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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 36m

NEW via NYT:

A U.S. attorney and his deputy were removed after telling top DOJ officials they don't believe criminal charges are warranted from a new Kash Patel-backed investigation seeking to discredit the FBI's earlier Russia investigation that looked into Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 3h

Your tax dollars and mine are being used to thank President Trump. That’s right, the biggest political ad spender of 2025 is DHS using your money.
www.axios.com/2025/10/15/t...

U.S. government pays for 2025's most expensive political ad campaign

The next closest ad campaign is the $41 million effort to support California's redistricting measure.

www.axios.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Fox is now openly celebrating Trump's unconstitutional seizure of power from Congress. There is literally nothing the guy could do that they wouldn't cheerlead. The network is completely captured by MAGA.

chyron: "FOX HOLDS FEDERAL PURSE STRINGS"

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 2h

Under Trump Attending Church Is A Crime

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h

This is what happens when your country is run by incompetent knuckleheads.

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Athena @eleutheriaelpis.bsky.social · 2h

Why aren’t the Democrats flooding the zone to explain and counter the lies made by these sychophants and point out how it is the republicans that are all in for having a ‘king’ and it is they who ’hate’ America. There’s so many examples they could use to show this.

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Athena @eleutheriaelpis.bsky.social · 2h

If it isn’t the pot calling the kettle black. Your grandfather’s Republican Party today is gone, only to he replaced by these sorry excuses for human beings lying through their teeth, who do not stand for the constitution nor democracy.

Athena @eleutheriaelpis.bsky.social · 2h

Busy doing what? “If it warrants…”what ‘if’’ ?, of course it should be an ’ethical violation’, warranting at the very least a censure if not expulsion. However, the republicans have no ethics anymore, that’s just applied to the democrats only.

Athena @eleutheriaelpis.bsky.social · 4h

“MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.” This tells you everything you need to know about ‘Moses‘ Mike, who professes to be a devout Christian. There, apparently, is no limit to what is ‘acceptable conduct,‘

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

If you can’t sell your soybeans because of Trump’s tariffs after Argentina stepped in and took your customers, you can take solace that the guy you voted for also just gave $20 billion of your tax dollars to the country that is bankrupting you.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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Athena @eleutheriaelpis.bsky.social · 4h

Pretty sure that the conservative justices will do just that, have no faith in them whatsoever to uphold the VRA.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

A precondition for Republics to transition to autocracies is the politicization of the military. It is why the political & military leaders of the country have been so vigilant to keep partisanship away from it. But this admin is dismantling that concept. www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action | CNN Politics

For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used ...

www.cnn.com

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 5h

When the next generation of your party is more repugnant than the current generation, it’s proof positive your ideologies are deeply toxic and un-American.

Politico @politico.com · 23h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22h

Have they ever provided proof that these are drug traffickers?

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 5h

Here’s your reminder that one of DHS’s main jobs is disaster response, not cutting promos about terrorizing immigrants. Thousands have been displaced. Where’s Trump? Where’s Kristi Noem? Where’s FEMA?

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Athena @eleutheriaelpis.bsky.social · 4h

It’s really rich for Jordan to be talking about the ‘weaponization’ of government under the Biden admin, whereas for the Trump admin, this is an everyday occurrence. This unprofessionally written letter, making unsubstantiated accusations was written to please dear leader, the truth is irrelevant.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14h

What IS PHASE TWO?

*return of 48 hostages was phase one.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

in all the discussion (and sometimes tokenizing) of Portland protests being a creative spectacle that neutralizes law enforcement, don’t overlook:

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 18h

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained.

Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 16h

OOPSIE DAISY. The entire republican party is just a gaggle of sex pests.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17h

A judge has issued a restraining order against Republican Rep. Cory Mills after he was accused by a former girlfriend of threatening to circulate sexually explicit videos of her.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Q: How is this rescue package America first?

TRUMP: It's really meant to help a good financial philosophy where Argentina can be successful again

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Walking away with $20 billion of US taxpayer money so Scott Bessent’s Wall Street cronies don’t lose their investments in Argentina.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 16h

Patel wanted him to investigate the “burn bags” of Russia documents he claims to have seen. A totally normal thing.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 17h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

In other words, prospective appointees in a future Vance Administration.

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