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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 8h

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time.

I wrote a substack about this on Friday!This isn’t an accident.

open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 10h

'who was president during X incident' undefeated.

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 12h

Christ sake NYT, go look out the window and see if the city is burning for yourself ffs. (It isn't)

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

The RIFs began months ago. This is just recycled DOGE, just as unpopular and just as illegal.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 18h

How are you even supposed to enjoy a game if the characters aren't gooner bait?

🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 18h

Example #532 of people listening to RATM without actually listening.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21h

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 21h

Not sure if it's a bad freeze frame or he really just looks that rough normally now

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 1d

You've finally made it when that unhinged lunatic starts coming after you publicly

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 1d

"Every circumcised male employee is fired!" "Open your desks! who is hiding Tylenol in their desks!"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 1d

If you put -ai at the end of your search, it will also exclude AI results

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the reality: On any given day the President might impose an effective embargo on trade with China. This is the second time he's done it *this year*. They may patch it up again, but the pattern has been set, and it will shape expectations for the rest of his term.

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 1d

If only the Democratic party was this aggressive when they are in control, a man can dream.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 1d

Suspect Guilty GIF

ALT: Suspect Guilty GIF

media.tenor.com

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 1d

As expected after NPSM7, this is how it is going to be going forward: Everyone against them is secretly an Antifa agent and therefore whatever violence is inflicted upon them is justified.

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 1d

A Newsmax host defended ICE agents shooting a minister in the head with a pepper ball by falsely claiming he was “actually an antifa member masquerading as a pastor.”

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah we're seeing Thune and Johnson on the backfoot talking about healthcare already. Vought's 'we have to do more mass firings and refuse back pay because of the shutdown' idea is probably going to backfire pretty badly too.

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 1d

The worst people in America don't like you, sounds like you are doing good work then.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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🎃Skeleton-gineer🎃 @wingineering.bsky.social · 1d

The former governor, son of another former governor, who lives in a mansion outside of the city, thinks Zohran is there to serve the rich by *checks notes* makes public transit more affordable and reliable? Did he write this himself?

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