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moleatmal.bsky.social @moleatmal.bsky.social · 8h

Bari Weiss won’t allow the truth

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

I keep seeing ads for Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on 60 Minutes tonight to discuss the "peace deal." Wonder if they'll update it with the news today that the ceasefire has been broken? "We taped this interview before the entire deal fell apart, but here it is anyhow..."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Yikes — WP reports Rubio turned over gang informants to El Salvador to get that deal to let Trump send immigrants to their hard labor prison without due process.

A lawless regime.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h

They had told Newsom to keep I-5 open during this stunt.

John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 8h

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 5d

Balaji (a close associate of Thiel & Andreessen) leads the “network state” movement, which encourages tech elites to build their own “countries” by acquiring physical territory w/in host countries & building “parallel institutions” to replace existing ones in media, education, finance, & science 1/

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Per BBC VERIFY - Elon’s Grok just lied and said the crowd size from yesterday was a fake image

It then corrected itself, but not until many on the right seized on it and amplified it

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 10h

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress nearly a month ago with 70% of the vote yet Mike Johnson refuses to swear in. This is a continuation of the Jan 6 attack that was designed to overturn an election.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15h

NEWS: Israel has launched new strikes in Gaza after accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire. The IDF says Hamas fighters fired on troops in Rafah, prompting retaliation. Netanyahu ordered forces to “act forcefully.” Hamas denies the charge, claiming it’s honoring the truce.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 15h

I'm beginning to believe that Johnson has been told that if the discharge petition passes Trump will withdraw support for him as Speaker.

What he's doing here is so far out of bounds, so incredibly destructive, illiberal and a betrayal of the House itself, that it has to be something like this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?

MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.

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Lev Parnas @levparnas.bsky.social · 15h

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Lev Parnas (@levparnas)

💔 They’re Freezing and Forgotten — But We Can Save Them Now Yesterday, we united to make our voices heard. We showed the world that no kings rule over us — only the power of the people. But today, ...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 15h

We’re not a serious country anymore

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

BARTIROMO: You said you wanted to develop Gaza. Do you have plans for that?

TRUMP: I liked it as, like, freedom place you call it. And we would get all of the people that live there into decent homes throughout the region. Egypt has a lot of land, Jordan has a lot of land.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Can someone on a Sunday show interviewing a Republican member of Congress please play a damn montage of Trump, Vance and Hegseth making speeches to active duty military trashing Democrats and ask them if they think that is appropriate?

Asking for a Republic.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

Best I've seen.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

👀 someone calling out big law firm complicity and cowardice

Sign reading BIG LAW LITTLE BALLS, and then listing a bunch of lil ball'd firms:

A&O Shearman
Cadwalder, Wickersham
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Paul, Weiss
Simpson Thatcher
Skadden, Arpa
Willkie Farr

Then the sign ends with a Trump quote that should make these firms put their heads in the proverbial bag:

"They gave me a lot of money considering they did nothing wrong"

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 1d

Today, veterans, public servants, and other patriots who love America will gather to show their love for democracy.

You can find here a No Kings rally near you:
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power…

www.nokings.org

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 1d

Trump: Good news everyone, I released…
Us: The Epstein files?
Trump: No.
Us: The Homan bribery tape?
Trump: No.
Us: The jobs report?
Trump: No.
Us: The inflation numbers?
Trump: No.
Us: Then what?
Trump: George Santos!
Us: …what the actual fuck?

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moleatmal.bsky.social @moleatmal.bsky.social · 1d

Wait until Vance finds out Hillary got 3 million more votes than Trump

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 2d

It's more than just corruption - the Santos pardon is another Jan 6 pardon.

capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder: Ed Martin, Trump's US Pardon attorney (R) and George Santos, whose sentence he just helped commute (L) were both speakers at the Stop the Steal rally the day before the Jan 6 Capitol attack. The next day, they both sat in the VIP section at Trump's Ellipse rally. 1/

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like the Russians like his Russia tie. It’s not red-white-blue either. It’s red-blue-white. Like the Russian flag. For a meeting with Zelensky.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

New federal data has revealed a 19% year-on-year decline in international students entering the US in August 2025, including a 45% drop from India, America’s largest sending country. thepienews.com/internationa...

International student arrivals to the US fall by 19%

The US recorded a 20% drop in student visa arrivals this August, though the full picture remains unclear amid contradictory datasets.

thepienews.com

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moleatmal.bsky.social @moleatmal.bsky.social · 1d

The Hill abandoned any notion of being non partisan in the last few years.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

There are so many threats to the rule of law.

And, also, Trump is getting no-billed and acquitted in key cases.

But if pardons are your line, the Manafort/Stone/Flynn pardons and/or the Jan6 ones were the keystone pardons. Not this one.

Look on THIS ONE as an easy object lesson.

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

I think at this point it’s fair to say that we’re no longer under the rule of law.

Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

For all the chatter abt the Santos pardon, these details are some of the most insightful.

capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder: Ed Martin, Trump's US Pardon attorney (R) and George Santos, whose sentence he just helped commute (L) were both speakers at the Stop the Steal rally the day before the Jan 6 Capitol attack. The next day, they both sat in the VIP section at Trump's Ellipse rally. 1/

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