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jamelle @jamellebouie.net

how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...

jul 31, 2025, 12:31 am • 13,826 4,990

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Nancy @nananancy.bsky.social

I'd be happy for scammers to run with it and not spend it on gulags and storm troopers.

jul 31, 2025, 11:34 am • 2 0 • view
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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social

Hopefully most!

jul 31, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jack Scrambo @scrambojambo.bsky.social

Damn it I need to be defrauding DHS

jul 31, 2025, 12:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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Kennwick from X @kennwickman.bsky.social

💯

jul 31, 2025, 1:22 am • 0 0 • view
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The B Sharp in the Rockies @rockiespatriot2223.bsky.social

If “scammers” includes 🍊💩, then definitely most of it

jul 31, 2025, 6:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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Oden @odense.bsky.social

Ideally, most of it. The more that goes to scammers, then the less that is used for detention. Choose the lesser evil.

jul 31, 2025, 8:58 am • 1 0 • view
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Tobais @forvrin.bsky.social

I’ve heard it elsewhere that it is a morale duty to scam ICE dollars

jul 31, 2025, 1:27 am • 2 0 • view
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ANGEL - BadAss Resister @nivula.bsky.social

FRAUD!

jul 31, 2025, 2:53 am • 3 0 • view
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ANGEL - BadAss Resister @nivula.bsky.social

He will never say that Kristi Noem is his cousin or Tom Homan is his uncle or Stephen Miller is his immigration counselor. Cover, cover, cover. Grand Theft.

jul 31, 2025, 1:23 am • 32 4 • view
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ANGEL - BadAss Resister @nivula.bsky.social

Government scammers. Don't be fooled. These are government run scams to hide money.

jul 31, 2025, 1:21 am • 57 5 • view
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raya2etall.bsky.social @raya2etall.bsky.social

My thoughts exactly.

jul 31, 2025, 8:55 am • 1 0 • view
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lisadiana @lisadiana.bsky.social

Definition: MONEY LAUNDERING.

jul 31, 2025, 1:45 am • 60 5 • view
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ANGEL - BadAss Resister @nivula.bsky.social

OMG-thank you-that's it exactly. Stealing it and laundering it. Or laundering the funds they are stealing. The one thing that is a fact; MASSIVE CONS GOING ON!

jul 31, 2025, 1:52 am • 44 4 • view
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TF? 😼💙🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇵🇸🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mind-ur-business.bsky.social

And that is where they get all their campaign dollars from. It’s a never depleted bank account.

jul 31, 2025, 8:44 am • 1 0 • view
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Tracy @nytupelo7.bsky.social

Trump is NO STRANGER to MONEY LAUNDERING. Add THIS to Trump & MAGAS in powers' growing list of CRIMINALITY.

jul 31, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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Tracy @nytupelo7.bsky.social

You can BET that Trump is making BILLIONS off his scam...and all he had to do is add BILLIONS to spend on this BS in his Big Ugly bill. Trump only DOES if HE makes a "killing". America is his personal piggy bank.

jul 31, 2025, 5:15 pm • 5 1 • view
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ANGEL - BadAss Resister @nivula.bsky.social

And MAGA gave him a blank government check.

jul 31, 2025, 11:12 pm • 2 0 • view
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Tracy @nytupelo7.bsky.social

Hey, ANYTHING Trump wants, Trumps GETS under his MAGA Regime in all 3 branches of govt. And if someone dares not to give it to him, he will STEAL it anyway...then FIRE the one who did not comply.

jul 31, 2025, 11:31 pm • 2 2 • view
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ANGEL - BadAss Resister @nivula.bsky.social

There are a lot of judges stopping him across the country.

aug 1, 2025, 1:08 am • 2 0 • view
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Tracy @nytupelo7.bsky.social

And Trrump appeals those court decisions up to SCOTUS for a wink & a nod. Either that or he just ignores the judges court orders. So far Trump has gotten ZERO consequences for his contempt of court orders.

aug 1, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
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Tracy @nytupelo7.bsky.social

Trump needs to be held accountable for STEALING taxpayers' money all while traumatizing & torturing those this racist & bigoted monster hates.

jul 31, 2025, 5:15 pm • 1 0 • view
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Data4Miles @datafourmiles.bsky.social

99.9%

jul 31, 2025, 5:39 am • 2 0 • view
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JGeo @jaygeo24.bsky.social

This is $252,000 per bed for a 5000 person detention center... This human atrocity is also a huge grift... you could build 5000 homes for this price in El Paso County.

jul 31, 2025, 2:33 am • 48 4 • view
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fourgoya @fourgoya.bsky.social

Prestige Worldwide?

jul 31, 2025, 1:01 am • 2 0 • view
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com

I'm sure it's going to be WAY more than the amount of covid funds redirected by Trump during his first term.

jul 31, 2025, 1:12 am • 4 1 • view
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Catherine 🌷 @catebridget.bsky.social

this will be like PPE loans

jul 31, 2025, 10:42 am • 3 0 • view
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xrayagent.bsky.social @xrayagent.bsky.social

I believe that the line between scam and service are soon to become meaningless.

jul 31, 2025, 1:35 am • 0 0 • view
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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social

Everyone with a large property should bid for an detention center contract and then just let everyone go.

jul 31, 2025, 12:38 am • 172 2 • view
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brendao.bsky.social @brendao.bsky.social

Or build a 5000 bed women health facility on the site! Doesn't Texas need that? I'm wondering if that's why the first bid fell through. #goodintentions

jul 31, 2025, 1:31 am • 66 1 • view
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Tariq Moustapha @thetariqm.bsky.social

I wonder if I could submit a bid and then rent a warehouse and just leave the doors unlocked. "Oh no, they all escaped! Those crafty immigrants!"

jul 31, 2025, 1:27 am • 2 0 • view
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Pimpy @pimpy.bsky.social

Honestly if the ICE money primarily goes to scammers that might be the best case scenario.

jul 31, 2025, 12:14 pm • 3 0 • view
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Roookii @roookii.bsky.social

Billion. Billion. We can't fund pediatric cancer but we can throw money around for detention centers whose owners make millions with our tax money.

jul 31, 2025, 12:38 am • 40 5 • view
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nojustdan.bsky.social @nojustdan.bsky.social

There’s always money for ethnic cleansing.

jul 31, 2025, 4:36 pm • 2 0 • view
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Tsotate @tsotate.bsky.social

Paying RFK Jr's salary is definitely funding pediatric cancer. Not funding _fighting_ cancer, just the cancer itself.

jul 31, 2025, 11:06 am • 8 0 • view
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Happening Again @nasirum.bsky.social

all of this stuff is to enrich private entities alongside being needlessly cruel

jul 31, 2025, 4:30 am • 1 0 • view
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resipsaagain.bsky.social @resipsaagain.bsky.social

Doesn't this qualify as waste and fraud? Not if ICE is scammed, I guess.

jul 31, 2025, 3:44 am • 2 0 • view
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War is always built on deceit @pokebrain1.bsky.social

Same in Oregon. Multimillion $$$ contract with DHS for prison services is a business based in a modest house in the desert outside Bend, Oregon Who are they?

jul 31, 2025, 6:35 am • 10 3 • view
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RJ Sheperd @rjsheperd.com

Can you share more?

jul 31, 2025, 6:49 am • 4 0 • view
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funkadelicgringo.bsky.social @funkadelicgringo.bsky.social

Feels like this company is just a cut-out designed to feed large amounts of cash to sub-contractors who (were they to be directly awarded the funds) would perhaps draw negative public attention.

jul 31, 2025, 3:01 am • 3 0 • view
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genxjennifer.bsky.social @genxjennifer.bsky.social

Grift, embezzlements, and kickbacks crossed my mind immediately after the ICE budget was made public.

jul 31, 2025, 2:22 am • 5 1 • view
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Kim @kimcat44.bsky.social

The fleecing of America

jul 31, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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czechjournalists.bsky.social @czechjournalists.bsky.social

well, i wonder how much of the scammer's money goes to kickbacks.

jul 31, 2025, 1:20 am • 2 0 • view
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Coolafboomermom @coolafboomermom.bsky.social

Smells real fishy.

jul 31, 2025, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
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Ray Woodson @raywoodson5.bsky.social

OH it’s Skim-a-palooza

jul 31, 2025, 1:04 am • 2 0 • view
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Hair Furor 1901 @hairfuror1901.bsky.social

How many of these facilities will end up being tent cities surrounded by barbed wire and located next to winter agricultural land growing labor intensive crops that will need tending & harvesting? Concentration camps always initially try to support themselves with slavery.

jul 31, 2025, 5:13 am • 5 1 • view
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roadsister.bsky.social @roadsister.bsky.social

There will be a staggering amount, fbi will have work for years

jul 31, 2025, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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goldenrulegirl.bsky.social @goldenrulegirl.bsky.social

Damn criminals stealing our tax dollars.

jul 31, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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koolkankat.bsky.social @koolkankat.bsky.social

So a lot of people are going to get rich at taxpayers expense. Who thought that giving billions of dollars to DHS to manage would end up in grifters hands?

jul 31, 2025, 5:09 am • 2 0 • view
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Peter Shulman (the least illustrious one) @petershulman.bsky.social

jul 31, 2025, 6:43 am • 1 0 • view
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Abby D. @abbykbhomesleak.bsky.social

They're just throwing money around like drunken sailors. Who is watching Fort Knox?

jul 31, 2025, 1:26 am • 3 2 • view
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BlueElayne 🦢🫘🦢 @elayneoforegon.bsky.social

Damn.

jul 31, 2025, 1:33 am • 0 0 • view
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Tim @vbguy.bsky.social

like moths to a light, the grifters will be circling...

jul 31, 2025, 3:04 am • 1 0 • view
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Fechez La Vache @fechezlavache.bsky.social

Nice house. Be a shame if something happened to it.

jul 31, 2025, 12:59 am • 2 0 • view
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Whisper “democracy” daily 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @stef47.bsky.social

jul 31, 2025, 1:32 am • 2 0 • view
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phyllisnichols.bsky.social @phyllisnichols.bsky.social

so much corruption - it's staggering how little this is being discussed.

jul 31, 2025, 1:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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Donald (not a Facist) - Shame on US 🇨🇦Friendly @dn-ny-mtl.bsky.social

Is Jared satisfied with the $2B he got from the bone saw murderer MBS in Saudi Arabia? Jared was the CPE Czar for a day and gave multi-million dollar contracts to his pals. They never delivered.

jul 31, 2025, 1:15 am • 3 1 • view
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chipcroft.bsky.social @chipcroft.bsky.social

How many concentration camps are they building? They're creating a new prison industry. Scams are rampant! They start bribing judges to get convictions just to fill them with innocent people. Time to stop the ICE GESTAPO from kidnapping innocent immigrants so then we don't need this shit!

jul 31, 2025, 2:47 am • 6 0 • view
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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social

You now have a nation of scammers authorised by the Scammer in Chief.

jul 31, 2025, 9:02 am • 2 1 • view
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awclark587.bsky.social @awclark587.bsky.social

This one shady contract is worth over half of the NSF cuts in the House GOP budget. So: cutting-edge research into basic sciences and engineering? Or mailing a check for a billion dollars to a random house promising to build prison camps? For GOP, it’s a no-brainer!

jul 31, 2025, 1:45 am • 18 4 • view
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JKell-7777 @jkell-7777.bsky.social

Or, accept a "free" plane from Qatar and divert $400+ million from the Sentinel ICBM program to retrofit it. 1st, accepting the plane makes the US look stupid. 2nd, diverting money from upgrading our nuke program just so the narcissistic little child can have a new toy is just pathetic.

jul 31, 2025, 6:20 am • 4 2 • view
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Arr David @arrdavid.bsky.social

I just asked for $2 billion to hold 2500 detainees in my spare room.

jul 31, 2025, 1:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Amanda @amandabeloved.bsky.social

My guess is going to be about 60%. That may be lowballing it though.

jul 31, 2025, 1:49 am • 1 0 • view
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luq73.bsky.social @luq73.bsky.social

I thought this administration was looking to save money???? They lied to everyone.

jul 31, 2025, 11:07 am • 1 0 • view
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makhnovite.bsky.social @makhnovite.bsky.social

I'm disgusted that our new concentration camps are probably going to be built by shady contractors. An open and competitive bidding process is needed to ensure that American concentration camp construction is on the up and up. That's the American way!

jul 31, 2025, 12:54 am • 0 0 • view
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2asnme.bsky.social @2asnme.bsky.social

This is Trump privatization at its best. Just like the privatized prison system we have nationally. Doesn’t this guy know Trump already? One of them does that just got taxpayer money from the Big Ugly Bill your kids and grandkids will be paying for…forever…

jul 31, 2025, 2:09 am • 3 0 • view
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Tom LeBlanc @twleblanc.bsky.social

99% of it.

jul 31, 2025, 5:24 am • 1 0 • view
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Ed @edciting.bsky.social

PPP all over again.

jul 31, 2025, 12:37 am • 2 0 • view
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MyassesDragon @myassesdragon.bsky.social

Just like Build the Wall in 2016, ICE is more about corruption than integrity. It's a money trough for the conservative pigs.

jul 31, 2025, 8:34 am • 6 1 • view
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compliancedivision.bsky.social @compliancedivision.bsky.social

More than ever did with USAID, that's for goddamned sure

jul 31, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lu 💙 @luful.bsky.social

A lot of

jul 31, 2025, 11:01 am • 1 0 • view
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Artmobboss @artmobboss.bsky.social

99.95%

jul 31, 2025, 1:29 am • 0 0 • view
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DelteilH @delteilh.bsky.social

With this administration there is ‘Transparency’…the crimes are just out in the open

jul 31, 2025, 2:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social

More than 100%, somehow.

jul 31, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
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jutjutjoanney.bsky.social @jutjutjoanney.bsky.social

And "Uncle Bob"

jul 31, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
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alan555 @alan555.bsky.social

ha - that's nothin' when in power, australia's conservative govt gave a contract to a company, registered to a beach shack on an island worth $400+ million for offshore detention theconversation.com/secrecy-over...

jul 31, 2025, 10:04 am • 2 2 • view
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alan555 @alan555.bsky.social

birds of a feather

jul 31, 2025, 9:58 am • 4 0 • view
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WATT @wearethetruth.bsky.social

You mean funneled through scammers back to this administration.

jul 31, 2025, 2:34 pm • 2 0 • view
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Sergeant who knows the swamp💙 @1toughguy2.bsky.social

Just like Covid money people didn't have to pay it back.

jul 31, 2025, 12:45 am • 42 1 • view
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usaf spouse @vspouse.bsky.social

that part 👆🏾

jul 31, 2025, 1:03 am • 18 0 • view
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rodsdad.bsky.social @rodsdad.bsky.social

ICE funding is a Black hole . Billions are being poured into it and it’s going to Oligarchs with kickbacks to the felon. We’re drowning in Debt

jul 31, 2025, 6:15 pm • 3 0 • view
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julydaze.bsky.social @julydaze.bsky.social

They are stealing all your tax dollars everyday.

jul 31, 2025, 1:15 am • 2 0 • view
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moethemick1.bsky.social @moethemick1.bsky.social

#Everyday #AllDayLong #Thieves #CorruptGOP

jul 31, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
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Bribleck @bribleck.bsky.social

Better question is how much isn’t.

jul 31, 2025, 12:14 pm • 1 0 • view
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okokonkwo.bsky.social @okokonkwo.bsky.social

$252,000 per bed

jul 31, 2025, 12:40 am • 3 0 • view
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Trump MUST RESIGN @illustratinggod.bsky.social

WTF 👁️👄👁️

jul 31, 2025, 2:24 am • 1 0 • view
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julianes.bsky.social @julianes.bsky.social

I'm positive that that evil motherfucker Tim Ballard has received untold millions from this money pot

jul 31, 2025, 2:09 am • 0 0 • view
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Disco @disconina.bsky.social

Shadowy shite

jul 31, 2025, 5:03 am • 1 0 • view
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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social

It’s pathetic but honestly a bunch of scammers just hoovering up these tax dollars so they can’t go towards creating actual torture prisons or expanding the secret police is probably best case scenario at this point

jul 31, 2025, 6:20 am • 92 4 • view
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Jack Scrambo @scrambojambo.bsky.social

defrauding this particular federal government is necessary praxis

jul 31, 2025, 12:07 pm • 28 2 • view
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Wm Maldonado @cheers464646.bsky.social

It is built in.

jul 31, 2025, 2:34 pm • 5 0 • view
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The Birds The Turtles and The Bees @turtlebee.bsky.social

Except that cutting corners to spend as little on the prison part leads to people stuffed in even more inhumane spaces with worse conditions.

jul 31, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social

I’m saying I don’t think this person has or will actually construct a prison with the next few years. Maybe I’m wrong, but results don’t seem to be these people’s strong suit

jul 31, 2025, 8:20 pm • 5 0 • view
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The Birds The Turtles and The Bees @turtlebee.bsky.social

"Yeah sure, give me a billion dollars, I'll throw em in a pit and ever now and then throw some water and slip on em and spend the rest on boats."

jul 31, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Integrity73 @integrity73.bsky.social

Here is the part of the ICE financials in the Big Ugly Bill! Neighborhoods are joining to monitor and fight ICE in their neighborhood, which is a good idea!

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jul 31, 2025, 12:20 pm • 3 0 • view
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Just Melissa (she/her) @pnwmelissa.bsky.social

I’m getting some ideas… 🤔

jul 31, 2025, 5:38 am • 2 0 • view
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sunnyjim.bsky.social @sunnyjim.bsky.social

1500%

jul 31, 2025, 11:31 am • 1 0 • view
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estherinthemiddle.bsky.social @estherinthemiddle.bsky.social

They’re not even trying to hide it, are they?

jul 31, 2025, 12:41 am • 0 0 • view
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KontinentalKitties @kontinentalkitties.bsky.social

This regime’s ICE “claims” to go after the “worst of the worst”… but REALITY is they’re hiring with $$$ incentives: greedy, power trip ASSHOLES who are the REAL “worst of the worst”!

jul 31, 2025, 4:24 pm • 2 0 • view
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Wm Maldonado @cheers464646.bsky.social

This is ppp suppliers on a larger scale. Worse than the fake electric company contractors for Puerto Rico

jul 31, 2025, 2:32 pm • 3 0 • view
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Robert M Corbett @robertmcorbett.bsky.social

Good lord, do you have a special asbestos suit for certain news-gathering?

jul 31, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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A good guy to know @mparrott.bsky.social

At least 95% They'll save 5% for sadistic bullys.

jul 31, 2025, 1:30 am • 0 0 • view
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novelladiva.bsky.social @novelladiva.bsky.social

Is he using his mommas home address as an LLC? 🧐

jul 31, 2025, 1:52 am • 2 0 • view
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Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social

The least-bad scenario at this point is "90% of the ICE money goes to line the pockets of corrupt grifters rather than being spent on actual fascism"

jul 31, 2025, 1:53 am • 1 1 • view
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Jadeabliss - 🪷 “No one let go of anyone’s hand.”🪷 @jadeabliss.bsky.social

Is this waste fraud and abuse?

jul 31, 2025, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Jerome @jeromyo.bsky.social

Hadn’t thought about that yet… oh Duh

jul 31, 2025, 12:47 am • 0 0 • view
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Lore is Going to Dragon Con @troppypop.bsky.social

A crazy amount of scam money is about to go to "finding fraud, waste, and abuse" in healthcare, too- taxpayer money that WAS funding stuff like feeding the poor and doing science!

jul 31, 2025, 8:00 pm • 2 0 • view
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LAFC Dutch Dave @lafcdutchdave.bsky.social

If the GOP is involved, all of it.

jul 31, 2025, 5:26 am • 1 0 • view
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TheFullerReport @thefullerreport.bsky.social

The real third-world country rule is 85%, so since that's where we are, that's what we should expect.

jul 31, 2025, 12:56 am • 10 0 • view
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Shauna R @shauna7510.bsky.social

Hmm. This seems to fall under waste, fraud and abuse. Pretty swampy if you ask me.

jul 31, 2025, 10:36 am • 1 0 • view
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dooley59.bsky.social @dooley59.bsky.social

On par with the covid profiteers.

jul 31, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 1 • view
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Angi Yoder-Maina, Phd 🇰🇪 @angiyo.bsky.social

Sooo many....

jul 31, 2025, 1:22 am • 2 0 • view
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ks116-m.bsky.social @ks116-m.bsky.social

Most of it?

jul 31, 2025, 2:26 am • 0 0 • view
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SirGeekALot @sirgeekalot.bsky.social

The whole Trump regime is nothing but a criminal organization looting the government of taxpayer dollars, so this is completely unsurprising.

jul 31, 2025, 7:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social

If the number of political insiders who received PPP loan forgiveness and other pandemic benefits is any guide, I’d say lots

jul 31, 2025, 11:30 am • 4 1 • view
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Natasha @bensgigi.bsky.social

Let's get money out of every damn thing already.

jul 31, 2025, 1:19 am • 6 1 • view
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@trnrz @trnrz.bsky.social

42.7%

jul 31, 2025, 2:08 am • 0 0 • view
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trruhnke.bsky.social @trruhnke.bsky.social

Thank Iraq War contractor level grifting, only on Hulk Hogan levels of steroids.

jul 31, 2025, 12:42 am • 10 0 • view
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S Crowley (she/they) @arguchik.bsky.social

Maybe Erik Prince owns that house.

jul 31, 2025, 10:42 am • 3 0 • view
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somebear26.bsky.social @somebear26.bsky.social

Waste, fraud, and abuse

jul 31, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Erin Patterson @emcpatty.bsky.social

jul 31, 2025, 2:07 am • 2 0 • view
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Cyndi @savannahpeace.bsky.social

The corruption is off the charts!!!

jul 31, 2025, 12:45 am • 25 1 • view
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Carolyn Harriston @proppiebay.bsky.social

Lawd have mercy 😆

jul 31, 2025, 12:50 am • 4 0 • view
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Otis Redfoot @otisredfoot.bsky.social

What's going to be great is when the Democrats get back in power, investigate all the scammers and then do nothing about it because they spent the first 9 months trying to form a bipartisan committee.

jul 31, 2025, 1:40 pm • 2 0 • view
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Wm Maldonado @cheers464646.bsky.social

They will not

jul 31, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lu Skywalker @luskywalker.bsky.social

The new PPP scam www.ice.gov/news/release...

jul 31, 2025, 3:14 am • 1 0 • view
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Guy Person @dimsmellofmoose.bsky.social

A lot. That might help save us, even.

jul 31, 2025, 12:32 am • 21 0 • view
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momny.bsky.social @momny.bsky.social

Reminds me of PPP/covid fraud during 45 term

jul 31, 2025, 12:34 am • 9 1 • view
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Scott Hensley @anotherscott.bsky.social

Scams and money laundering.

jul 31, 2025, 3:54 am • 1 0 • view
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Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong @misscantbewrong.bsky.social

“contracting” in Iraq all over again, no doubt same cast of characters involved

jul 31, 2025, 1:14 am • 4 1 • view
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Gertie @gertiegreen.bsky.social

And, how much of it is a giant money laundering scheme to put money into the pockets of Trump and MAGA loyalists?

jul 31, 2025, 3:44 am • 12 1 • view
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hough-transform.bsky.social @hough-transform.bsky.social

👆

jul 31, 2025, 4:49 am • 1 0 • view
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mrxexon @mrxexon.bsky.social

Money changers in the temple. What we need is a Jesus with a stick..

jul 31, 2025, 1:23 am • 2 0 • view
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DD Dion @dddion.bsky.social

It’s like mega churches who don’t pay taxes yet ‘own’ multiple mansions and private planes for pastoral staff, meets PPP loan scammers, meets the usual military contractor grift in times of war (started under GOP admins).

jul 31, 2025, 1:30 am • 2 0 • view
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New Mexico Man @newmexicoman.bsky.social

All of it?

jul 31, 2025, 3:01 am • 0 0 • view
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Daniel B. @danbad23.bsky.social

A lot?

jul 31, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
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papoo2u @papoo2u.bsky.social

Maybe there's a big chicken house out back!

jul 31, 2025, 4:30 am • 2 0 • view
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TC @sftlm.bsky.social

Just like the PPE loans that were forgiven. More subsidies to the wealthy.

jul 31, 2025, 4:58 am • 7 0 • view
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Kathryn @neurodiverseslp.bsky.social

Can I get a billion dollars to house people in my home? At least they would be treated well. And they could come and go as they pleased.

jul 31, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social

All of it since the entire premise is a scam.

jul 31, 2025, 12:34 am • 2 0 • view
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Ron James @digitmusic.bsky.social

As much as Trump can get his cut of…

jul 31, 2025, 3:43 am • 1 0 • view
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vivelaresistance.bsky.social @vivelaresistance.bsky.social

I hope journalists keep hounding government officials and this man until this is explained.

jul 31, 2025, 1:23 am • 0 0 • view
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armk27.bsky.social @armk27.bsky.social

You know, if they just pocket the cash and never make a step of progress that would be a huge improvement over them actually building the thing

jul 31, 2025, 12:39 am • 7 0 • view
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Jane @jcm444.bsky.social

Who's on this? WTF is going on here?

jul 31, 2025, 12:46 am • 0 1 • view
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Lingua Franca @triplozero.bsky.social

Our best outcome is for Trump and his friends to steal it all.

jul 31, 2025, 12:38 am • 2 0 • view
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truebluepatriot.bsky.social @truebluepatriot.bsky.social

The seller isn’t the scammer. It part & parcel of ALL the disruption & the appointments of extreme RW cronies, to seek out & devise opportunities to extract & divert our tax revenue & entitlement funds to support the oligarchy. DJT is an old hand money laundering in RE. He’s been living for this.

jul 31, 2025, 2:24 am • 1 0 • view
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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social

It’s going to be like the Covid contracts, but much worse.

jul 31, 2025, 12:42 am • 66 0 • view
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TF? 😼💙🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇵🇸🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mind-ur-business.bsky.social

A much bigger scale of fraud

jul 31, 2025, 8:37 am • 12 0 • view
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🌮 Alacrity's Ghost @alacritysshadow.bsky.social

all of it

jul 31, 2025, 1:39 am • 8 0 • view
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PJ walker @pj1304.bsky.social

Our country is being raped.

jul 31, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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Conservatives Are Fascists @gaialuv.bsky.social

80% minimum

jul 31, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
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Joopsie @joopsiegrl.bsky.social

All of it is going to scammers

jul 31, 2025, 1:31 am • 4 0 • view
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Pat Byrnes @patbyrnes.bsky.social

So it costs $250,000 to build the space for one inmate (not counting cost overruns). After that it cost $150,000 a year to house that inmate. Money well spent, I guess. If we didn’t do it, each of those inmates would be working, paying on average $9000 a year in taxes. Plus their productivity.

jul 31, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
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JenXresists #NoKings @jenxliberty.bsky.social

A human trafficking rendezvous point?

jul 31, 2025, 5:39 am • 2 0 • view
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Eloquentlee @ooogma.bsky.social

Explosive !

jul 31, 2025, 1:30 am • 0 0 • view
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Russ, #1 Sean Dunn Stan @russ41.bsky.social

Hopefully all of the ICE money, at least.

jul 31, 2025, 4:39 am • 4 0 • view
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faw47.bsky.social @faw47.bsky.social

Hmm...

jul 31, 2025, 1:59 am • 1 0 • view
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social

The incredible graft and corruption might just save us from the ethnic cleansing and internment camps.

jul 31, 2025, 12:39 am • 125 1 • view
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Ricardo @rdrouyn.bsky.social

The thing that will save us from Nazi Germany is the incompetence of this regime.

jul 31, 2025, 1:52 am • 103 3 • view
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Rhymenoceros @rhymenoceros.bsky.social

I’ve been saying that for years. The Germans were highly competent. They tried to recreate that but with the absolute dumbest people

jul 31, 2025, 2:11 am • 55 1 • view
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Anders Hultman @bananders.bsky.social

Even though they were competent, it was a mess. It was dangerous to report to management that things didn't work so people just faked successful reports. Trains did NOT run on time, but everybody pretended that they did.

jul 31, 2025, 5:02 am • 46 1 • view
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TF? 😼💙🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇵🇸🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mind-ur-business.bsky.social

Fake it till you make it

jul 31, 2025, 8:36 am • 7 0 • view
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Anders Hultman @bananders.bsky.social

Narrator: they didn't make it

jul 31, 2025, 9:08 am • 24 0 • view
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adge @aczub.bsky.social

Trains aside, fairly sure they’re faking everything in this regime. So yes, Nazi Germany but now with 10x more incompetence! What could go wrong for them?

jul 31, 2025, 12:34 pm • 10 1 • view
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Anders Hultman @bananders.bsky.social

Then: competent people who wasn't allowed to think freely, so wasn't able to solve problems. Now: incompetent people who can't solve problems anyway.

jul 31, 2025, 12:39 pm • 8 1 • view
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Minji_Me @minjime.bsky.social

Bingo

jul 31, 2025, 2:56 pm • 2 0 • view
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JustThePrincess @justtheprincess.bsky.social

100%

jul 31, 2025, 1:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social

An even higher proportion than war on terror funds

jul 31, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
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Barefoot Contestor @lynnettecs.bsky.social

Oh completely normal…

jul 31, 2025, 1:57 am • 1 0 • view
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2against3.bsky.social @2against3.bsky.social

Oof, just when you thought zoning policies couldn't get any worse.

jul 31, 2025, 12:37 am • 7 0 • view
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2against3.bsky.social @2against3.bsky.social

Like, NIMBYs where I am are losing their minds about additional traffic in the neighborhood from a new K-5 school being begrudgingly built. And this thing gets funded?

jul 31, 2025, 2:34 am • 6 0 • view
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gcm198.bsky.social @gcm198.bsky.social

Insure there are plenty the one in my state (concentration camp) has taken hundreds of millions from the people

jul 31, 2025, 12:34 pm • 1 0 • view
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Emily M*y @decadentwest.bsky.social

Hopefully all of it

jul 31, 2025, 3:52 am • 1 0 • view
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Cassius @cassiuskent.bsky.social

We will be reaching PPP levels of scams

jul 31, 2025, 3:00 am • 0 0 • view
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kkmortier @kkmortier.bsky.social

Every last dime that isn’t going into trump’s own pocket

jul 31, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
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Archer @thermodynamic.bsky.social

ALL of it.

jul 31, 2025, 2:30 am • 1 0 • view
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marissakds.bsky.social @marissakds.bsky.social

maybe he had a basement

jul 31, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Alex Trusk @alextrusk007.bsky.social

Why does it say “Future Home of the Ivanka Shoe Factory” out front?

jul 31, 2025, 2:56 am • 1 0 • view
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Stardust Orphan @mipitou33.bsky.social

Time to invest in short term rentals.

jul 31, 2025, 1:36 am • 1 0 • view
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JCB @motleycruising.bsky.social

Full on corruption

jul 31, 2025, 11:49 am • 1 0 • view
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Kynthia Rose @the13thpanther.bsky.social

Slave houses.

jul 31, 2025, 1:14 am • 0 0 • view
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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social

Scammers would be preferable to actually spending it on Stephen Miller's ICE priorities

jul 31, 2025, 12:34 am • 30 1 • view
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mikael-belstrup.bsky.social @mikael-belstrup.bsky.social

That was my thinking when reading this as well. I'd rather see that money being wasted than being used for the intended purposes. I still can't wrap my head around why the interment camp(s) haven't been razed to the ground yet.

jul 31, 2025, 7:34 am • 9 0 • view
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🌊𝒮𝒸ℴ𝓉𝓉𝓎 𝓒🌊 👀 @skadeec.bsky.social

Great. Our own private torture centers.

jul 31, 2025, 12:45 am • 5 0 • view
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Bureau of Phosphate Reclamation, DCPR @wormwood23.bsky.social

Comrads would operate an ICE detention facility something along the lines of Winston University: take the $1.2B, split that with the inmates, and they only have to show up for parent’s day. (Minus the “we’ll kill you” part) youtu.be/qkKMxcNQSMs?...

jul 31, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
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dcfunny.bsky.social @dcfunny.bsky.social

So, he’s a wyt supremacist nzi and his last name is Wagner..?

jul 31, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bruce Fulton @dbfulton.bsky.social

A lot will go to scams and boondoggles by design.

jul 31, 2025, 3:01 pm • 4 0 • view
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Arigato Terremoto @capitalismkills.bsky.social

lots and lots and lots

jul 31, 2025, 1:53 am • 0 0 • view
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stepheninap.bsky.social @stepheninap.bsky.social

I can’t count that high.

jul 31, 2025, 12:51 am • 4 0 • view
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Kimba @kimba1129.bsky.social

Well, this is an admiration scam. What are they going to split this billion dollars 💸

jul 31, 2025, 12:45 am • 10 2 • view
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Keir Dullea Gone Tomorrow @dimitrianastas.bsky.social

This is the kind of stuff that you see in countries that eventually have the IMF move in and take over their finances. After selling off all the public utilities and public lands.

jul 31, 2025, 12:58 am • 4 0 • view
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Several Animals @several-animals.bsky.social

I'm torn. Wouldn't it be somewhat better if the money went to dumb corruption rather than actual concentration camp construction?

jul 31, 2025, 12:56 am • 0 0 • view
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TT @darthtater74.bsky.social

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Darkest Timeline @darkest-timeline.bsky.social

A lot. They got CIA walking around Afghanistan with bags of cash money.

jul 31, 2025, 12:35 am • 9 0 • view
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scalesandgates.bsky.social @scalesandgates.bsky.social

The Acquisition Logistics Company 502 Branway Drive. Richmond, Virginia 23229 804-339-8787 contact@acq-log.com

jul 31, 2025, 12:43 pm • 2 0 • view
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agooddayforahike.bsky.social @agooddayforahike.bsky.social

Follow the $. Dig. Someone will find something that enriches someone's someone.

jul 31, 2025, 11:53 am • 1 0 • view
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Friendly Neighborhood Murdercat @shanzival.bsky.social

A rapid increase in budget and people in charge who are incompetent and corrupt? At least 50%

jul 31, 2025, 5:58 am • 2 0 • view
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Cupatee @cupatee.bsky.social

Trump and his mafia are stealing from us.

jul 31, 2025, 9:51 am • 8 1 • view
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Jeremy J. Shapiro @jeremyjshapiro.bsky.social

Puking

jul 31, 2025, 2:59 am • 1 0 • view
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Invest to Elect Illinois @investtoelect.bsky.social

Hey, @abigailspanberger.com and Jay Jones: Have you seen this?

jul 31, 2025, 3:38 am • 1 0 • view
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oggarby.bsky.social @oggarby.bsky.social

This is grift on an institutional level

jul 31, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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Original Cat Dude @jon639.bsky.social

someone who lives nearby needs to scope out who lives there...

jul 31, 2025, 3:59 pm • 6 1 • view
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Fart Decider @fartdecider.bsky.social

Great. Incommunicado and desaparecido in some racist dude’s closet

jul 31, 2025, 2:04 am • 2 0 • view
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meh333.bsky.social @meh333.bsky.social

Trump’s draining the country dry.

jul 31, 2025, 11:20 am • 3 0 • view
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midnight-ninja.bsky.social @midnight-ninja.bsky.social

A lot.

jul 31, 2025, 12:40 am • 0 0 • view
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midnight-ninja.bsky.social @midnight-ninja.bsky.social

Also weird: the Army is paying out $232M of the Fort Bliss concentration camp costs, as well. Why, when such a grotesquely large bid supposedly won out for the same concentration camp?

jul 31, 2025, 12:44 am • 1 0 • view
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ian @imcurl.bsky.social

jul 31, 2025, 3:30 am • 1 0 • view
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whisperskin.bsky.social @whisperskin.bsky.social

Grifters gonna grift

jul 31, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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DeerDee @peacedeeresistance.bsky.social

Grifters gonna grift

jul 31, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
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Kool Karyn @koolkaryn.bsky.social

It's crazy! 😳

jul 31, 2025, 2:07 am • 2 0 • view
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Gloomy Gus @gloomygus.bsky.social

We need a DSA chapter to scam ICE and then use the money to fund campaigns

jul 31, 2025, 12:34 am • 19 3 • view
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daisyjunedoodlebug.bsky.social @daisyjunedoodlebug.bsky.social

More than we can imagine most likely. Speaking of waste, fraud and abuse…🤬

jul 31, 2025, 2:07 am • 0 0 • view
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1973ashley.bsky.social @1973ashley.bsky.social

I hope this family is like the Madoffs and absconds with all the money. Sucks for tax payers but…

jul 31, 2025, 2:40 am • 1 0 • view
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social

...incredibly critical support to anyone who bilks ICE out of money rather than actually building mini Dachau, I think? I mean we're gonna take it all back w/interest the second we get into power, because no profiteering off of Nazism, but still, if half of the ICE funds go to fraud instead...yay?

jul 31, 2025, 12:34 am • 457 12 • view
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adutton.bsky.social @adutton.bsky.social

Surely we'll get both ..

jul 31, 2025, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social

Also if it comes out you routed a ton of that money to good causes then I think it conditionally it moves you from "stupid-to-the-point-of-useful collaborationist" to "actual genuine hero", just food for thought for folks out there!

jul 31, 2025, 12:54 am • 200 1 • view
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jmraykowski.bsky.social @jmraykowski.bsky.social

Grift for Good! I like it.

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Mark Warner Primary Challenger Enthusiast @birdlawenthusiast.bsky.social

Oskar schindler vibes fr

jul 31, 2025, 12:55 am • 111 0 • view
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PenToPaper @waporefugee.bsky.social

I was thinking along these lines recently, after watching the movie “The Sting” (1973 classic). Since MAGA fascists have concluded “intellectuals” (along with many others) are the perceived domestic enemy, then let’s use our fearful intellect and defeat them without firing a shot.

jul 31, 2025, 11:40 am • 0 0 • view
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cwcox.bsky.social @cwcox.bsky.social

Winning government contracts then doing them poorly/slowly is exactly the kind of thing the CIA would do in a different country to sabotage it. And it would be the big brain move to do from a someone trying to take down this regime.

jul 31, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social

The idea that fraud > concentration camps crossed my mind, too.

jul 31, 2025, 2:17 pm • 2 0 • view
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birdie1958.bsky.social @birdie1958.bsky.social

I mean, this is the 1st time I've ever supported fraud...

jul 31, 2025, 10:55 am • 5 0 • view
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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net

They'll probably still build Dachau, they'll just take a big cut and subcontract the rest.

jul 31, 2025, 1:43 am • 6 0 • view
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social

Yeah the "Russian military procurement" model is definitely very much a possibility here, to be clear, but it's hard to say. Especially given how much that would involve relative to the fact this seems to be Just Some Guy with a couple dozen employees, even as a contracting middleman.

jul 31, 2025, 1:46 am • 5 0 • view
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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social

Setting up a “brown people dowsing rod” company that sells light-up sticks form $5,000 apiece and funneling the money directly to Commie Gladio stay-behind groups

jul 31, 2025, 1:23 am • 19 0 • view
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economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social

Secondary feature is they can detect trans people with a $3k add-on

jul 31, 2025, 7:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jo Zienty @jozienty.bsky.social

It was all a scam, dude!

jul 31, 2025, 12:42 am • 0 0 • view
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joe4zu.bsky.social @joe4zu.bsky.social

I wonder if these scammers were in on the fake assassination and this is their payback bribe.

jul 31, 2025, 4:00 am • 1 0 • view
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dibon5.bsky.social @dibon5.bsky.social

Scam indeed. The owner must have Trump or Republican leadership ties.

jul 31, 2025, 1:30 am • 0 0 • view
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dibon5.bsky.social @dibon5.bsky.social

🤮

jul 31, 2025, 1:29 am • 0 0 • view
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BigSass @godessfu.bsky.social

🤦🏼‍♀️probably a lot.

jul 31, 2025, 1:01 am • 2 0 • view
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daringfuture.bsky.social @daringfuture.bsky.social

Hmmm.... What if we all submitted bids to have detention centers in our garages? Make ICE have to read through them all, and, well I'm sure I'm a lot nicer than the ICE agents. Plus I get busy and forget to close the garage door sometimes, darn it.

jul 31, 2025, 3:32 am • 1 0 • view
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Doomer Doomer @optimisticdoomer.bsky.social

It's a great thing that Kristy Noem is PERSONALLY approving every last one of these.

jul 31, 2025, 8:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sean Graham-White @alasgw.bsky.social

Politically connected corruption is causing massive problems in Russia right now -- and is responsible for much of their military failures as money for training, parts, or quality manufacturing was all squandered on fancy cars, luxury travel, big/multiple homes, women, etc.

jul 31, 2025, 2:09 am • 2 0 • view
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indnial.bsky.social @indnial.bsky.social

A substantial portion. But, might be a silver lining. Less shitty stuff getting funded. 🤷🏼‍♀️

jul 31, 2025, 4:20 am • 3 0 • view
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bseadeer.bsky.social @bseadeer.bsky.social

Trump’s admin is the deep state on steroids

jul 31, 2025, 2:02 am • 0 0 • view
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Pustulio @bertrandmowbry.bsky.social

Make em homeless

jul 31, 2025, 10:31 am • 2 0 • view
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Mel in the mountains @melevanie.bsky.social

Scammers gotta scam. But now they're in charge of the govt.

jul 31, 2025, 4:19 am • 1 0 • view
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snarkhive.bsky.social @snarkhive.bsky.social

Um.

jul 31, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
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ThePronko @thepronko.bsky.social

Trump; the family who will be redirecting government tax dollars into offshore bank accounts to enrich themselves are called Trump, which is synonymous with scammer.

jul 31, 2025, 1:23 am • 2 0 • view
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Meli ✨ @wayofthelotus.bsky.social

That's outrageous.

jul 31, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
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katzak.bsky.social @katzak.bsky.social

How much just to trump, trump family, trump cronies.

jul 31, 2025, 1:19 am • 2 0 • view
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SkoienMartha @marthskoien.bsky.social

Most if not all.

jul 31, 2025, 1:20 am • 0 0 • view
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Fran K @mexifran.bsky.social

Who are they related to?

jul 31, 2025, 4:23 am • 1 0 • view