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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 31m

There is no insurrection in Portland unless you consider an uptick of people wearing inflatable frog costumes an insurrection.

No one is falling for this absurd propaganda, and there is NO justification for deploying our troops against peaceful American citizens.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 7h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5h

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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A. Stefansky @astefansky.bsky.social · 5h

And he and his ilk conveniently forget that the founding of our country was a radically progressive break from what had been a “natural” order, monarchy.

What they really want is to overturn the founding and go back to feudalism where they assume that they’ll be dukes instead of dicks.

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🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 23h

The most frustrating part of this is that a federal judge literally made a finding of fact of the evidence presented by the administration, a judge appointed by Trump, and that judge called the narrative untethered to facts, and the narrator, unreliable.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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A. Stefansky @astefansky.bsky.social · 20h

Protect and serve? Nope! Protect your ass.

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A. Stefansky @astefansky.bsky.social · 21h

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution that followed were *radically* progressive for their time.

All men are created equal is not ever going to be a GOP talking point.

The bad shit? Yeah. Progress means trying to learn and be better.

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A. Stefansky @astefansky.bsky.social · 21h

*bangs head on counter*

A. Stefansky @astefansky.bsky.social · 21h

Totally. It’s been a multi-generational project of theirs to ensure that another Nixon would not have to be accountable.

Now we’ve reached the point where laws are only for constraining liberals.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23h

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h

Or as the New York Times puts it: “Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox…”

Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox, even though it may spare more than 1 million active-duty service members from the financial hardship of missing a paycheck next week. It was not clear how much money the administration had at its disposal, and how long it could rely on accounting moves to pay troops during the shutdown.

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John M Danskin @johnmdanskin.bsky.social · 1d

The NYT should send some war correspondents to embed themselves in a Portland pilates class and report on the hellscape.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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A. Stefansky @astefansky.bsky.social · 1d

The “law” is not a concern for these thugs because they think they won’t be held accountable.

I’ll support for any Dem who commits to prosecuting these shitheels.

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dltx31.bsky.social @dltx31.bsky.social · 2d

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A. Stefansky @astefansky.bsky.social · 1d

GABF?

Sorry I didn’t drag you in there when my brewery was pouring the last few years.

How was it this year?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

It’s actually about half that that approve. A big chunk of Trump’s support is weak support - people culturally or historically inclined to be Republican, but who feel cross-pressured enough to admit that their support is qualified. That’s a far cry from what he needs to install a dictatorship

Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 1d

44% of americans either approve of what he’s doing or are ambivalent

that is a massive condemnation of americans and completely proves that americans are not a freedom loving people, but are instead a bunch of nazis and morons

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A. Stefansky @astefansky.bsky.social · 1d

It’s blood boiling that the fascists get to pretend like there are no rules.

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A. Stefansky @astefansky.bsky.social · 1d

After decades of lurching to the right on immigration policy, I’m not sure that the Dems are institutionally capable of a full-throated defense of immigrants.

Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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A. Stefansky @astefansky.bsky.social · 1d

ICE was *already* chock full of these assholes. It’s just now that the doors are wide open and expense accounts unlimited.

Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 1d

I fully believe the theory that's going around that ICE has deliberately been recruiting from far-right militia groups, and the masking and refusal to identify ICE agents have been doing is an attempt to obscure that fact as opposed to being intended to "protect" them.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of the blame here falls on the Democratic Party, which is (to use a technical term) mad up of pathetic lily-livered cowards who tremble uncontrollably in fear at the idea of any kind of public confrontation with the Trump administration on any issue beyond a self-selected Dull Policy Dispute.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

As I said a couple hours ago about a different fake video, you don't need to feel stupid if you fell for it.

The entire internet is drowning in this AI shit. And there's no easy solution. We're just fucking cooked as a society.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

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