JustBec

JustBec

@pickedthebear.bsky.social

Pragmatic. Charming (mostly). Mother. Fighter against injustice. NFL fan - Chiefs have been my team since before TSwift was born.❤️ Looking for hope instead of hate. Love gardening/landscape design & totally here for pet content. 🐱🐶🪴🌱

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Friends, I was at the grocery store today when a lovely older man approached me with a bunch of carnations in his basket & handed me one. I smiled & thanked him. He said, don’t you want to know why? I said, yes please. It was his wife’s birthday. She had been gone “a while.” We proceeded to chat. 1/

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THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social

Republican lawmakers are incensed about Trump's dismissal of Ukraine — and powerless to stop him. That frustration hit a new peak on Monday as they sought to address Trump’s decision to purchase Russian diesel, waive sanctions on Moscow, and potentially stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine.

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Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

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For context, North Carolina requested $25.6 billion in initial federal disaster aid after Hurricane Helene The estimates are that the total damage and long-term recovery needs are closer to $60 billion This is an insult to our community

lol they've realized how badly they've put their foot in it and are trying to backpedal *VANCE IN NORTH CAROLINA ANNOUNCES $858M IN DISASTER RELIEF

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The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.

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a clear and present danger, inviting attacks on our Nation. This isn’t political, this is and always has been a hostile domestic enemy, such an enemy of the Constitution must be defeated.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

This is the way.

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social

Pope Leo XIV’s top ally in Washington Cardinal Robert McElroy has told Catholics to convert the politicians who tolerate Trump’s war on immigrants “or replace them.” He was met with a standing ovation.

Update: I have now seen this commercial played during the Eagles/Rams game on YouTube…. 👀

JustBec@pickedthebear.bsky.social

I’m watching the Houston v UCF game. Most notable commercial: Paxton’s soon to be ex-wife saying "Either we hold every R seat or we hand the future of Texas to the other team. Let's hold the line, together." That tells me there’s a good chance he loses. They’re terrified. Good.

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I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.

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How scared are Missouri Republicans about their anti-abortion amendment not passing in November? They are running commercials that don’t even mention the amendment will ban abortion… because they know we already gave women the constitutional right to abortion. VOTE NO ON AMENDMENT 3.  

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Sean Duffy: “I have a hard time believing in the government anymore.” Rachel Campos-Duffy: “We don't trust the government.” Katie Miller: “I'm still distrustful of the government.” Plot twist: They ARE the government.

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I know a lot of people have various issues that prevent them from voting in person, but I agree it's going to be necessary in this election for as many of us as possible

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

yall are gonna hear me say this a lot so here goes again: make plans to vote in person, and do it as early as possible. literally make turnout this election too big to steal.

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For reference: When I had my background check it was held up because I had a speeding ticket from when I went home sophomore year in college that I forgot to put on my SF-86. I got grilled about why I didn’t disclose it (they eventually believed it was mistake). The FBI as we knew it is gone.

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This METR OpenAI report is a bombshell. I'm going to summarize for a non-technical audience. OpenAI is constantly testing models, thousands and thousands at a time.

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I’ve often written that Trump actually holds his MAGA base in contempt, sees them as easily manipulated marks. It’s pretty clear Hakeem Jeffries feels the same way about Democratic voters. When he has a friendly meeting with Jared Kushner, he knows how the base will react. He doesn’t care.

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Exclusive: A rare bookseller suspected his books were being bought by AI companies. He stuck an AirTag in a book and we tracked it to a secretive Amazon facility in Las Vegas where they scan and destroy books called VGT3: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Sending ICE Agents to intimidate voters at polling places, declaring martial law to try to delay or cancel the election, seizing ballots-As he gets more desperate, there's nothing he won't do to try to save his pathetic orange ass. ALL states should preemptively prepare to defend Democracy! 🇺🇸 ✊

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*shouting until I am hoarse* LAND DOESN'T VOTE

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tom Emmer: "Minnesota doesn't necessarily lean Democrat. In fact, if you look at the 2024 presidential heat map, it is overwhelmingly red. There is a blue dot essentially in the Twin Cities."

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Republicans have the majority in the Senate and House and they're telling you they cannot rein Trump in, so stop giving them power. They're telling you they refuse to use it.

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Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

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As an educator, I am concerned about the destruction of truth. There is a concerted effort to wipe away the importance of truth across the board — an attempt to make trusted authorities into optics of suspicion. We must keep defending all the brave, courageous truth-tellers out there.

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It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. He also reported earning $636 million in royalties from Celebration Coins.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

So the airline is still “on time” if it pushes off from the gate. Pilot has reported we will sit for 50 mins with no weather between the takeoff & destination airports. Allegedly they are holding the plane to “regulate the flow of traffic.” Thought that was what schedules were for.

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Replying to @schooley.bsky.social

In a gaggle situation he just attacks the reporter ("quiet piggy") and moves on to one he knows will be friendly to him. If reporters ever dared to followed up on each other's unanswered questions, things might actually get interesting.

Reading the articles and comments about Hegseth’s D-Day speech & I honestly feel like these MFers watched the Captain America & Avengers movies and said, “you know Hydra had the right idea. They were the good guys.”

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Reminder Ken Paxton who is running for Senate in Texas pardoned his friend who was in jail for raping a boy for years. Oh well, let's move on.

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Trump attacked Massie because he demanded what Trump promised during his campaign. Kentuckians abandoned Massie because he demanded what they voted for during Trump’s campaign. That’s how screwed up the Republican Party has become.

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ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

propublica.orgThe Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income TaxProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Bezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you."

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1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

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The Trump DOJ’s $1.7Bn taxpayer funded “Anti-Weaponization” Fund to compensate Trump supporters who claim to have suffered at the hands of the Biden Admin would be considered laughable - if it weren’t so wasteful, unethical, and outrageous. Congress must end this self-serving madness! #MEpolitics