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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27m

Listen to how casually Justice Gorsuch presents as fact the idea that remedying racial gerrymandering requires racial discrimination.

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 24m

Fucking vile...

Also unsurprising... Given where the district is

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 33m

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4h

Among unelected Republican operatives, it’s probably a close race between Mike Davis and Leonard Leo over who has most shaped the federal judiciary from top to bottom

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 4h

“Banter”

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 4h

Yes In God’s Backyard? Some states hope so. Lawmakers see the potential for much-needed housing on church-owned land. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/15/r...

Can states, and a little bit of faith, convert church land into affordable housing? • Ohio Capital Journal

Yes In God’s Backyard? Some states hope so. Lawmakers see the potential for much-needed housing on church-owned land.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 3h

Oh I have questions...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

New Hamilton revival just dropped

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

A key moment was Vance succeeding in reinstating Marko Elez, a DOGEr who resigned after racists posts emerged including “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.”

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 22h

Fucking abhorrent...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 1d

He said he doesn't have to tell how he'd disarm them.. nearly verbatim quote

Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 1d

He's currently spitballing combo lies and praising his own ingenuity all live on air.

Welcome to Trump's America

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 1d

Huh. Imagine that

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d

NEW from @h-lev.bsky.social: As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

The attack dog targeting Trump opponents over their paperwork hasn’t even filed his own

As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

www.motherjones.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 1d

And yet people purchased them so gaming the system or meeting a demand in the market

And not the biggest since Adele, the biggest of all time

Forbes @forbes.com · 2d

“The Life of a Showgirl” is now Billboard’s biggest album debut since Adele’s “25” in 2015, though some critics have accused Swift of gaming the system by releasing 38 variants of the album between physical copies and digital versions.

Taylor Swift's 'Life Of A Showgirl' Debuts With Record-Breaking 4 Million Album Units On Billboard Chart

“The Life of a Showgirl” is now Billboard’s biggest album debut since Adele’s “25” in 2015, though some critics have accused Swift of gaming the system by releasing 38 variants of the album between physical copies and digital versions.

www.forbes.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Ohio Begins Executing Random People In Hopes They’re Criminals https://theonion.com/ohio-begins-executing-random-people-in-hopes-they-re-cr-1851218315/

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 1d

Can Republicans be trusted to fix the healthcare crisis they have created?

Hell No.

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 1d

2008 Italian National Football Team?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Somebody tell Trump there's an Argentinian banker in one of these houses.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2d

See how complicated this gets when you see this philosophy as anything other than "Republicans win and Democrats lose."

'Bombshell!' Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning

The U.S. Supreme Court seems almost certain to side with President Donald Trump in an upcoming challenge to his authority to fire government officials for any reason, but a leading conservative legal ...

www.rawstory.com

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 2d

He's in ranting old grievances like a looney mode as usual, yes?

Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 2d

And the branch slap

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

why u may ask well

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 5d

Good

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library’s children and young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday.

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 5d

That's definitely going to help the shortage

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 5d

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is threatening to fire "problem children" air traffic controllers who fail to show up for work during the government shutdown.

DOT chief threatens to fire air traffic controllers who skip work

The Trump administration has also threatened to lay off thousands of federal employees at other agencies if Congress doesn’t halt the government shutdown.

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