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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 9m

It's true. And they dismiss all evidence to the contrary. If you look at comments over on the hellsight (I don't recommend it) you will see that they think every video is fake and all testimony is lies. They are now fully immune to reality.

Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 13h

This is a flex.

He know his rubes will believe any shit he tells them and he wants to see how far he can take it.

Next week he'll tell them everyone in Portland lives in caves now and eats brontosaurus ribs like the Flintstones.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

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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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1h

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 42m

Susan Collins is the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which means she has considerable power to influence the administration but she prefers to mumble weak protestations to the media

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 48m

Despite all of Susan Collins’s **concerns**, Russ Vought, who she voted to confirm, still went ahead and fired a boatload of hard-working Americans.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 22h

SUSAN COLLINS, Wednesday: "I've made very clear that I do not believe there should be firings of furloughed workers."

RUSS VOUGHT, Friday: "The RIFs have begun."

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 19h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 19h

It was great working with Zeteo’s editors and rigorous fact-checker.

And I’m most grateful they let me say this in the last graf, something I’ve been try to get at with these ICE flights for awhile.

The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, governments with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness - all are the spoils of oligarchy.

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 14h

Give me "dementia delusions that never happened for $1000", Alex

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 14h

Did she have tears in her eyes, Sir, Sir?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

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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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 14h

Ummm... Syracuse?

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 19h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 19h

Gee, stop threatening us with a good time...

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 1d

Which part of "No Kings" (the literal foundation principle of the USA) is "hate America"?!?!?

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 1d

Which part of "No Kings" (the literal foundation principle of the USA) is "hate America"?!?!?

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 1d

They embarrass and debase themselves every time they open their mouths

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 1d

Golly gee, I wonder *whose* administration is responsible for farmers not being able to sell product?

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's had 15 years. How F'ing stupid do these people think we are?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's had 15 years. How F'ing stupid do these people think we are?

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

Just 'cause it has to be said every now and then.

GOP Senators and Representatives are obviously okay with...everything...that's happening.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 1d

Like a dad buying millions of dollars in poker chips to stop his son from defaulting on his casino loan

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 1d

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 1d

"smack people over the head with a baseball bat"

Show one. Only one. Any one. Any one at all.

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 1d

When everyone you meet is "lying and disingenuous and dishonest", remember the only common factor is YOU.

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 2d

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d

Wrote about why it *really* feels like Stephen Miller's nuclear-level on-air gaffe should be getting more attention.
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The Stephen Miller Gaffe Every Judge Needs To Bookmark

Maybe Miller realizes the 2024 election did not mark the end of history.

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