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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 3d

With $40 billion for Argentina, $29 billion for ICE but no SNAP benefits next month for Americans struggling to feed themselves, Fox should air a special Oval Office fireside chat on Thanksgiving for the president to share his personal hardship stories with hungry seniors, children and parents.

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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 3d

In his fireside chat, Trump can also explain to children with cancer why our government simply cannot afford to help fund any cancer research.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 18h

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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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 11h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

I have to wonder if those two prosecutors from North Carolina in the Comey case are just like “omg this is so fucking stupid.”

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11h

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

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

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 12h

Uvalde Police

Geez, where have I heard that before?

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15h

🚨 Married GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales allegedly had an affair with his senior aide, Regina Aviles — who was found dead after she supposedly doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire, per The Daily Mail.

Uvalde Police are blocking release of the 911 call, video & records. (Daily Mail)

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

I know we say this all the time so it’s become cliche, but can you imagine the hysteria that would be happening right now with Republicans if Obama did the exact same thing to the inside and outside of the WH that Trump is doing? It would be 24/7 on Fox for months. We all know why.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Part of the reason this struck me is that I've had my head in the 1960s DOJ for a while.

The DOJ press secretary back then was a Pulitzer Prize winner who'd been reporting for twenty years (except when he was winning medals in WWII).

Today, it's the dumbest meanest airhead in middle school.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Everyone's focused on how idiotic Lindsey Halligan is, but don't sleep on the official response from Department of Justice spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre.

It's just Mean Girls all the way down, if they'd written that script while huffing paint fumes.

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Toni @focalpoint.bsky.social · 11h

Got an answer from a lawyer buddy.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11h

Ben Meiselas calls on those with standing to act: seek an injunction to halt Trump’s White House ballroom. Argue fraud—Trump claimed he’d pay and not alter the structure—and use the damage to the East Wing as the emergency basis. Demand discovery now.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11h

MAGA: there wasn’t even a mishap with the artillery over I-5 you lying libtard

Marines: halted exercise after firing 6 155 mm rounds because one prematurely detonated over the highway

MAGA: DIDN’T HAPPEN NERDS

Marines: we’ve opened an investigation and believe a fuze failed

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 11h

The most corrupt administration in generations. Trump’s conflicts of interest and grifting off his offices is astounding, and deeply violative of our constitution and shared values.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13h

Everyone realize that the reason the government is "shut down" is that the Republicans failed to pass a budget by Sept 30th, as they are required to do by law, and the government just ran out of money?

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13h

By law the Republicans were required to have a budget for the new fiscal year in place on September 30th.

Anyone seen the budget? Are they are here in DC working on one?

Don't we think media, commentators should be asking Rs where their budget is? Do they intend to actually create one?

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 13h

Almost as many immigrants have died in ICE custody this year as in all four years of the Biden administration.
-Politico

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Eugene Belitsky @jhenyabelitsky.bsky.social · 16h

Was Daniel Naroditsky literally bullied to death by Vladimir Kramnik?
Horrible that such a respected, talented, well liked, and clearly decent young man died so young.

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MrBuckBuck @mrbuckbucknba.bsky.social · 14h

Daniel Naroditsky on October 27, 2024, about Vladimir Kramnik falsely accusing him of cheating:
"But this is a sustained evil and absolutely unhinged attempt to destroy my life... you know, I'm tired of mincing words at this point. He is trying to ruin my life, he is trying to inflict emotional harm

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h

I treat the Bolton prosecution the same as indictments of Comey and James because they are all the product of Donald Trump's vindictive abuse of the DOJ.

Also, I don't trust a single word in any of the indictments. They were drafted by prosecutors who ultimately report to Bondi and Trump.

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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 18h

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Trump yelled at Zelenskyy to hand over more of Ukraine to Putin -- OR ELSE! Trump's afraid of Putin.

YouTube video by Cheri Jacobus

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Everyone's focused on how idiotic Lindsey Halligan is, but don't sleep on the official response from Department of Justice spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre.

It's just Mean Girls all the way down, if they'd written that script while huffing paint fumes.

You clearly didn’t get the response you wanted—which was information handed over to you without having to dig into the facts of the case to craft a truthful story—so you thought you’d “tattletale” to main justice. Lindsay [sic] Halligan was attempting to point you to facts, not gossip, but when clarifying that she would adhere to the rule of the law and not disclose Grand Jury information, you threaten to leak an entire conversation. Good luck ever getting anyone to talk to you when you publish their texts.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h

My latest: Trump is slowly but surely desensitizing the public to a brand of authoritarianism aimed at subverting the will of the electorate. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

Trump’s Plan To Remain on His Throne