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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

"The Supreme Court has made clear that it will allow Trump to violate every constitutional prohibition, removing any obstacle in his way, and crediting the most farcical legal argument."

Trump is the insurrection

And the Supreme Court's conservatives are his shock troops.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 4h

lol this is crazy i mean this guys the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 5h

We’re doing studies to prove it (* not how studies work)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 6h

You heard it straight from Kennedy himself: Gold Standard Science is actually just data fabrication.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 6h

It really is amazing how far rank bigotry gets the GOP given they tell their constituents to shut up and die at every turn.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 6h

I try to keep my Mom's mind peaceful, but I had to tell her about this placenta comment.... because I know the MSM she watches probably won't cover it...

Going to keep her reply to myself lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 6h

Thune plays the reasonable moderate, getting the lantern-jawed, steely-eyed-athletic-heartlander benefit of the doubt. But Thune (grandson of immigrants btw), who has been in the Senate for 20 yrs, is really the problem. Because he knows better but covers for the crazies. @profgalloway.com

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 6h

Rural Republicans quite literally killing off their own constituents.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 7h

Republicans have had 15 years to come up with an Obamacare replacement plan. They still haven’t

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 7h

I know pulling this quote is borderline hackwork at this point but Jesus fucking CHRIST

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

i know grand juries have a relatively low bar for bringing indictments but i find myself wondering WTF is up with some of these grand jurors

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Rollins: "Farmers just want to sell their product. They don't want checks from the government ... we will get there, but until then we will be announcing a program as soon as the shutdown ends on what we're gonna do in the short term for these row croppers, including our soybean farmers."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Brooke Rollins: "It is just incredible how focused and just supportive of our farmers and ranchers this president is. Specific to soybeans, but not just soybeans -- sorghum, cotton, corn, wheat -- they are in this moment of uncertainty because China is not living up to the 2019 deal."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Rollins: "We had an amazing cabinet meeting. President Trump walked in before the cameras were there. We all stood up & gave him a two minute standing ovation. There's so much love in that room & respect & just appreciation for him. No one could do what that man is doing today. So I was so grateful"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Larry Kudlow to Sen. Eric Schmitt: "You and I should get on a plane, go to Davos or go to the UN or go to the Democratic Socialists who make these Nobel Prize decisions -- I think they'd rather shoot themselves than give him the Peace Prize. He deserves the Peace Prize."

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 8h

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 8h

i cannot believe that he keeps bragging about passing a mini mental status exam

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "I also did a cognitive exam. Which is always very risky because if I didn't do well, you'd be the first to be blaring it and I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. That made me well good ... not the easiest test."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

"The president seizes on a grant of authority which is only supposed to be exercised in an 'emergency,' declares an endemic problem to be an acute one, then insists courts have no authority to review his emergency determination, no matter how divorced from the facts or law." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Trump is the insurrection

And the Supreme Court's conservatives are his shock troops.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 8h

The prize wasn't awarded to Obama for 'nothing.' The prize was awarded in the hope that Obama had staved off the specter of an America governed by folks like the man below.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "Obama got a prize for doing nothing. Obama got a prize, he didn't even know what he got it -- he got elected and they gave it to Obama for doing absolutely nothing but destroying our country. He was not a good president."

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 8h

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

Siri: what is motivated reasoning?

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RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h

Has anyone ever asked this man to explain what the is wrong with being Palestinian? Seems like a simple follow up question. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 8h

Every time he does this a calculator somewhere in the country spontaneously bursts into flames

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "We're gonna be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500% and even more than that."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

asked why he's going to Walter Reed tomorrow for his second physical exam since the start of the year, Trump brags about the cognitive exam he took in 2020, which he describes as "not the easiest test ... there aren't a lot of people in this room that would get every single question right."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: What's your message to families facing missed paychecks because of the shutdown?

TRUMP: Blame the Democrats. It's their fault.

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