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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 10h

Extremely happy I don't root for either of these teams, I'd be dead right now.

Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 13h

The National Guard is not trained to be cops, that's one reason it absolutely should not be getting called up to serve as such. Jesus, being a billionaire rots your brain.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 13h

"What cameras? What are you talking about? I think you just ate a stale bagel off the craft services table."

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 13h

As best I can tell, no one on Joe Dirt ever told Kid Rock he was in a movie.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 13h

Douthat is basically Stupid Chotiner.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 19h

I just finished insulting Mike Johnson for being short.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 20h

Also, jeez, how short is Mike Johnson? It looks like Take Your Nephew to Work Day over there.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 20h

I appreciate Thune cutting campaign ads for Democratic candidates.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 20h

"He'd obey the law as Jesus obeyed the law." Um...

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 20h

A Newsmax host defended ICE agents shooting a minister in the head with a pepper ball by falsely claiming he was “actually an antifa member masquerading as a pastor.”

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 23h

IIRC, even Obama himself seemed embarrassed to have won.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

One of the only things Trump has ever been right about: Obama had no business winning the Nobel Peace Prize for what amounted to the accomplishment of being a US president who was not George W Bush. (Remember, he had been in office for eight months at the time.)

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 1d

The theme of the rally is No Kings, and it's hard to think of a more pro-American sentiment than that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't watch this last night because Winsome Earle-Sears is such a wingnut that she makes my blood pressure spike to dangerous levels, but it sounds as if she lived down to my expectations.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

8 takeaways from the Spanberger and Earle-Sears debate in Virginia

Republican Winsome Earle-Sears talked over Democrat Abigail Spanberger in a chaotic debate in the Virginia governor’s race that touched on trans students, Trump and more.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 1d

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 1d

I bet we could get Trump to believe that the Nobel committee gave the peace prize to an inanimate carbon rod.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 1d

Smooth.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 1d

On the other hand, Alito is probably sick over it.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 1d

What a dumb fucking way for your season to end.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 1d

Christ, was Golda Meir's moldering corpse not available?

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously they are a dangerous menace because they keep stopping our missiles with their boats.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 1d

And I thought Mike Pence doing his faux tough guy squint at North Korea was the dumbest of this genre.

Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 2d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 1d

"Look at how hilariously antisemitic I can be for you, Daddy!"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 1d

"The files are IN the computer???"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 2d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 2d

Distinct lack of sniper fire for a warzone.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 2d

My dearest Martha,

This evening we shot pepper balls at a man clothed in a frog costume. It had no effect. He continued to dance and taunt us. We retreated before he could charge our lines and commit unspeakable horrors against our boys. I fear this war will never end.

Yours,

Silas

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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