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Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 8h

More like he wanted to get better acquainted with those Oval Office couches

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11h

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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Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 1d

a close up of a woman with red hair and the words " bada big boom " below her

ALT: a close up of a woman with red hair and the words " bada big boom " below her

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Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 1d

And he has an awareness rating of 40

Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 2d

Should’ve been a golf club

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Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 4d

Had an anxiety attack just reading that thread

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4d

New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses.

“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”

www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...

Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...

www.404media.co

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Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 4d

Any reporters ask the follow up of why didn’t Republicans vote with Democrats to pass the CR solely to pay the troops?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 6d

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 8d

Why not quote post instead of using her threads video?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 10d

I doubt they’d let him in the way he looks now

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Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 11d

Nope, he did another backflip with a round off

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Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 12d

Total aside but the Secretary of State has the penmanship of a 2nd grader with a concussion

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Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 12d

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 12d

He looks weak by pushing back and arguing that Lawler voted to gut Medicaid?

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Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 12d

Are these people going to bury themselves alive in a giant golden pyramid when their pharaoh dies?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 12d

He looks like an English bulldog that just got back from a walk to the mailbox and back

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Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 13d

A wooden spoon doesn’t fire a rubber coated metal slug at you

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13d

Here’s video of the incident

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Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 13d

“Funny you say that, she’s right here. Can you swear her in now?”

Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 13d

I’d love to ask Ken why he thinks an oversight committee hearing should be conducted like a real housewives reunion episode.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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