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Donna Martinez
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Short Term Rental Owner of Sea Ranch Abalone Bay: https://searanchabalonebay.com
Retired SpEd educator, advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities.

DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.
The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Baltimore City, Maryland sue Glock over firearms that can easily be turned into machine guns
Baltimore City, Maryland sue Glock over spread of machine guns
Baltimore City, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown and a gun safety group are alleging in a lawsuit that gun manufacturer Glock has facilitated “the proliferation of illegal machine guns."
buff.ly
February 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
THANK YOU LIL' X-YOU SPEAK FOR MILLIONS!!🤣
YOU'D THINK A BILLIONAIRE COULD AFFORD A NANNY!
Stealing the Oval Office spotlight while your 4 year old tells the President to shut up is nasty work 🤣🤣🤣

@maddow.msnbc.com @lastword.msnbc.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Trump ordered all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted -administration would prioritize resettling of white, “Afrikaner refugees” into US .https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/politics/trump-south-africa-aid-white-landowners.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk4.MkFU.olxHZo8oogCI&smid=bs-share
Trump Executive Order Halts Aid to South Africa, Claiming Mistreatment of Afrikaner Landowners (Gift Article)
The president ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white, “Afrikaner refugees” into the United States.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM
@dcmartin336.bsky.social🔥As of mid-day February 7, the total children suffering the growing measles outbreak reached 9 (nine) confirmed cases in the South Plains Public Health District (SPPHD) Gaines area that has some of the state's lowest vaccination rates and highest non-medical exemptions.
Measles outbreak erupts in one of Texas’ least vaccinated counties
9 cases are confirmed and 3 are probable. Officials says more are likely to come.
arstechnica.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
@dcmartin336.bsky.social
🔥As of mid-day February 7, the measles outbreak total reached 9 (nine) confirmed cases in the South Plains Public Health District (SPPHD) that includes Gaines, according to Zach Holbrooks, Executive Director for SSPHD.

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Measles outbreak erupts in one of Texas’ least vaccinated counties
9 cases are confirmed and 3 are probable. Officials says more are likely to come.
arstechnica.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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What is the point of sending them to Cuba instead of deporting? Has a reporter asked directly???
February 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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👋 legal profession!

"With the Trump administration warning career lawyers to follow orders even if they have ethical qualms, pressure is building on professional legal associations to take a stance against efforts to upend long-standing norms of public service..."

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Government lawyers with ethics concerns look for help amid Trump crackdown
Some lawyers hope that bar associations, which have themselves been targeted by Trump, will come to their aid.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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I see a pattern bsky.app/profile/numb...
People he pardoned seems to get arrested again.
February 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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"Texas authorities arrested a Jan. 6 rioter recently pardoned by President Trump on Thursday for online solicitation of a minor..."

thehill.com/regulation/c...
February 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
@dcmartin336.bsky.social #news Published at 4AM:
Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it would not establish ties with Israel without the creation of a Palestinian state
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Saudi Arabia says it won't establish ties with Israel without creation of Palestinian state
Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it would not establish ties with Israel without the creation of a Palestinian state - a statement that comes after U.S. President Donald Trump said that the Saudis were not demanding a Palestinian state.
www.reuters.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Trump announces USA will "develop" Gaza and Jordan will most certainly take homeless people of Gaza. Looks like he's got his own Panama Canal...if not his 51st state.
#news
February 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Jennings: He got permanent troops.

Rampell: Do you know how many troops Mexico had on the border last year? 15,000. Is 10,000 more than 15,000?
February 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Malliotakis: We try to get to the bottom of where this money is going, $50 million for condoms in Gaza, for example. These are real things!

Phillip: We know that there was not $50 million spent for condoms in Gaza. There was $0 spent on condoms in the Middle East. That is a complete lie
February 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. When you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder
February 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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AOC: I have encountered many billionaires. You all have seen many of those encounters in hearings.. I can tell that this dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever seen
February 4, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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And just like that, MAGA doesn’t give a shit about the First Amendment anymore
February 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Commentary: I cannot remain silent as the Trump administration launches an assault on the principles that make Colorado, and this nation, great.
By @portiaprescott.bsky.social
Colorado must lead in defending diversity and equity against Trump's executive orders • Colorado Newsline
As a second-generation Colorado native, president of the Rocky Mountain NAACP, and a proud resident of Aurora — a city that thrives on its rich cultural diversity — I cannot remain silent as the Trump...
coloradonewsline.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
THE TALIBANIZATION OF AMERICA HAS BEGUN
February 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
ELON MUSK IS RAPING AMERICA...ALONG WITH DONALD TRUMP.
February 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Reposted by Donna Martinez
Reposted by Donna Martinez
⚡️Ukrainian citizen beaten to death in Bratislava, media reports.

Local law enforcement have not ruled out the possibility that the man was beaten by police and private security guards. The Ukrainian Embassy has reached out to Slovak authorities.
Ukrainian citizen beaten to death in Bratislava, media reports
Local law enforcement agencies have not ruled out the possibility that the man was beaten by police and private security guards. The Ukrainian Embassy has reached out to the Slovak authorities.
kyivindependent.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Reposted by Donna Martinez
“We act out our fears about poverty and race on vulnerable children. They’re pawns in these larger moral panics. It’s ultimately rarely about what’s best for the children.”
Hard Knock Life | Heather Radke
The real history of being an orphan in America is nothing like the myths spun in fiction.
thebaffler.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM