koi22.bsky.social

koi22.bsky.social

@koi22.bsky.social

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Replying to @altnps.bsky.social

It turns out that preventing a flesh-eating parasite from spreading across the continent was, in fact, NOT waste, fraud, and abuse. This is the problem with indiscriminate cuts. Some programs exist because they solve real problems before they become expensive crises.

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Remember when DOGE claimed programs protecting agriculture and public health were just “waste, fraud, and abuse”? Now the cattle industry is alarmed over the spread of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite that can devastate livestock and wildlife populations.

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My primary thought, as southern Republicans drop all pretense and scramble to grab more power, is that if the rot runs deeper than we thought, so must the needed reforms.

Micah@rincewind.run

I really wonder what the fallout is going to be because the sanitized version of history they’ve sold for a long time is “Jim Crow was a shameful moment in history but we defeated it and came out the other side a better country” and now it’s just… back it’s the end of a myth in the starkest terms

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Luckily for ICE agent Jonathan Ross, he only murdered someone. If he had taken a photo of seashells on a beach, he'd be in *real* trouble.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM

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MAGA accounts are pushing Trump’s White House ballroom as the solution to last night’s shooting. A ballroom isn’t the problem here. Will every school get a ballroom to protect our students?

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From Elie Honig at Stay Tuned with Preet. Here is the kind of material that is still being withheld from the Epstein files, in violation of the federal statute:

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After previously attempting to pressure New York into renaming an airport in his honor by threatening to withhold federal funding (an effort that was ultimately blocked by a judge) Trump’s family business has now filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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“It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people” - Martin Luther King.

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Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

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Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

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BREAKING: TIM WALZ: "If you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record." "Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution."

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Thank you to everyone who came out and helped spread the word. Thousands of Minnesotans gathered tonight for a vigil honoring Renee Good, who was murdered by ICE agents. Let’s get ICE out of MN!

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try to make sense of it

southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago. And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.

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Replying to @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

To everyone who ever thought, for one selfish lazy second, "It won't be that bad.": Go ask some one you know, who is a member of an affected minority group, how they genuinely feel, and why. Think you don't know one? Yes you do. They might just not feel safe telling you. Or accepting themselves.

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Swalwell: He couldn't run a casino, and now he's going to run a country in South America while he fails to run a country in North America?

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Week 6 of the shutdown and we want solutions – not images of Trump's Halloween party or an empty House chamber.   People are missing paychecks, losing healthcare, and struggling to feed their families.   It's time Republicans get back to Washington and do their jobs.

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Replying to @jiminwi.bsky.social

People need to start highlighting that Miller is actually the shadow President and the one calling the shots. When it was Musk who was doing it, it caused a rift between them so big that after he was out, Musk was bashing Trump claiming he is in the Epstein files.

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Stephen froze like a deer in the headlights and pretended to have connection issues because he unintentionally gave away the game plan. “Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations." Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.