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recklessbeading.bsky.social

@recklessbeading.bsky.social

Brooklyn-based beadwork artist, author, and teacher who is old enough to be angry that we have to fight this fascist shit all over again.

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NEW: A federal judge has now ruled that former SDNY prosecutor, Maurene Comey, was UNLAWFULLY fired by the Trump DOJ. He orders her retroactive reinstatement and back pay. Comey alleged in her lawsuit that she was fired for politically motivated reasons. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

cnbc.comTrump DOJ unlawfully fired Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey, judge rulesThe judge ordered that Comey, the daughter of ex-FBI director James Comey, be retroactively reinstated to her job as an assistant United States attorney.

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Corporate profits are at record highs — but revenue from corporate taxes has plummeted thanks to the tax cuts in Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. Meanwhile, workers’ wages are stagnant and their share of the nation’s income is at a record low. Trickle-down economics was always a hoax.

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Empty seats are seen as Trump speaks in Mississippi tonight (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)

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NEW: Garrett Langley, the CEO of Flock, told an audience of police chiefs at a private police conference Sunday that anti-Flock protests around the country are not real, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. “It’s anonymous bots, and so it is not real,” he continued.

404media.coIn Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn’t RealIn comments at a private police conference, Garrett Langley also said his wife advised him to never apologize.

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BREAKING: Preliminary injunction granted in the golf course case by Judge Reyes! The threat to close & destroy this historic property is the latest act of Trump corruption that the courts have responded to Kudos to our wonderful clients & cocounsel @democracyforward.org & Lowell & Associates

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Before the Brazilian election where progressive Lula beat right-wing Bolsonaro, Meta is accused of disrupting Lula's Insta and WhatsApp accounts Meta blamed "technical difficulties" That would be more believable if similar incidents had not happened recently in the US Tech billionaires are evil

bloomberg.comMeta Unseats Musk as Tech Villain for Lula in Brazil’s ElectionA new villain is emerging in the closing stretch of Brazil’s bitterly contested presidential election: Meta Platforms Inc.

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Reason number 999 we must flip the Senate: Pete Hegseth could end up there without ever facing the voters. The very definition of mediocrity failing upward — from the Pentagon straight into the United States Senate.

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GOLDMAN: “.. we are starting to see clearer signs that the AI impact is spreading beyond the technology sector. .. the share of US firms that have adopted AI in regular business functions now shows a statistically significant negative correlation with employment growth ..”

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Vivek is so unwanted that his own campaign stops are ghosting him. Zeteo reports: Businesses are canceling campaign stops to avoid angry calls, bad publicity & customer backlash. A planned church visit in Westerville and a Trumbull County rally location have disappeared from campaign itineraries.

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Homeland Security agents knocked on doors in nine states asking people about voting. Some carried guns. Nurses sued. A federal judge ordered DHS to stop until the polls close. Trump’s regime needed a court order to quit scaring voters. Think about that.

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Anthony Davis on why some Trump supporters refuse to abandon him, even as his approval rating falls to record lows. “Admitting that a long-held political stance was mistaken requires accepting that years of defense, personal friction, and social conflict were based on a flawed premise.”

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“𝐇𝐞’𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐦 𝐇𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞."- 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐎𝐛𝐚𝐦𝐚

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Man of the people.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on data centers: "I say let them come in ... you should really be cool on data centers because you can make a fortune with the data centers" (Note the total silence of the crowd during this rant!)

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“People are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. Were making a frickin’ fortune.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Our country is making hundreds of billions of dollars on oil. and then on top of it we have Venezuela, and we have Greenland! 'We're making trillions of dollars. But my people said 'please don't mention that, sir, because people are paying a little higher'... we're making a frickin' fortune"

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Well, that is surely a sign that good governance and fufilling their oaths of office is a top priority for this crew of pirates.

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

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A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project Emerges (Gift Article)Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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🚨 WAIT A MINUTE: Melania Trump is now being credited with brokering a ceasefire in Ukraine by the White House—just one week after Pope Leo personally called Vladimir Putin to push for the SAME THING.

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The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

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Why even have a 25th amendment? Trump at rally: “We have a blockade on the Trump Strait. How do you think the Arabs would like me calling it that? I got a call from the President of Mexico. She was a ballerina. She went from ballerina to the President of Mexico. How the hell did that happen?”

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Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comMilitary Boards Are Defying Orders and Letting Trans Troops Serve (Gift Article)The service members at Navy and Marine Corps hearings are finding ways to keep trans troops in uniform.

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😳 here's pictures taken today of Trump's right and left hands. Both are looking really bad, and he's using makeup on each of them to try to mask it (note how the left one is now looking just as nasty as the right one -- that's new) (Aaron Schwartz/Getty)