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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 26m

The people who work this work schedule want for you to never be able to retire.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28m

What a work schedule. The Republican speaker of the House grinds hard

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 55m

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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trump is destroying the country @sooriclover.bsky.social · 11m

Yes it was a university group that had funding cut by doge

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concerned2.bsky.social @concerned2.bsky.social · 1h

Didn't the Biden administration have an entire unit finding kidnapped Ukrainian children and Trump shut it down ?

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Richard E Frankel @refrankel.bsky.social · 1h

A First Lady working with a genocidal autocrat to bring home children his own army kidnapped as part of his war to destroy Ukraine.

Incredible.

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trump is destroying the country @sooriclover.bsky.social · 30m

Yep. Trump does whatever is helpful to his grift & his quid pro quo allies & lets Miller and the project 2025 asshats do the work for him.

And he’s completely screwing up everything with china. Get better opinion writers @nytopinion.nytimes.com

trump is destroying the country @sooriclover.bsky.social · 47m

The only diverse candidates maga will support are the ones that play along w/ their racism. The ppl that let them talk down to them & then will defend these same racists as not racist. And even that degrading & undignified groveling often isn’t enough.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 13h

Black people told y’all they’re never letting you in no matter how much they’ll use your own racism to their benefit. Theirs. Not yours. Ever.

Sucker! 😜

Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy's Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism - The New Republic

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Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy's Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism — The New Republic

Event attendees asked Ramaswamy why he felt he could be the governor of Ohio even though he isn’t Christian.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 13h

“Try as he might, Vivek Ramaswamy will never be fully accepted by MAGAworld.
The Ohio gubernatorial candidate and former DOGE co-chief came face-to-face with the racism rampant amongst American conservative youth culture Tuesday when he headlined a Turning Point USA event in Montana.”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

Trump and Stephen Miller have relied on an army of MAGA "influencers" widely disseminating a fraudulent picture of Portland in chaos, to bolster the case for deploying military.

NYT has a good new piece on this. But it made several missteps worth highlighting. 2/

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

NYT piece calls these MAGA types "provocateurs." It describes "dueling versions of reality." Both are common MSM tropes.

But these are not provocateurs. They're propagandists. Only one side is employing deliberate deceptions on a vast scale for instrumental ends. 3/

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 58m

The conventions of political reporting today are not well equipped to handle this concerted use of pretexts for instrumental purposes and the bottomless bad faith they employ. Grasping the industrial-scale deception at the core of MAGA politics is essential. 6/

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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trump is destroying the country @sooriclover.bsky.social · 11h

Why did you bigoted dummies vote for Trump then?! He said he was going to do tariffs. A million times.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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trump is destroying the country @sooriclover.bsky.social · 14h

trump’s brain

homer simpson is laying on the floor with the words du mush du mush du mush written below him

Alt: homer simpson is laying on the floor with the words du mush du mush du mush written below him

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 18h

Hey, here’s something you probably don’t know ,everything our Democrats are doing right now is without interns. Interns are considered non-essential and are let go during a shut down.
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trump is destroying the country @sooriclover.bsky.social · 14h

trump’s brain

trump is destroying the country @sooriclover.bsky.social · 14h

Raw egg nationalist is British

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?

Someone on Twitter posted a photo of themselves doing a happy dance as they receive a hot plate of fajitas. Then "Raw Egg Nationalist" on Twitter retweets them, writing: It's incredible that these people exist, but they really do. These are the people who justify the demographic replacement of Western countries in terms of the variety of street food and how many different kinds of fried-meat-and-vegetables in flatbread they can buy.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 14h

Because of Trump's confusing and idiotic tariff and custom policies, UPS is actively DISPOSING OF THOUSANDS OF PACKAGES meant for delivery in America.

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UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ups-delay-customs-tariffs-packages-destroyed-rcna236607?cid=eml_nbcp_%7Bdate%28‘yyyyMMdd’%29%7D

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trump is destroying the country @sooriclover.bsky.social · 14h

This is insane

No org should be completely immune from lawsuits

The Lever @levernews.com · 15h

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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trump is destroying the country @sooriclover.bsky.social · 15h

My theory: mtg aspires to a bigger office and knows insane big lie maga won’t fly. So the retconning has begun.

Magdi Jacobs @magdi.bsky.social · 15h

I get hives whenever someone says, "I hate to say it, but Marjorie Taylor Greene has a point" (which for some reason people love to say), but I will note that it is of political and historical interest that this dynamic could be occurring within the Republican Party. There are a few hypotheses, here

MB Brown @mbbrownsf.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I should have turned away from his interview. guessing he is getting a bit scared because of how loudly Marjorie Taylor Green has gotten on the need for Republicans to protect ACA access & coverage.