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A.M. Kusick @amk58.bsky.social · 1d

They should have worn masks and camo

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Tim the Enchanter @cthulul.bsky.social · 1d

They have never, not even one single time, told us anything true about his health

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

He got the shots that his own HHS is telling you are not necessary

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 1d

It's been 200 days since masked government goons abducted Rümeysa Öztürk for writing an op-ed they didn't like.

She's no longer behind bars, but they're still trying to deport her, and they still don't want the public to know why.

The U.S. government is hiding Öztürk records. Its rationale is insulting

If the government was really concerned about protecting privacy, it wouldn’t have abducted and detained Öztürk for writing an op-ed

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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A.M. Kusick @amk58.bsky.social · 1d

One of Bessent’s billionaire bros would take a big hit if Argentina wasn’t bailed out

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A.M. Kusick @amk58.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa. Gobsmacked.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8d

That Honey Badger Mom account has ties to Proud Boys and is a fan of Joe McCarthy. I've heard her describe Portland as a city that is literally run by Communists. She was not being ironic or trollish when she said it...she meant it literally.

HoneyBadgerMom & @hunnybadgermom
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The truth about 'McCarthyism.' Tldr: it wasn't a
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They were searching for actual communist terrorists and spies, some of whom were responsible for getting the Atom bomb to Stalin....
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"The best obituary a man can have is that the people who knew him loved him, even if those that didn't know him hated him."
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 3d

Dunno... summary executions & death camps, I suppose.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 3d

“Miller is working overtime to polarize the public debate about Trump's increasingly dictatorial abuses of power…He relentlessly depicts Democrats as allied with a vast, inchoate class of violent criminals and insurrectionists…” sharp read of what Stephen Miller wants from @gregsargent.bsky.social

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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A.M. Kusick @amk58.bsky.social · 3d

Rubio is a cockroach.
Estimates are 14 million people will die needlessly by 2030. Boston University researchers estimate 300,000 have died already.
They’ve cut 94 million pounds of food from US food banks, too.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8d

Because I live in Oregon (I assume), my "for you" feed on Twitter is filled almost entirely with content from these far right "citizen journalists" who are more accurately described as MAGA content creators and crisis actors. Musk's goal was to replace real journalism with propaganda. It's working.

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An @latimes reporter tried trapping me in front of the Portland ICE building and asked if I was
"part of the right wing media."
I let her have it.
This is what's wrong with the America's legacy media. She was more focused on me than what was going on in front of the ICE building with the abuse of law enforcement.
Enemy of the people.
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Ernesto O. @ernest33141.bsky.social · 3d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine if Republican lawmakers worked as hard to give health care to poor kids as they work to cover up the Epstein files.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 4d

Any Project 2029-style rebuilding project that tables confrontation with the Supreme Court will doom itself. www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory

If Democrats can't avoid the trap Republican justices are setting, we'll never recover from the Trump fiasco.

www.offmessage.net

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 4d

📌I have HAD it with these damn farmers.
They proudly voted for a racist, con artist, who is now screwing them. They will do it again after he gives them welfare checks they claim to hate so much.
Biden and Democrats actually supported them, and now WE are paying for THEIR ignorance and racism.

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

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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Lucie🐈‍⬛Catnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social · 4d

Infectious? Is there a vaccination?

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A.M. Kusick @amk58.bsky.social · 4d

Fuck this Supreme Court that has criminals like Bondi and Bove acting with impunity.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d

Sen. Dick Durbin presses Pam Bondi on FBI personnel reportedly being asked to flag instances of Trump's name appearing in the Epstein files.

Bondi says she's "not going to discuss anything about that with you."

Durbin: "Eventually, you're going to have to answer for your conduct."

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 5d

How the hell did CNN brass ever sign off on this?

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5d

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions.

He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity.

He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings.

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5d

Again: this research is real but it exists in part to help MANUFACTURERS make better inhalers.

If you need to use your inhaler, use it. The problem doesn't lie with consumers. Writing this up as consumer service piece is a disservice. It's not for US beyond pushing manufacturers to do better.

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 5d

I still can't believe a judge issued a TRO to stop the Trump admin from deploying Oregon National Guard troops to Portland & w/in 24hrs they tried to deploy NG troops from other states, & when they got brought before the judge, DOJ bold-faced said, "You just said not to said them from OREGON, tho."

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