Rick Shafer
312 posts
A $15 repair should not turn into a $47,000 bill paid by taxpayers.
But that’s what happens when defense contractors lock the Army out of fixing its own equipment.
We need to pass my bipartisan military right to repair law now.
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This is completely insane.
Josh Wingrove@josh_wingrove
(Bloomberg) -- The US Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to let it intervene in President Donald Trump’s appeal of the $83.3 million jury verdict against him in a defamation suit brought by former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.
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Trump goes back on his promises of DOGE checks, tariffs replacing taxes, and lowering inflation and price of gas, and instead gives fruit flavored vapes that will entice children.
It gets worse practically every day.
Dominic Michael Tripi@DMichaelTripi
NEW: FDA approves first fruit flavored vapes after Trump pressure & previous vows to “save vaping.”
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Tesla has paid $0 in federal taxes in 19 of the last 20 years despite reporting $264 billion in revenue.
Resist the Mainstream@ResisttheMS
Elon Musk: "It's pretty wild that a tiny tax on tea started the Revolution, and now we get the living daylights taxed out of us and there’s no revolution."
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@BarackObama Why must we continue to march back to when land owners were the only ones who could vote🥲
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Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.
The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.
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If only there had been a Republican Member of Congress that had tried to remove Johnson early on before he ruined everything.
Oh wait, that was me, but almost all my colleagues voted to keep him because Trump told them to.
Welp, that’s what they all get for being cowards.
Reese Gorman@reesejgorman
New: House Republicans are absolutely miserable and lay the blame at the feet of Speaker Mike Johnson. This chaos of a slim majority has some wishing for the minority “If we were to lose the majority now, it’d be a blessing in disguise,” one House Republican said of the party’s dwindling ranks, with more members eyeing the exits each day. “Because maybe then Democrats would go off the rails and do something stupid, and maybe voters would actually give us another chance in November.” And a lot of the conference believes Johnson is leading them towards more chaos. “This is what happens when you have leadership who can’t organize a one-car parade,” one senior Republican told NOTUS. notus.org/republicans/mi…
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@SpencerHakimian She didn’t waiver she kept asking questions, no matter what he said she wasn’t intimidated. She may not have gotten the answer she wanted, but I applaud her.
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@CBSNews @NorahODonnell You are great Nora for doing this interview and taking the badgering. Please don’t stop.
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TONIGHT ON 60 MINUTES: CBS News’ @NorahODonnell sits down with President Trump to discuss the chaos and violence that unfolded at last night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and what it means for our country.
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The President is using his war on Iran and last night’s WHCD shooting as excuses to give up your rights so that Congress just passes a clean extension of FISA 702.
It’s ridiculous and absurd that any President who has sworn an oath to uphold the constitution would ever tell Americans to give up your rights so the government has the ability to spy on you, especially a government that has already done it to not only him, but to hundreds of thousands of Americans.
And what’s even more ridiculous is that Congress can easily re-authorize FISA 702 with warrant requirements to protect American citizens rights and still be able to go after terrorist.
The questions you should be asking is why is this so hard for them and why would the President of the United States demand a clean re-authorization of FISA 702 without warrant requirements???
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@margbrennan
You should be commended for what you went through last night and then to carry on with the show this morning excellent interviews and your questions don’t stop. That’s what we love about you.
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@RandPaul Emails should be considered just like our physical mail receive at our residences. It’s a federal offense to tampered with or read.
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@mtgreenee Many of us are shocked we’re also disappointed that you stepped down I wish you were still part of Congress
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I am shocked that some of my former Republican colleagues on the Oversight Committee are supporting pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Epstein survivors are adamantly against her receiving a pardon as she was one of their main abusers next to Jeffrey Epstein and they say she is a serial liar.
If Trump gives her a pardon, it sets up a very potential quid pro quo. She will owe Trump and she will lie to protect people he ask her to.
Instead the DOJ and local prosecutors with jurisdiction should be prosecuting the rich powerful elites who raped and trafficked these brave survivors when they were just teenagers and young vulnerable women.
Why is this so complicated???
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@_MarieCallender since the pandemic the quality of product is really gone down this week. I purchased chicken pot pies. One of them has crust gravy, couple pieces of beef and one slice of carrot no other vegetables you should be embarrassed.
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@elonmusk What are we gonna do with all the junk in space as they come to end of life?
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Falcon flies every few days.
You can see launches in person from Florida or California.
SpaceX@SpaceX
Liftoff!
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