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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine how horrific the shit in those Epstein files must be that he’s striking out so violently at so many people. It makes me sick to even imagine!

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFilesNow

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 2d

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Opinion | Need I list all the reasons why Trump shouldn’t get a Nobel peace prize? — Guardian US

Trump has been an enabler of war, famine, disease and death

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 2d

Holy Mike can’t hold up Adelita Grijalva’s swearing-in ceremony forever. that 218th vote in favor of Tom Massie’s discharge petition is coming, sooner or later.

buckle your seat belt, things are about to hit the fan!

open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

Preznit Fuckwit’s gonna fight all the antifas, if he can manage to stay awake

this is going to be the dumbest civil war ever

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Senate Democrats are warming up to Graham Platner, an oyster farmer running for the US Senate in Maine. Now they’ll have to decide if they’re willing to snub their party’s dream recruit, Gov. Janet Mills, to support him. Over a half-dozen Democratic senators sang his praises in interviews this week.

Graham Platner has a growing Senate fan club

The Maine oyster farmer is winning praise from some Democrats as he prepares to face Chuck Schumer’s dream recruit.

www.politico.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Democrats proved the insiders wrong on the shutdown

The conventional wisdom was that a shutdown was a losing fight.

Democrats proved the insiders wrong on the shutdown

The conventional wisdom was that a shutdown was a losing fight.

www.msnbc.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Team Trump’s clashes with the faith community go from bad to worse

The political world is overdue for a conversation about the severity of the conflicts between the Republican administration and the faith community.

Team Trump’s clashes with the faith community go from bad to worse

The political world is overdue for a conversation about the severity of the conflicts between the Republican administration and the faith community.

www.msnbc.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

ICE thugs.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

One of my cousins lives in Wisconsin, and she’s convinced that the Beast of Bray Road is for real. Countless others believe that, too.

🎧 Listen to the latest episode of my podcast and let me know what YOU think!

Creature in the Cornfields: The Beast of Bray Road

Podcast Episode · Echoes of the Unknown · 10/07/2025 · 16m

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Trump Threats to Jail Foes Take Darker Turn With Damning New DOJ Leaks

As ugly new information emerges about Trump’s efforts to prosecute James Comey and other enemies, a former federal prosecutor explains how Trump’s corrupt schemes are running into stiff internal resistance.

Trump Threats to Jail Foes Take Darker Turn With Damning New DOJ Leaks

As ugly new information emerges about Trump’s efforts to prosecute James Comey and other enemies, a former federal prosecutor explains how Trump’s corrupt schemes are running into stiff internal resis...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

The federal investigation into the death of convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was marred by significant lapses, experts told CBS News, including the failure by investigators to interview potential witnesses, properly preserve certain evidence and run basic forensic tests.

In cell where Jeffrey Epstein died, a scene of disarray that never underwent thorough inspection, experts said

Photos of Jeffrey Epstein's cell show a scene of disarray that never underwent a proper inspection, according to experts.

www.cbsnews.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

We take a look at ICE's skyrocketing expansion, the agency's failing standards, and where detention centers are planned for next.

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

www.motherjones.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Why do so many powerful Republicans turn out to be pedophiles and child sex abusers? 🤨

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Jon Martin Kitchen @kitchen5203.bsky.social · 2d

This!
Halloween is coming!

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

One of my cousins lives in Wisconsin, and she’s convinced that the Beast of Bray Road is for real. Countless others believe that, too.

🎧 Listen to the latest episode of my podcast and let me know what YOU think!

Creature in the Cornfields: The Beast of Bray Road

Podcast Episode · Echoes of the Unknown · 10/07/2025 · 16m

podcasts.apple.com

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 2d

If ANY other president had been caught DMing directives for the Attorney General to indict his political enemies it would have been game over.
Impeached. Removed.

But not Trump.
With Donald Trump, it’s just another fucking day ending in Y.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t wait to gobble up a bunch of Tylenol at tonight’s antifa meeting!!!

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 2d

Right before this photo was taken I told Tish James that she was a fucking badass.
Because it’s true.
And it’s also true that Donald Trump is a fucking pussy.