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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16m

Shutdown dynamic mentality a from one Senate Dem aide, sent my way: “Their calculus was that Democrats would cave early without any negotiation from their end because we want ‘more government.’ But, as it turns out, they’re in power and we won’t fix their messes for them all the time”

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 1h

North Dakota: $3 million
Argentina: $40 billion

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 59m

It's odd for me to realize that my first-year undergraduates are at an age where they don't really remember that there was a form of US politics prior to Donald Trump. For them, Trump is not an aberration from the normal course of political discourse, but just how US politics is done.

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SJ Davis @faithandscience.bsky.social · 4h

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The evidence he was probably hoping no one would ever see... if he ever actually thought about it at all. It feels as though people are all just props or action figures in his mind.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s victims are now washing up in Trinidad:
“The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory.“

A Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes

www.nytimes.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3h

Everything is an emergency to them except real emergencies

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

“.. perhaps the most cruel and unlawful offense the Trump administration has perpetrated yet — freezing funding already enacted into law to feed hungry Americans while he shovels tens of billions of dollars .. to Argentina and into his ballroom.”

@politico.com #SNAP
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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sassafrasgirl @sassafrasgirl.bsky.social · 12h

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14h

Wow! Very impressive for them to do all of this in 2020 while Trump was president and they weren't in the government! Very normal post from the President of the United States!

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Indivisible Westchester ❌👑 @indiviswestchester.bsky.social · 19h

You hate to see it.

A banner appeared on an overpass on I87 in Rockland this morning highlighting pro-Nazi messages exchanged by leadership of the NYS Young Republicans and Mike Lawler's embrace of those individuals.

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Jeanie F. @djinn313.bsky.social · 19h

Maybe the rich should just pay more in taxes....

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

My girlfriend is covered head to toe in tattoos and not one of them is a nazi tattoo so i don’t know what the fuck y‘all are on about with this “sometimes white people have a bit of a nazi phase but it’s ok as long as they move past it by age 25” nonsense

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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Rivertowns Vote @rivertownsvote.bsky.social · 1d

The White House is no longer the people’s house. Now it’s just another private club for Donald Trump. If he could add a golf course, you know he’d do it.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

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Rivertowns Vote @rivertownsvote.bsky.social · 2d

Demolish first, submit plans later?? This is what happens when all oversight has been either fired or replaced with loyalists. They ALL work for Trump, not us—and this is no longer the people’s house.

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 2d

Senator Merkley is on hour 20 of reading How Democracies Die, mixed w commentary, on u.s. senate floor

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2d

Elitist Dems may not realize it but the #1 issue for hard-working, salt-of-the-earth Americans is ensuring the president has an adequate event space for hosting galas and luncheons

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

Making Argentina Great Again. Indefensible.

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Rivertowns Vote @rivertownsvote.bsky.social · 2d

Just wait until more Americans start receiving their new big beautiful medical bills…

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Dream for America @dreamforamerica.bsky.social · 3d

Frank Sinatra on what it means to be an American:

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 2d

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean
Total reported killed: 34 people
Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL
September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View
September 15, 2025 3
“in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View
September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View
October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View
October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View
October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View
October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View
October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Awful: Trump's $230 million shakedown from DOJ can be paid to him confidentially at first, without the public ever finding out about it until later, Rep Jamie Raskin tells me.

Raskin will formally demand full communications between WH and DOJ on this.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2021...

Trump’s Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even Worse

It’s bad enough that Trump wants—and DOJ will likely fork over—this tribute payment. Now, get this: It can probably be done at first without even being revealed publicly.

newrepublic.com

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Politico @politico.com · 2d

The Pentagon press corps has a new look.

Out are all the major news networks.

In are TurningPoint USA, RedState and a streaming service run by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

Pro-Trump outlets flock to the Pentagon under new media policy

The Defense Department announced that more than 60 journalists would be credentialed under its newly restrictive press policy.

www.politico.com

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 3d

Pentagon leadership just told officials, including the Joint Chiefs chair, they now need permission before speaking to Congress. The memo dropped the same day reporters walked out over new press restrictions. Checks and balances aren’t checking and balancing.

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 2d

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