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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2h

Republicans just blocked a bill to pay the troops

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 3h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 3h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 6h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2h

What a game.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2h

Literally every person reporting on Trump knows this isn’t true.

Why aren’t they either calling this a lie or calling him demented and lost? THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO POSSIBILITIES!

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

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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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 9h

Hot new item. Flying off the shelves.

Silence 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @b-dogood.bsky.social · 11h

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3h

He bombed Iran! He ramped up drone murders in Yemen! As you said he’s just murdering civilians on boats. He’s threatening other countries. This is deranged.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 3h

Wtf is this headline, NYT?

Trump, or at least his minions, made one peace deal, for which I give thanks. But he has also shredded our alliances, murdered a bunch of Venezuelans, threatened to invade Mexico and take Greenland by force, and that’s just what pops into my head right now.

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

www.nytimes.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3h

There is: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3h

Oh my god

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3h

I’m rooting for Seattle but that was insane. And yet another replay fail.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3h

Yes. Even if it didn’t hit the bat, it’s a swing. Insane call.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3h

That’s a terrible call.

You can’t be hit by pitch on a swing anyway!

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Charlie Chu @charliechu.bsky.social · 4h

this stop was about two miles from where I live

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 15h

Again, these people want violence. They want their supporters radicalized and ready to commit it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 3h

Perhaps you shouldn't have put an insurance lawyer with no useful experience into this role? abcnews.go.com/US/pam-bondi...

Pam Bondi, DOJ officials caught off guard by Tish James indictment: Sources

Sources said that Tish James' indictment for alleged fraud came as a surprise.

abcnews.go.com

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 3h

Love the little Klansmen hiding in the evil crown.

BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 13h

🤨 we know who’s terrorizing our country.
www.nokings.org find a rally 10/18/25 👊🏼

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3h

The entire Administration is filled with people who would visit Anne Frank’s House and look for clues for future use

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6h

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 4h

This is so shameful. “We desperately need systems of higher learning beholden to a fascist know-nothing bully.”

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · Apr 30

The media uses the possibility his brain is mush to avoid calling him a liar and the fact that he’s a liar to avoid saying his brain is mush.

The effect is that they write up neither of the 2 possibilities, dramatically helping Trump.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · Apr 30

This MS-13 tattoo thing is Trump in a microcosm, and worth some serious journalistic scrutiny. He is so terribly, insistently wrong. Is he that stupid? DId his staff deceive him? Was no one willing to tell him the truth? All of the above?

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 4h

Democrat-oriented means “jobs that help Americans”

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

This was today, and these guys knew they were going to fire their own employees because, says Trump, they are "Democrat oriented." bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

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

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

This was today, and these guys knew they were going to fire their own employees because, says Trump, they are "Democrat oriented." bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

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

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 7h

The thing we have learned very clearly about Jay Bhattacharya in the last six months is:

He wants to be a podcaster.

He seems to have no interest in running NIH or learning about science. He’s the leader of #darkscicomm

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 7h

Bhattacharya is busy tweeting from his personal account about how he was right about lockdowns.

This is where he seems to want to spend his time, rather than doing his day job.

t Jay Bhattacharya reposted
Coronavirus Plushie & @c_plushie
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And this is how it was covered by @IngrahamAngle on this day, 5 Oct, 2020:
Top International Epidemiologists Launch
Petition for Focused Protections and an End to Lockdowns — Signed by Over 1,700 Medical Professionals
Thank you @MartinKulldorff@DrJBhattacharya and@SunetraGupta
• DR SUNETRA GUPTA LOXFORD UNIV EPIDEMIOLOGY PROFESSOR
FOX NEWS
EXPERTS: THOSE NOT VULNERABLE SHOULD RESUME LIFE
EXCLUSIVE
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