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Aly_Ayl_

@alyayl.bsky.social

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Aly_Ayl_ @alyayl.bsky.social · Aug 23

Yes, bullies can indeed crumble in the face of resistance…

Or
- they (HE) litigate(s) you into bankruptcy
- they (HE) set(s) up a helicopter crash
- they (HE) make(s) you disappear
- they (HE) arrange(s) an accident
- they (HE) otherwise remove(s) or negate(s) your voice via il/legal means

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Dan Goldman on Republicans: "When something is so egregiously and shockingly wrong as this, they need to stand up ... that keeps getting lost as we talk about all these court cases. The Republicans have abdicated their job as members of Congress."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Goldman: "We are combining the weaponization of the DOJ with his grift and corruption to make money off the presidency. It is completely absurd. Trump would've been convicted at trial in both of those cases. The only reason they went away is bc he won the election...it's a shakedown of his own govt"

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

Poisoned soil, contaminated water, rubble, unburied human remains: a new report details the war’s horrific consequences.

Devastated by Israel, Gaza faces an environmental crisis "above imagination"

Poisoned soil, contaminated water, rubble, unburied human remains: a new report details the war's horrific consequences.

www.motherjones.com

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Harry @harry.bsky.team · 7h

A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission)

Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

here is a clip of the East Wing of the White House being demolished for Trump's ballroom just now

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 7h

7/ I tried, but “Stop the Steal” extinguished all of the traction we had gained before the 2020 election.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 7h

6/ Democrats really should have listened to me back in 2021. 🥵

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 8h

5/ News broke last week that Dominion Voting Systems was “purchased by the founder and CEO of Knowink, a Missouri-based maker of electronic poll books…” www.wired.com/story/scott-...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 8h

4/ “One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure ***
Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states.” 10/16/25 www.wired.com/story/scott-...

One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts don't know what to think.

www.wired.com

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 8h

ICYMI, Dominion Voting has been acquired by Scott Leinendecker, a former GOP election official from Missouri. Leindendecker is also the CEO of electronic poll book supplier Knowink whose product manager, Mitch Millville, was Ed Martin’s campaign IT director in Missouri in 2011. This Ed Martin. 1/

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 8h

Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.

During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 1d

Just because he's acting like he's never leaving is no reason for you to act like he's never leaving.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8h

we doomed america because we wouldn't say "are you just stupid, bro?" and make it too embarrassing to support him, because then everyone knows you're stupid, too

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "Buttigieg spent billions fixing the air traffic control. They used copper wire going into glass wire. Any union electrician here or any non-union electrician would say you can't hook copper into glass. It doesn't work. They spent billions, turned on the system & it was stone cold blank"

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 8h

Trump is facing backlash from American ranchers after he said Sunday that the U.S. may “buy some beef from Argentina” to “bring our beef prices down.” trib.al/TAqTdM3

Not “very much” beef will be imported, however, due to a “foot-and-mouth disease issue” in Argentina.

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Lis (MRHSfan) @mrhsfan.bsky.social · 10h

It’s OK. Since he gutted the FDA and killed testing, we won’t even have to know! Ignorance is bliss…even if it kills us.

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Jo @service-worker.bsky.social · 10h

So it’s not even just beef, but diseased beef? Fucking perfect

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 10h

Spoiler: building a holistic propaganda network that talks to and promotes itself can be effective if your audience never understood how twitter became a roiling heap of stank garbage

Keep on blockin’, Bluesky

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: @makenakelly.bsky.social has the scoop on the Trump administration's decision to suddenly flood @bsky.app www.wired.com/story/inside...

Inside the Trump Adminstration's Bluesky Invasion

On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.

www.wired.com

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Aly_Ayl_ @alyayl.bsky.social · 10h

Fucking unpatriotic asshole

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 10h

As writer James Bruno noted: "Imagine Al Capone becomes President and then sets up a "working group" to root out those in government who fight crime to neutralize them in the name of eliminating the "deep state." This is what Trump and his mobsters are doing."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Wide-ranging group of US officials pursues Trump's fight against ‘Deep State’

(Corrects garbled and missing words in sixth paragraph) By Jonathan Landay, Sarah N.

www.yahoo.com

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10h

Christopher Moynihan was seen rifling through senators' desks and saying "There’s got to be something we can use against these fucking scumbags.” He stood on the rostrum with Q Shaman Jacob Chansley.

Now he's charged with making a "terroristic threat." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: A Jan. 6 rioter who breached the Senate floor — and was subsequently pardoned by Trump — was arrested Sunday for threatening to assassinate Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 4d

With $40 billion for Argentina, $29 billion for ICE but no SNAP benefits next month for Americans struggling to feed themselves, Fox should air a special Oval Office fireside chat on Thanksgiving for the president to share his personal hardship stories with hungry seniors, children and parents.

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