Posts by tusk81@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AzRAWwTuKRZVG13eTY by tusk81@mastodon.social
2025-10-21T13:22:46Z
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"The Trump administration has ordered federal employees not to share photos of the East Wing of the White House being demolished to make way for the president’s $250 million vanity project."They know it's bad.https://www.thedailybeast.com/federal-workers-given-secret-order-as-donald-trump-tears-down-the-white-houses-east-wing/
(DIR) Post #AzRAX2MKTX4hUFYgUq by tusk81@mastodon.social
2025-10-21T13:25:08Z
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“Trump’s new ballroom was originally billed as a $100 million project but has since ballooned into a $250 million behemoth …”"The demolition work comes despite Trump insisting during an executive order signing in July that his ballroom renovations wouldn’t ‘interfere with the current building.’”
(DIR) Post #B0L4soHW14rttH5j8K by tusk81@mastodon.social
2025-11-17T13:45:04Z
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Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.
(DIR) Post #B1RjMALmRxhBR4PG9w by tusk81@mastodon.social
2025-12-20T17:09:44Z
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115752996372921985When community members from border ogre Tom Homan’s hometown of Sackets Harbor—population 1,500—found out that a local dairy worker and her children had been indiscriminately rounded up, a crowd of 1,000 turned out to protest and successfully demand their freedom👇🏽
(DIR) Post #B23fvbEq8PPiCpasbY by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-01-07T21:10:36Z
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“‘They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do,’ the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. ‘We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,’ the woman cries.” https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-ice-killed-wife
(DIR) Post #B282jPJPj22fJvjDJg by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-01-09T22:33:01Z
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“… Mar-a-Lago was crucial to Epstein’s sexual predation, a fact that was well-known by Trump’s inner circle long before Epstein was charged with any crime.” https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/mar-a-lago-jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump/
(DIR) Post #B3kmGAHvy8mp4x7Rei by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-02-27T14:34:46Z
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Federal judge finds IRS violated the law more than 42,00 times by handing over taxpayer addresses to ICE:https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-finds-irs-violated-the-law-thousands-of-times-by-handing-over-taxpayer-addresses-to-ice/
(DIR) Post #B3kmR2HY4mxPQw7ed6 by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-02-27T14:35:38Z
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116143088370847858"Nixon sought to obtain confidential information about his political enemies from the IRS. In fact, the articles of impeachment drafted for Nixon stated that he had 'endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed (sic) not authorized by law.'"https://www.americanprogress.org/article/lessons-from-watergate/
(DIR) Post #B3zlFnp4JHUcouHPE0 by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-03-06T21:06:18Z
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“The Fort Bliss facility was built and has been operated by Acquisition Logistics, a small government contractor out of Richmond, Virginia, that won the $1.2 billion ICE contract in July. The firm’s largest previous federal contract was for $16 million.”https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-camp-east-montana-detention-facility-fort-bliss-future-rcna261891
(DIR) Post #B3zlNQ9cC2NljJWTmS by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-03-06T21:06:53Z
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116184264101754134“The company’s website is still bare-bones with a banner that says ‘Site maintenance in progress.’Its CEO is a 77-year-old man named Kenneth Wagner who appears to run the business out of his private home. Previous attempts to reach Wagner have been unsuccessful.”
(DIR) Post #B47FonBx0MzfjKIpUW by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-03-10T13:19:18Z
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"Iraq cost us $6 trillion. Even a short Iran war could add $1 trillion to a budget deficit that Trump may already be tripling."https://newrepublic.com/article/207556/iran-cost-trump-budget-deficit?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SF_TNR
(DIR) Post #B4KmFGBPYs4IlKC5cu by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-03-17T01:49:41Z
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116241991823857294“… Maxwell was interviewed by Trump’s former lawyer, the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche. She told him: ‘The president was never inappropriate with anybody.’ A week later, she was transferred to a minimum-security jail.”
(DIR) Post #B4bHhxqM7NjT6u0xu4 by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-03-24T23:50:55Z
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“Florida Democrats flip Donald Trump's home district in Palm Beach.Emily Gregory will now represent Mar-a-Lago—and Trump himself.” https://www.the-downballot.com/p/breaking-florida-democrats-flip-donald
(DIR) Post #B4h6e8W0Z7BUVEEFc0 by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-03-27T13:22:56Z
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“The Senate early this morning united for two extraordinary things:• Republicans caving• Democrats not caving”https://thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/senate-gop-caves-and-funds-not-ice
(DIR) Post #B4np96sYGFf3Ku72au by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-03-30T23:01:37Z
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“The Justice Department has not released dozens of Jeffrey Epstein files linked to allegations that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a child decades ago, according to a report.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-files-about-13-year-old-donald-trump-accuser-kept-secret/
(DIR) Post #B52BvYjIvwaooojYIa by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-04-06T23:40:09Z
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“After the family received his body on Thursday, his uncle, Manuel Perez, said Royer was a ‘hard worker’ who immigrated at 15 to ‘triumph and help his family.’” https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mexican-teen-died-ice-custody-funeral-denounce-charges/
(DIR) Post #B53cjaZR9h9myPawVc by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-04-07T16:48:23Z
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116364441177737423"His announcement now of intent to commit genocide puts him squarely in violation of the U.N. Genocide Convention, the Geneva Convention, and the Rome Statute," Rep. Simon said. "A sitting president cannot announce his intention to commit these crimes and remain in office."
(DIR) Post #B53cnJyanJXEfK8nI0 by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-04-07T16:47:42Z
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“I have voted twice to advance articles of impeachment. We cannot wait," says Oakland's Rep. Simon. "Congress must convene immediately and begin proceedings to remove this man from office for the safety of our nation, Americans, and the world."https://simon.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-lateefah-simons-statement-trumps-threats-iran
(DIR) Post #B55c3p03VQAdsY36rA by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-04-08T16:26:19Z
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116370005404747162"You rarely see things like this in immigration data, but it could not be more predictable right now: one immigrant dies in custody every six days."
(DIR) Post #B55vuqndRYcXwBEtvM by tusk81@mastodon.social
2026-04-08T20:03:12Z
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“A top Vatican diplomat was summoned to the Pentagon for a ‘bitter lecture’ demanding that the Pope get behind Donald Trump, it has emerged.”https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-official-gives-vatican-bitter-lecture-amid-growing-rift/