Turtal

Turtal

@turtal.bsky.social

Husband, brother, uncle, dog dad, Guinness/Jameson drinker, and ☘️Bruins/Celtics/Patriots/Sox☘️ fan. Independent dot in the dark red state of Florida.

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ASHLEY MOODY IS CORRUPT AF. And Angie Nixon went straight for the jugular: “Her reward for that was her U.S. Senate appointment. She knew exactly what she was doing. She signed off on it.” “Ashley Moody is a liar, she’s a thief.”🔥

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The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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This. Everyone followed directions. We were calm, organized, stayed in the street, kept moving. Additionally, when the gas hit, people didn't panic. Didn't run. Didn't riot. Didn't lose their cool at all. Calmly exited the area and helpers were EVERYWHERE lending support to gassed families.

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

Despicable!

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

In California, a mother of eight who has lived in the country for 40 years was deported just one day after she reported sexual harassment by an ICE contractor on her case. This action was taken despite a judge’s order prohibiting it.

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Meanwhile, across the Pacific, China installed more photovoltaic energy last year than the US (where photovoltaics were invented in the 1950s at Bell Labs) has in its entire history! So, America Second!, I guess... www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/21/c.... seia.org/research-res...

Little Miss FAFO 🚫👑@nofuxgiven.bsky.social

Does this big fat baby know how many Solar construction projects are happening RIGHT NOW? This is going to stunt our growth just for the construction industry alone. He sits on a thrown of LIES. Renewables are the future. Solar Energy is thriving . The only scam of the Century is TRUMP.

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There is only one way to respond to this GOP gerrymandering power-grab: hit them back harder. Newsom has shown what we can do when we’re not afraid to play their game. Time for other Dems to follow suit.

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Not enough people are talking about Trump’s plan to privatize Social Security. He’s slashed staff, cut services, and stranded rural seniors by closing support centers. His own Treasury Secretary says the Republican budget created a “backdoor for privatizing Social Security.” This is serious.

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This was announced as 150 million people across the country were under heat alerts. Fossil fuel interests spent nearly $100 million on Trump's re-election. Then the industry pumped $19 million into his inaugural fund. They're cashing in at the expense of the rest of us.

washingtonpost.comEPA moves to end climate regulation under Clean Air ActThe agency proposal would rescind the landmark “endangerment finding,” which states that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health.

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Or… work with me here… maybe a disturbed teenager had bad aim.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "God miraculously saved the president's life -- I think it's undeniable -- and he did it for an obvious purpose. His presidency and his life are the fruits of divine providence. He points that out all the time and he's right to do so."

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THIS is what courage looks like.Today, striking farmworkers bravely stood in front of cameras, the community, and the press, risking their jobs, safety, and future. To speak the truth. About the stolen wages. About the years of being unheard. This is a movement. And today was a turning point.

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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Never forget that Lisa Murkowski—who claimed to hate the bill and believe that her vote ensuring it would clear the Senate merely served to send it back to the House for changes, following which it would return to the Senate—absolutely knew her party is a cult and that the bill was never coming back

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BREAKING: House Republicans just passed their Big Ugly Bill to rip away health care and food stamps from millions to fund billionaire tax cuts. Republicans ignored every warning about how terrible this bill really is—but Americans will make themselves heard at the ballot box.

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BREAKING: Hakeem Jeffries has been speaking on the House floor for the last 4 hours straight: “I feel the obligation Mr. Speaker to stand on this House floor and take my sweet time.”

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The depth of cynicism required to pass this grotesque bill—a bill that spits in the face of nearly every voter except for the richest among us—should be enough to convince all of us to get these kowtowing Republicans out of office.

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I have been receiving a ton of emails about the ethics report showing Stephen Miller owning stock in Palantir - lining his pockets off his unlawful mass-deportation agenda. Tomorrow I'll be interviewing the author of that report. Subscribe for free: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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A win! Thank you to everyone who spoke out! After facing bipartisan resistance, the Senate Parliamentarian, ruled that Sen. Mike Lee’s proposal to sell off millions of acres of federal land cannot be included under reconciliation rules.

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I want to be really clear on this: there's absolutely no value to America whatsoever in Linda McMahon being in public life. She's a minimally educated, poorly informed rich woman who should be sipping Chardonnay in a bunker in New Zealand. No one should take her seriously or do anything she demands.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Linda McMahon on how California can avoid losing federal education funding: "They really need to send a letter of apology to all of the female participants in sports. They need to return the titles that were taken away from these women who competed and lost to males in the sports."