NJR

NJR

@fh5.bsky.social

Reader, current events, medical news, politics, retired US Navy; served in Vietnam and Saudi Arabia

367 followers72 following1.9K posts

Time to delete the DHS. What have they done for us lately or ever? Sure TSA but that's about it.

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The cattlemen can afford gas, the oil men can afford steak, what more do you slobs want?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"

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3 out of 300 polled for a Michigan statewide race would be a poll of 100,000 people.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "When I'm in these big arenas, I ask for hands -- 'Show me your hand if you've answered a poll in the last six months.' There will be like three hands among 300 people. I'm telling you, these polls are off. All of them."

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Welker: "El-Sayed has denounced the Muslim Brotherhood." Mike Rogers: "No, he has not." Welker: "He did in an interview with me." Rogers: "I get you guys want to defend this guy, but I think it's unbelievable you would not hold him accountable for his beliefs."

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Read and share widely. Charlotte knows exactly what is at stake here and she spells out what we need to do so clearly.

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social

"The past two years are all the proof you need that sitting out an election because the better candidate happens to not be perfectly to your liking is completely stupid and self-destructive."

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1/6 Blanche wants Bash to treat the possibility of another attempt to overturn an election as absurd. Then he describes DOJ preparing a post-election challenge in Alaska. Listen to the plan, not the indignation. Get prepared. People and resources to follow below.

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One thing I've been trying to do is to RT Colin McDonald's weekly "here are all the low-level frauds by brown people we magnified this week" by listing Trump's frauds. It's HARD!!! For example I missed Lindsey's bribery. And a Ken Paxton fraud. Gonna have to start crowd-sourcing this...

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Trump prioritizes his puppet-master Putin and Russia, whilst he oppresses Americans.

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

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When more than $20 million of defense contractor Navatek’s priorities made its way into the defense budget, CEO Martin Kao seemed to thank Susan Collins for making it happen. And it appeared he was keen to return the favor. Listen to this excerpt ⤵️

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LEFT: Fascist Elon Musk spreading the lie that Nazis were far-left socialists. RIGHT: Fascist Elon Musk not acting like he *really* believes the Nazis were far-left socialists.

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Nothing is a more convincing admission that you know your entire administration is corrupt than giving criminal pardons to EVERYONE.

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

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This thread is worth your time 🧵

Abe Streep@abestreep.bsky.social

Wildfires are a known threat in the West. But after a fire scars the earth, there's another, underemphasized risk. Severe burns can strip away plants and leave soils that don’t easily absorb water, increasing the potential for catastrophic floods. Towns are often caught unprepared. THREAD ⬇️

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Trump's impulse control is visibly diminishing every day. There's a very high probability that soon he will physically assault a reporter – more specifically, a female reporter.

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The BBC is doing something important, refusing to be intimidated by a powerful person trying to use the legal system to punish criticism and discourage scrutiny. They’re schooling the American press on what the 1st Amendment means. Read about it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-bbc-st...

joycevance.substack.comThe BBC Strikes BackWith so much going on right now, we pick up with an unusual Friday afternoon column to cover Trump’s defamation case against the BBC.

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MINNESOTA: “I don’t think about myself. The youth are the most innocent. Anything you can do to save them is worth it.” ♥️ Endless stories attack the MN Somali-American community— but Ebro Ahmed🦸🏽‍♂️saves a bus 🚌 full of kids and stories mostly leave out that he’s Somali? 🤔

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NEWS: Robert De Niro delivers a blistering rebuke of Trump and the Supreme Court in a new video condemning threats to voting rights. “I’ve got a message for them: no f**king way.” He urges Americans to vote early and protect their right to vote. Watch.

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Trump gives Russia $$$. Russia gives Trump...this.

Bill McCarthy@billmccarthy.bsky.social

NEW: A major Russian propaganda campaign has waded into the US midterms, seeding a fake video that purports to show a former student of James Talarico accusing him of sexual assault. The group spread near-identical disinformation about Tim Walz in 2024. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Replying to @drjackbrown.bsky.social

11. Stop trying to make our country's history into a religion. 12. If your ad re Amy Acton's mom is your idea of a ticket to heaven, you're effed. Ω

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Replying to @drjackbrown.bsky.social

7. What religion's version of heaven? 8. The country and world for which we should strive, should in no way be limited to 18th century ideals. 9. Many were slave holders – so sounds like they're not going to 'heaven'. 10. Most all were misogynist AF. ...

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Where TF to start on Ramaswamy's 'founding fathers' quote? 1. The term 'founding fathers' is a Republican fetishization. 2. They are *not* gods. 3. We don't owe them a fucking thing. 4. You presume heaven is a real. 5. If it's real, you don't know it's like. 6. Dude, you're going to Hell. ...

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Replying to @mikelevin.org

Trump promised again and again on the campaign trail that he would cut your electricity bill in half. Instead, residential electricity rates have skyrocketed.

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David Mauricio tells @timmiller.bsky.social why he didn’t bother being polite on Jubilee’s “Surrounded”: “If you’re still MAGA now, it’s either you’re crazy, you’re really stupid, or you’re probably a bad person.”