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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 13h

Antifa and no kings are simplistic terms that calcified right wing brains should be able to understand. What we’ve missed is they have no interest in learning or understanding or changing anything about themselves. They are bad faith reactionaries and anyone with sense left them 10 years ago

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 3d

Spirit Halloween best have these in stock

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d

FULL STORY: As lawyers for the Trump administration defended the president’s unprecedented decision to send National Guard troops to Chicago despite the objections of Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, officials acknowledged that California troops had also been sent to Illinois. @wttw.bsky.social

Judge to Decide Whether to Block National Guard Deployment as Trump Sends California Troops to Illinois

Lawyers for the Department of Justice told U.S. District Court Judge April Perry the president deployed the National Guard because “levels of violence against federal law enforcement executing their l...

news.wttw.com

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 4d

Gee whiz I bet the numbers will be good. And the numbers after that, and after that

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao

Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 4d

Sound bites for the fox cinematic universe. Will we never learn that they all operate in bad faith?

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 6d

Facts are antithetical to an enduring authoritarian regime

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 7d

He’s always sitting down at these gaggles now

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 7d

Collin Robinson lookalike draining our energy

a man sits at a desk in front of a computer screen

Alt: Collin Robinson from wwdits after a big energy drain online

media.tenor.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 8d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 8d

Impeach and remove

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 8d

This is at Norfolk and these are enlisted sailors. I’m a USNA grad who was using sarcasm, which is one of our core competencies.

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 8d

These fools cosplaying like they know anything about the Navy.

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 8d

It’s ok, they all get overtime. Oh wait…they won’t even get paid this month

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8d

"Morris, former spiritual advisor to President Trump and the former pastor at a megachurch in Texas, pleaded guilty to charges in a child sex abuse scandal on Oct. 2.

He faced five counts of lewd indecent acts with a child..."

www.kjrh.com/news/local-n...

Former Trump spiritual advisor Morris enters plea deal in Hominy child sex abuse case

Robert Morris, the former pastor at a megachurch in Texas and former spiritual advisor to President Trump, pleaded guilty to five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child on Oct. 2.

www.kjrh.com

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 8d

He is auditioning for placement in post Trump gop. Vance is now fielding questions for Trump in front of the press as well. They all know he is in rapid decline

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 8d

We need a new constitutional convention. The problem is half the delegates would operate in bad faith so it’s probably untenable

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 9d

The apparatchiks are jockeying for position. Hegseths rah rah dog and pony was one of the first moves.

Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 10d

How confident are you that they havent cooked the books?

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 11d

But can you sanewash Trumps idiotic musings like this?

www.cbsnews.com/news/amelia-...

Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane likely located in lagoon, expedition team claims, citing "very strong" evidence

Researchers say they believe an object in a South Pacific island's lagoon is the wreck of Amelia Earhart's lost plane.

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 12d

This guy has never been in a fight in his life. Fugazi goon squad

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 12d

Quick follow up, when are republicans going to stop blocking the release the unredacted Epstein files?

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 13d

How can the military be expected to deploy to the Schaumburg IKEA without pay? Outrageous

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Sammy Paradise @joed1.bsky.social · 13d

The president and his SecDef just told military brass that rules of engagement don’t apply and get ready for military deployments to US cities. You guys are still playing politics as usual. The norms have been shattered

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