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Gail Talbot

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Retired IT Professional. Ex-Republican. An active speaker about Democratic values. Lover of nature & animals. I will do all I can for as long as I can however I can for family, country and faith.

Gail Talbot's avatar Gail Talbot @gatalbot.bsky.social
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Vindman exposes DJT debate lie, “Donald Trump, his advisors, and his fans don’t realize that the war in Ukraine began in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Eastern Ukraine.”
alexandervindman.substack.com/p/back-in-tr...

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Trump shows no understanding of tariffs or how it affects our wallets. If he’s elected and you buy a car for $40K it will cost $44k due to his tariffs. Not my figures, it is what tariffs do to our cost of living. Somebody has to tell Trump and his followers to get educated.

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Hillary Clinton: I’ve Debated Trump and Biden. Here’s What I’m Watching For.
dnyuz.com/2024/06/25/h...

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Project 2025 plan going into effect in Milwaukee.

The real action in Milwaukee won’t be the show — though it’ll be a hell of a show — around Trump’s coronation; it’ll be in the back rooms where Trump is told who’s going to be his vice president...
hartmannreport.com/p/does-proje...

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Helen's avatar Helen @tenerduende.bsky.social
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Gift article "This court has lost the benefit of the doubt for myriad reasons, including its willingness to act quickly in cases that benefit Republican interests." Anyone half-watching sees the pattern, there's only so long we can stand around w/our mouths hanging open. Past time to call it out.

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Gail Talbot's avatar Gail Talbot @gatalbot.bsky.social
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Against the law, as litigated at the SCOTUS, Louisiana orders a Ten Commandments poster to be displayed in every classroom. Louisiana GOP is angling for a fight and it will come.

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He's saying this to all those who's properties are currently under water and who cannot find insurance companies or migrant workers to repair the damage from the last hurricane that wiped out Ft. Myers. DeSantis isn't playing dumb he's flat out lost his mind dumb.

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"Over the better part of a decade, the GOP has fully become Trump’s alter ego in many ways, including in mirroring his performative sadism. Trump attracts followers & flunkies who share his palpable joy & pleasure from the pain and embarrassment of others." They wanted to hurt Joe but -family- won.

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Gail Talbot's avatar Gail Talbot @gatalbot.bsky.social
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Why is today’s mainstream media not consciously reporting, holding Trump to their old-time investigative reporting, and talking about his cognitive degeneration? Do they not feel the knife at their throats? Beware of broadcasters like Sinclair or WSJ and Fox owned by Murdock, and New York Times.

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Not surprising. It could be called American Gluten Size but that a little long for a title.

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Paul Krugman's avatar Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social
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The BLS has finally updated its estimates of the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices, which excludes owners’ equivalent rent, a price nobody pays that is also a lagging indicator. Dude, where’s my inflation problem?

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Stephen Walker he, him's avatar Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social
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Pretty sure that Russia has never "Declared War" Didn't with Poland in 1938 when they partitioned Poland with German Didn't with Afghanistan Didn't with Ukraine, through no one believed "normal manoeuvres" either time

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Helen's avatar Helen @tenerduende.bsky.social
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"“I haven’t really heard much from them in a long time,” Martin said of his adoptive parents. “I tried to communicate with them a couple of times, but I’ve never gotten any response.”" They were his legal guardians from age 6 to 19. Poor guy.

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Simon Rosenberg's avatar Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social
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Good week for Biden/Dems:
- 5 polls showing Biden gaining 2 or more
- Big jobs report, inflation was zero in May
- European right underperforms, like MAGA here
- Trump babbles in front of CEOs
- Make June count!
All this, good new pods and more, below:
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/weekend-po...

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Helen's avatar Helen @tenerduende.bsky.social
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"And hopefully, we have learned our lesson."

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President Biden delivered a series of stark warnings about what a second Donald Trump term could hold during a star-studded Los Angeles fundraiser Saturday, framing the 2024 presidential election as an inflection point in American history.

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SCOTUS is going to kill us - - faster. Supreme Court strikes down federal ban on bump stocks The Supreme Court has struck down the federal ban on bump stocks Friday, declaring that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives exceeded its authority when it banned the devices.

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Project 2025 is really: an admission by the Heritage Foundation that Trump is unable to govern within the legal expectations of the presidency and that MAGA-America must erase the ethics, expertise, and norms of the federal civil service to deliver their agenda.
open.substack.com/pub/alexande...

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Postage going up (June 14) AGAIN - thank you Mr. DeJoy. Postcards, that you cannot write much on, goes from a high of .53 cents to a higher .56 cents and letters go from .68 cents to .73 cents (UP 5 cents!) and can take anywhere from 3 to 10 days to be delivered.

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MTG doesn't think, therefore what comes out of her mouth is unthinkable.

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Marc Elias's avatar Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social
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Rather than misfit lawyers and a handful of sycophants, this time he will have nearly every Republican senator, congressman, governor and state AG at his disposal. His grassroots army of followers is more primed to take extreme action, including violence. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dona...

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Plastic has become embedded in everyday life. That’s because for the last 70 years, the plastics industry convinced consumers to embrace the material for its low cost and disposability.

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Kameron Hurley's avatar Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.bsky.social
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Reading another Boomer narrative about how school shooter drills are like the nuclear bomb drills they endured as children and how it's the same trauma and I am always frustrated by this because nuclear war was not something that ever happened. But school shootings happen ALL THE TIME.

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Seth Masket's avatar Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social
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"National" and "socialism" don't seem like such terrible words, why does it bother people when they're put together? </musk>

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Tristan Snell's avatar Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social
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Yesterday we commemorated D-Day and the victory over fascist dictatorship 80 years ago. Today we renew and double down on our support for Ukraine to help bring victory over fascist dictatorship in the present day. AMERICA STANDS WITH UKRAINE.

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"As Americans got sick and his polling tanked, Trump tweeted frantically about Obama’s supposed crimes, which he claimed 'makes Watergate look small time!' But when pressed to explain exactly what they were, he responded with total gibberish." -- @ser1897.bsky.social

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Billionaire Musk tweeted about Trump’s conviction: “great damage was done today to the public’s faith in the American legal system,” regarding Trump’s crime, trial and conviction. NO. If anything the public was made aware of the strength of our Rule of Law and judgement by our peers.

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Who wants to invest in Oklahoma? Maybe billionaires who don't care about schools teaching right-wing approved programs? Headline in Channel 5 ABC News: Tallest building in U.S. on track in OKC after council vote (with no height limit.)

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Vanity Fair headline: Trump’s MAGA Allies Are Threatening to Impeach Joe Biden, Investigate Jack Smith, and Imprison Alvin Bragg The party of “law and order.” <- Who TH believes this?

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McConnell should call his doctor and request a brain scan. It may come back empty.

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Georgia appeals court pauses lower-court proceedings in Trump election case. The order means the case against Trump and eight of his co-defendants will almost certainly not be scheduled for trial before the fall election. Another favorable deed for Trump ------ and another loss for the Rule of Law.

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Senate Republicans block consideration of bill to create a ‘right to contraception’. OF COURSE THEY DID. In Texas they're passing a law for the death penalty for an abortion. The GOP does NOT value life. They value control or death.

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darth™️'s avatar darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social
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difficult to believe any body associated with that campaign is capable of feeling shame even over the fact he is a convicted felon and adjudged rapist

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Marc Elias's avatar Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social
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My latest.👇

Trump is planning his next crime. We don’t yet know the exact details, but we know it involves subverting the will of the voters and undermining free and fair elections. And we know that he will spare nothing and no one who gets in his way. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dona...

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"Elite media is trying to present this campaign in terms of, 'Do we prefer Romney’s tax plan or Obama’s?' What Trump’s doing does not fit that model. It’s this zombified way in which the whole political apparatus moves forward with all of the same tropes, despite an obvious breach from that model."

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