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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 4h

Ian Carroll is an antisemitic propagandist and Pizzagate believer. Astronomically bad judgment on Ro Khanna's part.

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 11h

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 4h

he's living rent free in your head for the low low rent of one million us dollars

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 4h

He won by paying $1 million to show that everyone hates his product

10,000+ posters, $1M spend, and the best ad campaign of 2025.

'Friend' billboard campaign in NYC last month was genius.

What made it genius is that every vandal tag, every “AI sucks” defacement, every social screenshot is fuel.

The campaign was created as a provocation.

Friend leaned into controversy, volatility, even hate, because those are the signals that drive mindshare in 2025.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 4h

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 4h

if you ever owned a dog you'd know that it is normal to want to shock them

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Isaac @gunshowloophole.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, "They just gave all your money to this Hobbit Pedophile" should be the easiest dunk in the game.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 4h

they don't like to put labels on it

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 10h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 5h

antifa built a potemkin portland to hide the apocalyptic truth from our secretary of domestic war

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 5h

it's kind of wild that a guy died a little while ago and the government swore we would reap the whirlwind and that his widow would lead a howling army of valkyries across the galaxy and then the most you heard about it since was the secretary of domestic war saying they arrested the wife of antifa

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 7h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

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Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social · 8h

Matt Taibbi's co-host, Walter Kirn, compares Democrats who oppose Trump's immigration crackdowns to Southern politicians who opposed school integration in the 1960s, and equates the National Guard protecting the Little Rock 9 to the National Guard abducting immigrants now.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 6h

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Sam Rosenfeld @samrosenfeld.bsky.social · 7h

ActBlue, Open Society, Indivisible—terrorists all.

Note how slipshod, confused, and ramshackle this project sounds even from quoted behind-the-scenes insiders. Miller WANTS it to sound maximally ominous and intimidating. The targets should hold their heads high and carry on.

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Blake Aued @blakeaued.bsky.social · 7h

Remember that time Trump had a campaign rally and wound up just playing show tunes off his iPad for an hour while one of his supporters was being carted off in a stretcher? And everybody was like “he’s finally gone off the rails,” and three weeks later he won the election?

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 8h

Letitia James and James Comey have the best lawyers on earth and will almost certainly be fine. The fact that there’s a zillion stories about them and virtually none about NSPM-7 - which affects countless ordinary people - really says something about who the media writes for

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 7h

awful creatures

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no coast. @ledtotheflood.bsky.social · 7h

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 7h

honestly things could realistically get incredibly funnier

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"Captain" "Ruck" "Cohlchez" @captainruck.bsky.social · 8h

Libertarianism WIN! This country decided to run on libertarian principles and almost immediately needed a bailout from another government

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 8h

finally some good news everyone, we are propping up the argentine peso

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 8h

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 8h

I feel like we should see clips of Milei's concert in attack ads - just name anything he cut funding for and show Milei rocking out at his vanity performance when it comes to 'what did we use that money for instead?'

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