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Andochkat @andochkat.bsky.social · 54m

If he’s talkin’, he’s lyin’.

The Insufferable Liar, JD Vance

Sunday’s talk show circuit revealed the Vice President is willing to lie shamelessly, but he’s just not very good at it

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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Andochkat @andochkat.bsky.social · 5h

This is evidently about UPS, not USPS. UPS is already private. But it’s true that the regime wants to destroy the USPS.

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 6h

If your spouse keeps telling you that they only have eyes for you but then you catch them cheating six times, you're not going to take it at face value when they keep telling you that. If John Roberts says he's an Originalist and you're a Supreme Court reporter, on the other hand....

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

Originalism has coherence as an abstract legal theory.

In practice in the Roberts court, it means BS to get to a policy outcome, distorting and ignoring the text and contemporary explanations as needed.

So I’ll believe “conservative lawyer makes strong originalist argument” matters when I see it.

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 6h

This is the guy who wets himself at the thought of riding the 6 train.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Sean Duffy: "If we go to the south pole of the moon, we can set up a base. We want to put up fission power. We think we can have longterm stays on the south pole of the moon."

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 7h

Global warming is crossing dangerous thresholds sooner than expected with the world’s coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off, marking what scientists on Monday described as the first “tipping point” in climate-driven ecosystem collapse.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Climate tipping points are being crossed, scientists warn ahead of COP30

Global warming is crossing dangerous thresholds sooner than expected with the world’s coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off, marking what scientists on Monday described as the first “tipping point” in climate-driven ecosystem collapse.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver this week is a complete takedown of Bari Weiss... and it's thorough and devastating.

And a bit of interesting timing, given that Weiss's new boss, David Ellison (who is talked about in the episode) is trying to buy HBO, where Oliver's show is...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks Elon

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...

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WILD BILL HICCUP @ydofoolsrule.bsky.social · 15h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Greenwood County Democratic Party (SC) @gwdcountydems.bsky.social · 18h

1️⃣ "Receipts from corporate income taxes decreased 15% compared to 2024, in part due to Trump's signature tax and spending plan passed by Congress this summer."

Let's make sure we're clear here:

US Annual Budget Deficit Steady at $1.8 Trillion, Despite Surge in Tariff Revenue

The federal government logged a $1.8 trillion budget deficit for the 2025 fiscal year, little changed from 2024 despite a surge in tariff revenues, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

www.bloomberg.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Translation: they gave him a plane and filled his family’s pockets

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Greenwood County Democratic Party (SC) @gwdcountydems.bsky.social · 18h

Trump is following the authoritarian playbook by the letter.

He plans to invoke the Insurrection Act and normalize the deployment of troops to his enemies.

#InsurrectionAct #Authoritarianism

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Reuters @reuters.com · 16h

Unipec diverts supertanker from Shandong port after US sanctions reut.rs/4mZXA1S

Unipec diverts supertanker from Shandong port after US sanctions

A supertanker carrying oil to the Chinese port of Rizhao in Shandong province changed its destination from there over the weekend after the U.S. imposed sanctions on an import terminal at the port on Friday, LSEG data shows.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

Cracks are showing in the resistance

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 21h

Here for the "emergency" naked bike ride in Portland

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NPR @npr.org · 20h

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

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Julie Z for SC @juliezforsc.bsky.social · 21h

Have you heard? There’s a new bill that makes it harder for millions of eligible Americans to vote. Join me and @standupamerica.bsky.social in urging Congress to vote NO on the SAVE Act: act.standupamerica.com/letters/no-o...

Vote NO on the SAVE Act!

The SAVE Act is a trick to undermine our voting rights. Urge Congress to vote no on the SAVE ACT.

act.standupamerica.com

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20h

This is the definition of an ad hominem argument.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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Andochkat @andochkat.bsky.social · 18h

ProPublica is basically the best investigative journalism in the US and is a standard bearer for journalistic integrity. Fuck off, JD or whatever you’re calling yourself these days.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 20h

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 20h

So Trump’s bailing out that libertarian clown in Argentina with our tax dollars.

Book cover with illustration of Atlas holding up text block.

AYN RAND
ATLAS NEEDS YOU TO SPOT HIM LIKE 20 BILLION DOLLARS
Argentine Edition

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Thankful Thinker @thankfulthinker.bsky.social · 1d

Lying is a feature, not a bug, of fascism. For the fascist, the 'truth' is whatever allows them to dominate others. They see their lies as being in service to a greater truth, which is, itself, a bigger lie.

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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 21h

Again, this is when people need to be pressuring their local officials and asking why police are not protecting them from ICE (or not) kidnappers.

Yes, the answer is obvious, but the local and state officials need to say it out loud to wake people up.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 21h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Andochkat @andochkat.bsky.social · 22h

This fucking piece of shit can fuck off and fuck off some more.

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