tntflex
I block conspiracy theorists and the factually-challenged.
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- Reposted by tntflexPretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
- Reposted by tntflexBygones. Bygones for billions.
- Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
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- Reposted by tntflexEPA announces rollback for some Biden-era limits on so-called forever chemicals in drinking water. The Biden administration set the first federal drinking water limits for PFAS substances, finding they were deadly. apnews.com/article/pfas...
- Reposted by tntflexNEW: Top House Democrats are asking the Treasury Department for "suspicious activity reports" on WinRed, Musk's America PAC and Trump family crypto ventures. It follows Trump's targeting of ActBlue. w/ @andrewjfhoward www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... - Reposted by tntflex"Probably"?! The United States is suffering from the largest measles outbreak in modern history. Children have died. And America’s top health official says this about the solution to a horrific and deadly disease outbreak.
- Reposted by tntflexWATCH: @aoc.bsky.social explains how the Republican bill will: - Gut Medicaid - Increase premiums for private health insurance - Force rural hospitals to close All to give a giant tax handout to billionaires.
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- Reposted by tntflexWhile Trump visits the Middle East to expand his own business interests and not the country. This is a good time to remind everyone that Jared Kushner received $2B from the Saudis soon after the first Trump administration ended in 2021. Their corruption was hidden then, now they are touting it.
- Reposted by tntflexOnly a corrupted government would approve this largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the wealthiest among us. It must be stopped! www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
- Reposted by tntflexBREAKING: Federal judge orders the release of Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri from immigration detention in Texas. Judge Patricia Giles said feds presented no evidence to support claimed foreign policy grounds or to show he is a Hamas supporter. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
- Reposted by tntflexYeah, that tracks. @nbcnews.com
- Reposted by tntflexGOLDMAN: Will you give Abrego Garcia the due process the Supreme Court has required you to give him? NOEM: If he were to come back to this country, he would be immediately removed again G: How do you know? The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he hasn't been treated appropriately
- Reposted by tntflexNEW VIDEO: Big redistricting news out of Wisconsin where a new petition in that state's supreme court seeks to strike down its gerrymandered congressional map. Paige and I explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_WG...
- Reposted by tntflexthis is what a ghost town port looks like — Port of Long Beach on Monday afternoon, normally the country’s busiest — and they’re not exhaling there yet in spite of the tarriff deal. thank you @nicollewallace.bsky.social for the air time to show this.
- Reposted by tntflexMusk 'Boring Co' now trying to get contract for Amtrak tunnels. Its history of over-promise and near-zero delivery is probably worst of all Musk enterprises. Makes his 'confident' 2020 forecast of manned SpaceX landings on Mars by 2026 (next year) seem realistic. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/t...
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- Reposted by tntflexLet’s not give the arsonist credit for sprinkling some water on the fire he started.
- Reposted by tntflexEven leaving aside the corruption, the "gift" of a presidential plane to Trump — for personal use! — by a foreign government is an astounding and potentially catastrophic security risk for the United States. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/corruption...
- Reposted by tntflexTOMORROW: Pete Buttigieg joins Veterans and Military Families in Cedar Rapids for a #VoteVetsTownHall. He’ll break down how Trump and Musk are putting Veterans at risk—and what’s next in the fight for a safer, stronger America. Watch on VoteVets’ socials and YouTube.
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- Reposted by tntflexTrump knows he can make grand policy announcements and sign executive orders that are completely benign. They aren’t law, wont be enforced and are entirely performative. But his base buys into it and that’s all that matters. This is his strategy to win the midterms. 🗳️ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/h...
- Reposted by tntflexBREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...
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- Trump Jr’s venture capital firm is part of the latest round of funding for Anduril. Anduril is a defense tech company backed by Peter Thiel and receives lucrative government contracts. Anduril was founded by Palmer Luckey, who is Matt Gaetz’s brother-in-law. www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump...
- Reposted by tntflexJUST IN: Hamas hands Edan Alexander, the last known living American hostage in Gaza, to the Red Cross
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- Reposted by tntflexTexas legislators slipped millions for child ID kits into a 1,000-page budget proposal. The move comes two years after they quietly cut funding for such kits following a ProPublica and @texastribune.org report that showed there’s no evidence they work.
- Reposted by tntflexNEW: As the Trump admin is flying Afrikaners here today to be resettled as "refugees," @Sec_Noem is terminating Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan — meaning they may start deporting women and allies who protected our troops to the Taliban to be persecuted or killed!
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- Reposted by tntflexPresident Donald Trump said he plans to order a cut in US prescription drug costs by mandating that Americans pay no more than people in countries that have the lowest price.
- Reposted by tntflex#ICYMI: Records show that the 25-year-old DOGE engineer owned as much as $715K in stock in companies — including Tesla, Apple, Alphabet and Alibaba — on the CFPB’s “Prohibited Holdings” list for staffers to prevent conflicts of interest.
- Reposted by tntflexEnergy & Commerce text is out. Will go through it in this thread. tl;dr: this'd be the largest Medicaid cuts in history, kicking millions off their health insurance, leading to tens of thousands of additional deaths each year LOTS of bad stuff in this (but the very worst policy did not make it in)
- Reposted by tntflexThe bronze bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which has been in the White House since the second term of the Bill Clinton administration, has been moved out of the Oval Office. blackpressusa.com/mlk-bust-qui...
- Reposted by tntflexCutbacks have gutted the staff at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, who work to protect the public from toxic algal blooms. Severe spending limits have made it difficult to purchase ordinary equipment for processing samples, such as filters and containers.
- Reposted by tntflexFEMA will stop knocking on doors to provide aid to disaster survivors, per a memo obtained by WIRED this week. It comes as the agency is shifting responsibility for recovery efforts to local authorities. Oh, and it's hurricane preparedness week, btw.
- Reposted by tntflexThe 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?
- Reposted by tntflexTrump is blocking Afghan allies who PROTECTED OUR TROOPS from coming here as refugees, so that Stephen Miller and Elon Musk can live out their dreams of bringing more white immigrants to the United States at taxpayer expense - flown here on a private chartered jet by the State Department. Sickening.
- Apparently white immigrants are welcomed here. ‘White South Africans board plane for US under Trump refugee plan’ | Reuters www.reuters.com/world/africa...
- Reposted by tntflexguess we'll be taking a trip to canada this fall to get boosted
- as @beyerstein.bsky.social’s quote here notes, “be nice to antivaxxers” has not worked.
- Reposted by tntflexLaura Loomer. Laura flipping Loomer even says "no, you can't do this".
- Reposted by tntflexMy mother passed away 43 years ago, but not a day goes by that I don't think of her. She taught us compassion for those who are most vulnerable and to fight for those who are powerless. To all the mothers, grandmothers, and maternal caregivers, Happy Mother's Day.
