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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5h

Shot/chaser

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 7h

Every day we stray further from God’s light..

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 7h

We mocked this and they just went and made it real

Halo Infinite cat ears helmet attachment

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 10h

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

The Chinese are likely going to return to the moon before Americans and it's going to hit the American space establishment like a nightmare

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 8h

I approve this message.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 7d

He works direct for Pete, he's explicitly called currently serving GOs idiots, everyone from randy george on down is treating him as untouchable

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 9h

Fox (not that surprising given their Defense beat folks) and **NEWSMAX** also refused, which you won't see adam poasting about

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

Dort is big mad that WaPo and the Atlantic won't bend the knee

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 9h

I just read an article stating that NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab is firing ~500 employees…and yet this reporting on Trump’s daughter in law is the dumbest thing I’ve read today…

bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 9h

When my kids asks why America just fucking surrendered the 21st century I hope I can look them in the eyes…

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'

And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 1d

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 9h

Hegseth’s willingness to gleefully send that order forward is the sole qualification he needed to get that job. That and total obsequiousness…

It’s why nothing else he does will result in his removal.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1d

Notice how bystanders start whistling the moment the Gestapo leave the car--a warning to the vulnerable and a call to action for those ready to exercise their rights to record government agents, protest said agents, and petition the government for redress (in person!).

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 1d

I never called it a genocide, I know people are going to quibble over the technical definition.

I believe it’s one of the biggest war crimes I’ve seen in my years. And yes, I do view many of the actions as intentional decisions by some of the Israeli leadership.

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 1d

It’s easy when you know you’ll get no serious pushback.

Also, they’re aware their voters aren’t going to watch CNN, MSNBC, or any other “traditional” media outlet..

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

It's amazing how public officials who willingly go on TV to talk about these issues can claim ignorance about the very things they've come on to talk about, and it's treated like a legitimate answer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 1d

“The devastation is irrelevant without loss of life.”

As someone who has both planned, executed, and debriefed military operations, this is a woefully ignorant statement.

The idea of secondary, tertiary, and long term impacts of this level of destruction have to be accounted for.

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 1d

You can see the devastation from the plethora of commercial overhead imagery that is available to anyone…that is not a question.

The death toll is certainly up for debate, but there are plenty of studies done (outside of Gaza ministry) that come close to those numbers.

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 1d

Wait…what now?

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

“Salis told the Guardian that Hungary’s use of the term ‘antifa’ was a way of ‘stigmatising whoever dissents, whoever doesn’t agree with the regime’. She added: ‘If being anti-fascist means dissenting with his regime, of course I am an anti-fascist.’”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

European far right follows Trump in calling for antifa to be declared terrorists

Netherlands and Hungary move towards designation as draft resolution reportedly backed by 79 MEPs in 20 countries

www.theguardian.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying.

There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero.

They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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Motria Oleksiyivna, PhD @motria.bsky.social · 2d

We voted for this!

Don Lemon in Chicago, talking to a Ukrainian-American, US citizen, his cousin was scooped up "From Ukraine but he's in America like for 16 years. 'They pulled some Ukrainians off the street as well?' Everybody man."

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Don Lemon on Instagram: "ICE detained his cousin — a legal U.S. citizen — right off the street, and now he has no idea where he is."

23K likes, 730 comments - donlemonofficial on October 10, 2025: "ICE detained his cousin — a legal U.S. citizen — right off the street, and now he has no idea where he is.".

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Searching for Jackie Merlos: What happened when the Trump administration disappeared an immigrant mother and her four U.S. citizen kids

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 2d

“Without U.S. Studebakers (trucks), we would have had nothing with which to pull our artillery." - Georgy Zhukov

A fleet of Studebaker trucks, provided by American lend lease to the Soviet Union, near Moscow in 1944

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