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🌊🌈 Blue wave. LGBTQ friend. #Resist! #Sober 4+ years. Just a dumb country lawyer. Wannabe writer. #INFJ. #Iowa #Hawkeyes. #Cubs. #Chiefs. Follow and find out.💙🌊🌐 #BlueCrew. Follow me on Substack https://substack.com/@tonyalmquist.
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by @revjimwallis.bsky.social 1/2 "Yes, all human beings are going to die, but policies that kill people, the most vulnerable in particular, are completely contrary to the teachings of Jesus. Cuts to health care & food assistance to the most vulnerable are literally being done to give more tax cuts..

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I have to give the award early today. Don't think we can top it... So 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿

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"If the 2017 tax cuts expire, middle class households, on average, would see their taxes go up by $1,000. The top 1% would see a tax increase of about $70,000. That is, if they actually pay those taxes"

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by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social 1/2 "I get and share the fascination with Trump and Musk hurling taunts at each other. But please, let’s not let the kids who are sleeping in ICE detention, separated from friends and family, be there alone. Let’s commit to stay by their sides and speak for them..

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by @rbhubbell.bsky.social 1/2 "Musk probably assumed that illegal acts performed by DOGE would be pardoned by Trump. It now seems less certain that Trump will pardon Musk and his cohorts. Trump has the weight of the federal government hanging over Musk’s head, but Musk likely knows..

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by @hcrichardson.bsky.social 1/5 “Indeed, today’s White House and today’s America are very different from what they were eighty-one years ago. “President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his twenty-ninth Fireside Chat on June 5, 1944, & had good news for the American people. The day before, on June 4..

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by @robertleonard.bsky.social 1/2 "So why did it take the event in Parkersburg for people to call out Ernst for the MAGA policies that are killing people? Perhaps it’s simply because it was at home and Ernst was in the room. Ernst gave the people a platform, & they used it. Iowans, & particularly..

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by @jefftiedrich.bsky.social 1/2 "Elon is just the latest in a long line of arrogant, delusional hubris-monkeys who thought they would be the one who could finally control Donny, and make him dance to their tune. we’ve seen this play out over and over. that shit only works for a short time..

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by @tristansnell.bsky.social 1/2 "Fundamentally, most Republican politicians don’t actually care that much about taxes or debt. They care about being popular and getting re-elected, and the easier way to do that is to cut taxes, raise spending, ignore the debt, and leave the problem for..

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by @evanhurst.substack.com 1/2 "Democrats responded by … taking absolutely zero advantage of it, because they were angry nobody was talking about KITCHEN TABLE ISSUES, why doesn’t anybody want to talk about KITCHEN TABLE ISSUES, waaaaaaaaaaaah we don’t know how to talk to people who are currently..

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by Lisa Needham 1/3 "Multiple patients in multiple states with abortion bans have died preventable deaths after being refused an abortion when critically ill. Most of these occurred because the patient was miscarrying, and doctors delayed treatment too long. Two deaths occurred in patients..

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"The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee is expressing skepticism over the Army’s plan to hold a multimillion-dollar parade in Washington on June 14 — even as service leaders defend it as a vital recruiting tool"

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by @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy 1/2 "I don’t blame either Trump or Musk for America’s degeneration. I blame their enablers, who have refused, again and again, to enforce the Constitution or place any restraints on Trump’s abuses. And yes, this means Republicans. You don’t have to..

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by @nberlat.bsky.social 1/2 "Democrats have just spent several months in a self-flagellating doom loop bemoaning the fact that they come across to much of the electorate as humorless scolds. So what does Murphy do when the entire internet is reaching for popcorn & cheering as Hitler & Henry Ford..

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1/3 "Deputy U.S. marshals are stationed at the federal building at 300 W. Congress Street, which houses immigration court, where asylum cases and other deportation proceedings take place. They're also stationed across the street at the DeConcini U.S. Courthouse, where federal criminal cases are..

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by Yascha Mounk 1/2 "the big beautiful break between Trump and Musk is more significant for what it reveals about failed aspirations that now are very much in the past than for what it predicts about events that are yet to come. When romances fail, it is often because each partner projected..

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