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@mat1953

Retired grandma; Democrat. Searching for hope & sanity in this crazy time!

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Subservience markers.

apparently he's got this thing for these shoes and he guesses people's size and orders them and none of them have the balls to say, Oh sorry these don't fit me!

11.03.2026 09:07 πŸ‘ 562 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 7

I love that Trump's toadies are wearing comically large shoes because the boss bought them and they're too chickenshit to mention that he guessed the wrong size.

11.03.2026 12:43 πŸ‘ 958 πŸ” 195 πŸ’¬ 94 πŸ“Œ 32
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Opinion | Why it's fair to blame Trump for rising gas prices The ongoing war against Tehran has driven up oil prices as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a halt.

Presidents usually don’t set gas prices. Trump’s Iran war is an exception.

Trump found a loophole: starting a war against one of the world’s major oil suppliers.

11.03.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 249 πŸ” 73 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 3
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Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else?

Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.

11.03.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 525 πŸ” 140 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 18

Seems like something we should’ve had a plan for before we started the war. bsky.app/profile/atru...

11.03.2026 13:02 πŸ‘ 827 πŸ” 168 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 5
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CNN: Kuwait, Iraq, and the UAE are shutting off wells as storage tanks overflow. Once these wells go dark, they cannot simply be flipped back on, creating a looming supply crater that would create a cascading effect on the global economy.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

11.03.2026 13:03 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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As a congressman, Markwayne Mullin made not one but two solo trips to Afghanistan, ignoring State Department warnings so he could play action hero.

He’s a former amateur MMA fighter, not a veteran.

If he’d been captured or injured, American troops would’ve had to risk their lives to bail him out.

11.03.2026 13:13 πŸ‘ 201 πŸ” 99 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 8

Hopefully the people of South Carolina have enough sense to tell Lindsey Graham to shove it; their children will never go to Iran to fight for the Epstein in chief

11.03.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 109 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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Do it already!!!

11.03.2026 03:55 πŸ‘ 147 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1
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11.03.2026 03:55 πŸ‘ 247 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 9
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Witkoff admits he and Jared Kusher are communicating with Russia through Putin adviser Yuri Ushakov "independently." Witkoff goes on to say the Russians told them they are not sharing info with Iran. Pinky promised.

11.03.2026 03:56 πŸ‘ 565 πŸ” 191 πŸ’¬ 77 πŸ“Œ 30
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Anthropic Sues the Administration Here's why Trump wanted to bring firms to heel with his executive orders. Here's what can happen when he fails.

One of the law firms Trump tried to intimidate with an executive order is representing Anthropic in court. Here are the details of the two lawsuits against the government after DOD tried to blacklist the developer of Claude AI.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

11.03.2026 03:57 πŸ‘ 848 πŸ” 271 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 9
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Trump, when asked, "It sounds like the Russians are helping Iran target [USians]. What do we do?

Trump: β€œWhat a stupid question that is to be asking.”

11.03.2026 03:59 πŸ‘ 330 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 13

This. The β€œSave America Act” aims to nationalize voter purges using DHS’s centralized β€œSAVE” voter purge system, which is already plagued by security & accuracy systems, while simultaneously making it difficult for voters to re-register if they are wrongly purged, as Rs have a habit of doing. 1/

11.03.2026 04:00 πŸ‘ 179 πŸ” 110 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2
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Trump Administration to Restart Global Entry Program

The Trump DHS just waved the white flag on their Global Entry shutdown. It took less than a month for their "security theater" to collapse under the weight of its own incompetence. They manufactured a crisis, realized they couldn’t manage the fallout, and folded. A total embarrassment.

11.03.2026 04:03 πŸ‘ 272 πŸ” 103 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 5

A new whistleblower complaint is raising alarms over a potential data breach tied to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The Social Security Administration’s inspector general has launched an investigation into allegations

11.03.2026 04:06 πŸ‘ 1282 πŸ” 366 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 5
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COLLINS: I want to remember something you said last summer

*plays Marshall a clip of him saying "I think it will take years for Iran to restart their nuclear program"*

SEN. MARSHALL: Look, I was wrong. I believe we obliterated those nuclear facilities, but now they're restarting programs elsewhere

11.03.2026 04:10 πŸ‘ 1708 πŸ” 459 πŸ’¬ 189 πŸ“Œ 55
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Told y’all Elon’s DOGE team weren’t data analysts.

They were hackers!

A whistleblower says a DOGE engineer stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, including personal information on hundreds of millions of Americans.

People need to go to prison for this shit.

11.03.2026 04:10 πŸ‘ 2151 πŸ” 1000 πŸ’¬ 110 πŸ“Œ 62

Pam Bondi claimed the Bureau of Prisons decided to transfer Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security prison.

So, here's what you do: Subpoena the head of BOP and ask why. When he says he doesn't know, tell him Bondi said he did it. Then, get them in the same room at the same time.

11.03.2026 04:12 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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Sen. Roger Marshall on high gas prices: "Freedom is not free. Americans are gonna have to make some sacrifices."

11.03.2026 04:13 πŸ‘ 1060 πŸ” 312 πŸ’¬ 553 πŸ“Œ 293
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SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: 60% of Americans have concerns about election integrity

COLLINS: That's because the president spent eight years telling them the election was stolen

MARSHALL: You give the president too much credit

11.03.2026 04:14 πŸ‘ 1544 πŸ” 364 πŸ’¬ 140 πŸ“Œ 43
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Iranian FM Araghchi confirms they are receiving military help from Russia, "it's nothing new, and it's not a secret", when asked to confirm if Russia is providing targeting info on US troops to Iran, "as far as I know, we have a pretty good partnership with Russia."

11.03.2026 04:18 πŸ‘ 718 πŸ” 334 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 24
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Moscow's own assessments reveal staggering losses in Ukraine, intelligence suggests The Kremlin's own classified assessments estimate that 1,315,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and wounded on the battlefield since the start of Russia's full-scale of Ukraine in February 2022, Pr...

⚑️Moscow's own assessments reveal staggering losses in Ukraine, intelligence suggests.

According to classified Russian documents obtained by Ukraine's intelligence networks, more than 1,300,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and wounded since the start of the war in February 2022.

11.03.2026 04:23 πŸ‘ 711 πŸ” 272 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 15
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Trump's properties remain an epicenter of his conflicts and corruption in second term - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington In his first 365 days back in office, Trump visited his properties 198 times, and visited his golf courses 116 times.

Surprise surprise. Corruption by the GO☭S.

Been watching it. Courts are calling it out.

Congress: look and see.

You are complicit if you keep supporting crime.

#proudblue

www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

11.03.2026 04:28 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

MAGA at home: We don’t want immigrants here!

MAGA traveling abroad: My family’s from Italy (or whatever country)! I love Italians!

Never ceases to amaze me.

11.03.2026 04:31 πŸ‘ 478 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 2
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I'm STILL livid about this.
Anyone with a heart should be.

That's a fucking war crime.

11.03.2026 04:35 πŸ‘ 1828 πŸ” 726 πŸ’¬ 88 πŸ“Œ 44
Hayes: Trump lying about war as audaciously as Putin would
Hayes: Trump lying about war as audaciously as Putin would YouTube video by MS NOW

β€œHe is lying about civilian strikes as audaciously as Vladimir Putin would. Just as he has lied about nearly every aspect of this war of choice,” says Chris Hayes on Donald Trump’s war in Iran.

11.03.2026 04:36 πŸ‘ 322 πŸ” 120 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 2

Kegsbreth

Proven heartless

Shrinking Pentagon staff to 40 from 200 focusing on Iran girls school casualties

What are they covering up now 😑

11.03.2026 04:42 πŸ‘ 99 πŸ” 72 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

DC

Keeps seeing new statues appearing

The two were BFFs about a decade

Gotta love creative artists πŸ’™πŸ©΅πŸ’™

11.03.2026 04:47 πŸ‘ 114 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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Republican leadership still hasn't condemned Ogles for his streak of genocidal anti-Muslim comments.

This is who they are.

Also, Democratic leadership hasn't called for him or Randy Fine to be censured.

11.03.2026 04:51 πŸ‘ 613 πŸ” 182 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 13