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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 4h

The Week Ahead
October 12, 2025
JOYCE VANCE
OCT 13

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The Week Ahead

October 12, 2025

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 4h

SUNDAY INTEL BRIEF: PROJECT 2025, NATIONAL GUARD MOBILIZATIONS, AND THE COMING INDICTMENTS
Russell Vought moves to activate Project 2025. Trump targets blue states with Guard deployments. Indictments, intimidation, and the war on truth continues.
LEV PARNAS
OCT 12

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SUNDAY INTEL BRIEF: PROJECT 2025, NATIONAL GUARD MOBILIZATIONS, AND THE COMING INDICTMENTS

Russell Vought moves to activate Project 2025. Trump targets blue states with Guard deployments. Indictments, intimidation, and the war on truth continues.

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 4h

We’re not distracted. We’re focused on the truth.
THE CONTRARIAN
OCT 12

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We’re not distracted. We’re focused on the truth.

Contrarians,

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 4h

Trump with Brutal Reality Check in Front of Military Generals
LEGAL AF
OCT 12

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Trump with Brutal Reality Check in Front of Military Generals

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 4h

Trump Walks Himself Into Trap on Shutdown
LEGAL AF
OCT 12

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Trump Walks Himself Into Trap on Shutdown

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 4h

‘Verbal jujitsu:' ABC host ends interview as JD Vance refuses to answer bribery question
David McAfee
October 12, 2025 10:47AM ET

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'Verbal jujitsu:' ABC host ends interview as JD Vance refuses to answer bribery question

ABC's George Stephanopoulos, a host and former White House Communications Director, shut down an interview with JD Vance after the vice president refused to answer a question about a reported bribery ...

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 5h

My Latest FOIA: Trump's Truth Social DMs
Recently, Trump posted a message to Pam Bondi that was meant to be a direct message. I want to know what other official messages he's sending to cabinet members.
ALLISON GILL
OCT 12

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My Latest FOIA: Trump's Truth Social DMs

Recently, Trump posted a message to Pam Bondi that was meant to be a direct message. I want to know what other official messages he's sending to cabinet members.

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 5h

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy
Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
OCT 12
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PREVIEW

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Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 5h

Sunday Afternoon News Wrap-Up: Trump’s Midnight Breakdown, Vance's Terrible Morning, + More
BEN MEISELAS AND MEIDASTOUCH NETWORK
OCT 12

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Sunday Afternoon News Wrap-Up: Trump’s Midnight Breakdown, Vance's Terrible Morning, + More

By Ben Meiselas

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 5h

NEWS: Trump Fires Nearly Entire Special Education Office Meant to Protect Disabled Students
Trump fires nearly entire special education office meant to protect disabled students, Trump moves closer to invoking insurrection act, Trump claims w…
AARON PARNAS
OCT 12

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NEWS: Trump Fires Nearly Entire Special Education Office Meant to Protect Disabled Students

Trump fires nearly entire special education office meant to protect disabled students, Trump moves closer to invoking insurrection act, Trump claims watergate was a hoax, and more

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 5h

SCOTUS Heats Up as Trump’s War on American Cities Heads to the Docket | Unprecedented
LEGAL AF, POPOK, AND DINA DOLL
OCT 12

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SCOTUS Heats Up as Trump’s War on American Cities Heads to the Docket | Unprecedented

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 5h

Legal AF - 10/12/25 (Ad-Free)
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MEIDASTOUCH NETWORK, BEN MEISELAS, AND LEGAL AF
OCT 12

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Legal AF - 10/12/25 (Ad-Free)

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 5h

Why I'll be marching
STEVE SCHMIDT
OCT 12

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Why I'll be marching

Next weekend scores of millions of Americans will gather together in great cities, small towns and rural villages to stand together for their country against the abominations and miseries of the MAGA ...

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 5h

THE MAN WHO FLEW HOME
How a senior Israeli cyber official accused of child predation in Las Vegas boarded a plane instead of facing justice.
CLOSER TO THE EDGE
OCT 12

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THE MAN WHO FLEW HOME

How a senior Israeli cyber official accused of child predation in Las Vegas boarded a plane instead of facing justice.

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 5h

MAGA Nut Threatened to Kill Me and Obama - Pam Bondi Looks the Other Way
KRASSENSTEIN
OCT 12

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MAGA Nut Threatened to Kill Me and Obama - Pam Bondi Looks the Other Way

The Trump DOJ’s Two-Faced Approach to Threats and Justice

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 5h

Republicans are losing, and they know it
they’ve MAGA’d themselves into a corner
JEFF TIEDRICH
OCT 12

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Republicans are losing, and they know it

they’ve MAGA’d themselves into a corner

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 6h

“BEST Video of the Week!”
— Dingo Dave
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BEST Video of the Week!

These folks have protesting DOWN PAT! We need those signs EVERYWHERE!

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 6h

“Trump Literally Posted the Evidence!”
— Sarah Longwell, The Bulwark
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Trump Literally Posted the Evidence!

Sarah Longwell and George Conway discuss Trump’s fake prosecutions of Comey and Letitia James, the “Truth Social DM” fiasco, and his escalating use of the National Guard to provoke chaos—plus why Amer...

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 7h

Urgent: Debunking the Trump Administration's Lies
The Trump Administration is lying to you. As a reporter, I need to debunk it.
AARON PARNAS
OCT 12

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Urgent: Debunking the Trump Administration's Lies

The Trump Administration is lying to you. As a reporter, I need to debunk it.

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 8h

BUSINESS
Trump says inflation is ‘defeated’ and the Fed has cut rates, yet prices remain too high for many

BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Updated 7:03 AM EDT, October 12, 2025
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Trump says inflation is 'defeated' and the Fed has cut rates, yet prices remain too high for many

Inflation has risen in three of the last four months and is slightly higher than it was a year ago. Yet you wouldn’t know it from listening to President Donald Trump or even some of the inflation figh...

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 8h

Pritzker Slams Trump, Stephen Miller Watches AOC Call Him A Clown, Zeldin Slammed At A Gala, and The Regime’s Troop Deployment Backfires
Their clown show collapses under our resistance
SCOTT DWORKIN
OCT 12

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Pritzker Slams Trump, Stephen Miller Watches AOC Call Him A Clown, Zeldin Slammed At A Gala, and The Regime’s Troop Deployment Backfires

While Trump is “busy” golfing, I’m glad to have some good news for you today.

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 8h

“I Am the Very Model of a Modern Day Canadian 🇨🇦”
— Tod Maffin
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I Am the Very Model of a Modern-Day Canadian

YouTube video by Tod Maffin

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 8h

A message from #Canada 🇨🇦 to #America:
“When your leader opens his mouth, all we can hear is all of you.”

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 (@todmaffin) on Threads

Every country gets one voice. And we’re listening.

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 8h

The WTF Presidency
How much worse will Trump get before serious 25th Amendment conversations begin?
JIM ACOSTA
OCT 12

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The WTF Presidency

How much worse will Trump get before serious 25th Amendment conversations begin?

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 11h

The LAST American President
Got democracy? A book review by Greg Palast
GREG PALAST
OCT 12
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GUEST POST

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The LAST American President

Got democracy? A book review by Greg Palast

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