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A chillin' Ashevillain

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Dave Vetter
@davidrvetter.bsky.social

Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.

npr.orgWhy a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purposeThe Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
PatAD
@dontpanicpat.bsky.social

Well that's not scary at all...

WIRED@wired.com

"Especially when coupled with more recent events, the document makes clear that violent neo-Nazis and far-right militia groups continue to pose a serious and ongoing threat—and that state governments are failing in their duty to secure dangerous military hardware."

wired.comThieves Target Tennessee National Guard Facilities, Stealing Night Vision Goggles and MoreA string of US armory break-ins, kept quiet by authorities for months, points to a growing security crisis—and signs of an inside job.

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Joyce White Vance
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social

Fed’l prosecutors dismissed charges against a Florida woman whose lawyer is Brad Bondi, the AG’s brother. The client is a former GOP lawmaker accused of Covid relief fraud. abcnews.go.com/US/woman-acc...

abcnews.go.comA woman accused of fraud hired the AG's brother as her lawyer. Months later, DOJ dropped chargesProsecutors have moved to dismiss charges against a woman accused of fraud who was being represented in court by the brother of Attorney General Pam Bondi.

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

TRUMP: I got the highest in the history of TX, a record that won't be beat unless I run again CNBC: Are you going to run again? T: Probably not. I'd like to. I have the best poll numbers I ever had. C: Among Republicans T: No. I'm talking about generally. C: Polls have you down in the 30s

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Peter Sagal
@petersagal.bsky.social

What’s the poli-sci term for “Government By A Random Caller To C-Span’s ‘Washington Journal?’”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on undocumented farm workers: "People that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They've tried, we've tried, everybody tried. They don't do it. These people do it naturally. Naturally ... they don't get a bad back, because if they get a bad back, they die."

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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Chrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissst

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Wolff: I was talking to Epstein and he went into his safe and came out with photographs... And it was Trump with girls of an uncertain age in Epstein's house...There are two in which topless girls are sitting on Trump’s lap—and then a third in which he has a stain on the front of his pants.

PatAD
@dontpanicpat.bsky.social

I see we are now in the "we can detect Future Crime" part of our dystopian timeline...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Homan: "Most national security threats don't have a criminal history because they try to lay low until it's time to do things bad."

PatAD
@dontpanicpat.bsky.social

I am just going to make a guess here that any information that has Trump's name on it will not be labeled "credible" by this administration and will never see the light of day.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Vance on Epstein: "Donald J Trump -- I'm telling ya, he's got nothing to hide."

PatAD
@dontpanicpat.bsky.social

World travel clearly has negatively affected his ability to handle these questions. Each one of these answers seem to make his position even worse.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Who would do a controversial drawing? Now with that being said, they say there were many letters done by many people. Many big, successful people."

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Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Trump is now claiming that Comey or Garland planted his name in the Epstein files. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Reporter: You had said you had not been briefed that your name was in the Epstein files, doesn’t the AG have to tell you? Trump: It’s a hoax. Those files were run by the worst scum on earth. They run by Garland, Comey… They can easily put something in the files that’s a phony.

PatAD
@dontpanicpat.bsky.social

This is just me looking back to see who was POTUS when COVID hit.... oh right....

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Sen. Roger Marshall: "The Obama White House was the true threat to democracy ... Obama was actually involved in this. They lied to us about covid. They lied to us about Biden's health."

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LOL

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Trump: It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion Powell: I’m not aware of that. Trump: It just came out Powell: You just added in a third building Trump: It’s a building that’s being built Powell: It was built five years ago.

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Thom Tillis on Epstein: "Release the damn files ... this nonsense of, 'Well, we gotta protect the innocent.' That's called redaction. We do that all the time. That's kind of a fake, or bad reason to stop something that you don't want to happen."

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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social

One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.

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@dontpanicpat.bsky.social

The PBS NewsHour is the only nightly news show I watch. It is calm, informative, and fact based. They don't have an agenda, they don't have commercials, and they explore topics and stories that you won't hear anywhere else. I am generally pissed and hope that there is going to be a way to save it.

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Eric Columbus
@ericcolumbus.bsky.social

TRUMP on EPSTEIN in 2002: “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” nymag.com/nymetro/news...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump calls the Epstein scandal “bullshit” and says he no longer wants the support of “weaklings” who care about it

PatAD
@dontpanicpat.bsky.social

Using the short-hand "Illegals" continues to be a direct attempt to dehumanize.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Carlos Gimenez on ICE raids on California farms: "Look, we need to find those hundreds of thousands of children that were missing during the Biden administration and get them from whatever situation that they're in."

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Oliver Willis
@owillis.bsky.social

i love how they spent 8 years saying michelle obama was trying to control kids when she said they should eat healthy and now theyre literally full-on fascists

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mehmet Oz on Medicaid: "We'll be there for you, the American people, when you need help, but you gotta stay healthy yourself ... don't eat carrot cake. Eat real food."

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The Tennessee Holler
@thetnholler.bsky.social

🔥 Rosie O’Donnell, an American, responds to Trump threatening to revoke her citizenship — showing he is coming for anyone who opposes him eventually: “You are everything that is wrong with 🇺🇸… King Joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”

PatAD
@dontpanicpat.bsky.social

Sending out a gigantic F-U to this bozo from Asheville, NC, where we know what actually happened and are still being impacted to this day. Now, let's talk about the $17 Million bucks Trump has frozen from NC schools...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "FEMA has been really headed by some very good people. We have some good people running FEMA. It's about time. They failed us in North Carolina but when we got in on January 20, they fixed it up in no time."

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David Corn
@davidcorn.bsky.social

Imagine what Orwell would have done with AI in “1984.”

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com

The White House is posting AI-altered photos of members of Congress made to look like they're crying. No disclosure it's fake. Half a million views

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Fascism. Call it what it is.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."

PatAD
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It is a "leap minute", it can only be seen every 4 years or so.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Bondi on missing minute in the Epstein tape: "The video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide. What we learned from the Bureau of Prisons is every night the video is reset and every night should have the same minute missing."