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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

New in PN: Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"I’ve been taking images that are nowhere near this one conflict driveway — ones of puppies & kids playing, & families having picnics — b/c the idea that Portland is burned down & a war zone is just preposterous" — @timdickinson.bsky.social

Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious," Tim Dickinson says.

www.publicnotice.co

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Vote @committovote.bsky.social · 14h

MAGA is the political equivalent of autoerotic asphyxiation:

It may feel good in the moment, but you can end up hurting yourself.

a white cat is playing with a plastic bag in a living room ..

ALT: a white cat is playing with a plastic bag in a living room ..

media.tenor.com

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Vote @committovote.bsky.social · 16h

“Each one of those $40 billion dollars to Argentina is like a liberal tear.”

-by Scott Bessett

/s

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Mockler: I have spent all my formative years watching the President talk about the opposition party like they should not exist. His claim to fame in politics was saying that Obama was not born in America.

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Vote @committovote.bsky.social · 20h

Almost certainly if 1 AND 2 happen.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 22h

Benny Johnson refuses to accept the abundance of data that says the majority of the domestic terrorism and violence in America is committed by the right. Please spare him your pesky facts, because he's not buying it.

Putin taught him well.

www.rawstory.com/political-vi...

MAGA influencer flips when called out on false claim: ‘I refuse to acknowledge that data!'

Conservative commentator and media personality Benny Johnson got into a heated exchange with Rep. Ro Khanna Wednesday after being called out on his false claim that the “vast majority” of recent polit...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22h

BREAKING: Journalists exited the Pentagon after refusing to agree to the Trump administration's new restrictions on access.

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs being removal from being at the seat of U.S. military power.

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Baller Alert @balleralert.com · 22h

Judge Blocks Trump from Axing Thousands of Federal Workers During Shutdown

A federal judge has put a stop to the Trump administration’s controversial plan to fire thousands of federal employees during the ongoing government shutdown. Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. […] The post Judge Blocks Trump from Axing Thousands of Federal Workers During Shutdown appeared first on Baller Alert.

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 1d

Behind every diagnosis, treatment, and cure are years of NIH-funded research.

When we limit scientists today, we delay tomorrow's breakthroughs.

Learn more about Americans for Medical Research and discover how you can become a more engaged advocate.

🔗 vist.ly/4aitv

#neurosky #neuroskyence

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Vote @committovote.bsky.social · 1d

These weren’t “kids”. One held state office.

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Vote @committovote.bsky.social · 1d

I have news for Pat Harrigan. He should visit downtown Winston-Salem during the No Kings rally in his district on the 18th. He might actually meet a constituent or two.

And I have a suggestion for Pat Harrigan. Learn what those big words mean before you try to use them incorrectly in sentences.

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Vote @committovote.bsky.social · 1d

If rape is mainly about power, and not sex, then logically AI porn would not feed their impulses in that way. So I would think not. But it's like trying to imagine what an alien thinks.

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Vote @committovote.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's Time cover is NSFW.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Parnas: A lot of people are saying this idea that, well, Graham Platner hasn’t won statewide, and Janet Mills has.

Platner: We have a number of excellent senators who had never run for office or won a statewide race before.

That’s an argument the establishment makes to protect itself

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Vote @committovote.bsky.social · 1d

In a weird twist, it will turn out that mostly rural MAGA Republicans will lose their SNAP benefits and healthcare.

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Vote @committovote.bsky.social · 1d

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

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Vote @committovote.bsky.social · 1d

I guess if Platner beats her in the primary then he will have won one, too.

I really don’t understand these much older people running for office instead of supporting a younger generation.

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Vote @committovote.bsky.social · 2d

I don't disagree with any of this, but what's new is Trump putting himself over God in a position of "saving" God. Most of the time, they at least give lip service to being subject to God's will - here, he's saying whether God is safe or not is through Trump's will. That seems...different.

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Vote @committovote.bsky.social · 2d

He's "saving God" y'all.

This was once called blasphemy in the church I was raised in.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Vote @committovote.bsky.social · 2d

This is for what the word "dismantled" was coined.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

"It is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading," John Oliver said about Paramount hiring Bari Weiss to be CBS News' top editor.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

John Oliver skewers Paramount for hiring ‘irresponsible’ Bari Weiss to run CBS News

‘It is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading,” John Oliver declared on Sunday n...

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

"It is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading," John Oliver said about Paramount hiring Bari Weiss to be CBS News' top editor.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

John Oliver skewers Paramount for hiring ‘irresponsible’ Bari Weiss to run CBS News

‘It is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading,” John Oliver declared on Sunday n...

www.independent.co.uk

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Vote @committovote.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, okay.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3d

Hamas announces that it will not disarm.

What exactly is Trump celebrating tomorrow?

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Vote @committovote.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe they like the bailout checks that are larger than NASA's budget.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Kelly: I really worry about those aviators, drone operators, special forces guys that are in the Caribbean right now striking these boats and whether or not this is legal..

There’s no authorization for the use of military force. The Congress has not given that to the president. He hasn’t asked.

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