Boblv

Boblv

@boblv.bsky.social

Old man on his soap box Wine, politics, Nevada, Las Vegas, and live music.

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I am done with Corp bailouts. Not until we have affordable education and students loans, universal healthcare, and corp tax increases.

How many children need to day every day from gun violence to make change? We have mandatory seat belts and airbags in cars,TSA, voter ID laws yet our politicians are silent on gun deaths.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Breaking news: Eight children were killed Sunday in a shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, that police say appeared to be linked to a domestic disturbance. Police said the victims ranged in age from 1 to about 14.

There will have to be a reckoning for this level of corruption. We will need trials in jail time. We will need laws to prevent this from ever happening again.

Rep. Mike Levin@levin.house.gov

The Financial Times is reporting something that should be front-page news everywhere. Pete Hegseth didn’t just help design the Iran war. He championed it publicly, cheered it on, and sold it to the American people.

The corruption is blatant and open. But the cowardice of the GOP know no equal. They GOP should never be allowed to govern again. They are destroying our nation.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

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Commentary, only on Apple News: Congress Is Betraying America's Founders by Ceding Power to Trump The framers of the Constitution believed liberty lived in the friction between governmental branches. Read: apple.news/A3BI6GaKRSCi...

Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com

Only on Apple News+: Rolling Stone presents Special Issue 001: Stories From the Edge. 5 deep dives into a drug trafficking scheme, a horrific family crime, & more, starting with: ‘A Billionaire, a Scientist, and a Secret in the Florida Everglades.' Read: apple.news/Impijp-kIQT6...

After issuing a 10 day no fly zone order, they then revoked it 5 hours ish later. Incompetence.

CNN@cnn.com

FAA lifts its temporary shutdown of airspace over El Paso, Texas. Officials had announced the sudden pause of flights due to "security reasons." https://cnn.it/45YTaCN

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“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

nbcnews.toRenee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killingBecca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

Dems will need to turn out and in record numbers for the midterms and next presidential election. But more specifically #voting in person. Standing in line for however long it takes to cast the ballot Dems cannot trust mail in ballots because the GOP are doing everything they can to rig the game

20 house dems voted with the GOP? @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social should stand down. We need strong leadership.

Axios@axios.com

House Democrats vote to help Mike Johnson end the government shutdown. The vote created harsh divisions among Democrats, some of whom argued that the party should use the shutdown as leverage to force drastic reforms of ICE and Customs and Border Protection.

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Mini Nazi got fired 😝 Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Gestapo “commander at large” and will return to his former post in the middle of the desert, where he is expected to retire soon. [No word on whether he's turned in the SS uniform yet.] www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

theatlantic.comGreg Bovino Loses His JobThe Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.

Can local police please ask Ice to produce identification. It is to ensure public safety. Don’t want anyone impersonating a law enforcement agent. Do this every day. Document their names. Then when citizens are being illegally arrested, assaulted, and murdered, they can do a FOIA to get names.

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🇺🇸 TMZ: Trump confronted a Ford plant worker in Detroit after the person appeared to shout “pedophile protector” during his tour. Trump responded by yelling “f*** you” and making an obscene gesture.

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For days, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey aggressively countered the Trump administration’s portrayal of Renée Good’s death. Now, he is becoming one of the most prominent critics of the way the president and his team have depicted the shooting.

washingtonpost.comAfter ICE shooting, Minneapolis mayor emerges with blunt rebuke of TrumpDemocrat Jacob Frey has countered the administration’s portrayal of events in sharp and at times profane terms. His reaction is shaped by a tenure of crises.

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Replying to @politico.com

Or what? They’ll shoot someone else in the face? Hers what she said, here’s what he said. Human can eat a bag of dicks. This administration is doubling down on hate

@meetthepress.com #Welker is an embarrassment for journalists everywhere. She should have skipped that question. Let the producers give her hell later. She was attacking the mayor. Mainstream media is dead.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature? FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.

“The Pentagon is preparing a six-month review to evaluate what it calls the military "effectiveness" of women serving in ground combat roles.” = Women must stay in their lane. Make babies and be a good house wife.

NPR@npr.org

Trump offers advice to the GOP as midterm fears grow and he struggles to connect with voters on the economy. And, the Pentagon reviews the "effectiveness" of women in ground combat roles. n.pr/3NxrX3y

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COMMENTARY: It seems an increasing number of Americans, including elected leaders and journalists, are afraid to tell the truth about what happened on January 6. That's dangerous.

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Insanity: Sources close to the White House told the Washington Post Trump lost interest in backing Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado to lead the country because she accepted her Nobel Peace Prize rather than demanding it be given to Trump, which was viewed as an “ultimate sin.”

The words to describe my disgust at the administration are inadequate today. The country will need a reboot to return it to a functioning country again. I want trials.

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The CIA has assessed Ukraine was not targeting a residence used by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a recent drone attack in the north of his country, according to US officials, undercutting an assertion the Russian leader had made to President Donald Trump in a Monday phone call.

cnn.comCIA assesses Ukraine was not targeting a Putin residence in drone attack, contrary to Kremlin claim, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe CIA has assessed Ukraine was not targeting a residence used by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a recent drone attack in the north of his country, according to US officials, undercutting an ass...

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Trump is taking money out their housing allowances approved by Congress and giving it to them in a “bonus” so it looks like it came from him. It’s just a shell game with military pay from the ultimate con man

The admin rolling back fuel economy is one of many horrible actions they have taken. Car prices will not go down. Frankly, electric cars should be cheaper. They have fewer parts to the motor. Its easier to built. The Chinese electric cars are 1/4 to 1/2 the cost of an US electric car.

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This ruling is also an indictment (pun intended) of Pamela Jo’s incompetence. She illegally made Halligan the Interim US Attorney/EDVA per orders from Convicted Felon Trump. And then Bondi scrambled to make Halligan a “special attorney” just in case she wasn’t validly appointed in the first place.

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social

JUST IN: Federal judge GRANTS without prejudice James Comey’s Motion to Dismiss Indictment based on the unlawful and invalid appointment of Trump Law-Lackey, Lindsey Halligan.

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Soaring electricity prices are triggering a wave of power shutoffs, leaving more in the dark as unpaid bills pile up. Americans are paying 11 percent more for electricity than they were in January, though that number varies widely by state.

washingtonpost.comMore Americans are getting their power shut off, as unpaid bills pile upAverage electricity costs have risen 11 percent since January, more than three times the rate of inflation.