paul (aka "shirky17")
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- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")Yes, I'm pissed about the jumbo jet too. But this is actually the most important story today.
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")Obama turned down a *book* to comply with ethics rules surrounding gifts. Trump is accepting a jet. That’s the difference.
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")My suggested answer to these questions is we currently have a president systematically dismantling our constitutional republic, alliances & institutions while committing unprecedented fraud & grift, so I’m not really concerned about an 82 year old retired president right now.
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")Did Trump and Pam Bondi make a deal with the Sinaloa Cartel? It would seem so, and now 17 cartel family members have been allowed to enter the U.S. apnews.com/article/el-c...
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")BREAKING: A federal grand jury has indicted Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan. Keep in mind, the threshold to indict is far lower than the threshold to convict and maintain on appeal. www.cbsnews.com/news/wiscons...
- Wait, there was a book… we all had to buy it in high school.. it gave us alternative words to use … it’s called…
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")THIS IS A THESAURUS. IT ALREADY EXISTED
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")ICE convinced a woman she was being arrested and then threatened to take her baby into custody unless a relative showed up to take her. It was all a ruse to get her mother to leave her house. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- Things will continue to get worse for more and more Americans (and the world) until we remove the felon and the sycophants and reestablish Democracy
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- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")As far as I can tell, the Democrats are experts at appealing to the middle. The party needs to expand to the left, not the right. I doubt we'll lose "the middle" by advocating for a public health option or supporting the LGBTQ+ community. If you want to be a republican, go be a republican.
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country! It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")Under court order, the government has released a nearly unredacted copy of the memorandum of understanding between the IRS and Homeland Security revealing how taxpayer data was shared for immigration enforcement.
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")Converting a luxury jet gifted by Qatar to President Donald Trump into a replacement for Air Force One could potentially cost hundreds of millions of dollars and take up to two years to install the necessary security equipment, communications, and defensive capabilities. cnn.it/3S2UahW
- felons gonna felon
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- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")It seems the junior Senator from Missouri is employing a Nazi in his office. I called his DC office and they said that it is “against policy” to state whether someone is employed with my taxpayer money to work for my junior Senator. Good to know… www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")Trade Rep Jamieson Greer says that the emergency Trump declared to usurp Congress' power to declare tariffs maybe wasn't such an emergency as Trump claimed it was. I'm sure plaintiffs will find that notable. www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/12/j...
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- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")Why are ICE agents masked to begin with? Our law enforcement officers shouldn’t be anonymous. Ever.
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")We should be ashamed of ourselves for not appreciating him breaking the law. ✈️ 💰 🙏
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")Library of Congress staff just showed what resistance looks like. After Trump abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the respected Librarian of Congress, he tried to install Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General, as acting librarian. Staff weren’t having it.
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- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")The denial runs so deep.
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")The Trump admin is fast-tracking a uranium mine in Utah by slashing the permitting process to 14 days, bypassing environmental review and cutting the public out entirely. Projects like this are supposed to go through NEPA, the law that requires environmental impact assessments and public comment.
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")In 2024, Biden signed into law a $105 billion measure designed to end a shortfall in air traffic controllers. In 2025, Trump came in and instead began firing hundreds of them. So you can see how *clear* it is that Biden is to blame for the shortage now.
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")The “white genocide” myth began as a far-right conspiracy, but has been gradually mainstreamed through right-wing media, populist rhetoric, and selective focus on farm attacks, stripped of overt white nationalist framing but still rooted in the same distorted narrative.
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")Trump is taking a bribe from a country that funds Hamas. If you can’t say that, then you shouldn’t be a journalist.
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")THIS WEEK: House Republicans are deciding how many families and senior citizens they’ll kick off Medicaid, SNAP, early education, and countless other programs that working families rely on — all to fund tax breaks for billionaires. Call your representative NOW if you live in a GOP district.
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- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")The Missouri Governor has appointed Chris Vas, a senior director for the Herzog Foundation, to the public school funding task force. The Herzog Foundation was formed to send Missouri taxpayer money to private religious schools… Do we see the problem? Because I do. governor.mo.gov/press-releas...
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")Because of the layoffs at NIOSH, multiple lifesaving programs have been shut down even though they’re required by law.
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- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")This is a bribe. Don’t overthink it.
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?
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- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")Across the federal government, Trump officials are halting a wide range of operations by declining to approve key funds. This unofficial hold on many activities has incapacitated parts of agencies as varied as the National Park Service and the Pentagon.
- There will be no way to accurately determine the death toll caused by the actions (and inactions ) of this Republican administration , worldwide or domestic
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")I hope that in the future being part of DOGE is such a mark of shame that they shunned by their families, friends, and every employer paying more than minimum wage (and shunned by other people who work with them at those jobs, too)
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")A fourth jet lost. From the Truman again.
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- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")The GOP wanted to impeach Biden for a fake $5M bribe from Ukraine that was made up by a guy sitting in prison for lying about it, but they’re cool with a $400M plane from Qatar. Do I have that right?
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
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- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")Hoping @raskin.house.gov @durbin.senate.gov ask Pam Bondi why she didn't recuse from a matter pertaining to Trump accepting bribes from Qatar, given that she herself was only recently a paid agent of Qatar.
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")I worked for the VA for over a decade longer than Doug Collins and I can promise you that cutting jobs will kill Veterans. The VA was already woefully understaffed thanks to Republicans constantly curtailing funding and benefits.
- Secretary of VA Doug Collins has been adamant that staff cuts will not affect veterans' health care. In a contentious Senate hearing Tuesday, he accused Democrats of fearmongering. "We've always said that we're going to keep frontline health care." #VA #veterans www.npr.org/2025/05/10/n...
- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")It’s really striking how irregular the bands of mostly men conducting federal immigration enforcement are. They seem to have no particular uniform, they wear a variety of different agency initials on their tactical vests, or none at all, they’re inconsistent about displaying a badge…
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- Reposted by paul (aka "shirky17")The corruption is so obscene and brazen. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
