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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

Trump is Nixon with no capacity to feel regret or shame, and enabled by a party and Congress that won't put the country first. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-nixo...

Trump’s Abuses of Power Show We Didn’t Learn Much From the Nixon Era

That failure is implicit in nearly every frame of a new documentary about Katharine Graham.

www.thebulwark.com

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 16h

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13h

If an entire large city was on fire I’d think the president would be expected to go there to tour the damage.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

Stephen Miller’s final form if we don’t stop him

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 18h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 13h

UPDATE | The United States clashed with Venezuela and its allies at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Friday, with the Trump administration vowing to use its "full might" to eradicate drug cartels and the Maduro government saying it anticipates "an armed attack."

US clashes with Venezuela and allies at emergency UN meeting on strikes in Caribbean

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 13h

Russ Vought is a theocratic arsonist in a flag pin. He cloaks fascism in budget memos, guts expertise, installs zealots, and calls the wreckage divine order.

The ‘Grim Reaper’ of the Government Shutdown

Podcast Episode · The Daily · 10/06/2025 · Subscribers Only · 37m

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

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dsrazblue.bsky.social @dsrazblue.bsky.social · 10h

This is just wrong. ACLU are you able to help any of this?

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13h

Welcome to America, where peaceful protesters get tear-gassed and thrown to the ground like ragdolls.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 22h

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social · 12h

We should assume he will use them to attack domestic targets.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

"he deal Hegseth announced on Friday is unusual in that Qatar will be constructing a new air force facility from the ground up.
Even close U.S. allies typically don't have such military facilities in the U.S." www.axios.com/2025/10/10/q...

Qatar to build air force facility on U.S. base in Idaho

Laura Loomer and other MAGA figures expressed shock and outrage, but the deal was long in the making.

www.axios.com

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dsrazblue.bsky.social @dsrazblue.bsky.social · 10h

My thoughts exactly. There can be no other reason for them to have a base here. Other countries train here but then they go home. No other country has their own base with their own planes in our country.

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Dr Jen Adjacent (Todd ) @drjenadjacent.bsky.social · 12h

2/2 It’s great that you wrote this. But there is no need to balance it out with other perspectives when those other perspectives regularly can’t pass a fact or logic check.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Zone Left @zoneleft.bsky.social · 12h

A really effective interview could just have fast motion drone footage of Portland in the background the entire time.

“Give an intersection where there are plywood businesses. Just one. We’ll go there while we’re talking.”

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 12h

Amazing thing about this isn’t even that none of it is true (none of it is), but that on Sunday morning, every news show will have Republicans on to soft-pedal some similar fiction to cover for the fact that ICE is literally kidnapping people in the streets and Republicans shutdown the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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dsrazblue.bsky.social @dsrazblue.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all tiny Johnson’s fault.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

So wait, they can just do this without Congress?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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dsrazblue.bsky.social @dsrazblue.bsky.social · 1d

🤣 babies can’t handle their orange god not being bowed to at all times 🤣

paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1d

Also argentina immediately used this windfall to slash export taxes so they could replace American soybean farmers' China exports, and USAID was a major buyer of food from US farmers. Should be the easiest issue in the world for Ds to outflank trump

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Weird how offended Christians get about the teachings of Christ.

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 1d

Lol

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 2d

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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 2d

"There is no insurrection.

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The only issue is whether the Supreme Court will allow the president to say that there is an insurrection, and then use his own patently false proclamation to justify flooding American cities with soldiers to “fight crime.”"

Trump is the insurrection

And the Supreme Court's conservatives are his shock troops.

www.publicnotice.co

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

I think even Marsha knows this.

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dsrazblue.bsky.social @dsrazblue.bsky.social · 2d

He is a demented idiot

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2d

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.