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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 2h

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 10h

In Australia, "Wind and solar energy smashed their market share records on Saturday, even after heavy curtailment that dragged back their potential output from meeting more than 113% of grid demand to just below 80%." Hello Winsome Earle-Sears? bluevirginia.us/2025/10/sund...

From RenewEconomy: "The Australian Energy Market Operator has said that it is preparing for the day when it is able to manage the grid with up to 100 per cent instantaneous penetration of renewables."

https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-solar-smash-grid-market-share-records-even-after-heavy-curtailment-coal-at-new-low/

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

John Oliver sounded the alarm this week on how secret donations to presidential libraries provide cover for bribery. We couldn’t agree more.

It’s time to close the library loophole — and you can help.

Read this story and much more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

John Oliver rips presidential library loophole

Plus: There shouldn’t be secret law. Pam Bondi didn’t get the memo

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South Carolina Department of Propaganda @southcarolinadop.bsky.social · 22h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

JORDAN: Comey is where weaponization all started. 9 years ago he took the dossier--

BASH: But that's not what he's being prosecuted for

JORDAN: I'm just saying, you want to talk about weaponization, that's where it started

BASH: So this is retribution then

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Lisa B 🌊 🟧 🇦🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇨🇦 #RESIST #ANTIFA @brislees65.bsky.social · 33m

He’s going to do it.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 8h

Vought is singularly focused on bending the entire government machine to Trump’s will. He believes that any check on the power of Donald Trump, who Vought literally describes as a “gift of God,” is illegitimate. There is no line he doesn’t feel justified to cross.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 8h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Debrianna Mansini-I’m Spartacus @dmansini.bsky.social · 6h

Sociopathic malignant narcissist thinks he can re write history because corporate media bows to his whims

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Leonard Goldberg @leonardgoldberg.bsky.social · 6h

Yes. It's his strategy to use democrats as his foil - he and his supporters are patriots, democrats are terrorists and enemies of the state. The division creates space for him to roll back freedoms and make a buck for his family.

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REN & STIMPY PT 2!! R&S’s backup account!! @sparkyomatic.bsky.social · 6h

When he says this it’s aimed at his base. They believe anything Fat Nixon says.

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Lisa B 🌊 🟧 🇦🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇨🇦 #RESIST #ANTIFA @brislees65.bsky.social · 15h

Riley Gains is the embodiment of a piece of shit.

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 21h

The purpose of government is not to maximize earnings to investors

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KnightHawk♿💙 @knighthawk899.bsky.social · 16h

"I haven't laughed that hard since the end of Ol Yeller" - Kristi Noem #Satire

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Pam Bondi Hearing Cold Open - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Andy Churnwell @churnwell.bsky.social · 23h

It's amazing to think that there was a time before social media when, if you were a gobshite, everybody ignored you. There was no way to make money saying stupid, provocative things because nobody wanted anything to do with you.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

The autocrat's toadies destroy functioning governance and launch crisis after crisis in order to create a nation that runs on patronage in which he's the only one able to do anything for anyone.

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Tim Williams Art @timwilliamsart.bsky.social · 1d

Their goal is to turn the United States into a "Wealthy Whites and Christians Only" country.

They literally don't give a shit about anyone else.

Which is why they're going to fail.

HUGELY.

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Carl Ott, Author @bubba687.bsky.social · 1d

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 20h

Kai, I’m gonna be honest, I think he shares a special bond with most girls your age.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17h

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 21h

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

it's so weird to me how right wingers are like "the left LOVES soros" and I've literally never heard anyone on the left even talk about the guy. like he's not even some kind of minor celebrity. no one seems to give a shit about the guy except the right wing.

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