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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

Standing and defending the fundamental truths of the Republic means rejecting and opposing loathsome people like Johnson.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 6h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 8h

So—New Yorkers, Mamdani could correctly note,have been there & done that before.They’ve heard the attacks leveled against him also leveled against La Guardia & FDR.They’ve heard from the Democrats’ ancien régime of how socialists have hijacked the party.

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Mamdani: Son of La Guardia and FDR

His platform,‌ his...

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 9h

60-80 years from now "Republican" will have the same flavor as "Nazi" does now.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

The thing is that the modern GOP (not to mention its basement-confined moron stepchild, the Mises Caucus libertarian “party”) is accurately depicted by this language and a critical mass of the party is absolutely fine with it.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 21h

Thing about it is that carefully choreographed public image to the contrary, Rubio is the most cowardly and obsequious in a cabinet of obsequious cowards. So Trump wants mean and little Marco delivers.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 1d

I see that note at the bottom of the YT, but I don't recall ever having confirmed my age with them, and get no challenge. (The repeated "SHUT THE FUCK UP!" in the piece wouldn't get it a G rating at the movie theater I guess, but, Yeah.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not a lawyer, but it seems like there's a criminal conspiracy cooking in there and unless pardons reach to THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE WORLD,or nearly so,there would likely to be unpardoned conspirators who could be investigated.
ESP if courts are reformed & a new majority interprets Trump v US

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Daniel Chomsky @danielchomsky.bsky.social · 1d

There is a reason why people no longer bother to read the Washington Post.

Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday was AI taking all the jobs day; today is running out of workers day at the Washington Post deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-runnin... Just don't ask why the rich people get all the money

The Running Out of People Story: The Silliest Theme Pushed by Intellectual Types

Yesterday was AI taking all the jobs day, today is running out of workers day at the WaPo

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 1d

Elon could afford it for a week or two. Add in the Saudis & Emirates and they could go for a couple of months. Then they'd start demanding equity stakes in the U.S. military, mortgages on aircraft carriers & such.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

lol i don't think anyone in this conversation how much it costs to cover a payroll for the US military. quite apart from having the military purchased by Elon Musk

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 1d

When I worked at Union's library, they had full runs of many German publications, including Deutsche Christen church magazines from the 1930s. Almost indistinguishable from their contemporary equivalents in the USA. Also not different from many conservative churches now.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 1d

The weirdest thing about this one is that Jeffrey Epstein never wore a suit and tie.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 1d

It's NOT an electoral strategy. It's how civilization can keep from eating itself up.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 1d

If anybody has any interest in what pure blasphemy sounds like:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Cade @cadeland.bsky.social · 1d

It's the perfect encapsulation of the heresy that is Trumpism that he is so confident that A) God needs saving and B) only MAGA can do it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

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

Speaker of the House Waylon Smithers had his sense of shame and self-awareness placed into a blind trust.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Just now— @SpeakerJohnson announces he will lead a global pressure campaign to get the narcissist-in-chief a Nobel Prize next year

(Also revealing he doesn’t understand what “objective facts” are)

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 1d

Eventually, they will need his endorsement, and he will tactfully and gently encourage them to move on to more constructive endeavors: like retirement.

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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 1d

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Immigration Hotline.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Several major US airports are refusing to play a video of Secretary Noem in which she blames Democrats for the government shutdown. Many airport officials have cited the video's political tone as the reason for declining to air it. [Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas, Charlotte, NYC]

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 1d

Hot take apparently that "no kings" has a motivating meaning in this country that is rooted in its own history and specific understanding of monarchy, not those of another time and place.

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