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Ed Gerrish

@edgerrish.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Public Administration at the University of South Dakota. South Dakotan. Public Policy, democracy, and sarcasm.

created November 28, 2023

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Guys it’s plural. “Centers for Disease Cultivation and Promotion”

28/8/2025, 12:34:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 1:39:26 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Longer recess” presidency.

25/8/2025, 3:15:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What a game between “The guy who seats you at the restaurant” and “war is cool catholic philosopher”

23/8/2025, 9:57:01 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ha. I was! But got out after 8 months.

23/8/2025, 8:18:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The way NFL tickets are going, these guys need to save somewhere.

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23/8/2025, 8:14:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And the talent agent asks, “that was absolutely disgusting, what do you call this act?” And the father says “the Democrats”

23/8/2025, 3:42:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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SCOTUS can, at any damn time, say the whole project of political gerrymandering is illegal and we can go back to a detente. They are just pathologically incapable of using math to make decisions on this topic, except one person one vote, and majority minority… and so on.

21/8/2025, 9:48:02 PM | 40 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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*allegedly

10/8/2025, 2:07:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“I’m smart, and I want my precioussssss”

8/8/2025, 2:55:34 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gollum as Fredo Corleone

8/8/2025, 2:53:51 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please tell me he did big boi crimes

5/8/2025, 12:55:15 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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On the bright side, at least these are plausibly about national security!

30/7/2025, 12:27:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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PDA is always wrong.

26/7/2025, 10:54:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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22/7/2025, 4:49:57 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ENGIEN

11/7/2025, 1:30:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sir, in this place we call them Blerps

26/6/2025, 1:35:06 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pitch is too expensive with tariffs.

11/5/2025, 3:02:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And lo, I declare Hot dogs are sandwiches.

9/5/2025, 3:06:49 AM | 57 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Tariffs

5/5/2025, 12:35:47 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The irony is palpable!

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1/5/2025, 3:11:48 AM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/4/2025, 4:53:15 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I bet I could do an interview with Isaac and he would agree I am right we would get beers after.

22/4/2025, 7:45:44 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m hearing it’s coming down to turnout among working class bishops in the critical Warsaw Archdiocese.

21/4/2025, 11:45:46 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And there was $3,000 cash in there too.

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21/4/2025, 3:13:42 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don’t forget the OG issue: Human evolution!

21/4/2025, 1:10:39 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Cultural Devolution.

20/4/2025, 7:08:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That KC chiefs hat is a distraction from the real issue: the Eagles were up 34-0 at one point.

18/4/2025, 1:53:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They are going to make sure baby Hitler fails as an artist.

17/4/2025, 12:12:43 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hmm…

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16/4/2025, 10:43:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s the bugs bunny/Yosemite Sam line in the sand.

16/4/2025, 12:58:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We could: -yell at him in the Oval Office -impose 134% tariffs -Visit the country without asking and make noises about invading -impose military basis through coercion Or literally any of the other bullshit they have done to other countries in the past 90 days.

15/4/2025, 12:23:43 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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40% of Americans saying he should deport people *despite a court order* is a full-on crisis in civic education.

15/4/2025, 12:14:28 PM | 68 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Finding the Anus is how Ted Cruz began his post-2016 political career!

15/4/2025, 3:40:59 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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9/4/2025, 1:02:19 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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8/4/2025, 10:47:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Too busy on the grind of publishing paper after paper, devastating your intellectual foes to clean out your pawpaw’s caddy.

7/4/2025, 11:11:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Itsa me, Smoky!

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7/4/2025, 8:14:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had a bad piece of bread on a Eurail in Germany. That’s probably what he is referring to.

7/4/2025, 8:01:23 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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lol.

7/4/2025, 7:10:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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7/4/2025, 7:06:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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7/4/2025, 3:33:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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with a little poetic license

Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles font meme, with the top white text on red band saying
7/4/2025, 1:50:28 AM | 1011 117 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nathan fielder meme
7/4/2025, 12:31:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is a self-imposed stock market crash usually the first sign of an emerging galactic civilization? Asking for my K customer.

7/4/2025, 12:08:57 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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DM: suddenly an owlbear emerges from the forest and charges towards your party. What do you do? Trump: I roll a D20 to impose reciprocal tariffs. Gerry: “That’s not how tariffs work”

6/4/2025, 11:55:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ed Gerrish (@edgerrish.bsky.social) reply parent

I certainly enjoy living in a richer world! But the outcomes politically seem incredibly volatile.

6/4/2025, 11:23:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“If a policy leads to 10% more for the rich and 2% more for the poor then I would certainly vote up” The political economy of this is why we are where we are. The 10% gain at the top for ~45 years has led to more power centralization and, ironically, more regressive taxation.

6/4/2025, 11:22:42 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I really think we need a more generous Pell Grant for trades. Even forgiveness. The late career ROI isn’t as good as higher ed so we need to figure out how to compensate.

6/4/2025, 11:14:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Exactly. There is already a shortage. Because the dudes with the HS degrees aren’t doing this now. If they did they would have a job in a minute.

6/4/2025, 11:11:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And then the people with HS degrees would have to what? Using their coding skills to fix the robot screw machine? HVAC repair? It really was insane word salad.

6/4/2025, 11:04:17 PM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ed Gerrish (@edgerrish.bsky.social) reply parent

Do any American sellers have any input costs from tariffed countries? Asking for a small business owner with input costs from tariffed countries.

6/4/2025, 1:49:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is that gif the money they spent on inauguration or the bribes they will promise now?

4/4/2025, 3:09:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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VIX hits its third largest peak today after COVID, GR.

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4/4/2025, 2:06:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh no! Combined with a 34% tariff on “not getting that this is a joke,” bluesky will be devastated!

4/4/2025, 10:57:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Chat GPT has a sportsball podcast on the Ringer Network.

4/4/2025, 12:41:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Loch’n’er up Era

30/3/2025, 5:28:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Let's not forget that Elon isn't all that good at predicting social trends a month into the future. So maybe let's not put much stock on what he thinks will happen in hundreds of years.

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29/3/2025, 1:57:47 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ozempic is a helluva drug.

25/3/2025, 7:22:25 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My friend once boasted of a 3some but he has never estimated precisely estimated zeroes on a pre-intervention DD.

21/3/2025, 9:50:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Donors have preferences they have bound into legal agreements?! you don’t say.

14/3/2025, 3:23:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We stand at the shores of destiny, lifted by the grace of God, at the crossroads of roads and against the bastion of liberalism to declare that APT is not that catchy.

14/3/2025, 1:10:16 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s only champagne if it’s from the champagne region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling mercantilism.

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Replace “USAID” with “farm subsidies” or “rural programs” and let’s see how well this goes over in a fews years.

10/3/2025, 12:46:03 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Will probably eggxecute search warrants

9/3/2025, 5:01:40 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Progressives like AOC need to meet young men where they are which is screaming the hard R on the N word while playing Fortnite with Korean teens.

8/3/2025, 5:48:47 PM | 37 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also worth noting that other autocracies where poorer and mostly fine. USSR wasn't some kind of universal hellscape. It was just a place with a more subsistence farming than it ought to have had and worse industrial output.

5/3/2025, 4:55:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ed Gerrish (@edgerrish.bsky.social) reply parent

I disagree! I should write about it. It's more complicated. The requirement to kiss the ring in autocracies will cause long-term malinvestment. It's almost more pronounced for satisfying local level toadies. Sure it might be fine for a week, month, few years. But the malaise will win.

5/3/2025, 4:53:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, why aren't we taking professionals with little financial stake in their models the same as shills for their product with the need for billions in new investment?

4/3/2025, 9:23:38 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But they earned so much from their personal dump.

4/3/2025, 2:30:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This should go well with the Ozempic trend.

3/3/2025, 10:03:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*an. dammit

3/3/2025, 6:25:34 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The problem is that Tuberville is the dumbest man in politics and that's a extremely high (low?) bar. It's not even clear he knows what those words mean in combination.

3/3/2025, 6:20:54 PM | 70 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is why I follow you.

3/3/2025, 1:43:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes but the short-term effect is that they argue we can’t possibly be in recession because we are calculating GDP differently

3/3/2025, 12:46:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No it’s a pathway to including what they want and excluding what they want so that we are never in a recession with a Trump in office.

3/3/2025, 12:12:46 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Unforgiven, Hoosiers, French connection.

1/3/2025, 2:56:23 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If only Klob would treat Graham half as bad as she treats an intern who gets her coffee order wrong.

28/2/2025, 8:06:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gacyocracy

24/2/2025, 4:17:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She has a long history of using taxpayer money to buy campaign ads kelo.com/2023/07/19/5...

22/2/2025, 2:46:10 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You’re only reskeeting yourself because you are convinced your joke is better than it is.

20/2/2025, 6:05:34 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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You’re only reskeeting yourself because you are convinced your joke is better than it is.

20/2/2025, 6:05:34 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.

19/2/2025, 9:11:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey maybe don’t have kids select your articles. That’s a start.

17/2/2025, 12:24:43 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@unroll.skywriter.blue

15/2/2025, 2:56:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Let them eat Bacon

14/2/2025, 11:23:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He looks like Nosferatu’s nephew.

14/2/2025, 2:47:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Export credits for VATs?

13/2/2025, 8:39:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He looks like Nosferatu's nephew.

13/2/2025, 3:52:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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burt bacharach is a national treasure

13/2/2025, 4:05:34 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Classic counterfactual: But what would they have been without the DOE (and covid)?

12/2/2025, 6:40:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🐆😢

11/2/2025, 9:16:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Worked for Henry VIII!

11/2/2025, 5:35:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My favorite jerseys are the ones where the player puts “Sr.” On the jersey because they are concerned that fans might confused them with their 1 year old child.

10/2/2025, 12:59:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ChatGPT made that ad which is why it seemed like an ad but ultimately didn’t make any sense.

10/2/2025, 12:55:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s the black mold of ice.

9/2/2025, 12:58:00 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don’t forget tuition increases! Parents will love it.

8/2/2025, 1:01:11 AM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You go into the future with the jokes you have, not the jokes you wish you had.

6/2/2025, 4:14:05 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But also part of me is laughing about thinking of 19-24 year olds going through health care billing codes as if they have the foggiest idea.

5/2/2025, 6:16:51 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The fraud is coming inside the building! www.newsweek.com/rick-scotts-...

5/2/2025, 6:15:54 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view