The Tennessee Holler

Yelling the truth about Tennessee.

[bridged from thetnholler.bsky.social on Bluesky by Bridgy Fed]

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Last Notes

2025-04-06 02:46:24

WATCH: “Ron Vara is an anagram of Navarro.”
@maddow.msnbc.com explains how Trump’s tariffs policy came from his economic advisor Peter Navarro, who invented a fake expert in his books to justify it🤦🏻‍♂️ 🤦🏼
And now markets are crashing 🎪 #TrumpTradeWar #AmericanBrexit
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2025-04-05 21:30:47

So out of touch ⛳️
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2025-04-05 19:29:01

NASHVILLE… protestors keep it going outside…. Inside, the @elizabethwarren rallygoers get pumped…
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2025-04-05 18:54:14

Sign game strong today 🔥
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2025-04-05 18:45:34

CHICAGO…
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2025-04-05 18:02:23

⚡️ HAPPENING NOW IN NASHVILLE — giant line to get into the Senator @elizabethwarren town hall
@marshablackburn hasn’t done one in 8 years, Hagerty has never done one.
So Senator Warren is here.
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2025-04-05 17:54:02

Brutal WSJ cover
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2025-04-05 17:48:21

PROVIDENCE… BOSTON…
#HandsOff2025
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2025-04-05 11:14:30

SEN. MURPHY: “Their #1 priority is Trump seizing power and MAGA holding it forever... with the exception of maybe 20 Republicans in the senate, the Republican Party inside Congress is done with democracy.”
(Spoiler: @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty are not among the 20)
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2025-04-05 04:56:41

Here are a few of the amendments @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty and Senate Republicans just rejected:
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2025-04-05 02:31:06

🐦
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2025-04-04 22:16:31

We are very far over the cliff here, folks
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2025-04-04 20:23:31

Is this who we are? Never mind, don’t answer that. 🇺🇸 😕
www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/new...
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2025-04-04 20:08:07

“Stocks plummeted for a second straight day… worst trading week since March 2020, when the Covid pandemic closed down much of the economy and sparked a selloff…” #TrumpCrash
www.mediaite.com/news/just-in...
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2025-04-04 18:01:40

WATCH: @tnsenatedems.bsky.social oppose the Senator John Stevens bill protecting giant corporations from sick farmers
@campbell4tn.bsky.social calls it “crazy”, @jeffyarbro.bsky.social (a lawyer) says Stevens misleads about what it does. Bowling & Crowe joined Dems against
House Judiciary next
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2025-04-04 17:16:40

CARTOON OF THE DAY
#TrumpTradeWar
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2025-04-04 15:49:43

We posted this a few times, but here it is again — President Reagan warns us about (Trump’s) tariffs: “Beware demagogues ready to declare a trade war against our friends… weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world.”
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2025-04-04 12:50:58

CHINA RETALIATES… the spiral continues…
apnews.com/article/chin...
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2025-04-04 03:29:48

Yesterday: Lithuanians lined the streets to honor the 4 fallen U.S. soldiers
Today: Trump went to a LIV golf dinner reception instead of being present for their dignified transfer at Dover
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2025-04-04 02:53:10

KAMALA: “I’m not here to say I told you so — fear is contagious, but courage is also contagious.”
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2025-04-04 01:56:06

Most Accurate Headline of the Day 🏆
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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2025-04-04 00:33:22

Um — Trump just turned over management of our 🇺🇸 strategic petroleum reserve to a mystery company, who will get $1.4 billion to run it? 🤔
www.devdiscourse.com/article/head...
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2025-04-03 20:14:29

Explain to us like we’re in kindergarten how Elon didn’t violate this law with his million-dollar checks
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2025-04-03 19:46:26

❤️ “I didn’t intend to get arrested—If I had, I wouldn’t have worn my nice jewelry & slacks.”
🦸🏻‍♂️ Lynne McFarland, the 80yo woman troopers carried out as she protested the cruel Lamberth & Watson bill to keep undocumented kids out of schools, in her own words: www.facebook.com/share/1UaV65...
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2025-04-03 18:46:38

So much
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2025-04-03 18:30:40

We just ordered some pizza.
The pizza place did not order anything from us in return.
Does this mean we’re “losing” our trade deficit with the pizza place? 🍕 🤔

2025-04-03 17:27:39

ICYMI — an 80 year-old woman was carried out of committee by troopers as she protested the cruel Lamberth & Watson bill intended to block undocumented kids from schools across 🇺🇸 by overturning Plyler
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2025-04-03 17:15:45

🌪️ 💔 Catastrophic damage… 6 lives lost across TN… www.foxweather.com/extreme-weat...
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2025-04-03 15:13:32

REUTERS: “Stellantis NV (maker of Ram trucks and Jeeps) temporarily laying off 900 workers after Trump's tariffs, temporarily pausing production at an assembly plant in Mexico and one in Canada…” ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/stellan...
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2025-04-03 12:52:42

So weird how this keeps happening.
www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t...
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2025-04-03 01:23:04

👇🏽 🎯 the point is to force the world to beg him for carve outs (and pay him off)
Mafia-style Government
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2025-04-02 22:24:51

The American Brexit is here. An own goal of epic proportions.
Prices were too high, so they… elected a guy that will send them through the roof.
Putin and those rooting against us are no doubt extremely pleased.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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2025-04-02 22:12:31

CNBC ANCHOR: “The market reaction after hours — I’ve never seen anything like it. Worse than the worst-case scenario.”
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2025-04-02 20:26:04

Prepare to be “liberated” from more of your money
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
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2025-04-02 19:40:25

JUST NOW: Rep. Raskin asks witnesses at a house hearing about the news Trump’s guy Mike Waltz has been using Signal to conduct government business regularly, suggests he needs to be removed.
(Again: the did it to duck records-keeping laws. Signal is the scandal.)
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2025-04-02 18:32:57

ICYMI — last week, a rare positive development in Tennessee’s legislature 🎉
Bully Bulso’s “Trump Act”, which (also) went after undocumented kids in schools AND the finances of undocumented immigrants, failed 2-2 in sub… drawing loud cheers.
The opposition was bipartisan.
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2025-04-02 17:34:49

As Trump fires the Tennessee Valley Authority Board chair and takes it over, MEMPHIS folks warn a Musk-approved replacement is coming — pointing to XAI’s wild power needs.
(Here’s where the @memphischamber CEO made it clear power is Musk’s focus: www.instagram.com/reel/DH36aYV...)
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2025-04-02 15:51:27

WATCH: “How do you explain that to the 🇺🇸 people?”
@jessicatarlov.bsky.social asks Musk about his conflicts of interest— gutting agencies that regulate his companies, taking billions in gov contracts while slashing programs, etc.
He ignores her Q’s, lies🤥about DOGE transparency instead.
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2025-04-02 15:39:09

💰All these cuts to programs as they pretend to care about the debt, meanwhile Senate Republicans (and Trump) are set to explode the debt with tax cuts for the rich.
TLDR: Blackburn & Hagerty don’t care about the debt and never did.
www.crfb.org/blogs/rumore...
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2025-04-02 15:31:59

Pretty grim view of humanity from the guy Republicans have decided to let make all the decisions about how our government works 🇺🇸 😕
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2025-04-01 21:09:48

🔥MEMPHIS VS. MUSK: “A rogue billionaire is trying to exploit us, just as he did in Fremont & Brownsville… demonstrate the courage others have failed to show.”
Shelby County voted 8-3-1 to ask the health dept to hold hearings on XAI’s gas turbines. www.instagram.com/reel/DH6uFZ3...
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2025-04-01 20:07:16

Whoopsy! Senator Cassidy accidentally tells the truth.
We speak fluent Republican. “Reform” = CUT.
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2025-04-01 19:31:57

🔥 country singer Bryan Andrews is out here making a lot of sense
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2025-04-01 12:09:34

ICYMI — SENATOR BOOKER: “I rise to disrupt the business of the senate for as long as I am physically able… because I believe sincerely our country is in crisis.” 🇺🇸
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2025-04-01 11:51:09

Yet again the Vice President of the United States JD Vance is blatantly lying.
The man is not a “convicted gang member” — he is a father of a disabled child married to a 🇺🇸 citizen, with no criminal record.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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2025-04-01 04:01:47

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸
(From @BillBramhall )
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2025-04-01 03:24:18

Trump’s ICE just “mistakenly” kidnapped a man with protected status and no record married to a U.S. citizen with a disabled child who is a citizen and sent him to an El Salvadoran hard labor prison — and say they can’t do anything about it
In our names 🇺🇸
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2025-03-31 19:18:04

WATCH — @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social writes the cruel bill to block undocumented kids from schools won’t actually save the state money… as Jody Barrett got Lamberth to admit👇🏽🤔
(They wrote a disenrollment provision into the voucher bill to get it passed)
nashvillebanner.com/2025/03/31/t...
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2025-03-31 14:34:08

Explain to us like we’re 5 years old how any of this is legal
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2025-03-30 18:26:11

Awkward.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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2025-03-30 17:55:28

🏆
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2025-03-30 16:10:45

CARTOON OF THE DAY #2 🇺🇸
(From @adamzyglis.bsky.social )
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2025-03-30 16:06:03

CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @Adamstoon1)
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2025-03-30 00:47:41

Indiana Rep Spartz (R): “You violated the law, you are not entitled to due process.”
Dangerously ignorant. 🇺🇸
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2025-03-29 14:38:55

🤔👇🏽
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2025-03-29 02:49:13

Seems pretty fascism-y
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2025-03-28 22:53:44

🚨Hey Tennessee —both your senators just voted to overturn a Biden rule limiting bank overdraft fees to $5
Who are @senatorhagerty & @marshablackburn serving? The Banks or The People? No wonder they won’t do town halls.
Also: Will local outlets report that they did it? 🤷🏼‍♀️
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2025-03-28 20:22:46

UPDATE: “Tim Pool, A right-wing influencer who was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to spread Russian propaganda during the 2024 presidential election has been added to the White House press pool.”
Weird how stuff like this keeps happening.🤷🏼‍♂️
Influencer Paid by Russia Adde...

2025-03-28 01:05:05

Fixed
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2025-03-27 22:06:18

💰 🇺🇸
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2025-03-27 14:16:22

Yesterday Emma Wilkins (10) knelt in front of the Ed committee asking Rep. Lamberth & Sen. Watson to “Stop Attacking My Friends” and not go after kids with their cruel bill aimed at blocking undocumented kids from our schools
Republicans passed it anyway
(H/T @tennesseannews )
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2025-03-27 13:40:13

ICYMI — JD Vance, the Vice President of the United States, called it “excellent” that an entire civilian apartment building was destroyed to take out a “top missile guy” (and his girlfriend)
War Plans? Clearly. War crimes? Definitely.
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2025-03-27 13:12:24

INBOX — Vanderbilt University Medical Center CEO tells employees they’re facing $250 million in cuts next year due to Trump’s cuts so far, and are bracing themselves for more.
Does governor hopeful @MarshaBlackburn support this?
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2025-03-27 13:10:54

🇮🇪 “Ireland has issued a travel warning for the US, highlighting potential risks for its citizens traveling abroad.”
www.visaverge.com/news/ireland...
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2025-03-27 03:23:25

Chief National Security Reporter at the Pentagon for Fox News says she surveyed defense officials who said the info was actually “far more sensitive” than “war plans” and “clearly classified”
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2025-03-27 01:33:36

Doing this in El Salvador with those prisoners as a backdrop is extremely twisted.
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2025-03-27 01:28:42

Calling something that definitely isn’t a hoax a hoax is helpful because it shows none of the other stuff they called a hoax was a hoax either
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2025-03-26 21:06:48

Some good news — Rep. @natrixdreammom.bsky.social (D-Nashville), who ran for her seat to change gun laws after her son Akilah was killed at Waffle House, and won… just got “Akilah’s Law” passed through subcommittee🎉
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2025-03-26 20:30:03

Founder of Signal 👀 🔥
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2025-03-26 20:27:44

“As a legislator, I know how to bend the law to my will on behalf of my clients.” 🤔
Rep. Andrew Farmer, who went after @justinjpearson1.bsky.social for taking time to grieve his brother, who took his own life, has lawyer/lawmaker mixing billboards in East TN— and his site has this nugget:
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2025-03-26 15:19:06

Did you pray for the thousands of federal workers, veterans, seniors, and impoverished people in our country and across the globe Musk and Doge and Trump are hurting by slashing food assistance and health care too, Marsha?
Or do you only pray for the richest man in the world?
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2025-03-26 14:18:30

Break it, blame it, privatize it.
This is Trump, Musk, and the Republicans’ plan.
www.businessinsider.com/social-secur...
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2025-03-26 13:38:46

💰
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2025-03-26 03:45:56

Still relevant as ever
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2025-03-26 01:23:40

Right-wing TN Stands going hard at Republicans @rustygrills & @SenJohnStevens for shielding giant foreign corps like Bayer from sick farmer lawsuits: “sets a dangerous precedent, undermines consumer protections & fundamental principles of accountability”
tennesseestands.org/take-action-...
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2025-03-26 00:53:28

“Thank you for defunding Medicaid and social security… those grandmothers don’t need all that money…”
@waltermasterson and others disrupt an @repmikelawler fundraiser
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2025-03-25 22:08:38

🇺🇸 ‼️ Trump is now going after elections and threatening to pull the funding of states that don’t comply. (TLDR: You are not alarmed enough) www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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2025-03-25 19:54:57

🔥 @ossoff.bsky.social : “No-no… I asked you a yes or no question, and now you’ll hold on.”
Trump CIA Director appointed John Ratcliffe tried to say this wasn’t a “huge mistake”, but quickly found out @senossoff is not the one to try.
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2025-03-25 19:05:05

is that bad? Seems bad
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2025-03-25 16:17:27

🔥 🇺🇸 Tennessean opinion editor David Plazas: “What we’re seeing is a gross overreach of the executive branch of government that must be reversed and contained.” www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...
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2025-03-25 15:48:31

WARNER: “Were you in the group chat?”
GABBARD: “I won’t get into specifics.”
WARNER: “Is that because it’s classified?” 🎯 🔥
Warner rightly dragging them for an unbelievable situation. 🎪
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2025-03-25 14:41:11

🤔 Crenshaw: “It’s a mistake and we’ve gotta move on… if Hegseth says there was no classified info I will take him at his word.”
Slightly different reaction than the decades-long freakout over Hillary’s emails! 🤷🏼‍♀️
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2025-03-25 13:15:44

NASHVILLE BANNER: “More than two dozen people showed up outside of @RepJohnRose’s office in Gallatin Friday… mostly older adults concerned about the sweeping changes Trump has announced for the agency that administers Social Security.” nashvillebanner.com/2025/03/25/s...
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2025-03-25 11:59:20

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
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2025-03-25 11:39:50

“New airstrikes by Israel Defense Forces in Gaza killed at least 61 Palestinians over a 24-hour time frame. The rising death toll included two journalists.” www.upi.com/Top_News/Wor...
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2025-03-24 23:41:11

CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @MatttDavies)
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2025-03-24 21:58:07

WATCH: “Do Bayer & Monsanto need protection? Or do sick farmers need protection? Who are you here to serve, John?”
Republicans passed Senator John Stevens bill granting giant foreign corps that make cancer-causing pesticides immunity through committee.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DHmOqQA...
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2025-03-24 21:56:09

😬
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2025-03-24 20:21:28

WOW — @ronanfarrow.bsky.social covers the twisted Sean Williams case, where JOHNSON CITY, TN police allegedly looked away as a local businessman/alleged serial rapist (of women & children) ran wild.
We’ve said this should be a bigger story.
In @newyorker.com : www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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2025-03-24 18:39:36

⚡️JUST NOW: The SENATOR JOHN STEVENS bill to protect giant corporations like Bayer/Monsanto from sick farmers by taking away their ability to sue for damages passed senate committee 6-2-1 (all 6 yes votes are Republicans)
Rusty Grills is carrying it in the house.
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2025-03-24 17:10:06

PINIOCCHIOGLES UPDATE: “💰that supposedly went to companies that do not appear to be in the business of providing the services for which Ogles claimed the💰was spent. In some cases, no evidence the companies actually exist.” www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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2025-03-24 14:20:51

🎉 Some good news…. Trump and his pals absolutely have their eye on overturning Sullivan to go after media for saying things they don’t like…
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2025-03-24 13:00:00

GEORGIA: “A jury ordered Monsanto parent Bayer to pay $2.1 billion in damages to a man who says the company’s Roundup weed killer caused his cancer…”
As @rustygrills & @SenJohnStevens push their bill to shield giant corps from sick farmers this week🤨🧑‍🌾
www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/u...
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2025-03-24 12:49:42

This has been exposed as a lie. The money was an annuity to kids of parents who died: x.com/thetnholler/...
He doesn’t care.
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2025-03-24 04:29:44

Virginia Governor @GlennYoungkin (R) hearing it from the people
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2025-03-24 04:06:28

Best part about Trump whining about the Colorado portrait is it wasn’t put up by Gov Polis, it was put up by a former Republican state senator who is a Trump supporter — back in 2018 👇🏽🤷🏼‍♂️
(a Dem trolled them by putting up a Putin portrait first: t.co/HtR5rv2x3j)
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2025-03-24 03:35:35

👇🏽”That’s not efficiency, it’s cruelty and chaos”
@ossoff.bsky.social is really good at this
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2025-03-24 02:57:02

#MedicareForAll 🇺🇸 😳
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2025-03-24 02:09:49

Instead of cutting the defense budget they’re doing this.
It’s not about efficiency, it’s about cruelty.
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2025-03-24 00:50:33

CLARKSVILLE: @RepMarkGreen can’t show up for a free & open town hall but he can charge $500-$3500 to have coffee with him at a country club Friday? He knows a majority of his constituents can’t afford that. Who does he represent? 🤔
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2025-02-12 14:51:24

Again: it was not $50 Million worth of condoms to Mozambique, it was AIDS prevention and it included condoms.
Even as he claims they will correct what they get wrong he is peddling more lies.
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2025-02-12 13:22:01

WARREN: “If CFPB is not there examining these giant banks to make sure they’re following the laws and not cheating customers, who is?”
POWELL: “No one.”
Again — Musk & Trump & the oligarchy are killing CFPB because it protects you from them.
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