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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 4h

Can he just let the devil collect his soul or whatever?

I think whatever contract he signed has been pretty well fulfilled.

Getting tired of it being a burden on the rest of us.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 13h

The bullshit at the core of this lie is that Donald Trump has tried (and thankfully been rebuffed) on several occasions to put the DOJ on the hook monetarily for his personal defamation suit.

Trump absolutely would have used taxpayer money for his own defense if he had been able to.

Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 13h

Why do you straight up lie, Elise Stefanik?

Tish James has unequivocally stated she will not pay for her defense with that fund.

What is actually a “disturbing reminder” is what a shill you are for Trump and his nakedly partisan direction to make his lackey charge his enemy.

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Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 13h

Why do you straight up lie, Elise Stefanik?

Tish James has unequivocally stated she will not pay for her defense with that fund.

What is actually a “disturbing reminder” is what a shill you are for Trump and his nakedly partisan direction to make his lackey charge his enemy.

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 13h

The fact that basically all of his sycophants have to double up on important positions because there’s literally nobody else available doesn’t bode well for the grassroots public mandate of a movement they love to brag about so damn much.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

Trump fires Sergio Gor, as the revolving door of incompetent appointments continues AGAIN after the revolving door of term one.

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 13h

If these dudes want to leave a well paying job in this economy that’s on them.

I’m willing to bet folks like Weiss thought the same thing when Twitter was conquered and new leadership had radical ideas.

Or like, you know, what’s going on in the federal government right now.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 15h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 13h

“Just because we let President Camacho switch our agriculture to Brawndo (It has what plants need) from water doesn’t mean we’ve resolved the issue.

Of course it would be silly to stop the new decision by this administration while we work it out because that would be bad for the economy.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah but at least it’s called Fort “Bragg” again.

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 14h

Yes. It “used” to be illegal to take a payment for doing services (the implication here is outside of the usual order, the CAVA bag wasn’t salary)

That’s the definition of a bribe.

But SCOTUS said nah and everyone forgot about it. Now we just pretend like bribery is normal and cool.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Vance: I’m sure that in the course of his life he has been paid more than $50,000 for services. The question is did he do something illegal.

Stephanopoulos: I’m asking if Homan accepted the $50,000

Vance: Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services? Low income women can’t get food

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 14h

So all those years of being mad at Hunter Biden was because they weren’t able to get any grift for themselves.

Now that they can set up their failsons in lavish roles it’s all gravy baby!

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Regime coward finds slightly higher ranked regime coward to be inspirational.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 15h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 15h

No mistake. They fired a bunch of people because they don’t care about human lives.

Then they realized the firings would break more than they thought (because they’re idiots) so they tried to reverse them.

They’ll do it again and again because they’re all sociopaths.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 15h

Which is why instead of maintaining the status quo we frequently let Trump do what he wants under the vague promise we’ll get to it later.

Obviously this benefits Trump immeasurably, but rest assured we’ll think about the merits of his rampage super duper hard.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

If James visits the home regularly then it is available to her for personal use, which means it is not a “rental investment property” as defined by the mortgage rider…and therefore negates the central claim of the indictment

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Letitia James
Indictment
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But in June, IMs. Thompson testified to a grand
jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.
The specter of Mr. Trump's revenge campaign has so far overshadowed the facts of the case, given how he has pushed for Ms. James's punishment. For years, he has railed against her on social media, calling her a "crook" and
"corrunt" Last month. he also appointed Ms.

for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities.
The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more lacid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms.
Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay.
This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end.
The great-aunt - Letitia James, the New York attorney general - was indicted by President Trump's Justice Department. The yellow house,

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 15h

Abolish ICE needs to be the “conservative” opinion.

The moderate option starts with prison sentences and goes from there.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 15h

Well they’re confident they’re going to “cure” autism, so I guess they’re just planning ahead for that definite eventuality. 🙄

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

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 15h

The GOP is beyond lost. They refuse to engage with reality and instead demand you believe them when they say up is down.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

BREAM: Federal workers in Virginia lost jobs bc of DOGE. Your opponent points out unemployment is up under Youngkin/Sears

EARLE-SEARS: Actually unemployment is down

B: She points to numbers from BLS showing unemployment is up. Do you quibble w/data?

S: I don't know where she's getting stats from

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 16h

Is it illegal to take a bribe if you deliver on your promises? That’s called being a reliable dude, come on now. Whomst among us hasn’t accepted a bag of cash before?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Vance: I’m sure that in the course of his life he has been paid more than $50,000 for services. The question is did he do something illegal.

Stephanopoulos: I’m asking if Homan accepted the $50,000

Vance: Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services? Low income women can’t get food

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 16h

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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