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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 8h

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 10h

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10h

Be prepared! Like Boy Scouts!

@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10h

Peaceful. Absolutely.

But be well prepared for them to try to incite.

#NoKings

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10h

MAGA wants us afraid and divided, but we’re not backing down. Let’s make October 18 the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Micah on Bluesky: “they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there”

Ron Filipkowski on Bluesky: “The No Kings protests have been some of the most peaceful and well attended political assemblies in American history. In fact, MAGA has mocked them as a bunch of boomer grandmothers. Now they are apparently terrorists.”

Jon Favreau on Twitter: “A top Republican in Congress just called millions of Americans terrorists.

The last No Kings protests saw 4-6 million people turn out. They were peaceful. They were joyful. There were American flags everywhere.

Those of us who will be participating next weekend in what Emmer calls a "hate rally" for "terrorists" love our country - particularly its promise that we're all created equal, that we all have the right to speak freely, to enjoy equal protection under the law, to believe what we want, and to choose our leaders without fear of reprisal.

The No Kings protests are happening because Emmer and Trump and his regime are trampling on those rights and freedoms.”

Leah Greenberg on Bluesky: “"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"”

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10h

Ahh, okay. Thanks.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10h

"Achievement"???

CNN @cnn.com · 10h

The indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ indictment was the second major achievement in the aggressive pressure campaign by the White House to prosecute President Donald Trump’s political foes.

Read more: https://cnn.it/3KCUrYu

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

Why the hell didn't Smith tag him? He's not going to see the post she supposedly wants him to see.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 11h

I think we have enough info to piece it together:
1-Trump threatened mass firings
2-The lawyers told him he can't
3-He risked looking weak
4-He decided to do the firings anyway

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

Or the one who pointed his gun point blank at the camera held by someone on the street?

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

This is brutal.

This is America 2025.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11h

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

Simple messaging. #BrainGone

Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 11h

Brain. Gone.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

Now we know where Trump gets it from. (well, okay, we already knew)

Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social · 11h

Meanwhile in Russia: military expert Igor Korotchenko claimed that massive strikes against Ukraine are "humanitarian" in their nature. He complained about Trump not getting the Nobel Peace Prize & urged Denmark to give him Greenland as a consolation prize.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AU4...

Igor Korotchenko praises Russia's humanitarian strikes & bemoans Trump being denied the Nobel Prize

YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor

www.youtube.com

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

RFK Jr. does it again. #measles

#SouthCarolina

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 11h

A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 12h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

Cowards.

"Three large U.S. law firms did not answer questions from Democratic lawmakers over what kind of work they might have been doing for the U.S. government since entering into an agreement with Trump earlier this year.."

Reuters @reuters.com · 11h

Three US law firms sidestep lawmakers' queries on Trump-related deals reut.rs/4nRvR4S

Three US law firms sidestep lawmakers' queries on Trump-related deals

Three large U.S. law firms did not answer questions from Democratic lawmakers over what kind of work they might have been doing for the U.S. government since entering into an agreement with President Donald Trump earlier this year, according to letters obtained by Reuters on Friday.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

So those out of shape idiots were actually screened first?

What merit? How much they could eat and drink? Hate? Bully? Chase bicyclists? Throw women to the ground?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "The restaurants were all closing, now you can't get into a restaurant. They're opening up new restaurants. It took 12 days for us. We sent in not politically correct military. We sent them in based on merit."

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

I really wish his staff would stop showing him 5 year old videos and AI.

And come on, Trump, come up with new wording. This is by rote now.🥱

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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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Cliff Schecter: At Substack! www.blueamp.co @cliffschecter.bsky.social · 15h

"Dem Congressman's Nuclear Messaging. Dems: Run With This!"

"Sometimes,” he said, “you’ve got to flip a few tables.”
www.blueamp.co/p/top-politi...

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Top Politician Reveals Best Strategies to WIN Shutdown NOW

We talked the billionaire-to-GOP rigged pipeline of power; great message/sad reality. Greg's "throw a chair" strategy to fight fascist Republicans & government shutdown

www.blueamp.co

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

Criminal who got convicted of 34 felonies and held liable for sexual assault says what now?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: ICE are making arrests at courthouses in NYC and around the country--

TRUMP: Criminals. They're arresting criminals. I'm happy about it. I want them to arrest criminals.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

Which one? The Nobel What Prize? I hardly know it. We took a photo together once, I do that with millions of people. Nobel who?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: The Nobel Peace Prize was announced this morning. Your thoughts?

TRUMP: Which one?

Q: The Nobel Peace Prize. Your thoughts?

TRUMP: I made eight deals, transactions of wars

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe--just work with me here, @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us--you should stop voting to give Russ Vought more authority to defy the interests of Nevadans?

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11h

Nevada Sen. @cortezmasto.senate.gov calls on Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to provide more information about the gigantic solar project in her state that just got axed with zero public explanation (via @lasvegassun.bsky.social)

In a statement sent to the Las Vegas Sun, U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto lambasted the administration’s “lack of transparency” and urged Burgum to provide clarity.

“Solar energy production makes electric bills cheaper, creates good-paying jobs, and drives economic growth,” Cortez Masto said.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

"Obliteration" again. Iran redux.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: What guarantees did you give Hamas to persuade them Israel will stop the bombing campaign once hostages have been exchanged?

TRUMP: What did I do with respect to them? Well, you know, I spoke a little bit tough ... they knew retribution would be tremendous. Would've been complete obliteration.

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