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Neil @judgemenot69.bsky.social · 2h

Farage urged to explain anti-abortion links to meeting with Trump officials www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage urged to explain anti-abortion links to meeting with Trump officials

Lib Dems accuse Reform leader of wanting to water down women’s rights after reports of help from advocacy group

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

VITALI: What I'm hearing from you is it might be be enough that Thune is now saying I could do a vote on ACA subsidies

JEFFRIES: Republicans have tried to repeal the ACA more than 70 different times. They can't be trusted on a wing and a prayer. We need a real path forward.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Mike Johnson: "Many of you have asked all of us, 'How does it end?' We have no idea."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Mike Johnson tries to reframe his move to keep the House out to avoid a vote on the Epstein files as a "responsible decision" so Republicans can "work" in their districts

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4h

the pedo protectors have logged on

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Mike Johnson tries to reframe his move to keep the House out to avoid a vote on the Epstein files as a "responsible decision" so Republicans can "work" in their districts

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Mike Johnson: "I don't like being mad Mike. I want to be happy Mike. I want to be the happy warrior. But I am so upset about all this. God bless America."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: Are you worried about extremist pro-Hitler sentiment among young Republicans?

JOHNSON: No. I don't know who any of these people are. I've never heard of them. Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys wearing tuxedos. It was at the inauguration, people were coming up for selfies

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 4h

“Why do all these nazis keep taking selfies with me?”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: Are you worried about extremist pro-Hitler sentiment among young Republicans?

JOHNSON: No. I don't know who any of these people are. I've never heard of them. Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys wearing tuxedos. It was at the inauguration, people were coming up for selfies

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

This is why it’s impossible to negotiate with Republican leadership in Congress. Once you reach an agreement with them and things pass, the Trump admin just flushes that agreement down the toilet and Republicans who made the deal remain silent. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

THUNE: Fund the government the old fashioned way -- I don't think you need rescissions

VITALI: Have you said to the WH, maybe don't do another rescissions package? Feels like it's poisoned the well

THUNE: It's in everybody's best interest, including the WH, to do a normal appropriations process

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Shaheen: "That's the kind of rhetoric that was used against people who were marching for civil rights, students' rights, women's rights, people who were marching against the war in Vietnam ... it's one of the things that makes this country great and different from Putin's Russia -- peaceful protest"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Raskin: "There's a regime of fear that has come down on the Republican Party. They've looked at what happened to Liz Cheney, to Adam Kinzinger, to Mitt Romney, to others who have taken on the president. They insist on absolute 100% loyalty above everything else."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

UN Ambassador Mike Waltz claims Maduro is an "illegitimate leader," citing the fact he was "convicted in the Southern District of New York."

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 3h

Oh! Oh! Are we calling people "illegitimate" if they've been convicted by a court of law??

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

UN Ambassador Mike Waltz claims Maduro is an "illegitimate leader," citing the fact he was "convicted in the Southern District of New York."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

Johnson: That is not the principles of the Republican Party. You want me to articulate them? We fought the Nazis, we defended that evil ideology.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Kinsley gaffe at the end there, my weasel.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

Johnson: That is not the principles of the Republican Party. You want me to articulate them? We fought the Nazis, we defended that evil ideology.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Homan: "If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops."

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Neil @judgemenot69.bsky.social · 5h

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

VITALI: When we spoke back in 2023, we were at Tim Scott's announcement for president. At the time you told me he was a positive alternative to Trump and that we had to turn the page with a message that is 'winsome and hopeful.' What do you say now?

THUNE: Well, I'm still for winsome and hopeful

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

MAGA Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "Tariffs always had the possibility of raising inflation. It may yet happen."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

THUNE: These premiums are going up a little bit b/c of the expiration of the enhanced tax credits

VITALI: I think people hearing their premiums are doubling don't feel that it's a little bit

T: I'm just saying only a small part of that is attributable to the expiration of the enhanced tax credits

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Thune: "If I were a woman I'd be talking to my doctor and not taking advice from RFK"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

THUNE: Fund the government the old fashioned way -- I don't think you need rescissions

VITALI: Have you said to the WH, maybe don't do another rescissions package? Feels like it's poisoned the well

THUNE: It's in everybody's best interest, including the WH, to do a normal appropriations process

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 5h

Glenn Beck says that after he aired a show on Antifa, FBI agents acting on the behest of Kash Patel came to get tips. Here's who the segment targeted, largely through strained connections and guilt by association: www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/g...

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Neil @judgemenot69.bsky.social · 5h

Ex-officer accused of racism takes legal action to avoid facing spycops inquiry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ex-officer accused of racism takes legal action to avoid facing spycops inquiry

Whistleblower testified that man known as HN86 gathered information to undermine Lawrence family campaign

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

New in PN: Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"I’ve been taking images that are nowhere near this one conflict driveway — ones of puppies & kids playing, & families having picnics — b/c the idea that Portland is burned down & a war zone is just preposterous" — @timdickinson.bsky.social

Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious," Tim Dickinson says.

www.publicnotice.co

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