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Politico @politico.com

Trump's USDA secretary said the millions of Medicaid recipients facing stricter work requirements under the GOP megabill should replace immigrant farm workers deported under his administration's policies. “There will be no amnesty," she said.

jul 8, 2025, 10:32 pm • 141 58

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Michele Simon, JD, MPH @michelersimon.bsky.social

Because they all live in the California central valley. Wtf

jul 8, 2025, 10:38 pm • 22 0 • view
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David Schwartz @dschwa.bsky.social

Once they build the labor camps they will be living there. Then moved to other parts of the country as needed.

jul 8, 2025, 11:02 pm • 4 0 • view
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Michele Simon, JD, MPH @michelersimon.bsky.social

That's frightening

jul 8, 2025, 11:47 pm • 2 0 • view
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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social

Sick bitch

jul 8, 2025, 10:42 pm • 3 0 • view
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dozeedoe.bsky.social @dozeedoe.bsky.social

Here we go, sliding into the feudal authoritarian system. A few men owning everything including the military. Women relegated to domestic beasts. People drugged by religious fanaticism and enslaved by the parasites in power.

jul 9, 2025, 1:20 am • 1 0 • view
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Jean Ibosh @fedup90611.bsky.social

We’re all going to starve.

jul 8, 2025, 11:33 pm • 1 0 • view
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jimjust33.bsky.social @jimjust33.bsky.social

Sounds like an unintelligent racist.

jul 8, 2025, 11:41 pm • 3 0 • view
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kittenclaws48.bsky.social @kittenclaws48.bsky.social

Aren’t they all?

jul 9, 2025, 12:52 am • 1 0 • view
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Kuroinazuma 黒稲妻 @kuroinazuma.bsky.social

Is there any other kind of racist?

jul 9, 2025, 11:07 am • 0 0 • view
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Bretonarz @emmanuelaublet.bsky.social

Khmer Rouge 101…

jul 8, 2025, 10:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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Duane Bidoux 🇨🇦🇵🇦🇳🇱🇬🇱🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇦 @duanebidoux.bsky.social

So maybe MAGA members will end up taking those jobs after all.

jul 8, 2025, 10:36 pm • 25 1 • view
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GrannyMar2112 @grannymar2112.bsky.social

🤣🤣🤣💯

jul 8, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
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brianwinch.bsky.social @brianwinch.bsky.social

HARD WORK SHOULD SET YOU FREE! It should be above the entrance to every federal US gov't building

jul 8, 2025, 11:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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28Loki @28loki.bsky.social

Republicans really are disgusting

jul 9, 2025, 1:02 am • 2 0 • view
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ginny1956.bsky.social @ginny1956.bsky.social

Good luck with that,NOT!!

jul 9, 2025, 11:48 am • 0 0 • view
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jim-selover.bsky.social @jim-selover.bsky.social

So they are just going to break down medicaid recipients' doors in NY, LA, and every other city, throw a hood over their heads, toss them in an unmarked SUV, and drop them off 100's or 1000's of miles away in a field? What about the O2 bottle, walker or wheelchair they left in the guy's bedroom?

jul 8, 2025, 10:56 pm • 6 1 • view
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Mutty @muttski9999.bsky.social

Maybe

jul 8, 2025, 11:35 pm • 1 0 • view
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Happy Warrior 🎙️🐝 @happywarriorbee.bsky.social

Khmer Rouge

jul 8, 2025, 11:38 pm • 3 0 • view
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jim-selover.bsky.social @jim-selover.bsky.social

Definitely could be the model they are planning to use.

jul 8, 2025, 11:40 pm • 1 0 • view
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jmptahoe.bsky.social @jmptahoe.bsky.social

Or they will have work programs for the undocumented people being held in detention camps. Busing them from camp to field - seems like we have seen this before.

jul 8, 2025, 11:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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jmptahoe.bsky.social @jmptahoe.bsky.social

So healthy unemployed people will be motivated to work because they will no longer have medicaid health insurance which if they are healthy they are not using much? And that they will move to the country to labor on farms to get health insurance which is not always avail for seasonal laborers?

jul 8, 2025, 11:30 pm • 5 1 • view
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listentoshaft.bsky.social @listentoshaft.bsky.social

Can wait to see the lazy ass poor white Trump supporters respond to this.

jul 8, 2025, 10:43 pm • 4 1 • view
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Franz Kafka @esco-swede.bsky.social

This woman has the essential prerequisites for the Trump cabinet--ignorance, stupidity and cruelty. One must also assume that her lip prints are all over Trump's gigantic ass. She obviously knows nothing about who receives Medicaid and where in the country they live. Ignoramus, thy name is MAGA!

jul 8, 2025, 10:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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Alan 🇨🇦 @alanroseca.bsky.social

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jul 8, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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Alan 🇨🇦 @alanroseca.bsky.social

Absolutely no clue the pain and suffering people are going through that just need a helping hand.

jul 8, 2025, 10:42 pm • 2 0 • view
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🐦 Carol Amos 🐦 @pickleballtwin.bsky.social

Gag. His eyes are not looking at her face.

jul 8, 2025, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lori K @lori321.bsky.social

These people are truly psychotic. They create a stereotype and then enact policies that have nothing to do with facts on the ground. It’s as though Hitler’s minions have reincarnated into this band of soulless, emotionally sterile entities. CRUELTY IS THE POINT.

jul 8, 2025, 11:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jacky +1 @jackyplusone.bsky.social

Very handy tho that all these deadbeat Medicaid addicts are close to ag operations

jul 8, 2025, 10:42 pm • 2 0 • view
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Bubs_NC @charlottenc.bsky.social

Wait a minute. So I was right? They are creating a new white, sick, uneducated and poor slave class? WHODATHUNKIT??

jul 8, 2025, 10:50 pm • 2 1 • view
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Cecilia @bartramsbuccaneers.bsky.social

The cruelty is the point. I do have a question since the Medicaid cuts take place in 2026 because the republicans never want to be held responsible, who is picking the crops this summer?

jul 8, 2025, 10:46 pm • 9 0 • view
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staatenlos.bsky.social @staatenlos.bsky.social

jul 8, 2025, 10:35 pm • 2 0 • view
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Ilka Knüppel @iknuppel.bsky.social

My 87 year old dad got discharged yesterday from the hospital so he’s good to go into the field!!!

jul 9, 2025, 9:27 am • 1 0 • view
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Ubique @libelandprivacy.bsky.social

I am looking forward to watching to season one .

jul 9, 2025, 1:41 am • 0 0 • view
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Dr Quinn @saqz007.bsky.social

😂😂😂 how’s that going to work?

jul 8, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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bjt242.bsky.social @bjt242.bsky.social

she should go out and do the farm work!

jul 9, 2025, 5:52 am • 0 0 • view
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sueb119.bsky.social @sueb119.bsky.social

Then put yourself in line for the job. I can’t see you going to do any manual labor!

jul 8, 2025, 10:34 pm • 2 0 • view
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kazoo2025.bsky.social @kazoo2025.bsky.social

Are you f@*king kidding me?

jul 9, 2025, 4:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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Rob Mace @ibipelican.bsky.social

I’m spitballing here, but 90% on Medicaid already work, the other 10% are children, elderly, and people to disabled to work.

jul 8, 2025, 10:46 pm • 3 0 • view
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scottivers.bsky.social @scottivers.bsky.social

Sounds like Communism to me

jul 9, 2025, 5:29 am • 0 0 • view
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Inverted Pyramid @invertedpyramid.bsky.social

And you thought the Berlin Airlift or the withdrawal of 102,000 from Kabul were big logistical undertakings!

jul 8, 2025, 11:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Area Person @beartromboneparrot.bsky.social

"Due to a lack of sufficient labor force in key locations, the government will now relocate and house Medicaid recipients where they are needed..."

jul 8, 2025, 11:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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ricksmichel.bsky.social @ricksmichel.bsky.social

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Fucking IDIOT!

jul 9, 2025, 3:51 am • 0 0 • view
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Linda💙🌊🆘🐕🐿️🕊️🇺🇦 @lindaworkerbee.bsky.social

Hate him.

jul 8, 2025, 10:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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juniper61.bsky.social @juniper61.bsky.social

My guess is that this is Stephen Miller's idea because he is now in charge.

jul 9, 2025, 4:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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kittenclaws48.bsky.social @kittenclaws48.bsky.social

Seriously? WTF is she talking about? A good number of Medicaid recipients collect that form of assistance precisely because they cannot perform levels of physical exertion which is generally expected of farm labor. This creature is the Trump USDA Secretary? Is there NO ONE with any competence?

jul 9, 2025, 12:41 am • 0 0 • view
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Katinka Goncalves @katinkag.bsky.social

I’m picturing the “able-bodied” 29 year old man, who needs Medicaid to pay for his many DR visits and asthma meds, living in Chicago, who will happily move to CA to pick strawberries so he can keep his health insurance

jul 8, 2025, 10:39 pm • 2 0 • view
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myurbanlife.bsky.social @myurbanlife.bsky.social

Pick strawberries for a month then travel to Georgia to pick peaches then on to Florida’s for ….

jul 8, 2025, 10:41 pm • 5 0 • view
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awilemon.bsky.social @awilemon.bsky.social

Put Melania & Barron out there first. They’re here illegally and draining the American economy.

jul 9, 2025, 8:04 am • 2 0 • view
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jbro52.bsky.social @jbro52.bsky.social

Trump looks Like a snake, like Satan taking sadistic joy in hurting people.

jul 8, 2025, 10:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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jbro52.bsky.social @jbro52.bsky.social

Yeah let’s send grandma, grandpa, disabled, people on Medicaid most already have jobs it’s called the working poor. America is a joke now. Pay bad wages by Walmart, need Medicaid because they don’t cover healthcare. Working poor American. This is just SLAVERY all over again.

jul 8, 2025, 10:59 pm • 4 0 • view
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kittenclaws48.bsky.social @kittenclaws48.bsky.social

This time for everyone.

jul 9, 2025, 12:49 am • 0 0 • view
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Mutty @muttski9999.bsky.social

Don't forget the "seasonal" workers at Amazon. A year of working full time, don't get full benefits

jul 8, 2025, 11:38 pm • 1 0 • view
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maggie1265.bsky.social @maggie1265.bsky.social

You first!

jul 9, 2025, 2:14 am • 0 0 • view
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be-aware.bsky.social @be-aware.bsky.social

Bullshit!! They just as dumb as Trump. If they wanted to do farm work they would be there. This will backfire in the long run; time will tell

jul 8, 2025, 10:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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David Schwartz @dschwa.bsky.social

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TheLastStraw @thelaststraw.bsky.social

So ICE went to farmers and said we won't arrest them, but all these workers are now in your care. They can't leave, you own them they're yours now. But if they leave we'll catch them and give them back or deport them. And farmers said okay, but that's slavery. And ICE said yea we know.

jul 8, 2025, 10:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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Stagger McTipsy, AKA Captain Awesome Motherfucker @staggermctipsy.bsky.social

I am 100% serious about this: she should do a week of farm work and see how it goes.

jul 9, 2025, 6:19 am • 0 0 • view
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Jebediah Kartheiser XXX @jebkartheiserxxx.bsky.social

Weren’t the immigrant farm workers getting a pass? The majority of Medicaid recipients are not working age adults. Somehow I don’t think sending children, the elderly, and the disabled out to the fields is going to work. But hey. Who am I to question someone who hasn’t farmed a day in her life!

jul 9, 2025, 1:35 am • 0 0 • view
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wearealreadygr8.bsky.social @wearealreadygr8.bsky.social

What a gd idiot - typical Trump hire.

jul 9, 2025, 7:39 am • 1 0 • view
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The Greater Good @drgoldwing.bsky.social

Yet another nutjob to hang around the administration’s necks.

jul 8, 2025, 10:36 pm • 2 0 • view
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Michael Bernard @michaelberrnard.bsky.social

WTF???

jul 8, 2025, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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democracy was just a moment @kkarrla.bsky.social

All of this is what purifying the nation looks like

jul 8, 2025, 10:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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kittenclaws48.bsky.social @kittenclaws48.bsky.social

None of this is remotely close to “ purity”. Unless one considers pure evil.

jul 9, 2025, 12:51 am • 0 0 • view
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J2theV @j2thev.bsky.social

Maybe my 60-year-old uncle who just had a stroke and who worked every day of his life can apply to pick strawberries so he can keep his Medicaid!

jul 8, 2025, 10:50 pm • 3 0 • view
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oma-ruth.bsky.social @oma-ruth.bsky.social

The USDA Secretary is totally clueless about the quality skills & stamina needed for the backbreaking, poor paying, work in fields & orchards!! She is as deluded about this as Trump & most Republicans, MAGA or not! Nobody in the US is as disrespected as Farm Labor! Medicaid recipients can’t do it!

jul 8, 2025, 11:05 pm • 2 0 • view
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Douche Baggins @maryjanesbiatch.bsky.social

📌

jul 8, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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ohbets2020.bsky.social @ohbets2020.bsky.social

They have no clue who's currently on Medicaid. Is this what you voted for Trumper.

jul 9, 2025, 6:39 am • 0 0 • view
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Lisa Holcomb @lisa4kids.bsky.social

What is the over under on bets of when the first Medicaid covered, nursing home grandma gets her notice in the mail that she needs to go to work?

jul 8, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Red Garnet @curiosa.bsky.social

MAGA will never do the work of formulating an agenda to reform America’s brutal and broken immigration system. Migrants and immigrants are their reliable and fondest dog whistles aimed at a segment of racist Americans. Fear and loathing of dark skinned people work to turn out voters in droves.

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Sawyer @tollinginpolitics.bsky.social

Having worked in social services the majority of the people on Medicaid have quite a few barriers to employment. They would not be able to work in a field all day in the heat. Many wouldn't even be able to get to the fields. How are they going to work.

jul 8, 2025, 10:46 pm • 14 3 • view
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Sawyer @tollinginpolitics.bsky.social

Also, how are they deciding what able bodied means? This has historically been a way to advocate for eugenics and hide behind some claim of science while doing it.

jul 8, 2025, 10:48 pm • 8 2 • view
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white ribbit @thewhiteribbit.bsky.social

good thing they don't believe in science.

jul 8, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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David Schwartz @dschwa.bsky.social

To quote "A Christmas Carol" “And the Union workhouses?” demanded Scrooge. “Are they still in operation?” Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.” “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” That is the goal. To kill off the poor.

jul 8, 2025, 11:08 pm • 5 1 • view
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The All Seeing Eye @omnividentisoculus.bsky.social

They are forcing us into the dark ages...

jul 8, 2025, 11:38 pm • 1 0 • view
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Marvelous Max @moketchup.bsky.social

Sounds like Pol Pot's Cambodia

jul 9, 2025, 6:00 am • 0 0 • view
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Marvelous Max @moketchup.bsky.social

I worked for 55 years. Fuck off and take the orange monkey with you.

jul 9, 2025, 5:58 am • 0 0 • view
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chunkydumplinh.bsky.social @chunkydumplinh.bsky.social

So we’re now going to have serfs? So progressive, lol This is akin slavery. I’d like to see the Ag Sec Brook R give it a try first

jul 9, 2025, 12:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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SKITZO @skitzofrenik.bsky.social

this bitch needs to repeatedly get fucked by a farm tractor... #eatShit

jul 9, 2025, 5:37 am • 1 0 • view
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Ferlin2 @ferlin2.bsky.social

Ahole!

jul 9, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
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BanalCommeTout ⏚🔻 @banalcommetout.bsky.social

The number of prison spaces needed to house all the Trump administration's criminals who have damaged or destroyed innocent lives is staggering. The jails will have to be harsh and uncomfortable.

jul 8, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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bselena.bsky.social @bselena.bsky.social

Good luck with that idea…..

jul 8, 2025, 10:38 pm • 1 0 • view
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👍 @ranmull.bsky.social

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snuffleblark.bsky.social @snuffleblark.bsky.social

When this is all over. I hope everyone in this administration is behind bars.

jul 8, 2025, 10:47 pm • 5 0 • view
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David Schwartz @dschwa.bsky.social

The SCOTUS has already ruled that anything he does as president is legal so....

jul 8, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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onlylizard.bsky.social @onlylizard.bsky.social

I know there is no god because they do these things in his and Jesus’ name and are not prevented from it by divine intervention. And if I’m wrong, god owes us a huge apology.

jul 9, 2025, 2:01 am • 0 0 • view
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Cookery @cj-forward.bsky.social

Stupid bitch

jul 9, 2025, 3:17 am • 2 0 • view
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pseag.bsky.social @pseag.bsky.social

Another of tRump's Terrorist Gang!!!

jul 8, 2025, 10:37 pm • 2 0 • view
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Happy Warrior 🎙️🐝 @happywarriorbee.bsky.social

Is this person‘s child out in the field picking berries out in the fruit trees in the winter trimming is that what they expire for their children? Is that the job they wanna land? Surfdom or slavery you tell me.

jul 8, 2025, 11:37 pm • 5 0 • view
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bikeguy2024.bsky.social @bikeguy2024.bsky.social

Bless her heart, this dear ASSHOLE!

jul 8, 2025, 11:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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Barb: Bring Back Democracy! 💙 @bboptop.bsky.social

She is so out of touch with reality.

jul 8, 2025, 10:33 pm • 9 0 • view
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kittenclaws48.bsky.social @kittenclaws48.bsky.social

There is, apparently, no one in this regime with any level of competency whatsoever running our crucial agencies.

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Barb: Bring Back Democracy! 💙 @bboptop.bsky.social

Yes. Four words usually come to mind whenever I see this 🍊Fascist's regime leaders: stupid, cruel, selfish, incompetent.

jul 9, 2025, 12:52 am • 2 0 • view
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crafty-girl.bsky.social @crafty-girl.bsky.social

These people are so far out! They are truly in their own little bubble.

jul 8, 2025, 10:38 pm • 2 0 • view
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fawkesyou.bsky.social @fawkesyou.bsky.social

Hmmm, didn’t we have a system like that a few hundred years ago?

jul 9, 2025, 3:35 am • 0 0 • view
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PB @paulabarron.bsky.social

Be interesting to see how they make the fields ADA compliant.

jul 8, 2025, 10:43 pm • 2 0 • view
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white ribbit @thewhiteribbit.bsky.social

we don't need no stinking ADA. let 'em crawl.

jul 8, 2025, 11:04 pm • 1 0 • view
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helpfultylerdurden.bsky.social @helpfultylerdurden.bsky.social

Oh, there's the labor camps!

jul 8, 2025, 10:39 pm • 11 0 • view
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daviddiano.bsky.social @daviddiano.bsky.social

they live in cities and not near farms

jul 8, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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greenpancakes.bsky.social @greenpancakes.bsky.social

These careless people troll and troll. Maybe the USDA secretary should give up her job since all she wants to do is troll. She can probably do that working in a field

jul 8, 2025, 11:27 pm • 1 0 • view
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macleodl.bsky.social @macleodl.bsky.social

repugs always blaming the powerless for problems they create...

jul 9, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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macleodl.bsky.social @macleodl.bsky.social

🐀

jul 9, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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claybobo.bsky.social @claybobo.bsky.social

Mean girls in high school grow up to be mean women in the work place. She is exactly the girl that bullied my disabled sister in high school. That sister makes $12,000 a year as a teacher's aide and is on Medicaid. Sure, put her on the back of a tractor.

jul 8, 2025, 11:16 pm • 6 0 • view
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caseymckflo.bsky.social @caseymckflo.bsky.social

Obviously these idiots have never worked with Medicaid recipients. Many are disabled or have small children.

jul 9, 2025, 3:49 am • 0 0 • view
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Michael ‘Lally’ Carey @lallycarey.bsky.social

Can you see it yet?

jul 8, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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semperdubium.bsky.social @semperdubium.bsky.social

I am sure her children are off school, they are able bodies too.

jul 8, 2025, 11:29 pm • 0 0 • view