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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 6h

MAGA is upset at Marjorie Taylor Greene

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 8h

Today in an interview with NBC News, Vance said that Trump was considering all of his options for deploying the National Guard to major cities, including invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807, which grants the president emergency powers to deploy troops on U.S. soil.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump on Ukraine: "They'd like to have Tomahawks. We talked about that. We'll see. I might have to speak to Russia, to be honest with you, about Tomahawks. Do they want to have Tomahawks going in their direction? I don't think so."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

As I got to know them, they gave me a $400m plane.

@acyn.bsky.social

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

💯 CO-SIGN 👇🏽

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

Crazy week.

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 10h

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 9h

It’s not that I ever had any faith in institutions holding the powerful accountable. And yet it still feels wild to see and endless parade of stories where man after man writes the most incriminating shit possible to a literal sex trafficker of children and it’s like “ah well, what can you do!?”

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

blah blah Hunter Biden blah blah Burisma yada yada

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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gozervt.bsky.social @gozervt.bsky.social · 7h

a picture of a man holding a stone with the words repent and that shall be saved on it

ALT: a picture of a man holding a stone with the words repent and that shall be saved on it

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Doocy: Does this help get you into heaven?

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 7h

Firing someone purely for their political affiliation is illegal and is a violation of free speech.

Tweet from The Bulwark: “Q: ‘How many layoffs have you authorized?’ Trump: ‘A lot. It will be Democrat oriented… They should be Democrat oriented. It will be a lot and we’ll announce the numbers over the next couple of days... Many of them will be fired.’”
Below, a photo shows Donald Trump speaking to reporters in the Oval Office surrounded by staff and press.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

Asked by Kristen Welker on Meet the Press this morning whether the White House was seriously considering invoking the Insurrection Act, Vice President Vance said, "The president is looking at all his options."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "This will be my 8th war I've solved. And I hear there's a war now going between Pakistan & Afghanistan. I said, 'I'll have to wait until I get back. I'm doing another one.' In fairness to the Nobel committee, this was picked for 2024. But there are those who say you could make an exception"

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

Sounds familiar.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 14h

"Bari Weiss’s first major move as CBS News chief has staffers on edge—ordering every journalist to submit a written memo justifying their work, in an apparent Elon Musk-style loyalty test." via @status.news

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 17h

Opinion: Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It.

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

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Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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gozervt.bsky.social @gozervt.bsky.social · 9h

And why would Antifa want to stop the certification of Biden’s win?

Margaret Cho @margaretcho.bsky.social · 13h

If Jan 6 was all Antifa then why did you pardon them?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

Trump just installed Michael Ellis as CIA general counsel, possibly to green light legally dubious CIA ops to do this as an end run around congress.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

Kelly: I really worry about those aviators, drone operators, special forces guys that are in the Caribbean right now striking these boats and whether or not this is legal..

There’s no authorization for the use of military force. The Congress has not given that to the president. He hasn’t asked.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

He speaks like a poet.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 13h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

True bravery!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Nobody from the Trump admin will answer this simple question no matter how many times you ask it. For some reason. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

Vance: I’m sure that in the course of his life he has been paid more than $50,000 for services. The question is did he do something illegal.

Stephanopoulos: I’m asking if Homan accepted the $50,000

Vance: Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services? Low income women can’t get food

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 11h

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy.

Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

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