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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4m

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6m

Bessent: "The Chinese have unfortunately turned our soybean farmers into pawns. They're trying to manipulate them and our farmers overwhelmingly back President Trump. They know that he has their back. And we can't implement the programs we want to stabilize the farmers' finances."

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 15m

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21m

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18m

Bessent: "Trying to get leverage in front of a meeting with Donald Trump is a bad idea. And he turned the tables with his two very good tweets on Friday talking about raising tariffs and implementing any sanctions that we need to."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20m

Bessent: "We have approached the relationship with China with great respect. The Chinese are very big on symbolism, and I can tell you it was highly inappropriate for them to announce these export controls on the day the peace deal was announced and overshadow that."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21m

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 35m

i'm sure duffy is just lying here but also i'll say again that they hard time conceptualizing relations between people that aren't strictly hierarchical.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 37m

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 34m

New in PN: Republicans are totally full of it on healthcare.

It becomes more obvious every time they talk about it. And it's a big reason the shutdown is turning out to be such a disaster for them.

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 37m

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Matt @mattmurph24.bsky.social · 45m

So much for leaving politics at the water's edge.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 48m

Trump: "What we're doing now, it could've happened a long time ago, but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of Barack Obama and then Joe Biden. There was a hatred toward Israel."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 42m

Trump to Israeli Knesset: "I have an idea -- Mr President, why don't give him a pardon? Give him a pardon. Whether we like it or not, this has been one of the greatest wartime presidents. And cigars and champagne -- who the hell cares about that?"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 48m

Trump: "What we're doing now, it could've happened a long time ago, but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of Barack Obama and then Joe Biden. There was a hatred toward Israel."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 54m

Trump to the Israeli Knesset: "We had a very weak administration. Worst president in the history of our country by far. And Barack Obama was not far behind, by the way. They did nothing with this incredible document -- the Abraham Accords."

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 1h

“I figure it’s probably maybe the only way I’m going to get to heaven. So I better do a good job.” - Trump, 2016

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump to Israeli Knesset: "We have settled 8 wars in 8 months. I'm now including this one, by the way. They may say, 'Well, that was quick,' but yesterday I was saying 7 but now I can say 8. The hostages are back."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "We're not gonna go into a war. But if we do, we're going to win that war like nobody has ever won a war before. We will not be politically correct."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump's speech to the Knesset is interrupted by a demonstrator

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 9h

This is the most Catholic he’s ever sounded

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 11h

okay one time talking about heaven is just a random thought word vomited into the world. This is what? the third or fourth time?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 10h

I do not want to see a Supreme Court justice’s face on cable news, period

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 11h

Damn! That’s crazy. Where are the Epstein files?

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Paul Belliveau @pgb623.bsky.social · 1d

“Republicans have consistently used “just joking!” as a shield to downplay and defend Trump’s indefensibly incendiary and bigoted rhetoric.”

@playtyperguy.com

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-just...

He's never "just joking"

And Republicans know it, even as they play dumb.

www.publicnotice.co

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 12h

interesting that justice barrett thinks it's appropriate for a judge to appear on a transparently partisan propaganda network like FNC

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 20h

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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