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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago.

The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump.
zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The scene at Mar-a-Lago is as gross and creepy as you imagined, with these old pervs chasing their surgically enhanced prey with Trump acting as sick Degenerate-in-Chief. bsky.app/profile/mehd...

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago.

The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump.
zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Everything that Trump Touches Dies

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

You know it’s bad when this is like the 4th or 5th worst Republican scandal of the day.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

The Epstein files contain the name of a prominent former PM who brutally beat & sexually assaulted an 18 year old.

Trump, Bondi, Patel & Johnson don’t want the world to know his name.

That’s why Johnson will have the House adjourned today for the 78th day out of the last 90.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

Ted finally deleted this lie over 24 hours later. Only the 900th time he has posted a fake right-wing internet lie. You would think a US Senator would take a few minutes to make sure these things are legit, but we are talking about Ted Cruz.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

Now they will lower the standards. Watch.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Today in Politics, Bulletin 232. Trump begins destruction of the WH, MAGA reacts to No Kings, Trump betrays Ukraine, gearing up for war with Venezuela, & everything else that happened today. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 232. 10/20/24

… Trump began the physical destruction of the East Wing of the White House today to make room for his Mar-a-Lago style ballroom monstrosity.

open.substack.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

These criminals that Trump pardoned keep getting arrested. Pretty much every week there is a new one.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

The President of the Nebraska Farm Bureau isn’t happy about Trump’s plan to import beef from Argentina.

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Slade Wilson @sladejwilson.bsky.social · 5h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

He is literally not paying for it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump notes the sound of construction of his new ballroom at the White House and says, "that's music to my ears. When I hear that sound, it reminds me of money. In this case it reminds me of lack of money because I'm paying for it."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

here is a clip of the East Wing of the White House being demolished for Trump's ballroom just now

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Raskin with Jeffries: "It's an alarming situation where now we have many of these January 6 defendants who have been picked up on other defenses. The Department of Justice is not zealously prosecuting them for other crimes they have committed ... it's a very dangerous situation."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Raskin details how he tried to get unanimous consent today to force Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the Acting Speaker Haridopolos "scurried out of the room"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Adelita Grijalva: "There is so much that cannot be done until I'm sworn in. So every moment that passes that I'm not able to provide constituent services or be a voice for Arizona, I cannot bring the issues forward that they send me here to do."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Dan Goldman on Republicans: "When something is so egregiously and shockingly wrong as this, they need to stand up ... that keeps getting lost as we talk about all these court cases. The Republicans have abdicated their job as members of Congress."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Goldman on Comer's role in the Epstein coverup: "That Oversight investigation very specifically does not ask for the types of evidence where Trump's name, likeness would be -- photos videos, audio, witness statements, the investigation origination documents. Oversight has not asked for those"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

She alleged in the past that it was former Israeli PM Ehud Barak but we can’t know that for sure because Trump, Bondi, Patel and Johnson are hiding this person’s identity from the public by blocking release of the Epstein files.

Whoever it is.

For some reason.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Pete Hegseth conducted a live fire exercise over I-5 as part of a made-for-Fox stunt for him and Vance which had a misfire that struck a Highway Patrol vehicle and could have killed people?

Who could have foreseen this?

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