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lilliepi.bsky.social @lilliepi.bsky.social · 2h

That's his confession

Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

Been offline for a day and a half & come back to find out that the shit has hit the fan.

This moron is so childish. He’s also quite literally insane.

Time for the 25th.

lilliepi.bsky.social @lilliepi.bsky.social · 2h

And what the "donors" want to accomplish with their bribery

lilliepi.bsky.social @lilliepi.bsky.social · 2h

Yup, it's part of the cult prerequisites

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

So weird how this keeps happening. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

lilliepi.bsky.social @lilliepi.bsky.social · 2h

Oh dear. He's a cross between Max Headroom and Alex from A Clockwork Orange

Malcolm MacDowell as Alex from A Clockwork Orange, looking a bit derangedly steaight into the camera with his black hat

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 11h

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

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Carl Ott, Author @bubba687.bsky.social · 1d

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 23h

To all the women & former kids who pursue justice in a world that says people can get away with raping you unless they are caught by their own statements & communications. You find each other & fight on, amassing evidence & demanding investigation & transparency. You're so brave. We believe you.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Raskin details how he tried to get unanimous consent today to force Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the Acting Speaker Haridopolos "scurried out of the room"

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 1d

#protestsigns

a woman holding a sign that says 'i guess i'm a terrorist now' - picture of old woman holding a pbs bag and carrying a sign that says 'liberty and justice for all'

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 16h

DOJ WHISTLEBLOWER: “I wouldn’t be abiding by my oath if I stayed silent right now.” He says Trumps DOJ wanted him to lie (about Kilmar being a gang member & a terrorist…)— and then fired him when he wouldn’t.

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Nurse Chapel 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @nurse-chapel.bsky.social · 12h

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago.

The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump.
zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 17h

He’s gonna put TRUMP in gold letters on the White House, isn’t he

a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames

ALT: a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames

media.tenor.com

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 12h

deanblundell.substack.com/p/paul-ingra...

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s Special Prosecutor Nominee, Just Had His Text Chat History Leaked. It's Bad. Really, Really Bad

Leaked texts. Alt-right ties. Misconduct allegations. GOP panic. From Telegram to the Senate floor—how a 30-year-old podcaster almost seized America’s whistleblower watchdog.

deanblundell.substack.com

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Ty Ross @cooltxchick.bsky.social · 18h

I am literally fucking sick. This travesty of a President has literally, IS literally, destroying everything. Disgusting doesn’t even begin to describe it. Trump has taken apart every ounce of dignity, respect, history, and brick by brick foundation this country was built on and wanted to achieve

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 23h

It’s so fucked up.
substack.com/@logicallyjc...

The People’s House Is Becoming a Party House

The East Wing of the White House is being torn down to make room for a ballroom.

substack.com

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Everlast2 @everlast2.bsky.social · 12h

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 22h

How long are we going to keep pretending that the fascist Trump regime is not a cabal of Nazis? Texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, reveal vile pro-Nazi and racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people. 👇

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 20h

Every newsroom leader should prioritize coverage of every #PressFreedom attack to be #FrontPage in solidarity.

First they came for the indy photo journalists, then the @lataco.bsky.social …

An attack on one is an attack all. This should never be normalized. #1A

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 20h

Statement on LAPD targeting our reporter @shoton35mm.bsky.social 🧵

Video by @filmthepolicela.bsky.social

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 1d

Trump on Putin and Zelensky: "They hate each other, and it makes it a little bit difficult."

Look, we “hate” Russia, including Putin, because they kill us, destroy our cities, abduct our children, and do everything they can to erase Ukraine from existence.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 20h

Federal workers aren’t getting paid, but of course Kristi Noem gets two private jets costing taxpayers $172 million.

Nothing new from the people who are also sending $40 billion to Argentina while refusing to fund our own government. Shameful.

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

www.nytimes.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20h

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that "en banc" review in the Ninth Circuit is ... unique.

The full court (29 active judges, currently with a 16-13 D-R split) votes on whether or not to rehear a case en banc.

If so, then *10* judges are randomly drawn to sit with Chief Judge Murguia as the "en banc" court.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like people are sort of sleeping on the US Attorney for EDVA clarifying—to a reporter!—that she did indeed intentionally violate the Federal Records Act by setting the Signal messages to auto-delete

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lilliepi.bsky.social @lilliepi.bsky.social · 20h

Not the brightest bulb

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 20h

As well as having an incredible legal mind and being a superb writer, @annabower.bsky.social is also much nicer and more polite than I could ever be in the face of such idiocy and proud mean-girl nastiness.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 23h

Folks. I'm going to suggest that the interim United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is... not very bright.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 21h

In 1925, Congress felt it needed to pass a joint resolution to authorize Grace Coolidge to accept gifts of furniture

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22h

The White House keeps making a big deal of the fact that the ballroom is privately funded but that’s one of the worst things about it.

These people and companies are buying influence. None of this is okay.

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@RapidResponse47
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A lot of FAKE OUTRAGE over construction of the big, beautiful (and privately funded) White House Ballroom.
FACT: Presidents have been renovating and expanding the White House for more than 100 years.
In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt built the West Wing.
In 1909, President William Howard Taft added the first Oval Office during a West Wing expansion.

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