Sarah Ames
@sarahames.bsky.social
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It’s a terrible time for the House to pass what The Building Trades called “the biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country.”
Private sector hiring unexpectedly contracted in June, payrolls processing firm ADP said Wednesday, in a possible sign that the economy may not be as sturdy that investors believe as they bid the S&P 500 back up to record territory to end the month.
The private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, badly missing expectations for a 100,000 increase, ADP says
Economists polled by Dow Jones forecasted an increase of 100,000 for the month.
cnb.cx
July 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It’s a terrible time for the House to pass what The Building Trades called “the biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country.”
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The economy got half a percentage point smaller last quarter
July 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The economy got half a percentage point smaller last quarter
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As the GOP prepares to enrich the mega rich by adding trillions to the debt and cruel budget cuts, it’s worth noting that a Democratic admin probably would have made them even richer through sound economic policy and by not by throwing the markets into a panic every few weeks.
July 3, 2025 at 2:57 AM
As the GOP prepares to enrich the mega rich by adding trillions to the debt and cruel budget cuts, it’s worth noting that a Democratic admin probably would have made them even richer through sound economic policy and by not by throwing the markets into a panic every few weeks.
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Shocked, I tell you; shocked.
Republicans’ tax-and-spending megabill would give more money to middle-income and high-income households while taking benefits away from low-income people, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis released Thursday.
GOP Megabill Boosts Wealthy Households While Hurting Poor, CBO Says
Middle-income Americans also would see gains from Trump’s agenda of tax reductions and spending cuts
on.wsj.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Shocked, I tell you; shocked.
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Senator Padilla has the right and responsibility to advocate for his constituents and hold the Trump administration accountable for their abuses of military power. Violently handcuffing him and dragging him out of a press conference is outrageous.
Senator Alex Padilla is a good man and principled public servant.
The brazen and aggressive manhandling of Senator Padilla by the Trump administration is a sickening disgrace.
Anyone who assaulted the Senator should be held accountable.
No one is above the law.
The brazen and aggressive manhandling of Senator Padilla by the Trump administration is a sickening disgrace.
Anyone who assaulted the Senator should be held accountable.
No one is above the law.
June 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Senator Padilla has the right and responsibility to advocate for his constituents and hold the Trump administration accountable for their abuses of military power. Violently handcuffing him and dragging him out of a press conference is outrageous.
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ErinReed 11 Jun 25 -- A survey of 84k trans ppl -- the largest ever -- found of those who detransitioned, 94% did so due to social discrimination & rejection. Just 4% of them (0.36% of the total) detransitioned because they were not trans. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia
“In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community.”
www.erininthemorning.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
ErinReed 11 Jun 25 -- A survey of 84k trans ppl -- the largest ever -- found of those who detransitioned, 94% did so due to social discrimination & rejection. Just 4% of them (0.36% of the total) detransitioned because they were not trans. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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In Donald Trump's America, if you say "I am Senator Alex Padilla, I have questions for the Secretary," you get thrown to the floor and handcuffed.
June 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
In Donald Trump's America, if you say "I am Senator Alex Padilla, I have questions for the Secretary," you get thrown to the floor and handcuffed.
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Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.
June 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.
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so they've moved along to liberating the city from the governor and the mayor?
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
so they've moved along to liberating the city from the governor and the mayor?
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Boebert: What we’re seeing in LA is an insurrection
Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.
Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.
June 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Boebert: What we’re seeing in LA is an insurrection
Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.
Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.
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This is the central dynamic to most of the Trump Administration’s legal strategies, including, most notably til now, the deportations to El Salvador.
A law says: Under condition X, the President can do Y.
Trump: I declare X is happening! So I can do Y.
A law says: Under condition X, the President can do Y.
Trump: I declare X is happening! So I can do Y.
SHUMATE points to the Take Care Clause as justifying Trump's action.
BREYER: You're telling me that the president acted on evidence. Did he have to?
SHUMATE: It would be a nonjusticiable matter.
BREYER: So, if he simply says it, it's so.
BREYER: You're telling me that the president acted on evidence. Did he have to?
SHUMATE: It would be a nonjusticiable matter.
BREYER: So, if he simply says it, it's so.
June 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This is the central dynamic to most of the Trump Administration’s legal strategies, including, most notably til now, the deportations to El Salvador.
A law says: Under condition X, the President can do Y.
Trump: I declare X is happening! So I can do Y.
A law says: Under condition X, the President can do Y.
Trump: I declare X is happening! So I can do Y.
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worth adding. he's the ranking member on the immigration subcommittee. of course she knows who he is.
June 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
worth adding. he's the ranking member on the immigration subcommittee. of course she knows who he is.
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A DHS official told me Noem & security had no idea who Senator Padilla was. Now, the FBI is running with the statement that the senator "did not identify himself and was not wearing his senate security pin" — but he very much did identify himself, loudly, on video...
June 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A DHS official told me Noem & security had no idea who Senator Padilla was. Now, the FBI is running with the statement that the senator "did not identify himself and was not wearing his senate security pin" — but he very much did identify himself, loudly, on video...
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She is saying, in effect: "We are going to liberate the city from its democratically elected leadership using the military"
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
She is saying, in effect: "We are going to liberate the city from its democratically elected leadership using the military"
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Sending Marines to face off against citizens on U.S. soil is fundamentally un-American, a MASSIVE waste of taxpayer dollars, and an insult to our servicemembers.
A dangerous and needless escalation by a wannabe dictator.
Everyone must speak out against this abuse of power.
A dangerous and needless escalation by a wannabe dictator.
Everyone must speak out against this abuse of power.
About 700 Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests | CNN Politics
More than 700 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized to respond to the protests in Los Angeles, and the troops will join the thousands of Nati...
amp.cnn.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Sending Marines to face off against citizens on U.S. soil is fundamentally un-American, a MASSIVE waste of taxpayer dollars, and an insult to our servicemembers.
A dangerous and needless escalation by a wannabe dictator.
Everyone must speak out against this abuse of power.
A dangerous and needless escalation by a wannabe dictator.
Everyone must speak out against this abuse of power.
A stunning piece from a few years ago. Trump trolled Portland in 2020 by sending in the troops. Now he's trolling LA.
The New Anarchy
America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.
www.theatlantic.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
A stunning piece from a few years ago. Trump trolled Portland in 2020 by sending in the troops. Now he's trolling LA.
Trump will take this as an invitation.
Trump has no right to deploy Oregon National Guard against protesters in Portland, Kotek insists
Kotek criticized President Donald Trump for deploying the National Guard in California without the governor's consent.
www.oregonlive.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Trump will take this as an invitation.
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“Lights out tonight,
trouble in the heartland,
gotta head-on collision,
crashing in my guts man”
Hard to believe this story will play in the heartland, also hard to believe it will be known outside of the major newspapers’ readership
But here goes:
berto.fyi/3SjbrUa
trouble in the heartland,
gotta head-on collision,
crashing in my guts man”
Hard to believe this story will play in the heartland, also hard to believe it will be known outside of the major newspapers’ readership
But here goes:
berto.fyi/3SjbrUa
Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner (Gift Article)
Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
berto.fyi
May 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
“Lights out tonight,
trouble in the heartland,
gotta head-on collision,
crashing in my guts man”
Hard to believe this story will play in the heartland, also hard to believe it will be known outside of the major newspapers’ readership
But here goes:
berto.fyi/3SjbrUa
trouble in the heartland,
gotta head-on collision,
crashing in my guts man”
Hard to believe this story will play in the heartland, also hard to believe it will be known outside of the major newspapers’ readership
But here goes:
berto.fyi/3SjbrUa
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National missile defense is the longest-running scam in the history of the Department of Defense. Musk didn’t invent it, but he’s about to get a whole lot richer by perpetuating it.
https://trib.al/HylddRa
https://trib.al/HylddRa
Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer
For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.
trib.al
May 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
National missile defense is the longest-running scam in the history of the Department of Defense. Musk didn’t invent it, but he’s about to get a whole lot richer by perpetuating it.
https://trib.al/HylddRa
https://trib.al/HylddRa
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"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...
US military spends eight times more on Viagra than gender-affirming care
In a hearing over the Defense Department's removal of transgender service members, a judge uncovered that the military spends $42 million a year on Viagra.
www.newsweek.com
May 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...
Translation: The move is blatantly illegal and corrupt.
May 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Translation: The move is blatantly illegal and corrupt.