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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 19h

This is a flex.

He know his rubes will believe any shit he tells them and he wants to see how far he can take it.

Next week he'll tell them everyone in Portland lives in caves now and eats brontosaurus ribs like the Flintstones.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans in Congress strangely silent on the Argentina bailout to benefit Bessent’s friends.

It also helps you to avoid talking about it when you are never asked about it.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 2d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Kristi Noem: "If we have to do it the hard way in Portland and Chicago, we will."

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Erik English @erik-english.bsky.social · 2d

Nolan’s biopic of Oppenheimer and the creation of the bomb was obviously fantastic, but Bigelow’s realistic look at the modern nuclear situation is much scarier because it highlights how quickly everything can go wrong and how little people really think about it.

A House of Dynamite: Bigelow’s latest thriller shows why nuclear bombs are only part of the danger

Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, examines how the US government would respond to a nuclear attack in real-time.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 4d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

US immigration enforcement is now the 13th most well-funded military in the world, ahead of Canada and, incredibly, just behind Israel.

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If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This puts it higher than the national militaries of Poland, Italy, Australia, Canada, Turkey and Spain — and just below Israel.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

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atomicbell @atomicbell.bsky.social · 5d

Timely and important, be sure to follow the Bulletin's investigations into how AI is shaping our world and the future.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 5d

The Bulletin is excited to announce The AI Power Trip, a year-long project examining how the people and organizations developing AI applications are gaining control of the world's governance, information ecosystems, energy resources, military-industrial complex, and more. #AIPowerTrip

The AI Power Trip

Almost three years after its launch into the public sphere, generative artificial intelligence has permeated nearly every crevice of human life.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 7d

Can Miller really believe this? If so, he is delusional. If not, then he’s a reprehensible demagogue.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 7d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10d

We must pay billions to farmers

Because we cut off their customers with tariffs

And pay billions to Argentina

Whose farmers are selling to the customers we forfeited

Because that is America First

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Dawn Stover @dawnstover.bsky.social · 10d

This is a clock??

Fighting Liberal Texas Dem🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 10d

Shutdown clock at Whitehouse.gov

It's like Trump and Republicans are celebrating their own shutdown...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11d

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 11d

"There's just a handful of bad actors right now that are trying to prevent meaningful progress on climate, and unfortunately the United States now happens to be one of them." — @michaelemann.bsky.social.

Michael Mann, on how the second US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement may alter the world’s climate change landscape

The green energy transition will continue despite United States roadblocks, because "what's going to determine the trajectory of clean energy is not about the US in isolation. It's also about what’s happening in other countries [...]"

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 12d

So…let me see if I have this right. The federal government is gonna shut down in 30hrs, and the party that controls the ENTIRE federal government is trying to blame the party that controls NONE of the federal government for the looming shutdown?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Trump deleted his bizarre post featuring an AI video of him endorsing “medbeds,” which raises the question of whether he’s so confused that he thought it was a real video of him talking

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 13d

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13d

Just to recap, the actual president found an AI-generated video of a fake news report depicting a fake announcement about an imaginary healthcare system based on a technology that doesn’t exist and posted it on his official social media account

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13d

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 13d

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14d

Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM

(From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...

Mock @mock541.bsky.social · 16d

Gift 🎁 link

Federal cops ‘instigating’ confrontations with protesters outside ICE building, Portland police official says in court

Assistant Chief Craig Dobson said federal officers were “causing some of the ruckus” at the ongoing protests.

www.oregonlive.com

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