GaryfinKC

GaryfinKC

@garyfinkc.bsky.social

Former political moderate. When the GOP abandoned moderates, I stuck with the Dems. 🚴 Overland Park, KS

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Context: Kansas Governor currently appoints new justices from a qualified slate of candidates chosen by a non partisan panel, based on merit and qualification. Every 2 years, Kansans vote on whether to retain them. If voted out, the governor replaces them following the process described above.

So Iran agreed to announce that they were investigating Joe Biden?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Iranian leaders: "They're gonna make a deal. They did something yesterday that was amazing actually. They gave us a present, and it arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I'm not gonna tell you what that present is but it was very significant prize"

It’s heartening to see my MAGA family member and his circle of friends finally turning the corner. It’s sad that it took Epstein to do this, but I will take it. “As a member of the maga movement, we've been betrayed. Im not ashamed to say I was wrong at this point. Trump is not for America anymore“

Nothing to see here. Just the president making the case for why the Fed MUST remain independent. "Because of the vast amounts of money flowing into our Country because of Tariffs" That's not how any of this works.

EPA: Got a loony conspiracy theory? Chemtrails? Flat Earth? We are here to believe you, and no taxpayer dollars will be spared on this.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin announces his agency is launching a major investigation into the right-wing conspiracies about chemtrails and weather manipulation to get to the bottom of it.

In all seriousness, the GOP rhetoric about the No Kings protests on the 18th is likely to incite right wingers in some areas. Be careful out there. De-escalate and be safe.

So 47.5 months into Trump's first term, the FBI was being run by... checks notes... the former VP. "DO SOMETHING" Yes we should. The emperor has lost his marbles. Sadly, many of his supporters wont even question stuff like this.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

These are agents who were sent AFTER the violent insurrection was well underway. Kash Patel issued a statement that said that after a fringe right wing outlet reported it falsely. But Trump chooses to run with the lie from them rather than the statement from his FBI Director.

DJT, 10/10/2015 "We are calculating at this moment a massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America." Coming soon: "The new tariff is 11 million quadrillion percent. Except washing machines will still be 20%" Put this guy out to pasture already.

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Did you know that your healthcare premiums are about to double because the GOP is intentionally sabotaging the Affordable Care Act and pretending that Democrats are trying to give undocumented immigrants free insurance?

China quit buying US soybeans in 2025 in a response to Trump's new tariffs on imports from China. Apparently Joe Biden had an agreement in place for them to buy billions of dollars worth, and Trump is unhappy now that Biden allowed Trump to mess that up.

Where we are: Kash Patel: This is the result of investigation, nothing more. The wildly false accusations of politicization of law enforcement come from the same bankrupt media... are baseless... are hypocrisy...etc, etc. Trump: It was me who ordered it

We have basically arrived at Soviet style central planning. Previously, farm products sold to China. Now: US Importers pay tariffs, pass costs off to the people. Gvmt uses tariff $ to subsidize the farmers whose markets they destroyed. Courts rule tariffs unconstitutional, repayment to US importers.

My father was schizophrenic. Growing up. I heard more than my share of unhinged rants. Increasingly, Trump's speeches are reminding me of that. The certainty, the detachment from reality, and the inability to recognize and question things that make no sense.

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You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

This is kind of like that family dinner out where a crazy uncle gets worked up + starts talking loudly, and you just want to slink away and say "I don't know him".

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "It used to be global cooling. If you look back years ago in the 1920s and 1930s they said, 'global cooling with kill the world.' Then they said 'global warming will kill the world.' But then it started getting cooler ... it's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world."

Meanwhile, Boeing is working hard to increase Dreamliner production to 7 units per month by the end of 2025. At this rate it will take about 275 years for Boeing to fulfill this order, assuming of course that Uzbekistan continues to be their only customer.

I mean, everything he posts is stupid. But environmentalists are generally supportive of trains as a lower impact solution as compared to trucks. Also, did he just make a plug for fast rail?

Looking at Trumps last 10 TS posts - always use an aggregator such as trumpstruth.org General Lee portrait reinstalled at West Point Black female rep attacked 2 posts Black female prosecutor attacked Black man from Chicago accused of murder highlighted. It’s almost like there is a pattern here..

RFK Jr and Hunter Biden are basically the same guy. Years of heavy drugs, womanizing, charisma, grifting off family name. Dems want nothing to do with either one. Republicans made one of them the head of HHS.

RFK Jr claims* that the Biden admin FDA dietary guidelines listed Fruit Loops at the top of the food pyramid, which is a lie. *NPR Up First, Aug 31, 2025 @12:30 What isn’t a lie is that the Trump admin has placed a Fruit Loops as the head of HHS.

I love it when a plan comes together.... "Trump Admin is pressing ahead with the new duties despite U.S. authorities lacking a system to collect them" "Postal services in Germany, Denmark, Sweden + Italy said they will stop shipping most merchandise to the U.S. effective immediately"

Does that 35% include what Gavin Newsom did to Trump on social media in the last 9 days?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

INGRAHAM: People say you all are gonna roll through other cities -- 'Oh, martial law is gonna be declared.' And to that you say? JD VANCE: How is it a power grab when we've already declined murders by 35% in nine days?

New York Times headline "Tariffs: Japan and the U.S. reached a trade deal. Japan promised to import more American goods and will pay a tariff on exports of 15 percent" No, US importers and consumers will together pay a new tax of 15% on goods imported from Japan.

So Trump’s DOJ is now going to go after these farmers and hotel owners who have been knowingly and illegally hiring undocumented workers for the past 20-25 years, right? Right?

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

TACO Trump now wants to make sure his rich Republican friends have enough migrant labor for their corporations.

Some day this will be remembered as a dark time in US history, much like the Japanese internments and slavery. Harvard will be able to look back with pride and say "At great peril, we still did the right thing" Some universities will look back and see their legacy tarnished in shame.

So we deport an innocent man, deliberately, illegally, and without due process. Effectively to a death camp. Now the administration claims that we can't get him back, refusing to even try. Maybe it's time to begin the penalty phase where we start locking up the perpetrators of this atrocity?

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There we go. Support this man.

Mona Burns@monaburns.bsky.social

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."