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Phoenix, AZ Enjoys Sci-Fi, hiking, live music, the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Phish, Allman Brothers.

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Reducing minimum lot sizes creates shitty, packed to the gills neighborhoods with houses so close together you can hear your neighbor fart.

15.10.2025 19:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

27 million pounds of chicken

2 million gallons of milk

67 million eggs

That’s how much food grown by American farmers never made it to hungry families because of the administration’s decision to cancel deliveries to food banks.

projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

07.10.2025 20:43 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 4
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Killing Democracyβ€”And Not Bothering to Hide It The assault is happening in plain sight, from the Epstein case to Texas reapportionment to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"We’ve reached a new stage in the attempted authoritarian takeover of American democracy. It’s not just that the assault on the truth, the rule of law, a free society has picked up steam. The assault, from our own government, now proceeds openly and unashamedly."

www.thebulwark.com/p/killing-de...

04.08.2025 13:40 πŸ‘ 540 πŸ” 226 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 11
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Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.

The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.

04.08.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 12369 πŸ” 4486 πŸ’¬ 983 πŸ“Œ 627
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Trump & Epstein: an unbreakable Bondi Trump & Bondi team up to obfuscate reality

"Trump's goal is to prevent the release of the files. It’s why he conspired with Bondi to pivot to grand jury testimonies instead of releasing the materials she already has at her disposal. If Trump was orchestrating a cover up, there is nothing he'd do differently than what he’s doing right now."

21.07.2025 16:34 πŸ‘ 3825 πŸ” 1210 πŸ’¬ 177 πŸ“Œ 51
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Beef prices are the new egg prices. They’re soaring | CNN Business First it was eggs, now its beef.

First it was eggs, now it’s beef.

21.07.2025 11:08 πŸ‘ 639 πŸ” 248 πŸ’¬ 119 πŸ“Œ 61

And in other news: The sky is blue and water is wet.

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The emerging coup Lawless authoritarian regimes don't give up power willingly.

New in PN: The emerging coup

"Congress has just handed the coup leader in the White House new, dangerous tools that he and his cohorts could use in their next attempt to overturn the nation’s democracy once and for all."

18.07.2025 11:20 πŸ‘ 3104 πŸ” 1278 πŸ’¬ 145 πŸ“Œ 79
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White House has files on $1.5bn Epstein money trail, says senator The Democrat Ron Wyden claims Trump’s Treasury is in possession of the findings of an investigation that contain rare insight into the sex offender’s finances

White House has files on $1.5bn #Epstein money trail, says senator.
The Democrat Ron #Wyden claims Trump’s Treasury is in possession of the findings of an investigation that contain rare insight into the sex offender’s finances. #Resist #Corruption www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

18.07.2025 11:26 πŸ‘ 104 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Last night, every House Republican on the Rules Committee voted against an amendment to release the Epstein files.

This is now the fourth time that Republicans have blocked the files from being released.

18.07.2025 12:44 πŸ‘ 224 πŸ” 91 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 4

A reminder.

Trump in 2002: β€œI’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

17.07.2025 22:40 πŸ‘ 1028 πŸ” 240 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 4
The Cover-up
The Cover-up YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

Donald Trump thinks you're stupid. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oibZ...

16.07.2025 12:34 πŸ‘ 1854 πŸ” 702 πŸ’¬ 141 πŸ“Œ 48
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Like the way he once admitted to Leslie Stahl that he attacks and demeans the media so that people won’t believe bad stories about him. But now he’s applying that tactic to his own Justice Department, which prosecuted Epstein.
www.cnbc.com/2018/05/22/t...

16.07.2025 18:19 πŸ‘ 7545 πŸ” 2228 πŸ’¬ 219 πŸ“Œ 51
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Hmm

15.07.2025 03:21 πŸ‘ 19708 πŸ” 6596 πŸ’¬ 2144 πŸ“Œ 945
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There it is.

Republicans just BLOCKED the release of the Epstein Files.

15.07.2025 03:20 πŸ‘ 9749 πŸ” 4126 πŸ’¬ 1161 πŸ“Œ 675
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Release the #EPSTEINFILES. Massive #COVERUP by Drumpf and his cronies. Hold Bondi and Drumpf accountable!

14.07.2025 18:29 πŸ‘ 362 πŸ” 120 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 9

Like all authoritarians, Trump doesn’t like criticism or objective reporting. He just wants flattery. That’s why he wants to defund NPR and PBS.

We need media in this country that is not owned by billionaires and corporate interests.

I will vote to support public broadcasting.

15.07.2025 19:06 πŸ‘ 3268 πŸ” 574 πŸ’¬ 95 πŸ“Œ 24
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

Trump has given the order to incinerate nearly 500 metric tons of emergency foodβ€”enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a weekβ€”which was ordered to be distributed to starving children in Pakistan and Afghanistan. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Is this real? What is the timestamp for this post? Did he really write that, or is this a parody?

12.07.2025 21:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why the US is losing manufacturing jobs amid Trump’s shock-and-awe tariffs | CNN Business President Donald Trump’s shock-and-awe tariff campaign is off to a slow start when it comes to reviving American manufacturing jobs.

The early results suggest that not only have President Trump's tariffs failed to inspire a hiring boom, but the chaotic policy rollout is paralyzing businesses: cnn.it/4lqHDBZ

11.07.2025 11:39 πŸ‘ 205 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 10

What the hell is Trump hiding?!?

Video metadata reviewed by WIRED and independent experts shows the Epstein footage was edited, likely in Adobe Premiere, rather than directly exported from prison surveillance.

11.07.2025 17:53 πŸ‘ 1457 πŸ” 488 πŸ’¬ 107 πŸ“Œ 24
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Metadata Shows the FBI’s β€˜Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein's death.

BREAKING: "Metadata embedded in the [Epstein] video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified." www.wired.com/story/metada...

11.07.2025 16:49 πŸ‘ 11058 πŸ” 4093 πŸ’¬ 630 πŸ“Œ 364

Lol. No shit.

11.07.2025 18:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Some people chase fame and fortune, but the giant bolillo is a far more worthy thing.

11.07.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Should just name it the "TAX THE LIVING FUCK OUT OF TRUST FUND KIDS ACT"

10.07.2025 16:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The redneck rubes voted overwhelmingly for Trump, so let em' suffer!!

I will help them by going out for happy hour margaritas at one of the many fine restaurants in the very prosperous, very happy, very liberal city of Phoenix where we don't stew in pools of right-wing ignorance and bitterness.

10.07.2025 16:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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NEW: Newly revealed messages from fired DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni show in real time how DOJ officials handled court orders related to the Alien Enemies Act, Kilmar Abrego Garcia and more β€” as well as Emil Bove's alleged suggestion to say "fuck you" to the courts.
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

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