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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12h

Unprecedented grift

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

"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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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 16h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 16h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 2

The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith:

— said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president
— has neo-Nazi ties
— was Andrew Tate’s lawyer
— 2x Claremont fellow
— wrote for Gateway Pundit
— called for Pence to be hanged
— called for secession after 2020 election

Paul Ingrassia (lawyer) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

Picking on Black women who had to claw their way through NYC machine politics to get to their positions is just not going to work out for old white senile fascists. That's all I will say on that.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 16h

Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

That's it. Thanks again for following.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 17h

Lindsey Halligan indicts Letitia James on one count of bank fraud in EDVA. We are in an absolute nightmare.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 17h

There is no more rule of law

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

CNN: We have just learned that Letitia James has just been indicted by the DOJ

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 19h

NEW: In a recent survey of American adults, 60 percent of respondents who knew who Speaker Mike Johnson is had unfavorable opinions of him. So now, with the govt shutdown fight, Democrats have made him one of their primary targets.
www.thebulwark.com/p/mike-johns...

Mike Johnson Is Becoming the New Liberal Bogeyman

The low-key House speaker’s success and defiance are turning him into a prime political target.

www.thebulwark.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20h

Jack Posobiec spread antisenitic hate on Twitter for years, including tagging Jews with triple parentheses.

JD Vance wrote the forward to Posobiec’s book, Unhuman.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

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

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 19h

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

America is a competitive authoritarian state now. More than a few scholars of democracy are saying this

www.fairobserver.com/politics/ame...

America Crosses Into Competitive Authoritarian Rule Under Trump

Harvard political scientists Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the United States has transitioned into a competitive...

www.fairobserver.com

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve also got to stop imagining that this will all somehow stop and go back to normal overnight once Trump makes some specific key mistake or, eventually, leaves the stage entirely.

We are a decade into Trumpism. Whatever comes after him for the GOP isn’t going to be a McCain or a Bush.

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jblumenthal.bsky.social @jblumenthal.bsky.social · 19h

This is the point. It’s not a farmer bailout. It’s a bank bailout. Trump only ever helps one group—and it ain’t farmers, big or small.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21h

NEW: A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring Chicago-area fed agents from several violent actions they’ve taken against journalists, activists and “religious practitioners” protesting ICE — including Rev. Black, a plaintiff in the case. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 20h

New: A US judge entered a 14-day order restricting when federal agents can use physical force and make arrests during Chicago-area protests against the Trump administration’s ramped up immigration enforcement, in response to claims of unlawful tactics and free speech violations
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

*journalists and protesters

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: A federal judge in Illinois has blocked Trump administration authorities from using force against journalists in the Chicago area — including threats or arrest or riot control weapons. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20h

Chicagoans won a temporary restraining order today that prevents federal agents from using tear gas, pepper spray and other weapons against journalists and peaceful protesters.
We’re fighting back peacefully in Chicago because — unlike Trump — we believe in the rule of law.

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue

Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray...

blockclubchicago.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

"It's very funny when the government gets to decide who is a Real Jew and who is not! We are all laughing. It is funny, yes."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

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

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 20h

Our personal tech columnist @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social tracked the prices of a bunch of items on Amazon ahead of the latest Prime Day sale.

Turns out only a few prices went down, many stayed the same... and several went significantly *up.* www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Column | I tracked Amazon’s Prime Day prices. We’ve been played.

Here’s what you should do to actually get a good deal on Amazon.

www.washingtonpost.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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