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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6h

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to head up the Office of Special Counsel, cancelled a female colleague’s hotel reservation on a work trip so he could stay with her, and they ended up sharing a room after she learned she didn't have a hotel room. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Key Trump nominee accused of sexual harassment

Paul Ingrassia has been investigated for allegedly harassing a lower-ranking colleague, according to administration officials. Fearing retaliation, the woman later withdrew a complaint, and Ingrassia ...

www.politico.com

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bustedpipe.bsky.social @bustedpipe.bsky.social · 1d

How many federal contracting laws does Jr.’s board position violate? @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @normeisen.bsky.social @citizensforethics.org

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bustedpipe.bsky.social @bustedpipe.bsky.social · 1d

Any reason why Illinois can’t adopt universal #votebymail tomorrow? @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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bustedpipe.bsky.social @bustedpipe.bsky.social · 1d

No budget until #Grijalva is sworn in. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

bustedpipe.bsky.social @bustedpipe.bsky.social · 1d

Needs to be a constitutional amendment setting objective deadline for swearing in members. Any speaker who fails to follow it should lose their seat.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

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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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 2d

Trump: "I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One."
Also Trump: Refuses to stop health insurance premiums from bankrupting the middle class

Democrats just want Trump to keep his promises.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

2. …and he told me (among other things — stay tuned for a long story later) that he has suffered from respiratory issues ever since that incident.

He also told me that as he knelt in pain (see below), he could hear the agents laughing. bsky.app/profile/mske...

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 20d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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bustedpipe.bsky.social @bustedpipe.bsky.social · 2d

"No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law.” U.S. Const. art I, § 9, cl. 7.

bustedpipe.bsky.social @bustedpipe.bsky.social · 2d

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bustedpipe.bsky.social @bustedpipe.bsky.social · 3d

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

Speaker Johnson continues to stall the swearing in of Rep.-elect Grijalva so as to avoid having to deal with the Epstein discharge petition. Why shouldn’t Dems make support for reopening the government contingent on adding to the funding measure a provision mandating release of the Epstein files?

bustedpipe.bsky.social @bustedpipe.bsky.social · 3d

#Yeson50 #voteyeson50

Vote Save America @votesaveamerica.crooked.com · 3d

California's Yes on Prop 50 is about fighting back with both hands. @ericswalwell

bustedpipe.bsky.social @bustedpipe.bsky.social · 4d

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 5d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 4d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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bustedpipe.bsky.social @bustedpipe.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe tell dear leader Ford will not donate to any GOP candidates because they are all economically illiterate fascists who are killing @fordmotorsofficial.bsky.social

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

Also, it probably shouldn't escape our notice that the aging, mentally declining despot just explicitly ordered the US military to arrest US citizens on American soil:

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5d

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The
means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home.”

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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 5d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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bustedpipe.bsky.social @bustedpipe.bsky.social · 5d

There is nothing unclear about the statute, you absolute dipshit: “Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities.” 31 USC 5114(b). codes.findlaw.com/us/title-31-....

31 U.S.C. § 5114 - U.S. Code Title 31. Money and Finance § 5114 | FindLaw

U.S. Title 31. Money and Finance 31 USCA Section 5114. Read the code on FindLaw

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bustedpipe.bsky.social @bustedpipe.bsky.social · 5d

The Navy Seals would like a word on this beard policy.

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INDIVISIBLE Sacramento @indivisiblesac.bsky.social · 6d

JOIN US IN SACRAMENTO FOR NO KINGS ON OCTOBER 18!

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bustedpipe.bsky.social @bustedpipe.bsky.social · 6d

#epsteinshutdown

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 6d

Speaker Johnson canceled House session again. They will be gone all next week.

Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., who was elected on Sept. 23, still hasn’t been sworn in. She will be signature #218 (the magic number) to defy Mike Johnson & Donald Trump and force a vote to release the Epstein files.

bustedpipe.bsky.social @bustedpipe.bsky.social · 6d

But yes, they should also quit their jobs.

bustedpipe.bsky.social @bustedpipe.bsky.social · 6d

The only question I want them to ask is “why the duck haven’t we #impeached this lawless idiot already? Doesn’t our oath to the Constitution demand it?

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