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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not sure I've ever seen a more repellent, subservient person than Vance. He's seems not to have a self at all. There isn't a boot in America he wouldn't lick if it would bring him an additional iota of power.

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Democrats @democrats.org · 22m

Earlier this year, two Republicans were sworn in less than 24 hours after their elections.

It’s been 20 days since @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social won her race and Speaker Johnson’s still dragging his feet.

It’s time to swear her in.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 6h

God Bless America is just a song by Irving Berlin. It’s not the national anthem. America is so far down the moron hole it will never get out

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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 21h

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

GS: “Did Homan keep the $50,000 bribe?”

VANCE: “I don’t even know what you’re talking about.” 🤔

GS: “You didn’t answer the Q… We’ll be right back.”

GS gets fed up with Vance’sabsurd lying and gaslighting — and eventually cuts him off mid-sentence.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 12h

GEN-ALPHA DICKENS: it was the skibidi of times, it was the toilet of times

BOOMER TOLKIEN: I did NOT spend decades inventing languages only for you to butcher this one. Just saying!

ZILLENNIAL SHAKESPEARE: nah let him cook, brevity low-key the soul of wit fr fr

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16h

Man I hope I’m wrong and hell is real

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 17h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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McClain @mcclain142.bsky.social · 18h

This Georgia game has been like 45% reviews

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 1d

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

9:09am - 9/9/2025 180K Views

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

Complete tyranny.

The kind we’ve always professed to oppose

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 1d

can you imagine half-assing a last-minute ceasefire that won't last a week and still not getting the Nobel Peace Prize

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2d

Donald Trump has been illegally shutting down the parts of government he doesn't like and firing tens of thousands of federal workers since Day One.

Republicans’ shutdown doesn't give him any more power to create chaos.

It’s workers and the American people who will suffer.

Vought sounds layoff siren: ‘The RIFs have begun’

At least nine agencies appear to be affected.

www.politico.com

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thefbm @fanboymaster.bsky.social · 2d

"We go on forever" say three characters whose only shot at being known by a child after the 90s is showing up in fortnite after a paperwork mixup

Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 2d

Don't worry, American culture was also threatened by the ninja turtles based on nothing but "New is bad, old is good"

An ad with classic cartoon characters Fred Flintstone, Dennis the Menace, and Woody Woodpecker with the caption "Turtles Come And Turtles Go, But We Go On Forever"

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 2d

The theme of the rally is No Kings, and it's hard to think of a more pro-American sentiment than that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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McClain @mcclain142.bsky.social · 3d

It was "fine" at the time and worth C buttons, but it's very hard to go back to now and try to use with a stick because my brain will not accept that it's "clicky"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House & Senate & have the WH."

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 3d

Kristi Noem should never have been confirmed after this. It ended up being a perfect representation of what she would do.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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McClain @mcclain142.bsky.social · 3d

MGT sounding more and more like a centrist Dem every day. This timeline is fucking wild.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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McClain @mcclain142.bsky.social · 3d

Just finished the game Gris and I'm still working through what I think it means, but it was one of the most beautiful goddamn games I've ever played and it made me cry. And I can't exactly explain why other than it was the visual language of grief.

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McClain @mcclain142.bsky.social · 3d

Jack Probiotic is a literal nazi. Seeing him addressing a president makes my fucking blood boil. We are so cooked.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 3d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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