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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29m

It should be a litmus test for Democratic presidential primary candidates whether they will restore the White House and DC public properties to exactly the way they were before the Palm Beach lounge lizard decided to turn it into Mar-a-Lago meets 1936 Nuremberg.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 3h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Barb, Red State Blue Neck @barbb.bsky.social · 30m

This dumb ass knows nothing about the domestic adoption process

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Ted Lieu @tedlieu.bsky.social · 1h

Let them eat cake

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10h

Trump will host billionaire donors tonight for his $200 million White House ballroom.

This comes on the 15th day of the government shutdown.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1h

Any word from the ADL on the obscene antisemitic messages revealed in the Young Republican Leaders Telegram messages?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

The New York Times should hire someone who understands how laws work.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

Vance obviously figured out in 2022 that his only path to the Senate was to go full MAGA and lean hard into the dickishness of the movement for the new persona he created. But deciding that there is no limit to how far you will go in your awfulness is certainly a choice.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 50m

BREAKING via WSJ

The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.

Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK

The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people familiar with the matter.
A senior IRS official involved in the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said.
The undertaking aims to install allies of President Trump at the IRS criminal-investigative division, or IRS-CI, to exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations, officials said. The proposed changes could open the door to politically motivated probes and are being driven by Gary Shapley, an adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 43m

Trump bailed out Milei with $20 billion.

Milei crashed the Argentinian economy because of his family corruption & firing government workers.

Sound familiar?

Now, Trump is sending him another $20 billion which could be going in American's pocketbooks.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 42m

A dark batch of headlines tonight.

@wsj.com @nytimes.com @axios.com @politico.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Boyle: Mike Johnson and House Republicans have decided to do their own version of quiet quitting — they canceled session three weeks ago, they canceled session two weeks ago, and they’ve now canceled it last week and this week.

There is clearly no strategy there other than pure, sheer laziness

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 3h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

Trump just installed Michael Ellis as CIA general counsel, possibly to green light legally dubious CIA ops to do this as an end run around congress.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Kelly: I really worry about those aviators, drone operators, special forces guys that are in the Caribbean right now striking these boats and whether or not this is legal..

There’s no authorization for the use of military force. The Congress has not given that to the president. He hasn’t asked.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 3h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

Green Hombre @greenhombre.bsky.social · 6h

"Virginia Giuffre died by suicide on 25 April 2025."

"I’d show up, perform whatever sex acts Epstein wanted, then hang out beside his vast swimming pool while he got some work done. If Maxwell was there, I was often told to attend to her sexually as well."

- She was 16

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 5h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
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Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Barb, Red State Blue Neck @barbb.bsky.social · 2h

Well, it's a Fox blonde, so she gets paid to be condescended to by men

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 6h

The dire insurrectionist threat posed by...banana costumes.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 17h

An important additional detail: Most of the Unpresidented Band to which Korol belongs perform IN BANANA COSTUMES

This shit is indeed bananas

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Barb, Red State Blue Neck @barbb.bsky.social · 2h

That have to keep bringing him up because everyone else has moved on.

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 6h

The leaked GOP staffer texts glorifying Nazis are appalling but not surprising. When extremism is tolerated at the top, it festers in every corner.
That's why they fear “woke” — because basic decency threatens the hateful ideology they’ve built their movement around.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h

Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 6h

We’re in the third week of the Republican government shutdown and Republicans are still on vacation.

That is unacceptable.

House Democrats are here in DC working on behalf of the American people.

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