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Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 7h

I feel like a lot of people view at as declasse or something to sue for defamation, but Eric Trump accused Smith of a serious crime and he should sue him for defamation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 19h

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Ruth @poofer.bsky.social · 19h

That's the truth right there 👊💙

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 7h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 2h

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

There are worse things that Trump has done, but I don't know that any judicial appointment has been more of a middle finger to the legal system and the rule of law than Bove's appointment.

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Freestatefemale @freestatefemale.bsky.social · 8h

No, it’s Trump and his cronies first. Hedge fund managers were going to lose money if Argentina failed. And of course Trump has to buy friends.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 13h

Trump said he'd focus on the “worst of the worst," but he's mostly focused on people like Melissa Tran — a MD business owner who's lived here 30 yrs and is a fixture of her community.

Cruel.

I salute all who fought for her release. After months in ICE detention, she's finally home.

Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after 5 months in ICE custody

Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolon...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h

Money already approved for projects that Trump is using the shutdown to defund comes from less than 3% of Republican districts, compared with Democratic districts.

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Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 13h

Trump said he would bring down the cost of groceries. He said he would make our lives better.

He lied.

The only people whose lives have improved are Trump's billionaire friends.

Republicans prefer to shut down the government than ensure your family has affordable health care.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 8h

📌From the NYT tonight:
"Two weeks into the government shutdown, Trump has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion that had been reserved for more than 200 projects located in Democratic-led cities, congressional districts and states."

📌From me:
This is appalling and yet ANOTHER attack on Americans.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

Walking away with $20 billion of US taxpayer money so Scott Bessent’s Wall Street cronies don’t lose their investments in Argentina.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

Klippenstein: The memo says it considers as indicators things like anti-Christian sentiment, anti-government views, and anti-traditional family positions.

These are descriptors that would cover millions and millions of people in this country.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 9h

As if that wasn't enough, Mills had one of his Congressional staff members(!) contact his ex-girlfriend after she sought the restraining order!

Once you start involving things paid by taxpayer dollars, things take on a whole new dimension.

Image of tweet that saysEven more wild... The filing states that after Rep. Cory Mills' ex-girlfriend filed for a restraining order, Mills had one of his Congressional office staffers contact his ex...

"The Respondent caused a public employee under his direct supervision to contact the Petitioner."

Also used one of his girlfriend's phones to contact his ex.

"The Respondent used GF2's telephone to call and text the Petitioner directly. ... The Respondent caused GF2 to contact the Petitioner."

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Freestatefemale @freestatefemale.bsky.social · 9h

If it’s possible, he’s become even more arrogant.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 9h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Gloria Pan @glopan.bsky.social · 16h

Jason Houser, former ICE Chief of Staff: “This Isn’t Crisis Response. It’s Crisis Construction.”

"Immigration enforcement has become the administration’s primary political weapon — not to solve problems, but to manufacture fear, provoke outrage and stage an illusion of control."

#MomSky

Opinion | This Isn’t Crisis Response. It’s Crisis Construction.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

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

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10h

“Trump is trying to destroy the rule of law, trying to destroy our democracy, trying to stop you from being able to speak freely. But he can’t win if we mobilize.”

Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social wants you to join your local peaceful protest on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 9h

A leaked Young Republican group chat from included horrific violence, racism, sexism, antisemitism, and homophobia.

The thing about it that really surprises me is that anyone else was surprised.

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 12h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Really sad that the Vice President can’t just say the texts are bad and troubling and condemn them and lead for once - and instead feels the need to deflect and run cover for it and signal to young republicans that it’s actually no big deal.

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Truth Social(ist) @twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social · 17h

This idiot keeps bragging about the 20 hostages being released in another country while he's kidnapping thousands of people a day here in America.

Fuck him and the fascism he rode in on.

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Freestatefemale @freestatefemale.bsky.social · 10h

Some families will be destroyed with dead kids over this. Needlessly.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

Himes: You know, it's the Pete Hegseth insecurity that requires a constant marination in testosterone and fraternity-boy macho bullshit that, at the end of the day, would be funny if it weren't both lethal and counterproductive to actually dealing with the nation's drug problem.

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