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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Grandpa's been watching cable news and gotten confused again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 1d

Holding aside everything—everything—else, the President conducting very sensitive conversations with his Attorney General on an unencrypted social media platform would have been a major scandal any time before 2016. Is he DMing the CIA Director on there? The Secretary of Defense? We don’t know.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 1d

“Russia has launched this torrent of aggressions. The aggressed against still call this “hybrid” or “gray zone” war. Erase the adjectives. This is war.”

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | What if a Russian victory in Ukraine were only the beginning?

This isn’t a Russian “gray zone” war with Europe. It’s a real war. And the West is dithering.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone have any heartwarming stories of how tax breaks and government subsidies for billionaires made your life better?

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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 13h

Agree. Amazon Prime subscription fees generated $44 Billion in revenue in 2024 and is highly profitable. (Merchants subsidize the shipping)

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 19h

Banana Republicans

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 19h

Gift Link:

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Exclusive | How Ken Paxton, a Rising MAGA Star, Got Rich as a Texas Politician

The state’s attorney general, who is vying to be the GOP nominee for a U.S. Senate seat, became a multimillionaire as a public official.

www.wsj.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 19h

I’m sure this is very comforting to American federal workers not getting paid right now.

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 20h

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 16h

The MAGA flunkie—a past beauty queen contestant with zero prosecutorial experience—imported to get an indictment of Comey couldn’t get anyone in her office to indict Letitia James, either.

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 7d

More turmoil in the US attorney's office that brought the Comey indictment at Trump's explicit demand. Two longtime prosecutors who had risen to leadership positions in the Virginia office were fired in recent days, Salvador Rizzo reports. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Firings and resignations roil U.S. attorney’s office prosecuting Comey

Four people have been forced out of leadership roles in the U.S. attorney’s Eastern District of Virginia office that secured an indictment against James B. Comey.

www.washingtonpost.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

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Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18h

So, Tom Homan can straight accept a bag of $50K in cash from the FBI in a sting operation, have the investigation dismissed by this corrupt Justice Department, but all of Trump's critics somehow face indictments?

Cool, cool. Cool.

A desperate, weak Administration overplaying its hand.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 18h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Doug Klain @dougklain.bsky.social · 15h

Anticorruption is a winning issue for pro-democracy movements across the world. Impressively, Ukrainians even built their post-2014 revolutionary democracy on it.

As it finds its footing, the pro-democracy movement in the United States should learn that lesson. @davidsirota.com for @thebulwark.com.

How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats

It’s a powerful, unifying theme—and it’s tied to the crisis of democracy under Trump.

www.thebulwark.com

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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 15h

Steve Bannon was booted from the White House in 2017 as soon as "President Bannon" started trending.

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 17h

It's hard to overstate how alarming NY AG Letitia James's reported indictment is.

This is the second time in weeks that a political opponent of Trump has been indicted, at his urging, against the advice of career prosecutors and Trump's own appointees. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Justice Department indicts N.Y. attorney general

Justice Department wins indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, accusing her of committing mortgage fraud in 2023.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17h

Here's your lede:

Less than three weeks after Donald Trump ordered his attorney general to hurry up and start charging his enemies, the Justice Department indicted a second one: New York Attorney General Letitia James, the prosecutor who defeated him in court.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 18h

We are witnessing the most lawless behavior by a leader in American history, just daily, extraordinary abuses of power. National Democrats must speak out in a loud and clear voice against Trump's escalating authoritarianism. It is time now.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 18h

The Guardian reports that Letitia James has been indicted

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 15h

We're with you 💯!!

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 16h

Comes down to a credibility determination. On National Guard in Chicago, and DHS loses that determination.

An important aspect of a credibility determination is that it's a factual assessment by a district court judge, makes it more difficult for the losing party to overturn the decision on appeal.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 17h

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 17h

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 23h

Why look at that!

NPR @npr.org · 1d

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h

Fascinating moment in the power of DC Think. Democrats are clearly *not* looking for an off ramp right now. They’re actually saying this. Which is a measure of how badly it’s going for the GOP. It’s the GOP that is actually looking for the offeamp.

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