s rights and people of color hidden behind transgender people. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights (Gift Article)
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
This what I’ve been
Saying but this guy says it better. The attack on DEI is an attack on women’s rights and people of color hidden behind transgender people. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
Saying but this guy says it better. The attack on DEI is an attack on women’s rights and people of color hidden behind transgender people. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
Well this confirms that Musk has all of the maturity of a 16 year-old. A kid who is tearing through the U.S. government like his parents are way and gets got the keys to the sports car and the liquor cabinet.
The man currently destroying the U.S. government has changed his name on Twitter to Harry Bolz
February 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Well this confirms that Musk has all of the maturity of a 16 year-old. A kid who is tearing through the U.S. government like his parents are way and gets got the keys to the sports car and the liquor cabinet.
Touché
"No white people during Kendrick's halftime show? So much for diversity"
Oh you didn't hear? DEI got canceled. He clearly hired the best people for the job 😌
Oh you didn't hear? DEI got canceled. He clearly hired the best people for the job 😌
February 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Touché
Anybody have any guesses why #Trump is trying to ruin America?
Trump's latest cut raised suspicions with at least one expert.
Expert flags curious timing of Trump purge as 'crypto scheme' investors lose billions
President Donald Trump's dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is almost certainly illegal under the separation of powers — but, wrote former Labor Secretary Robert Reich in a length...
www.rawstory.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Anybody have any guesses why #Trump is trying to ruin America?
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Trump's latest cut raised suspicions with at least one expert.
Expert flags curious timing of Trump purge as 'crypto scheme' investors lose billions
President Donald Trump's dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is almost certainly illegal under the separation of powers — but, wrote former Labor Secretary Robert Reich in a length...
www.rawstory.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Trump's latest cut raised suspicions with at least one expert.
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The state’s 29 municipalities with at least 5,000 people are set to ask voters for nearly $275 million in capital projects — a leap from $60 million last year — in a collective wish list heavy with water and sewer plans.
March bond requests are up fourfold in Vermont’s biggest cities and towns - VTDigger
The state’s 29 municipalities with at least 5,000 people are set to ask voters for nearly $275 million in capital projects — a leap from $60 million last year — in a collective wish list heavy with wa...
vtdigger.org
February 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The state’s 29 municipalities with at least 5,000 people are set to ask voters for nearly $275 million in capital projects — a leap from $60 million last year — in a collective wish list heavy with water and sewer plans.