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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

POP QUIZ: The Tennessean is…

A) bad at math
B) like other outlets, intentionally downplaying the crowd at the Capitol 🤷🏼

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realduane.bsky.social @realduane.bsky.social · 2h

Eleanor Roosevelt worked for Americans in the White House. Melania Trump works for Russia

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 18h

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

so that was money well spent then, hey? america firrrrst!

"The Argentine peso has fallen below the level it reached before the US Treasury began purchases this month, in a sign that the Trump administration’s financial support is failing to halt the currency’s slide..."

www.ft.com/content/815e...

Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US interventions

Currency gains sparked by estimated $400mn of US purchases melt away ahead of election for president Javier Milei

www.ft.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

I guess they don’t think the images of Trump tearing apart the WH and grounds are helpful to them.

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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 12h

Day 20 with no end in sight to Republicans' federal government shutdown.

Folks, it's simple—Republicans need to end the shutdown, extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits that will keep healthcare more affordable, and get the federal government back to work.

GOP Shutdown Counter with a calendar that reads 20 Days

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11h

Racism is a qualification for advancement in the Republican Party.

Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

Missouri.

@piperformissouri.bsky.social
missouriindependent.com/2025/10/20/m...

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realduane.bsky.social @realduane.bsky.social · 2h

Russian Donald Epstein Sociopath Extortionist Homan Bove

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2h

Using an AI-generated video of himself, Donald Trump sought “to mock and smear millions of Americans, literally depicting them covered in excrement, precisely so that none of his own supporters would want to join them,” @anneapplebaum argues:

Why Trump Turned to the Sewer

The president’s disturbing, excremental propaganda campaign.

bit.ly

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 14h

We will urge the *full* Ninth Circuit to vacate today’s decision by a three-judge panel, before illegal Guard deployments can occur. A Ninth Circuit judge has already called for a vote on whether the case should be heard by the full court. Our team will file a brief encouraging the court to do so.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 19h

"Trump has now pardoned or commuted the sentences of most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century...."

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

With George Santos, Trump finds another convicted congressional Republican to reward

The president has now pardoned or commuted the sentences of most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century.

www.msnbc.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”

@nymag.com
nymag.com/intelligence...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

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😱Squeallium😱 @squillium.bsky.social · 21h

Ealy voting is starting in many states for local election today. Local elections are incredibly important for positions like mayors, assembly members, council members, and boards of education.

Elections don't happen every four years

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

Lindsey Halligan is a fucking moron.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2h

Missourians will likely not recieve SNAP benefits in November and the Trump regime defunded food banks.

He’s following Project 2025…cutting off food aid to children and the elderly.

missouriindependent.com/2025/10/20/m...

Missouri lost 1.6 million pounds of federal food aid to Trump cuts this year • Missouri Independent

Though food banks said they have mostly made up shortfalls from the cuts, some worry coming SNAP changes will worsen hunger.

missouriindependent.com

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21h

Of the five pals he mentions, the *least evil* one might be O.J. Simpson.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him:
...l ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew
-- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

Trump and Bessent are going to cost us billions, continuing to pour our money into the bottomless pit of Argentina’s economic woes. I guess we don’t need the money in the US.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 1d

From 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King on his return to the U.S. after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Photo by Leonard Freed.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 1d

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23h

The new talking point from the Speaker of the House is that the No Kings rallies were about calling for the murder of political opponents??

The way they defame the American people is insane.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?

MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

Morning Brew ☕️ @morningbrew.extwitter.link · 23h

BREAKING: Amazon Web Services

A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours

Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 1d

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

Real talk…

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