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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 9h

This being the official posture of DOJ in 2025 is terrifying for the rule of law.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 9h

Hamilton: "The president's judgment is unreviewable."

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 9h

They should give it to Kamala Harris just to piss him off 🤭

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 9h

What a petty little...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 10h

C’mon debilitating stroke, big money no whammies, YUGEEE FATAL STROKE!

CBS News @cbsnews.com · 11h

President Trump is going to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday morning for what the White House says is his "routine yearly checkup," just six months after undergoing what the White House at the time described as his "annual physical examination" at the same facility.

Trump to visit Walter Reed for "routine yearly checkup" 6 months after annual physical exam

President Trump's annual physical examination in April showed his vital statistics were all within normal limits.

cbsn.ws

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 10h

Hey guys we figured it out. The autism gets released when we remove the foreskins.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 10h

Perry turns to the fact that drugs have been dealt in Chicago for decades in violation of federal law.

Perry asks if that means "the president has had the authority for decades to deploy the National Guard here?"

(I also believe she prefaced this hypothetical with "riddle me this.")

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 23h

They want a Civil War do-over so badly

μμπ @letthemalltalk.bsky.social · 23h

18 traitors to the United States

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

I also don’t buy her likability as a strictly sexist issue either given our current mass disgust with Trump berating literally anyone, Kash Patel yelling at senators, and Miller practically hissing at reporters. Average people don’t like or trust *anyone* who just seems like a huge asshole.

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

Also unfortunately CA is a jungle primary state, so Porter can’t just coast to the governorship by squeaking out a win against the other Dems then getting party support in the general. She needs to *actually* be likable to voters, and nothing about her reputation suggests party confidence for 2026.

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

Over the years I can’t even count the number of former hill staff or career political aides who’ve told me about their own firsthand bad experience with Katie Porter, or that they worked with someone who’d been mistreated by her. And not like “YASSS girl boss” vibes, just that she’s an asshole.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Katie Porter tears into a staffer in a newly released video, telling them: "Get out of my f--king shot."

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

Porter in the July 2021 video call exclusively obtained by POLITICO also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

www.politico.com

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Jack, what could anti-fascists in Germany possibly have been responding to in the 1930s as their republic was toppled by a formerly-convicted felon who used nativism and fear about immigrants to incite rage and slowly take control over the media, government, and institutions?

Take a wild guess.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

The spinach in the back of my fridge watching me order DoorDash again.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

Nicole Kidman stuns for Vogue.

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie Kirk was less than a month ago. Notice how he completely dropped out of the news cycle after it was no longer getting the reaction they wanted? It’s *almost* like there’s no value to life OR death for Republicans (or the media) unless they can manipulate it for political rage bait. Almost.

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

But luckily it won’t cover state crimes! 😌

That Gay Guy Candle Co. 🇺🇸 @gayguycandleco.bsky.social · 1d

Trump will issue a blanket pardon for all ICE agents before this is over.

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

It is so telling that the only north star for “Christians” in this country is to be deeply racist and hateful. A church that stands for nothing filled with the most spiteful bigots they can find.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 2d

Not much, just crying watching Coco, hbu?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 3d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 3d

I have never seen anybody more deserving of getting the absolute shit kicked out of him.

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 3d

Hey this is utter bullshit and if MSNBC is just going to become a pro-Trump mouthpiece like the rest of mainstream media simply because y’all have no fucking backbone left, then there’s no reason for you to even exist as a news org anymore.

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 3d

The basement they run Pitchfork out of also only gave Reputation a 6.5 when it came out, so don’t mind me if I just keep enjoying her silly little songs to get me through the literal hellscape all around us every day 🫶

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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jordan from various blocks @jordandarkly.bsky.social · 4d

there absolutely must be reverberating consequences for engaging in this fantasy when order is restored

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4d

Hard to see Republican governors in the South salivating at invading blue states in the North and not think that these neo-Confederates have been jonesing for re-run of the Civil War ever since

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 4d

Sending troops from a different state’s national guard against the express wishes of another governor is nothing short of treason, and will almost certainly incite a civil war. And then Trump will use that as pretext to expand his military takeover even further.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Adam Griffin @adamgriffin.bsky.social · 4d

You know who didn’t fight at ALL in Vietnam? Donald “Bonespurs” Trump who dodged the draft by getting a medical exemption from a foot doctor who was renting his office building in Queens from Trump’s father.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 4d

Every Trump speech now produces approximately two dozen 30-second clips peppering the feed that each alone should trigger impeachment or 25th amendment proceedings and are indistinguishable from what your worst uncle would produce if he had any idea how to make ai-generated videos

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