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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 33m

This has to be a joke.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 1h

Annie Hall is one of the three realist and best romantic comedies in US cinema history. RIP Diane Keaton.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 40m

We are seeing dozens of these videos every day. It's happening all over the ocuntry. I know many people are outraged but it's just continuing unabated.

This feeling of impotence is devastating. How does it end? With the country emptied of brown people and dissidents in jail?

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 3h

Now they're just rubbing it in.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 3h

I'm rooting for the Cubs to win today so that Chicago and Los Angeles, the two big cities at the heart of Trump's crackdown, will meet for the NLCS next week. Remind people that the most American of sports is full of the hated immigrants and the cities they live in are proud of their communities.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 4h

It's true. And they dismiss all evidence to the contrary. If you look at comments over on the hellsight (I don't recommend it) you will see that they think every video is fake and all testimony is lies. They are now fully immune to reality.

Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 22h

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 20h

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 1d

Calling these things “mistakes” is disingenuous and lazy. A 45 year old fragrance in a bottle that is scented like the fucking fragrance is not a damn drug and everyone knows that. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

www.nbcnews.com

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about this:

www.salon.com/2025/10/09/d...

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1d

They are coming for health care in general, cancelling cancer research, pushing woo-woo cures, the president yelling "don't take Tylenol!" from behind a podium. They are scaring the hell out of people with this in a similar way to the ICE raids

Dems have something with this if they care to use it.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with this, but I also think there's a subtext to the health subsidies tactic that could be very salient to the public in the same way as "you come through me" is if they could articulate it. I call it the RFK effect. "Health care" is now more than just an insurance/kitchen table issue. 1/2

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

"Who will be viewed retrospectively to have understood the challenge correctly? The one who said, 'If you come for my people, you come through me'? Or the one who pivoted to health-care subsidies?"

This @brianbeutler.bsky.social thought experiment is illuminating:
www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-rev...

How To Reverse The Tide

It's the gap between what's needed and what we have that keeps us up at night.

www.offmessage.net

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1d

Only the Black ones I presume.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Chicago woman shot multiple times by a US border patrol agent indicted by federal grand jury reut.rs/42vjyCE

Chicago woman shot multiple times by a US border patrol agent indicted by federal grand jury

A Chicago woman shot multiple times by U.S. Border and Customs Protection agents was indicted by a grand jury on federal charges of impeding a federal officer with a deadly weapon.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, that makes sense. We've certainly trained foreign pilots for years. So this is just more performative bullshit?

I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 1d

It's just a training arrangement. We have tons of these kind of basing deals to train other militaries from all over the world, & in fact the Singaporean Air Force is already stationed at the same airbase. Also this deal was made in 2022.

$12 billion deal may bring hundreds of Qatar, US Air Force members to Idaho base

www.stripes.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

“we are telling you right now that we do not intend to honor anything we agree to” is certainly a negotiating position one can take

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1d

I sure hope this peace deal holds for all the right reasons. The nightmare cannot be allowed to go on.

But it's still tenuous and the victory dances are presumptuous and frankly, dangerous.

This need to prematurely give Trump the adulation he craves could blow up everyone's faces.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1d

No worries. These Kavanaugh stops are just a minor inconvenience. A heart attack probably would have happened anyway at some point, amirite? It's all good.

Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 1d

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 1d

They get excited for an excuse to dress like soldiers.

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

Check this guy out.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

for a closer look at the james indictment, read @mollyroberts.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The Justice Department’s Dangerously Weak Case Against Letitia James

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1d

This is so weird. I don't know how they can do this but then that's nothing new. They just do what they want. But what's the purpose? Why does Qatar even want this?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and Hegseth give Qatar an airbase in Idaho and Qatari pilots will be flying jets over American airspace. Their lavish gifts and personal business deals with Trump worth billions really paid off for them.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1d

I'll say it again. The media continues to insist that Vought is laying people off because of the shutdown. Did the DOGE firings happen during a shutdown? No, they just did it.

He was always going to do mass firings. See Project 2025. They're just being cute thinking they can blame the Dems.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of excitement over SB 79—understandably. I would add, every single bill California YIMBY sent to the governor was signed today. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/10/g...

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