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John @juanvaldes.bsky.social · 11h

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the notoriously thin skinned president is mad.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h

📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

Russell Vought: The Shadow President

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John @juanvaldes.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t think we will hear anything until Monday. Good news was he’s traveling home with the team.

John @juanvaldes.bsky.social · 12h

Oooof. Sounds like a bad day for injuries.

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John @juanvaldes.bsky.social · 12h

Sadly they are not wrong about “Trump as peacemaker”.
Congress needs to find its balls and push through sanctions & more support.

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John @juanvaldes.bsky.social · 12h

Wtf happened in that game? Dude lost his head.

John @juanvaldes.bsky.social · 13h

12 is much too generous.
Until further notice I’m going with ‘Everyone is seven theory’

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John @juanvaldes.bsky.social · 13h

Last ones. Great day, great crowd and FUCK TRUMP!

Man in Walter Sobchak costume holding sign that reads “Shut the fuck up Donny”

John @juanvaldes.bsky.social · 13h

Few more photos of signs.

Sign of a Venn diagram of Hitler & Alfred E Newman, overlapping is Trump.

Sign that reads MILF - Man, I Loathe Fascism.

Sign that reads Seattle stands with Portland! Above a frog with a “Resist” sign backed up by Sammy the Sounder.

Sign that reads “Girls just wanna have Fundamental rights”

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13h

In any other presidency, from Truman to Biden, the family monetization of the office & the use of immediate family members as a substitute for senior diplomats would have immediately ended it all. But here we are, with this One Special Boy, & we just stopped being a serious country. It’s maddening.

Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 13h

Why the f**k is Jared Kushner talking on behalf of the US government? And/or is involved in the this file?

In what capacity?

60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 13h

Tonight, the U.S. State Department issued a media note that Hamas appeared to be planning an attack “against Palestinian civilians,” warning that such an attack would “constitute a direct and grave violation of the ceasefire agreement...”

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John @juanvaldes.bsky.social · 13h

Oh right EU.
Took me to moment.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 14h

World War 2 veterans, the original antifa, took part in the nationwide protests against the fascist Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 15h

"It never once occurred to me that Venezuela was a forerunner, that the authoritarian playbook Chávez and Maduro were enacting could play out one day in a place like the U.S." But now "every day brings new outrages that either rhyme with what Venezuelans went through or just repeat it outright."

Going Full Venezuela

No Kings day feels eerily familiar to me.

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John @juanvaldes.bsky.social · 14h

We will never bow down pedophile.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 14h

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.