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Empress Matilda @empressmatilda.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you have been following SEC football like…ever…this has been abundantly clear for decades.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 5

just an ongoing embarrassment that this barely sentient meathead is secretary of defense

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 5

i am watching clips from the kennedy hearing and one thing that comes across is his petulance at being challenged. he is like an overgrown baby (if that baby were a hot dog you grilled too long)

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · Sep 2

One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 2

Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."

rich corinthian lavender @swolecialism.bsky.social · Sep 2

For the last couple of years much of the media has had the most incredible unwillingness to learn literally anything about JD Vance. Never seen anything like it. Active resistance to learning anything about his ideas.

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Empress Matilda @empressmatilda.bsky.social · Aug 27

Why is this relevant on a recurring basis…..

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 22

That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.

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Empress Matilda @empressmatilda.bsky.social · Aug 23

Yep…and IRS sent an email to DRPers today telling them they could come back if they want. Like what in the Actual F*ck???? Such a clown show.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 23

well she did not consider pedophilia inappropriate so what does this even mean

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 22

Fail

Post headline
Ghislaine Maxwell tells Justice Dept. she never saw Trump act inappropriately
"He was a gentleman in all respects," the imprisoned Jeffrey Epstein associate, whose lawyer has repeatedly discussed the possibility of a pardon, said

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Aug 23

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Empress Matilda @empressmatilda.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thirtysomething

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Empress Matilda @empressmatilda.bsky.social · Aug 18

Shot and chaser…..the President of the United States believes an autocratic, war criminal dictator MORE than his own Attorney General. #mailinvoting #trump #putin #election2020

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · Aug 12

You can't teach U.S. history without "divisive" narratives. Slavery wasn't "unifying." The Japanese incarceration wasn't "unifying." The anti-immigrant Operation Wetback (real name) wasn't "unifying."
It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.

White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions

www.nytimes.com

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CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies @csis.org · Jul 18

A new report from the CSIS Defense and Security Department examines existing research on high-altitude nuclear explosion (HANE) effects to dispel misconceptions and clarify the potential consequences of such a scenario.

Read here: www.csis.org/analysis/hig...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Jul 16

not sure this is the bipartisanship issue america should strive towards but
lol
lmao even

Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · Jul 15

"Should the government release all documents it has about the Jeffrey Epstein case"

Yes: 79%
No: 4%

Yes Among:
Democrats: 85%
Independents: 76%
Republicans: 75%

YouGov / July 14, 2025

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Empress Matilda @empressmatilda.bsky.social · Jul 15

It’s social media, full stop. They have been conditioned to absorb info in 240 word chunks and by 2min quick cut tiktoks. It started well before Covid.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Jul 14

I for one think it was cool and good that nothing was done in the last four years of Democratic control to rein in the Supreme Court, I'm glad the norm respecters won out and we're all living in a rich norm-filled paradise today.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jul 14

I was skeptical that the MAGA majority on the Supreme Court would ever rule that Trump could run for president again but after today’s ruling I think they’d probably roll over and do that too.

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Empress Matilda @empressmatilda.bsky.social · Jul 14

75 year project….total John Birch Soc stuff from the late 50’s/early 60s SoCal.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Jun 28

Thou shalt not let people be murdered at home for their political beliefs and just “move on.”

Thou shalt not let children be murdered at school for trying to learn and just “move on.”

Thou shalt never stop fighting to make these horrors end.

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Empress Matilda @empressmatilda.bsky.social · Jun 29

Horrible, horrible human beings

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Empress Matilda @empressmatilda.bsky.social · Jun 29

Got it, thanks!

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Empress Matilda @empressmatilda.bsky.social · Jun 29

Did Mamdani use that phrase or not?

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · Jun 29

so we are freeing and giving a visa to a guy with an actual criminal history of being a danger to those around him so he can testify against a dude with no record who got picked up kinda by mistake

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Jun 29

The Trump admin has freed Jose Hernandez Reyes because he can testify against Abrego Garcia.

Hernandez, who has been deported 5 times, has also been arrested for:

—DUI w/ a handgun;
—cocaine possession;
—illegally transporting migrants; and
—drunkenly firing a gun.

Free link: wapo.st/40i4Ttt

Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.

Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.

wapo.st

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Empress Matilda @empressmatilda.bsky.social · Jun 25

Women deal with this kind of harassment daily and no one gets arrested….famous podcaster feels fear and the cops swoop in!

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Jun 22

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