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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 21h

And the moron of the year award goes to....

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14h

NEWS: "Donald Trump is a pedophile who routinely raped young girls."

MAGA: "So boring."

NEWS: "Donald Trump is allowing Qatar to build an air force base in Idaho.”

MAGA: “This is IMMORAL! What an outrage!!! I will not stand for this wicked behavior!!!”

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

Me to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the Comey and James and (probably imminent) Bolton prosecutions

"It doesn’t matter what your politics are. If you say he’s stupid, which he is, if you say he is wrong, which he is, if you say he’s a criminal or sleezy, which he is ... then you’re his enemy.”

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h

The world’s smallest man:

“The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called me and said that she was accepting it in honor of me.

“I did not say then "give it to me." I think she might have, she was very nice.

“I have been helping her along the way, they need a lot of help.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 23h

It's like the "stick to sports" argument all over again (except of course, when we agree with what you're saying, then please speak).

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 23h

So ... Catholic *traditionalists* want a pope who doesn't involve himself in global politics?

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21h

Paris Fashion Week introduced clothes that hid, confined, muzzled or even erased the women beneath. Some off-putting, sometimes cruel designs left our fashion critic wondering: What is the purpose of women’s fashion? nyti.ms/3W2ZfJ0

A model walks down runway in a blue and white top, wearing a mouth guard accessory that stretches her mouth open.

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Chris Jensen @chrisjensenj.bsky.social · 11h

Is there anything more 2025 than replacing a competent woman with a mediocre man

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1h

Federal employees across the government are now receiving layoff notices, a devastating outcome of Trump’s political games. It’s outrageous that he would use people’s livelihoods as pawns to “score political points”.

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 1d

How is the government spending taxpayers dollars?

OMB is using footnotes to hide how and whether things are actually being funded.

But taxpayers deserve full transparency. So we're suing.

OMB’s latest effort to conceal spending data - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

OMB should not be doling out funds behind closed doors and must make public the contents of legally binding spend plans that apportion fund. Full transparency is critical for effective oversight.

www.citizensforethics.org

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3h

Putin consoles his useful idiot for not winning an award.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

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Andrew Kinsey @andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 2h

I hope Roberts reads this and realizes his legacy will be torching the Court's legitimacy. I hope this haunts his dreams for the rest of his life.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 4h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Klobuchar: "I remember Bondi saying, 'the president is the most transparent president in history.' I wish I said, Well then why doesn't he just release the Epstein files?"

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

Donald Trump is weaponizing the DOJ against his political opponents.

Meanwhile, he's gutting the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section which assists U.S. attorneys’ offices around the country with investigating crooked government officials.

"Drain the swamp."

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h

Venezuela has called on the UN Security Council for an emergency session over the US military buildup near its waters.

Caracas warned of a possible armed attack “in a very short time.”

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 22h

The organizers behind the No Kings Day of Action on October 18 -- the event Johnson called a "hate America rally" -- have this to say in response.

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings coalition issued the following statement"

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1h

"It would be powerful if folks from Dallas stand up for Chicago and folks from Chicago stand up for Dallas, so that narratives like 'Texas invades Illinois' can't take hold. Cities are not invading each other. The federal government is attacking Americans."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2h

It’s incredible to watch their mental gymnastics trying to rationalize his unhinged gibberish every day.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h

Donald Trump continues to wage a war on his political enemies.

How far will the courts, the media, and the American people let him go?

We discuss this, and other big news of the week, on a new Coffee Klatch.

Join us.

Trump’s War on America | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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